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mabufo
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scratchy sounds

Unread post by mabufo » Fri Oct 27, 2006 5:36 pm

When I plug in my electric acoustic, I notice some scratchy kind of sounds when I slide my hand on the string say, from a D chord, to a G chord. I understand sometimes making noises is unavoidable... but when this sort of thing happens to me it is loud, and bloody awful. I am wondering if this phenomonon is caused by me being a dolt, my strings, or possibly from my poorly set amplifier! Let me know what you think about it!
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Unread post by filmdude100cms » Fri Oct 27, 2006 5:42 pm

can you be more specific? is it just the sound of your fingers across the strings amplified or is it something that is only comming through when you plug in?
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Unread post by mabufo » Fri Oct 27, 2006 5:55 pm

the sound of my fingers amplified... how can I stop it, or make it less noticable? Is there some bit of technique I'm missing?
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Unread post by RunsWithBuffalo » Fri Oct 27, 2006 8:28 pm

fingers on which hand?
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Unread post by Kahn » Sat Oct 28, 2006 12:33 am

string squeak is natural and cool sounding if thats what youre referring to. If you hate it get some elixir polywebs
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