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Anyone Care To Do A "Happy Holidays" Video?

Hey students!
I was looking at my old youtube videos from the school's first inception and I miss doing these fun little videos. Remember the testimonial video? Syn's birthday video? Those were a blast and I've noticed so many faces have come and gone, but now we have NEW faces, NEW students, and NEW stories that I'd love to share! If you'd like to be a part of a "Happy Holidays from the Synner Community" type of thing, PM me your email address and I'll let you know what to do. Let's make this fun!

Love,
Jak

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Synyster Diamond Series Standard - Best A7X Amp Tones Settings [Boss Katana]

I just received a Synyster Gates Standard Schecter with single coil humbucker pickups, and I would like to play covers of A7X songs across all albums. I was wondering if anyone had suggestions to sound closer to their tones using a Boss Katana MKII amp.

Currently, I think I have figured out the closest City of Evil tone, sounds great for Bat Country, MIA, The Wicked End, etc. For this I am using the Lead amp type, Gain at .3, Bass at .3, Mid at .5, Treble at .75, Delay at .1, Reverb at .4.

I am not too savvy when it comes to messing with amp settings, so I was wondering if anyone had advice for getting a good tone to use for Nightmare, Waking the Fallen, and settings for The Stage. There have been some boss katana patches for A7X that I have tried, but none seemed to really capture their sound when using the syn standard. Any advice is appreciated!!
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Learning notes on fretboard

I've been playing guitar for almost 2 years and learning from online lessons. I started learning from synner.com to develop some techniques and learn theory because I know nothing about theory lol. So I started from the very beginning again but the stuff gets kinda confusing when Papa Gates talks about theory because I don't know where the notes lie on the fretboard so I get lost most of the time in finding where the notes are. How do I learn where the notes are on the fretboard so I can see them on the fretboard easily. Thanks :)
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Fretting hand control

I've been playing for 20 months mostly online and I was learning a lick recently and it's making me doubt that I have flying fingers or uncontrolled fretting hand where you fail to keep fingers near the fretboard. I don't know if my fretting technique really is like that or maybe this problem is occurring in this lick only. So I have attached some videos to the thread for you guys to watch and tell me if I really have an uncontrolled fretting hand or maybe it is only happening in that lick. The first 2 videos are of me playing some chromatics and some riffs and licks. The third is where I'm facing the issue of flying fingers especially at higher speeds. I'll include link to the original creator's YouTube video if anyone wants to learn the lick.
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The student becomes the teacher

Hey all!

So recently a friend of mine asked if I was able to teach her son guitar! And of course I agreed! Only thing is I’ve never formally taught someone music, I’ve only ever been the student (mostly piano). So I pose this question for anyone who has insight.

Where would be a good place to start other than explaining the different parts of the guitar and how to hold a pick lol?
I plan on following along with the beginner lessons here on the school and such, but any tips is greatly appreciated 🙌🏻

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Using audio interface for recording guitar and amp sims stuff

So I bought an audio interface to basically get a good guitar tone and for recording covers. It's a Behringer U-Phoria UMC22. I watched some videos on YouTube for reviews and also heard from a friend that owned it, that it's pretty good. When I first set the thing up, I was totally confused because of Asio then I found how to use it. Now here's the problem, anyone who uses audio interfaces knows that you need to plug the headphones in the interface because if you try using it with the pc output you get weird screeching sound with tons of latency. But the interface has a quarter inch port for headphones and the my main headset has a usb jack so I couldn't plug those in so I used a cheap headphone and a 3.5 to quarter inch converter but the sound was pretty bad. I asked some people on forums they said that you need studio monitors for that but I dont have that kinda money. I could although afford some studio headphones that cost around 3000 rupees or 40.38$. Can I get a good tone in studio headphones? If you use audio interface with studio headphones or maybe have experience about all this stuff, please reply. If yes, please try to suggest some headphones that cost around the price range I mentioned.
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I need to change my strings! (and you too, Ari 🦆🔪)

