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Hi all,

My daughter is learning guitar (and quickly outpacing me!) and she's been asking me for recommendations for "important" songs for guitar players. I've already introduced her to a ton of stuff but I'm having fun making playlists and right now I'm working on one for just guitar instrumentals.

We both have a pretty wide variety of music tastes, so the list I've got so far has everyone from Chuck Schuldiner to Andres Segovia on it, but I've been going from memory and I know there's stuff I'm forgetting as well as stuff I didn't know I needed to include.

I'm trying not to include more than two pieces from each artist, and then only if they showcase different sides of that musician or group. I'm also trying not to fill it up with million different ideas about what to play over a "blues riff in b" or whatever, BB is already on the list and he does that more than well enough to get the point across.

It doesn't have to shred, but it should showcase something about the guitar or guitar playing.

Here's what I've got so far, but I'd love to see what you all think we should listen to!

Jeff Beck - Cause We've Ended as Lovers

Buckethead - Soothsayer

Guthrie Govan - Waves

Mood for a Day - Yes

Closing In - The Living End

Altitudes and Blue - Jason Becker

Tamacún - Rodrigo y Gabriela

Jessica - The Allman Brothers

Eruption - Van Halen

Cliffs of Dover - Eric Johnson

Orion - Metallica

Little Wing - Jimi Hendrix

The Brain Dance - Animals as Leaders

No Boundaries - Michael Angelo Batio

Recuerdos de la Alhambra - performed by Andres Segovia

Falling Down - Andy Timmons

Tender Surrender - Steve Vai

Blues We Like - BB King

Always with Me, Always with You - Joe Satriani

Hell's Kitchen - Dream Theater

Voice of the Soul - Death

Dialogue with the Stars - In Flames

Hi all,

So my youngest has a Kurzweil PC2-x keyboard (no on-board sound) that we're currently running through a small, mostly featureless Ampeg bass combo amp. My oldest and I (both guitar players) are playing through a Fender DeVille. I was jamming with my youngest last night and realized when we get into it (especially with a lot of the cool voices the Kurzweil offers) we're stepping all over each other's frequencies. It sounds like garbage and makes the guitars difficult to follow.

With the keyboard going through a bass amp, it sounds awesome in the low end but kind of anemic in the highs. My guitar is fighting real hard for mids but mostly getting washed out by the keys, but I try to keep my mids reasonable (especially on that monster of an amp) so humans can still think and speak when I'm playing. That leaves some high end room for me but with just a treble knob it feels like I'm not able to be as delicate with the frequency hunt as I'd like.

We're on the hunt for better solutions for amplifying the keyboard but in the meantime I was thinking a 7 or 10 band EQ pedal might be a cost effective way to help find the freqs I need to cut through without stepping on my kid's sound.

Reality is that Kurzweil can probably solve the problem all by itself but I don't have a degree in niche, bleeding edge keyboards from 1999 so I'm afraid to mess with it too much.

Back when I was a more active musician I played metal (used a Boss MT-2 and a tuner) and blues (used onboard gain and a tuner) so I never really had much experience with pedals in general. In my old age I'm experimenting with them a lot more, but I've never used an EQ pedal at all before so I don't know what I don't know. Would a dedicated EQ pedal be a good idea here, or are there some obvious answers I'm missing?

Hi all,

My kids are getting really into music and it's bringing me back into it pretty hard too, but in the nearly 20 years since I played regularly my needs have changed quite a bit. For instance, I live in a condo and don't play noisy bars anymore, so my Fender DeVille is WAY too much for our space.

I was hoping it would have held its value somewhat but it looks like even being in fantastic shape it's worth $300-$500 at best. That sucks because tube amps have not gotten any cheaper pretty much anywhere for any model except the one I've got lol.

I keep hearing that the modern modeling amps and effects are pretty incredible these days but I'm an old curmudgeon and I'm still battling my preconceptions about tubes vs solid state.

Filling our condo with noise won't take more than a few watts, but since my daughter is getting really into guitar whatever I get I want it to sound good in a coffee shop and compete with a trap set in a small space. From my 20+ year old amp knowledge, that means I'm probably looking for something in the 25-30 watt range, but that sounds real good and warmed up at less than half way up the volume knob.

