Gasalcoholics anonymous? whoever said this was a help group?

[dubkitty]

oh, right, the EXH is the thing they based on the glitchiness of the POLY mode of the Attack Decay.

that SMOOTH mode would be wonderful into the endless plate setting on the BlueSky.

[Gone Fission]

After spending a few weeks learning how to wrangle the ZOIA, my attention wandered over to the early-'70s Harmony classical guitar I had picked up at a thrift store for $10 (I'm not sure why they didn't have it priced at $200 like they price every other musical instrument). I had to spend more than $10 to buy a new set of tuners for it, but once that job was done I was off, plunking away on this thing instead of staring at a tiny screen.

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If I scored that, I’d consider it a candidate for John Pearse Folk Fingerpicking strings, which are relabeled Thomastik Rope Core strings usually for a lot less. This Joe Gore blog entry stuck in my head because they have a sound: https://tonefiend.com/guitar/strange_strings/

[dubkitty]

i’m pleased to note that somebody is doing a reasonably-priced Kalamazoo/Gibson parlor guitar that doesn’t cost a mint. Epiphone brought back the Blues King. if they’re like the ones from the 00s they’ll be wildly variable from unit to unit, but i’m glad someone is making an affordable wide-hipped parlor guitar again.

[Tall Walls]

If I scored that, I’d consider it a candidate for John Pearse Folk Fingerpicking strings, which are relabeled Thomastik Rope Core strings usually for a lot less. This Joe Gore blog entry stuck in my head because they have a sound: https://tonefiend.com/guitar/strange_strings/

Thanks for the tip! I'll keep an eye out for those. Even though Rope Core sounds like an extreme depressive Emo subgenre.

When I was restringing this guitar, at first I just tuned the strings up until they weren't slack, which led to tuning the guitar to C standard. So the sound Gore was getting with his guitar tuned to drop-C D standard was pretty familiar, even though I'm using the cheapest nylon strings I could find. The intonation on the high E (well, high C) string isn't great, but I'll probably just live with it, rather than try to mess with the bridge when I really have no idea what I'm doing.