Newbie here, Please reassure me I am not crazy

Jim Eaton · Post by **Jim Eaton** » 23 Mar 2010 10:04 am

If the amp powers up and has no issues, then by all means play through it!!!
What I have read before is that some guys will connect a C/D player and "break in" the speaker by playing music through it for 2 or 3 days, but you should be able to play through it right out of the box. Both of my NV-112's came out of the cardboard and got played through right away and they both sound great.
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John Gilsdorf · Post by **John Gilsdorf** » 23 Mar 2010 5:46 pm

Well that is kind of what I thought also. When I called Dan again I asked about turning knobs or anything and he said just turn it on and leave it alone. I got the impression it just needed to get good and warm to get settled and the electronics get some carma or something. I agree a bit of a workout with the knobs and volume and my meaningless strumming may help or may screw it up beyond any hope for the future.

Playing with it so far I think it may have gotten shaken, not stirred or something out of tune during shipping. I am playing with that a bit now to confirm it. I know with a regular acoustic guitar you can tune one string and fret the others into tune. I haven't found anything about that method with this 10 string yet but I am looking.

Joe Naylor · Post by **Joe Naylor** » 25 Mar 2010 8:33 am

Now that it is confirmed that we are all crazy ......

I returned after 30 plus years and am in it very deep - have had several steel guitars, helped build some with Desert Rose and am now the owner of steelseat.com

WE ARE ALL CRAZY BUT HAVIN' FUN BEING THAT WAY

Now you will continue to meet some of the nices people you have ever known - most of whom are very helpful with your new found hobby.

Just ask questions and you WILL get answers but ask lots of people because there are lots of opinions

Joe Naylor
steelseat.com

Joe Naylor · Post by **Joe Naylor** » 25 Mar 2010 8:33 am

Now that it is confirmed that we are all crazy ......

I returned after 30 plus years and am in it very deep - have had several steel guitars, helped build some with Desert Rose and am now the owner of steelseat.com

WE ARE ALL CRAZY BUT HAVIN' FUN BEING THAT WAY

Now you will continue to meet some of the nices people you have ever known - most of whom are very helpful with your new found hobby.

Just ask questions and you WILL get answers but ask lots of people because there are lots of opinions

Joe Naylor
steelseat.com

Forest Farmer · Post by **Forest Farmer** » 25 Mar 2010 8:12 pm

We may all be a little crazy, But as I heard it said once, we'll give 20,00 for a bass boat we use 10-12 times a year, but fuss over a 5-6,000 investment we can use 2 hrs or more a day!
PSG is a never ending learning curve. When you think you've hit a plateau, and are not learning, JAM with someone! usually all will benefit, the teacher in explaining a move, technique, willmentally review his own stance, and learn also, or expand his own moves. best of luck, and God Bless!!

Gary Arnold · Post by **Gary Arnold** » 25 Mar 2010 10:41 pm

This will be one of the best trips you have ever taken, when you get there.

Gary

John Gilsdorf · Post by **John Gilsdorf** » 26 Mar 2010 6:59 am

Forest,
I have been down the boat situation and you are spot on. It is a hole in the water where you throw money. It was fun, fishing was a passion then we moved to the desert with no lakes close. I sold the boat and reinforced my (almost as bad) motorcycle addiction since then but needed something inside the house other than the TV. The PSG should be fun and challenging to learn and good rewarding entertainment.

The training stuff is slowly arriving and the studying has started. Soon the dogs will be howling and the cats hiding and the wife will tell me to turn it down...... and on we go.

Will Jaffe · Post by **Will Jaffe** » 26 Mar 2010 7:28 am

Crazy, yes, but a good crazy.

John Gilsdorf wrote: When I called Dan again I asked about turning knobs or anything and he said just turn it on and leave it alone. I got the impression it just needed to get good and warm to get settled and the electronics get some carma or something. I agree a bit of a workout with the knobs and volume and my meaningless strumming may help or may screw it up beyond any hope for the future.

Now that's crazy!

Playing with it so far I think it may have gotten shaken, not stirred or something out of tune during shipping. I am playing with that a bit now to confirm it. I know with a regular acoustic guitar you can tune one string and fret the others into tune. I haven't found anything about that method with this 10 string yet but I am looking.

John, Perhaps a Peterson tuner would help you out. It has built in settings for E9 Pedal steel. Also,there are some threads here on tuning. It's different from a six string fretted guitar.

Allan Jirik · Post by **Allan Jirik** » 26 Mar 2010 7:30 am

My NV-112 arrived a couple days ago and I don't recall seeing anything about "burning it in" in the quick start pages. I just plugged 'er in and enjoyed. I've got to give a nod to my Line6 Spyder, with settings provided by Rick Winfield it did a credible job for bedroom pickin'.

John Gilsdorf · Post by **John Gilsdorf** » 26 Mar 2010 11:05 am

Allen,
Yes, there is nothing about the burn in in the manual. However during the countless hours of researching etc before I went crazy like everyone else here (or that's what drove me crazy) and ordered everything I did find several comments in the forum about some N112s sound better than others. If this is true, who knows, but If SGN recommended it, I felt is was worth the very simple effort as Dan at SGN did go out of his way to tell me to do it and why, coulddn't hurt anything other than three days of not playing with it. I suppose to be sure a comparison between several of them would need to be implemented. Vedy intedesting..............

Will, thanks for the comments about the tuner. I have a Korg CA-40 ordered and hope it will be adequate. I have and will continue looking at the tuning discussions and start with this one.

All this stuff is falling into line and then I'll need to get my ducks what I hope is in the correct row.