What Are Some Noob or Bad Habits Y'all Have with Playing/Gear?

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So, I've had this one amp for like 30 years and to this day I will more often than not plug my guitar into the the foot switch input.
Will also usually check over everything but the guitar volume/cable input first when I'm getting no sound in general.
Often find myself picking at the last few frets of the fingerboard. More of a subconscious comfort/position/in the moment thing than a tone thing, but probably not a good habit.

What about y'all? Anything funny?
 
DanTravis62 said:
Effects send and return. I literally always hook them up reversed, first

It's like Schrodinger's Loop, there's a quantum superposition that is always incorrect
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Don't personally do a lot of in the loop stuff, but I def pause for a moment when I do.
I get it why they mark them that way, but also feel like it's dumb. Just put in/out or to/from.
 
I'm always tuning the guitar to itself rather than to a tuner because it's easier and faster and I'm lazy.

Eventually the guitar ends up way off from where I think it is and don't even know it until I play with other people or just music on the stereo or whatever.
 
I've done all of these things :lol:

Once plugged my cabinet speaker cable into the FX send of my Splawn :mad:
.....and couldn't figure out for like 10 minutes why I had no sound. Luckily didn't fry anything.

Still use clip on tuners :lol:

Never used a metronome :(

And I have a nasty habit of learning riffs incorrectly by ear, and then when I look it up - it still does not sound right unless I play it "my" way. :doh:
 
DanTravis62 said:
Effects send and return. I literally always hook them up reversed, first

It's like Schrodinger's Loop, there's a quantum superposition that is always incorrect
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Me too, bud. Or i try to plug staight in, which takes the input from the gate which is in loop, so it silences rig... I could fuck up anything. That is also why i am so good at troubleshooting
 
The one thing I have done right regarding FX cables is a long time ago I decided to use a white (clean signal) jacketed patch cable for SEND and a blue (colored signal) jacketed patch cable for return. Before that I constantly had them wrong.
 
- Bending with my second finger,
- not using a metronome,
- not tuning first,
- wondering why there is no sound (volume on guitar is off),
- realising after 20 minutes of playing my tone knob was down or I was in the neck position trying to play rhythm,
- blaming gear,
- not buying gear I actually need,
- buying things for wrong reasons and then getting attached, stopping me from buying the things I actually need,
- But the worst thing I ever done - I mixed a pot of fake puke at home and then I went to this movie theater, hid the puke in my jacket, climbed up to the balcony and then, t-t-then, I made a noise like this: hua-hua-hua-huaaaaaaa - and then I dumped it over the side, all over the people in the audience. And then, this was horrible, all the people started getting sick and throwing up all over each other. I never felt so bad in my entire life.

Man, I feel so much better now. Thanks!
 
NowYou'rePlayingWithPower said:
So, I've had this one amp for like 30 years and to this day I will more often than not plug my guitar into the the foot switch input.
Will also usually check over everything but the guitar volume/cable input first when I'm getting no sound in general.
Often find myself picking at the last few frets of the fingerboard. More of a subconscious comfort/position/in the moment thing than a tone thing, but probably not a good habit.

What about y'all? Anything funny?
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I used to pick at the last few frets on my strat when much younger. I don’t know if it was the guitar size and shape, or if I changed. I don’t play that guitar anymore and I don’t pick there anymore. Could be a postural thing maybe?
 
The last few years since I've had amp switchers, it almost never fails that I turn everything on and get no sound. I spend about a minute looking at my pedalboard, cables, volume knobs and AxeFx before I realize I don't have the amp switcher selected to the amp I'm trying to play.
 
I can relate to so many of these things. Especially the effects send/return dilemma. But my worst bad habit is just not playing enough, and when I do, it's just mindless noodling. I got no structure anymore.
 
War_in_D said:
I can relate to so many of these things. Especially the effects send/return dilemma. But my worst bad habit is just not playing enough, and when I do, it's just mindless noodling. I got no structure anymore.
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The biggest trap. I fall into it so, so often.
 
Eazy-ESP said:
I used to pick at the last few frets on my strat when much younger. I don’t know if it was the guitar size and shape, or if I changed. I don’t play that guitar anymore and I don’t pick there anymore. Could be a postural thing maybe?
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I don't usually do it as I'm mostly trying to stay close to the bridge for muting, but def a posture/eyes closed in the moment kinda thing. It's only when I'm sitting and playing closely to the classical position where it happens. Thinking on it, the more I tend to go to the higher frets the more my picking hand wants to meet with my fretting hand. Dunno, just a weird subconscious thing I guess.
 
War_in_D said:
I can relate to so many of these things. Especially the effects send/return dilemma. But my worst bad habit is just not playing enough, and when I do, it's just mindless noodling. I got no structure anymore.
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Try to put on something mindless on your TV and mute it. Play whatever the scene is making you feel. It's one of my go to's for warming up/writer's block.
Those penguins love metal is all I'm saying. :ROFLMAO: @errrrrl 's recent couple of videos kinda remind me of that. I find it more inspiring than just playing with a drum track, tbh.
 
I can't tell you how many pedals I have cracked open trying to hunt down where the battery goes but I'll be damned if I can find it on most of them. Wayne is making me a custom OD/boots pedal with lettering on the PCB instructing me where to put the battery so I'm not fumbling around trying to figure out where the 9v goes anymore. I thought that was pure genius on his part.
 
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