Hello everyone! Sooo since I bought my guitars I never changed my strings and I've been thinking lately that I should have done this earlier, but whatever 😹 Well, looks like life wanted to give me a little push too, cause a string on my acoustic broke out of nowhere and I'm not even using it, so this must be a sign 🤣
Anyway, I plan on buying new strings for both my acoustic and my electric on the upcoming Black Friday cause I'm poor and I could really use some discounts so that's my chance 😹 I think this forum might already have guides on how to change strings and etc but some other questions crossed my mind and I wonder if you can help me with those! I'm gonna number the questions so it's easier to refer to them 😆 Here we go:

1 - If I'm gonna change them by myself, what exactly do I need to do it? Like do I need any tools? Are they expensive? Or I just need the strings, lots of patience and some praying? 🙏🏼

2 - I currently have an acoustic with nylon strings, I've read before that you can't put steel strings on nylon guitars and vice versa. Is this correct or it's a myth?

3 - About string gauges, can I choose any set based on personal preferences or I have to buy a specific one that is "compatible" with my guitar? I'm thinking about buying an Ernie Ball Regular Slinky set (green pack, 10-46) 🤔

4 - While searching for the acoustic, I've seen sets with low, medium and high tension. Again: can I choose this or I have to buy something according to what my guitar "accepts"? If I can choose it, how does it influence my playing/sound?

5 - Will I get to change my strings before Ari? 🤔 I still have a week until I order them and it will probably take two more weeks for them to arrive 🤔 What do you think? 🤔

I think that's it for now but if I remember anything more I will add to this thread later 😆 Thanks in advance!

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How am I supposed to make the lower and higher notes sound good at the same time?

Oh my poor ears. 😭 (and my neighbours ears perhaps)

My high notes are so sharp in the ears it feels like it's stabbing my eardrums. (Sharp in sound, not note) I've tried making it softer with the toneknob and by lowering the treble and mids. It works a little but it makes the lower notes sound "dull". I can't switch between a riff and highnote lick and make both sound okay.
It has to be an EQ/setting solution I'm missing because drowning it in reverb isn't a good option. 😅

I'm using my bridgepick up with amp distortion and an overdrive pedal.
My settings at the moment are: treble 3/4, mids 2/3, bass 5/6, distortion 6/7, and overdrive Three quarters open. The toneknob on the overdrive is over halfway too.

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SYN-C - GOLDEN GODDESS - fake? damaged?

Hey guys.

So the Golden goddess was sold out on the store and I had been looking at it for a while. So I was pretty bummed about it. So I went for the dark knight and it was sold out too.
So.
One conveniently popped up on eBay for $2000 CAD. I thought this was strange considering it was listed as brand new.
But I paid with PayPal so all was fine.
Surprisingly, I got the guitar UPS express next day.
Came stapled shut in the schecter box (I have three other syn customs from schecter and a syn special. All came very similar)
Neck was wrapped and to my surprise it was a beautiful guitar.

Overcome with beauty she went right on the wall next to the others. I noticed the fret buzz was a bit strange so I took It in to get looked at. The guys thought it was beautiful at first sight. But called me later and told me they could only set the action super high, which I found annoying.
Whatever. When I got it back I gave her a good play and one on one time.
Plays very well, but not as well as my custom s.


I began to study it and I began noticing quite a few different flaws within the guitar that aren't apparent on my other guitars from schecter that are raising suspicion. The paint is very sloppy in places, uneven and it almost looks like the neck was repainted or cracked or something. The tremolo system seems very off and the binding is somewhat separating from the body at the bottom of the guitar.



I was wondering if you guys could take a look at this and see what you think.

Thanks.

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Totally Curious! What Will Your SynTV Channel Be About?

Hey everyone! I kinda thought about something cool. The great thing about this community extending is that we can now learn more about each other, other than music stuff! So I'm SUPER curious, what will YOUR SynTV channel be about?

Mine will mostly be about developing great practice routines based on these lessons, as well as some of my motivational talks I use to do! I have some other things I'd like to cover but I have to talk to the team first to make sure it's suitable material. Let me hear your ideas!

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How do I disable all emails except newsletters?

I know I'm asking a lot of questions but I can't figure out how to disable emails from all activity here except newsletters. When I'm in my email, it only let's me choose "emails from x activity" or "all Synner emails from the website completely." I tried looking in my account details and I can't find anything that would be it
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