Ideally I'd like to sell my old Fender amp and buy the new one with the cash, or trade straight across for something, or at least be real close.

Are real tube amps just out unless I want another DeVille? Are there any options that fit my budget and don't suck?

If not, school me on the modeler options at that price point. Anything that will keep me happy?

Hi all,

I've been playing guitar for over 30 years, but I haven't been active in the music world for more than a decade now so I'm very out of touch with what's good/bad/common knowledge in the guitar industry these days. I recently got back into it because my kids are starting to get serious about their musicianship, and now I want to try something I've thought about for many years.

I'm not a professional and I don't profess to know a whole hell of a lot about the finer points of guitar making, but I know from my own experience that at least *to me,* the neck shape, scale, fretboard, pickups, action, and strings are the most important components for determining how much I'm going to like playing and hearing any guitar.

Examples: back in the early 2000's a friend of mine had a late '70's custom shop SG. I absolutely LOVED it but couldn't afford one. Turns out, the Schecter C1's of the time had a *really* similar feeling neck, and they were only about $500, so I became a Schecter devotee and my favorite guitar I currently own is a C1-XXX.

I also needed a cheap guitar with a bolt-on neck I could disassemble and take with me on Army deployments. Again, back in the early 2000's at least, Dean made a $100 guitar called a Vendetta that was by all counts a pretty bare-bones instrument, except that people raved about the action. I picked one up, fiddled around with it a little, and instantly saw what they meant. It's a cheap, mostly crappy guitar and it sounds like it's meant for a high school kid to plug into a Fender Frontman, but with the right strings and a decent setup it really flys. It's at a shop right now getting new tuning machines and some much needed TLC, and sooner or later it's getting some real pickups too.

My question is, what cheap/inexpensive electric guitars are out there today with surprisingly good necks and fretboards? If I'm okay with replacing pickups and hardware, where should I be looking for a starting point?

I play mostly technical death metal, blues, and classic rock, but I like versatility. All my guitars are 24 frets, I'm not opposed to 22 but the scale matters too and I don't have the experience with them to know what I like.

The Schecter necks are pretty thin, but I just got my daughter a Cort RG500 that has a pretty wide neck and I like it a lot, so I'm probably not as sensitive to fretboard width as I am to action, neck profile, and scale.

Ideas?

I've been using Aves as a photo library and for simple cropping and flipping images, but it's not meant to be an image editor. I'd seen Image Toolbox recommended and I really tried for a long time but that app is atrocious and I couldn't handle it anymore. I'd seen several folks recommend just using Google Photos and not allowing network permissions, so I tried that. Downloaded from the Play store, unchecked the Allow Network box before installing, and opened the app to see the Graphene permission menu asking if I wanted to give it access to my photos. I selected the option for "limited access" and it gave me the photo picker. All expected behavior so far. I picked the photo I wanted it to have access to, but then the app told me I had to give it permission to see my photos. It would not let me get any further and didn't show me the photo I had allowed access to.

So even with "limited access" and using the photo picker, that's not good enough for Google. If they can't see EVERYTHING I HAVE, they won't let me use their toys.

Are there any photo editor apps that aren't downright antagonistic to the very concept of privacy, but that also work as actual photo editors? I just want to do basic stuff like put text on an image, I'm not looking for LightRoom or anything. Is that too much to ask?

Hi all,

I'm running Elite through Steam on Ubuntu and am looking to pick up a VR headset. I'm looking specifically for used, I know the Steam Frame is supposed to be right around the corner but I doubt I'm gonna want to swing for it at MSRP.

I have a 3080ti, have no intent of playing anything in VR that will get me out of my chair, and mostly want as immersive an experience as my budget will allow.

My understanding is that the closest thingsin my budget range to "plug and play" on Linux are the Quest 2 and the Valve Index. I don't have any intrrest in Meta products on principle, and I was actually leaning towards the PSVR2 on specs but I can't seem to find a ton of evidence of it working well on Linux.

There's a non-zero possibility I end up caving and doing a dual-boot with a Windows partition so I can run Voice Attack anyway, but if I can get the VR experience I want on Linux I'd like to at least give it a shot.

Any other Linux VR users with advice they want to drop? Things to consider/stay away from? TIA!