[QUOTE=Che Guevara]trying to forget my psp is gone



and waiting for break[/QUOTE]
haha, that's the second time you have lost that :p

/got liberty city

yea, the first time it was left in my girl's car


this time is for real though :upset:



you have a PSP?

[QUOTE=Che Guevara]yea, the first time it was left in my girl's car


this time is for real though :upset:



you have a PSP?[/QUOTE]
with a 1 gig memory card :cool:

<3 psps.

u gotta get that SOCOM man



i just got the head set a day before i lost it too for online play :upset:

Man, I hate stupid people. I really, really. do.

[QUOTE=ICB]Man, I hate stupid people. I really, really. do.[/QUOTE]
Sorry.

The new thread up with great thread name to boot :cool:

Jake is gonna be pissed.

[QUOTE=Happy]Sorry.[/QUOTE]

I'm not talking about this thread, I'm just thinking out loud about the idiots that flood my school...

[QUOTE=Joe]The new thread up with great thread name to boot

Jake is gonna be pissed.[/QUOTE]

Man, you could have done better on the name! :lol:

It's been a while since I've done an Insanely Cheap Biography...I procrastinate to much.

[QUOTE=ICB]I'm not talking about this thread, I'm just thinking out loud about the idiots that flood my school...



Man, you could have done better on the name! :lol:

It's been a while since I've done an Insanely Cheap Biography...I procrastinate to much.[/QUOTE]
haha, explain. an I saw that ninja edit.
like the new avatar?

ive seen that av before though

[QUOTE=Che Guevara]ive seen that av before though[/QUOTE]
I don't care, it owns.

Axe, why are you so obsessed with your stars?

[QUOTE=Arucard]Axe, why are you so obsessed with your stars?[/QUOTE]
:( , because i just got them.
the novelty is wearing off already :-/
how are you?

[QUOTE=Axe]haha, explain. an I saw that ninja edit.
like the new avatar?[/QUOTE]

Well for one, it's a small school so everybody knows everone else's life story and more. I hate that because all I hear is "hey did you hear about blabla and what he/she did blablabla" sometimes crap gets blown out of proportion and exaggerated beyond the point of frustration. Not a lot of it has to do with me but I just hate how people have nothing better to do than gossip about their friends and all that stupid sh[size=2]i[/size]t

Second of all, we have poser rednecks who wear camoflauge to school everyday and confederate flag t-shirts and chew tobacco, yelling "southern pride, southern pride" when most of them weren't born in a confederate state. The "GIT-R-DONE" thing is a trend that must die.

Third of all, my band has a show next weekend and I posted fliers around school. Everyone knows I'm in said band, and therefore they feel it'd be funny to

a). take those fliers down or
b). write "Without a Trace sucks and so does metal lolololol" all over the fliers.

Either way, I got pissed and now people are like "oh, I'm sorry, everyone go to the show" and it's like "no, screw you, I don't want your support if you're going to be a douche about it"...people in Paducah seem to love us more than they do over here anyway, so I don't give a damn.

Fourth, we not only have poser rednecks, we have riggers, which are redneck wiggers. They dress in camo and go hunting while listening to 50 Cent, et al. All the while yelling crap like "I hate ******s and f[SIZE="2"]a[/SIZE]gs hahahahaha". I could delve more into it, but I can't be bothered to type more out :lol:

[QUOTE=ICB]
Fourth, we not only have poser rednecks, we have riggers, which are redneck wiggers. They dress in camo and go hunting while listening to 50 Cent, et al. All the while yelling crap like "I hate ******s and f[SIZE="2"]a[/SIZE]gs hahahahaha". I could delve more into it, but I can't be bothered to type more out :lol:[/QUOTE]
i go hunting, but i'm not a redneck and i listen to metal. but still, that would get really annoying. gather up all the metalheads around and go hunt the annoying people instead?

Jom disclaimer: the below links are safe. The second takes you to my Photobucket, the first takes you to a secondary website for StudentCity.

///

So Don Vito was at my school today [url=http://www.studentcity.com/events/donvito.php]for this obscure reason.[/url]

magicbus: he's going to be at MSU tomorrow (I think). Check the schedule on the above link, if you want.

[url=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v607/frozeninshadows/vito.jpg]He's rather snappy in person.[/url] (l) double chins, hah.

