ROCKWELL GUITAR COMPETITION 2014

Setelah beberapa hari yang lalu telah diumumkan jawara dari kompetisi gitar elektrik dari Ibanez dengan title "Flying With Ibanez", nah sekarang saatnya pabrikan gitar, efek dan amplifier asli Indonesia yang kembali menghadirkan kompetisi serupa dengan maksud menggali bakat dari gitaris-gitaris hebat yang masih "terselubung" di Indonesia. 

Dengan mencari bakat-bakat baru via media sosial Youtube, kamu adiksigitaris dapat mengikuti kompetisi ini dengan berbagai persyaratan yang bisa kamu lihat di posternya, seperti harus menggunakan gitar elektrik Rockwell, video harus 1x take dsb. Ajang ini digelar sejak bulan September lalu sampai dengan bulan Desember 2014. Cukuplah untuk take beberapa video, main yang bersih dan terkonsep, pilih yang paling keren kemudian UPLOAD! beres dan goodluck dudes !

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Keep on strumming !

Adiksigitar Tips :Cara MEMILIH SENAR GITAR ELEKTRIK

There are 3 things you should know about when buying strings for an electric guitar. The first one, and the only really important one, is the gauge (size) of the strings. The second one is the brand, without any real importance nowadays because every known manufacturer is making an excellent product. And the last thing to consider are the specific technics used in the making of the string, which are first and foremost a question of personal taste, but are useful to know about since they often are the reason behind cost differences.

1-Gauge

String gauge is the diameter measured in 1000th of an inch. (ex. 8=.008=8/1000th in, 42=.042=42/1000th in)

Here is a table showing different sets that could be offered by a manufacturer

String#	1	2	3	4	5	6
X-LITE	8	11	14	22	30	38
LITE	9	11	16	24	32	42
REGULAR	10	13	17	26	36	46
MEDIUM	11	13	18	30	42	52
HEAVY	13	16	26	36	46	56

There are also the "custom sets", which are a mix of different gauges within the same set, like let's say lite for the 3 higher strings and and heavy for the 3 lower strings.


Advantages / disadvantages

Extra-lite

Sound: softer, less "punchy"
Advantages: easier to bend and vibrate the strings, good for playing solos with more feeling, facilitate a faster picking, softer on the fingertips.
Disadvantages: strings could break more often, can be harder to tune, they have less sustain, higher chance of playing chords off-pitch because of unwanted bending, more parasite vibrations (fret buzzing).
Favored by: lead guitarists, especially for studio recording, and those who have sensible fingertips.

Lite to Medium

Sound: average
Advantages: Good for doing a little of everything.
Disadvantages: None unless you have specific needs.
Favored by: mostly everyone

Heavy to extra-heavy/Jazz

Sound: clearer, with more punch, picking strokes are a lot more present.
Advantages: More resistant, help playing clearer chords, have more sustain, causes less buzz, easier to tune.
Disadvantages: Hard on the fingers, not adapted for rock solos, the strong pressure on the neck can be bad for the adjustment of the guitar.
Favored by: Jazz and Country guitarists who play mainly chords, death-metal and hardcore punk rythm guitarists who like to pound hard on their strings.

All in all, if you have no particular needs, go with lite if you're more the "lead" type of player or with medium if you're more of the "rythm" type. But if you feel an urge to experiment with the extremes, let yourself go! As always, nothing beats first-hand experience to know what you really like.


2-Brands

As said earlier, every guitar string manufacturer today makes a good product, so choosing a brand is a matter of personal taste. Still, here's a list of the brands known to the author of these lines, for reference. You can't go wrong by choosing one of them.

Partial list of electric guitar strings makers:

D'Addario
Dean Markley
Dunlop
Elixir
Ernie Ball
Fender
Ghs
Gibson
Rotosound


3-Manufacturing technics

-Nickel wound on swedish steel: At present time, it's the most common alloy used in the making of electric guitar steel.

-Pure nickel: A more ancient way of making guitar strings, that seems to be making a come back in a trend to search for a more vintage sound.

-Stainless steel: offers a better resistance to corrosion.

-Phosphorus/bronze: A coating commonly used in acoustic guitar strings, but is also used in some electric guitar strings.

-"Cryogenic" or "Liquid nitrogen treated": A process used by some manufacturers, which consist of freezing the alloy of the strings to -320c using liquid nitrogen to "realign the molecular structure of the alloy". It would seem that this process could double the life time and the resistance to corrosion of the strings.

