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    PM - The pedal most kick on before a solo is a booster to make them louder than the rest of the band and stand out in the mix and be heard. Usually boosts volume.
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    Shun - That is a great question and one I don't fully know the answer to! I've never used a talkbox although I LOVE it! (RMW and Those Shoes and many Peter Frampton songs and of course Bon Jovi's "Livin' On A Prayer").

    The way I understand it is that there is a separate amp that drives the guitar sound up the tube and that you talk back down the tube that gets mixed with your guitar amp.

    Here's an article that is way better at explaining this than I am.

    http://electronics.howstuffworks.com...c/talk-box.htm
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    Quote Originally Posted by WalshFan88 View Post
    PM - The pedal most kick on before a solo is a booster to make them louder than the rest of the band and stand out in the mix and be heard. Usually boosts volume.
    Now that makes sense. They do sound louder when they do a solo.

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    I think Richie Sambora uses the talk box on Its My life.

    Thanks for that info, Austin.

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    Quote Originally Posted by shunlvswx View Post
    I think Richie Sambora uses the talk box on Its My life.

    Thanks for that info, Austin.
    Yep that's true.. The Jovi songs that use it are Livin' On A Prayer (the intro whoah a whoah part) and It's My Life... They are kind of a guilty pleasure band for me.
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    Thank you so much for all this info, Austin. I appreciate you taking the time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sodascouts View Post
    Thank you so much for all this info, Austin. I appreciate you taking the time.
    You're welcome!
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    Bit techie and non-band related, but seems as good a place as any - what do you do when a string catches on a fret when strummed? For example, if you played something on the fourth fret yet it caught the fifth whilst in motion, creating the odd fuzzy kinda sound. Is it to do with tuning or something else?

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    Quote Originally Posted by thelastresort View Post
    Bit techie and non-band related, but seems as good a place as any - what do you do when a string catches on a fret when strummed? For example, if you played something on the fourth fret yet it caught the fifth whilst in motion, creating the odd fuzzy kinda sound. Is it to do with tuning or something else?
    Not sure I'm following you 100% TLR, but if you mean it "sticks" against the fret, or catches on the underneath edge the top and bottom of the fret, it's a mechanical/technical problem that shouldn't be happening. There are a lot of guitars out there with less than stellar fretwork and definitely shouldn't be happening.

    If what you mean is that the high or low E string catches underneath the fret or the string sticks to the top of the fret, that shouldn't be happening. For the former, you pretty much need new frets or them reglued. For the latter, you could try something like Finger-Ease (basically a string lubricant that is probably nothing more than something like WD-40 but ok for guitar finishes) by spraying on the neck and wiping with a dry cloth up and down the strings to get rid of stickiness. If it's the strings that are sticky, replace them. If it's the frets, spray the Finger-Ease on a rag and run it up and down over each of the frets and it will get rid of grime. Or better yet, use Q-Tips soaked in the lubricant. Just make sure it's guitar-safe or made for guitars, whatever you use, as some products will eat through finish, especially on old guitars with nitrocellulose lacquer finish.

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