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Original message:106 days 3 hours 39 minutes ago

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Member: Alski

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I know for sure that Im overreacting about my new guitar, thinking that everything has to be perfect. But lately Ive just been doing some excersises and have noticed some noises of my fingers moving when changing this shape.

E-------------9------7----------
B---------8-------------8-------
G------7-------------------9----
D---------------------------------
A---------------------------------
E---------------------------------

I expect that that is normal, but does anyone know any ways to reduce this? I have a noise reduction setting on my effects pedal, but it really hurts my sustain, which I treasure.
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Reply:105 days 14 hours 44 minutes ago
Member: ibzRG

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A) reduce the distortion

B) practice practice practice your fingerwork and muting.

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Reply:105 days 13 hours 16 minutes ago
Member: Xarkzila

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Finger squeaks are pretty normal. They will greatly reduce as your strings wear, but each time you put new strings on your axe, they will reappear. Technique will help a lot here, but will not eliminate them completely. Some will just happen.

Whenever I put new strings on my guitar, AND am recording, I use Finger Ease on it. This spray lubricates the strings nearly eliminating squeaks in combination with correct technique. We'll also hit client's guitars if they're facing the same issue. The stuff works great. I'm sure there are similar products out there as well.

It's far more annoying on an acoustic where you have nothing in the way of gates or effects to hide it. And your "noise reduction" setting is really a gate. Gates will ALWAYS kill sustain.

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Reply:105 days 6 hours 33 minutes ago
Member: shanejohnson2002

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The only gate I've found that doesn't is the ISP decimator. It's super sensitive though, so you have to set the threshold *just* right.

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Reply:105 days 6 hours 36 minutes ago
Member: Music49

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like ibzRg said...practice your ass off

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Reply:105 days 4 hours 42 minutes ago
Member: frumsapap

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Sometimes the squeaks give the song character, though. But what I do is lift my hand just slightlywhen ever I am moving up and down the fret board. It's something I just taught my self to do, and it works, especially when you are doing bar chords.

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Reply:105 days 2 hours 33 minutes ago
Member: Alski

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One more thing. When I lift my fingers COMPLETELY off of the strings, the strings lightly vibrate. Is that fine too?

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Reply:104 days 23 hours 48 minutes ago
Member: Music49

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in the end its what you think sounds cool or sounds good, so if it sounds good to you then its fine.

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Reply:104 days 22 hours 59 minutes ago
Member: pickabass

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I had that to, so i ignored it. And guess what! It went away, just like most of the other common beginners ailments. Just forget about it, and keep playing. Another example is that last Sunday, I spontaneously started using my left pinky as much as i should. Just keep playing, and listening, and watching, and learning, and soon you will develop a technique that is beautiful, yet uniquely yours.

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