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Originally Posted by carol m
Hi Medic, one thing to always check is whether you are in tune or not - I'm not saying you are out of tune, it sounds ok to me but it's always worth checking.
Just yesterday I was thinking that my high e string always sounds thin and tinny - is that what you are worried about with your guitar? After listening to your recording I was wondering if that was it - all the other strings sound good but the high e maybe sounds not as mellow.
A way around this is to keep the set of 11s but use a top e string from a slightly heavier set, or maybe get an extra B string and string it as the high E. I'm going to try that on mine to see if it helps.
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Well what you were hearing was the A string, the high E is used very few times in this song, and non at all in the intro. And yeah, I made sure they were tunned. I thought about it and I figured if my guitar was untunned my thread would turn into a "hey tune your guitar first" thread as I've seen that happen on another site. I think most people on here are much more mature and wouldnt do that.
But, I guess a lot of it has to do with the fact a 300 dollar guitar wont compete with a guitar a proffessional musician uses. Plus styles probably differ quite a bit. Although this is the first song I learned to play on my guitar and I've been playing it for 4 years.
As far as my tone issue goes I just feel like the strings are too "sharp". They're too high pitched and they ring too much, this mostly applies to the lower strings. Someone from another forum suggested me a brand of strings that are 98% copper vs the 93% of phospur bronze, and I'm going to give those a shot and see how they turn out. Just have to wait another hour for Guitarcenter to open.