He also is as unintelligible in real life as he is on TV, even when he was talking at a moderate pace. gg, Vito.

i love that friggin guy actually :lol:



he has helped turned my girl onto the viva la bam show...





yea, i dont watch TV haha

whats ur UT mean path?

Wow you met Don Vito.

ITT: people give me two-minute tips on how to re-string my guitar.

Everytime I re-string it, the top string ALWAYS breaks, so I can only play songs using the bottom five strings. This pretty much sucks, because there are barely any songs that do not use the top string.

Please and thank you :o

PS: guitar is an easy-peesy mac-and-cheesey Squier Strat. Helllllllll yeah.

I realize that it's supposed to be easy, but I obviously suck.

where does it break?


/very important

[QUOTE=Jom]ITT: people give me two-minute tips on how to re-string my guitar.

Everytime I re-string it, the top string ALWAYS breaks, so I can only play songs using the bottom five strings. This pretty much sucks, because there are barely any songs that do not use the top string.

Please and thank you :o

PS: guitar is an easy-peesy mac-and-cheesey Squier Strat. Helllllllll yeah.

I realize that it's supposed to be easy, but I obviously suck.[/QUOTE]

It could be that the nut is really bad and so your string is catching on some sort of flaw inside the space where it gets threaded through, causing it to snag and break. My strings usually break when changing them because of a temperature problem that causes the action and bridge of my guitar to go screwy when compared to the amount of tension the strings apply. It could be that since the Squire Strat is such a poorly-made guitar that your neck is messed up compared to the amount of tension it's supposed to handle, or that the string guage you're using is too heavy for the guitar.

Out of interest: what string guage are you using? And does it only break just as you're tuning it up to pitch immediately after restringing?

EDIT: And yeah, it's really good to know if it breaks by the bridge or by the nut, generally speaking. The place where it breaks is a good clue to what your guitar's problem is.

Also, I know you like a lot of nu-metal, so if you're tuning only up to C, the action/tension/intonation relationship is probably SEVERELY messed up which would cause your strings to do funny things like break. My strings break sometimes when tuning DOWN to a lower pitch, and this happens more often than breakage by tuning up. Other times I'll be tuning up TO standard from a lower open tuning (on my acoustic), and it'll break even though theoretically it should be fine as it's only tuning up to what it's designed for. This usually has to do with the guitar not being able to handle the constant action between the relief and application of stress that comes with having it in a tuning other than what it is set up for (and your Squire is probably optimized, if that's even the word, for standard).

[QUOTE=Che Guevara]where does it break?


/very important[/QUOTE]

At the nut/headstock.

EDIT: crap, Cain the ninja. Hang on.

[quote=Cain]It could be that the nut is really bad and so your string is catching on some sort of flaw inside the space where it gets threaded through, causing it to snag and break. My strings usually break when changing them because of a temperature problem that causes the action and bridge of my guitar to go screwy when compared to the amount of tension the strings apply. It could be that since the Squire Strat is such a poorly-made guitar that your neck is messed up compared to the amount of tension it's supposed to handle, or that the string guage you're using is too heavy for the guitar.

Out of interest: what string guage are you using? And does it only break just as you're tuning it up to pitch immediately after restringing?

EDIT: And yeah, it's really good to know if it breaks by the bridge or by the nut, generally speaking. The place where it breaks is a good clue to what your guitar's problem is.[/quote]

I used 11s for awhile (dropped) without much of a problem. Now I have 12s to start playing again in standard, and yeah, they break pretty much when I'm tuning. The break is always at the nut/headstock, never down low towards the base.

I can take pictures of the guitar, but the problem here is that I need to find batteries for my camera.

I bought this guitar used to begin with, and it never really gave me any problems tone-wise or intonation-wise, I just figured I sucked at re-stringing. But after six or seven times, it's getting rather annoying, heh.

id say stretch it more before you go up to E....




or, you might have a bur on the machine head

I'm sorry about the ninja edits. I'll post my reply in a sec. :p

Right, so I "borrowed" some batteries from an unsuspecting roommate.

Give me a few moments.

EDIT: I just realized that this is pointless, as this isn't going to tell much.

Well, my bridge screws/springs are loose, but from what I understand this is normal. The only thing is that the bottom string's screw is so loose that part of the bridge covers the string hole, but that's a bit unreasonable. Otherwise, maybe I should just accept the fact that my re-stringing ability sucks a fat one.