Well I wish this information was helpful to you and that you had a good time reading it, but now, it's time to go change your strings... have fun!

Adiksigitar Tips : Mengenal JENIS JENIS EFEK GITAR ELEKTRIK

Effects units are electronic devices that alter how a musical instrument or other audio source sounds. Some effects subtly "color" a sound, while others transform it dramatically. Effects are used during live performances or in the studio, mostly with electric guitar. While most frequently used with electric or electronic instruments, effects can also be used with acoustic instruments, drums and vocals. Examples of common effects units include wah-wah pedals, fuzzboxes and reverb units.

Effects are housed in amplifiers, table top units, "stompboxes" and "rackmounts", or they are built into the instruments themselves. A stompbox (or "pedal") is a small metal or plastic box placed on the floor in front of the musician and connected to their instrument. The box is typically controlled by one or more foot-pedal on-off switches and contains only one or two effects. A rackmount is mounted on a standard 19-inch equipment rack and usually contains several different types of effects.


While there is currently no consensus on how to categorize effects, the following are seven common classifications: distortion, dynamics, filter, modulation, pitch/frequency, time-based and feedback/sustain. Rock guitarists derive their signature sound or "tone" from their choice of instrument and effects.
(source : wikipedia).

Ngerti bahasa inggris kan sob??? hehehe...well itu sedikit intermezzo yang saya ambil dari wikipedia, well,, pada masa sekarang ini efek gitar semakin beragam dan semakin canggih pastinya. Walaupun pada dasarnya jenis efek juga itu2 doank(distortion, dynamics, filter, modulation, pitch/frequency, time-based and feedback/sustain), tapi, semakin canggih teknologinya, pasti juga semakin mudah pengoperasiannya, serta sound yang dihasilkan juga semakin bagus dan ajib, haha.

Nahhh, pada awalnya duluuuuu bgt, Efek sound gitar elektrik thu hanya datang dari efek tunggal / singel pedal / Stombox yang dibangun dalam satu pedal saja, tetapi kemudian tumbuh sesuai dengan kemajuan teknologi, menjadi seperti : 

Amplifier built-in

Efek ini merupakan efek pertama yang banyak digunakan secara umum oleh para pemain gitar sampai sekarang. Dari akhir 1940-an, Gibson Gitar Corp mulai membuat sirkuit vibrato di combo amplifier. Dan kemudian diikuti oleh Ray Butts amp EchoSonic Tahun 1950 yang pertama membuat fitur "slapback" atau suara gema (semacam Reverb), yang kemudian populer di pakai oleh gitaris-gitaris dunia.

Amplifier Built-in Effect

Pada tahun 1950-an, Efek tremolo, vibrato dan reverb mulai dibuat sebagai built-in efek pada amplifier gitar.

Stomboxes

Efek Pedal atau singel pedal, berbentuk seperti kotak sabun pada awal dibuatnya untuk satu Stombox ini hanya bisa menghasilkan satu jenis suara tetapi sekarang sudah ada yang bisa menghasilkan lebih dari dua suara dan bahkan lebih. Jenis ini juga bisa dirangkai secara paralell agar suara yang dihasilkan jadi lebih unik.   Dengan  berkembangnya tehnologi lahirlah Multi-effect processors.

Rackmounts
Efek nya tersusun dan terpasang pada suatu rak yang standar dan berisi atas beberapa Efek biasanya untuk ukuran raknya sekitar 19 Inci. 

Rackmounts

Ada beberapa Jenis Efek yang paling umum dijumpai atau beberapa klasifikasi umum untuk Efek Gitar :

Distorsi

Efek ini biasanya memiliki suara yang berisik yang suaranya berbasis pada suara amplifier tabung overdrive, termasuk disini Fuzz efek

Dyinamics

Efek ini disebut volume dan amplitude effects, Efek ini memodifikasi suara gitar. Ini adalah efek pertama yang diperkenalkan untuk gitaris.

Reverb/Delay
Efek ini memberikan suara seakan-akan suara itu tertunda dan bergema. Sementara saat ini efek ini sudah disisipkan ke amplifier gitar dan datang sebagai unit rackmounts yang terpisah, efek ini juga tersedia dalam bentuk stompboxes dan multi-efek prosessor.

Pitch Modulation
Termasuk dalam kategori ini yaitu flangers, wah-wah pedals, phase shifters, chorus, pitch shifters.
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