2 Questions????

Hi again!My first question:Can you play so good as when you play with YOUR guitar..when play with the guitar of your friend for example...Second question:How much close have to be the strings to the neck of the guitar?What is it more right to be close enough or not???Thanks a lot....

First answer: depends on the friend *LOL* - seriously - ther are guitars that just dont suit my hands - but i guess thatz a matter of getting used to it.

Second answer: the closer to the frets, the better. but not too close - else the strings might make nasty fret noise when they touch the frets in several positions when ringing.

1- The more I play on a guitar, the more used I get to it. Though there are guitars that annoy me too much, and I just won't bother playing on them.

2- Low action = you don't need to push the strings as hard, so you can play more comfortably/faster, yet you can get fretbuzz and less sustain.
High action = more tone, harder to play

So the key is finding your own preference somewhere in between.

When I try another guitar I can't play it as well as my own simply because the context in which I am likely to be using someonelse's guitar is a context in which I would feel less comfortable. I don't feel comfortable playing in music stores (when I'm not buying anything) cause I don't like ramming my decidedly minority style music on innocent shoppers! Another thing; tone's never so good if you underpower your amp as a self-conscious guitarist like myself might do. I bought a new guitar recently (secondhand Ibanez Rg570) and it took me very little time to get used to it when I got it home.
As for friends guitars they can be harder to play than my number one axe (afore mentioned) cause 12strings/acoustic/semiacoustic/wideneckjointed models are harder to play than a nice straight-forward lecky with a low action.

If the guitar is very different than mine it takes few minutes to get used to it, but if it has the same scale length,similar neck thickness & frettwire , regardless of the body shape of course I get used to it instantaneously .

1. Yeah, depends on the guitar.
2. Depends on the style that your playing in, shredding, you should have a low action and .09-.42 strings. blues, prolly a high action and .11-.52 strings.

does high/low action refers to the amout of effort you put?

Originally posted by Slow Diver
does high/low action refers to the amout of effort you put?

Sure, Logicaly & practicaly High action takes more effort & time to bring the string to the neck (fretting) than low action, also it's very annoying if you did some Tapping with high action.

Some people (Non-shredders of course) like high action for tonal reasons, but I read that very high action will cause some problems with the Intonation.

Personaly I like normal action, so that I get best balance between tone & playability with no frett buzz.

Originally posted by Slow Diver
does high/low action refers to the amout of effort you put?

"action" simply means the height of the strings.

Why does high action kill tone? Does it kill much tone? I guess shredding kills tone anyway 'cause more of the time the pickups are receiving is accounted for by the sound of strings being fretted and picked and less of it ringing.

Originally posted by u10ajf
Why does high action kill tone? Does it kill much tone? I guess shredding kills tone anyway 'cause more of the time the pickups are receiving is accounted for by the sound of strings being fretted and picked and less of it ringing.

High action is a good thing for tone, I think you misread.

i think he means low action

quite right! I mean't low action, I had a brain escape.