[QUOTE=Jom]ITT: people give me two-minute tips on how to re-string my guitar.

Everytime I re-string it, the top string ALWAYS breaks, so I can only play songs using the bottom five strings. This pretty much sucks, because there are barely any songs that do not use the top string.

Please and thank you :o

PS: guitar is an easy-peesy mac-and-cheesey Squier Strat. Helllllllll yeah.

I realize that it's supposed to be easy, but I obviously suck.[/QUOTE]
file down the metal/plastic whereever the string sits, and on the tuner head wrap the string around twice before putting it throught the hole.
hope it helped :)

[QUOTE=Jom]At the nut/headstock.

EDIT: crap, Cain the ninja. Hang on.



I used 11s for awhile (dropped) without much of a problem. Now I have 12s to start playing again in standard, and yeah, they break pretty much when I'm tuning. The break is always at the nut/headstock, never down low towards the base.

I can take pictures of the guitar, but the problem here is that I need to find batteries for my camera.

I bought this guitar used to begin with, and it never really gave me any problems tone-wise or intonation-wise, I just figured I sucked at re-stringing. But after six or seven times, it's getting rather annoying, heh.[/QUOTE]

You don't suck at restringing. It seems that the basic problem is a difference between string guage and pitch considering what the guitar is set up for. For one thing, most cheap guitars work best with really light guages like 9s or 10s, not 11s or 12s (which are light guages for acoustic guitars, just to put it in perspective: the E on a 12 set is the same guage as a B for a light electric set), and your Squire probably came off the shelf optimized for nines or tens in standard: after all, the Squire is technically a beginner's guitar, and beginners learn and play best with really light guages like that. Even if you brought it in to have it set up for dropped tunings or heavier string guages, guitar shops hate setting intonation (especially on bad guitars like the Squire) because it's a nearly impossible thing to do. As a result, they'll avoid it wherever possible: you'll go in and say "Change my strings and set it up for intonation," and they'll just change the strings and charge you 30 dollars. :rolleyes:

Plus, down-tuning causes the neck and the bridge to go funny, since there isn't as much stress as it's used to. This won't be a problem while you're in the tuning, especially with heavier guages (where it all sort of evens out, tension wise) but if you suddenly decide to take all your strings off and tune to standard with a guage heavier (as you say you're doing, switching from 11s to 12s) what you're doing is adding like 50 additional pounds of tension that the neck is no longer equipped to handle: since your string is breaking at the nut, I'm almost positive that your neck is out of alignment with the bridge and that tuning up to standard with an even heavier guage is just too much tension for your already thoroughly screwed-up guitar body to handle. Your best bet would be to take it in to a shop and ask what's the deal: I'm no guitar tech, but based on what I know about basic maintenence it sounds like that's the problem you're having. A simple truss-rod adjustment and maybe some action setting should fix it. It shouldn't cost you very much, either.

A professional guy would be able to tell you for sure. Just make sure he doesn't treat you like a little kid, because if he thinks you don't know anything about your problem, he won't fix it and he'll still charge you money for whatever he does, hoping you'll bring it back again when it still has problems, so that he can charge you MORE money.

/economics

EDIT: This is my best guess. I could be pissing in the wind, but I think that that's what's happening.

Hey guys, go listen to Chapter Four on [url]www.myspace.com/avengedsevenfold[/url]

Its the live version, their drummer really slays.

Right, thanks. I'll be sure to reward you guys (Che, when you get kurrpt back [barring decision or whatever], I'll just add it to that) when I get back from class.

Part of it I think has to do with the guitar being so used. When I was cleaning it yesterday after I de-stringed it, there was this candlewax substance all over my fretboard. Combination of cloth and Q-tips = pretty nasty crap. And all these screws are loose, and the washer that holds my output jack together fell off, and it's starting to basically crap out for now.

I do have a set of 9s with me, so maybe I can just slap those on instead of the 12s.

Also, a guitar shop is out of the question, because I'm in the freakin' boonies right now. I might take it in when I go home for holiday break in December, but I can just have my tech friend have a look - he was the one that taught me how to re-string it in the first place.

I'll just try to re-string after class and see how it goes. If strings break again, I'm just giving up this guitar for a time and staying with bass.

Thanks again, everyone :-\