Wall of Mouths

Two things you could try:

#1. An effects pedal
#2. Rather then bending the notes, just vibrate your hand. It’s hard to describe what you need to do, but basically you can just keep your one finger on the fret board, and move your hand at the wrist to create the vibrato sound.

Let me know if you want anymore tips on playing guitar. I’m always happy to dispense some advice.

Keep doing them, because even if you’re not the best guitarist ever, it’ll help you to improve. I know just playing along with my mp3s has improved my ear quite a bit.

Thanks for the offers, guys. I totally forgot about that post. Anyways, I was writing the song for a girl who I’ve broken up with since then, so it’s not too important anymore.

Check out the DOD, Boss or Korg multi-effects pedals. I’d skip on the Zoom ones though, they aren’t worth it.

I don’t know many venues (at least in the US) that would ever let you take a video camera into a concert. Is it different in Europe?

I have a version on my website.

How the fuck did you make your own amp?

The original poster made no mention of his playing ability, thus I am not going to simply tell him to ‘buy anything as long as it’s not broken.’ I’m not going to recommend that a first-time buyer purchase an inferior product, because the headaches caused by inferior quality will ruin the pleasure he’d get from it. A guitar is an investment. People who play tend to play every day. You don’t need to be a Rhodes Scholar to realize that if you’re going to use a certain piece of equipment every day you might as well buy a quality piece of equipment.

My first guitar was (and still is) a piece of junk Epiphone acoustic. The craftsmanshift is pretty poor, there’s a few nicks and dings in the wood and the bridge is starting to come loose. It served its purpose and I can still write nice music on it, but every time I go to the guitar store, I can’t help but pick up a nice Seagull or Takamine acoustic in order to appreciate the difference in quality.

A good guitar doesn’t make the player any better unless the player has a solid foundation to start with. And no matter what you think, neither I nor any of the original posters were trying to say anything to the contrary. Stop trying to pass off your opinion as being the only right one, especially when the people on this board directly answered a direct question.

Naboth, I think the general consensus of posters on this topic would agree with you. I know I certainly would. There’s certainly no reason to limit yourself to inferior equipment for the sake of creativity, since they it really has no bearing on it.

Sigh…Another ‘brilliant’ rejoinder from you. I could easily throw the Ego Maniac label right back at you, since you’re the one who is convinced that he’s going to bring on the new music revolution with his world’s greatest band, which doesn’t even exist.

Once again on the topic of making any guitar sound good—I can also drive any car. I personally like to drive Fords though. If I suggest to a friend who is looking for a car that he should buy a Ford, does that make me a hypocrite? Am I weak person or something because I enjoy driving Fords? I could easily afford a Yugo, and it would certainly get me to and from work, however, I would much rather do it in an AC Ace or a new Diablo VT. I’ll most likely never own either, but I don’t feel incomplete because I don’t own either.

I hate to break it to you, but people have brand preferences, and personal preferences. Even Therapy? have gone on record stating what brands of guitars they enjoy, what pedals they like to play, and what stacks they like to play them through. Are you going to call them hypocrites, or ‘weak’ like you have to call me? It seems to me that maybe you’re the one who is unsure of his ability, since you spend so much time criticizing other’s preferences and trying your damndest to set yourself apart from everyone else when there is no reason to. The guy that started this thread didn’t ask anything about creativity, he asked for a suggestion on what guitars sound nice, look nice, play nice and are good deals.

And on a side note, I don’t really know that many people playing Fender/Marshall setups. None of my friends play Fenders, and none of them play through Marshall amps either. I’ve seen about a trillion people playing Les Pauls into Mesa Boogie heads however. Do I hurl insults at them for doing so? Of course not, because there’s an obvious reason they do so—it sounds good.