Ask Uncle Larry – VCB

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Ask Larry something, in the VCB box below, with very little chance of a reply….just kiddin’ class!

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  1. Uncle Larry,

    Curious about your thoughts on humidity especially with the old bone. Do you have a system for humidifying or dehumidifying that you’d reccomend?

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  2. Tom
    My 72 years in hands are struggling
    I am looking for a guitar with wider string spacing
    I feel like it would help me
    What would I look for in specs to start narrowing options and find some to try?

    Flat radius, wider nut width?
    THANKS
    John Banks
    Safety Harbor Fla

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  4. To continue after computer glitch,
    I felt I had a talent for being able to make things sound good. It was really rewarding to help my fellow musicians enjoy the situation by making it good in the phones or in the monitors. When it sounds good, everybody wins. Players have more fun, the audience has more fun, and that synergy just increases the joy. Thanks again for your comments because so few people realize, as you say, the engineer is an important link in the whole situation.”Oh it’s just a microphone and a speaker.” Well, there’s a whole lot of stuff between the microphone and the speaker most people don’t even know about. Your comments made me feel a whole lot better about doing a good job for my fellow musicians. Thanks again.
    Really love your show, longtime fan.

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  5. Hi Tom,
    I loved your comments about bad engineers. I started as a demo session guitarist, and then got interested in what was going on on the other side of the glass, recording/live sound engineering. You were absolutely right. A good engineer, no matter what the gear, the studio, etc. can make things sound good because he has the ears for it. After a few bad experiences with engineers that had no clue, I

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  6. Loved the Cliffs album, fantastic production, great band! Rick Beato has been doing live music for bands that he feels need to be promoted, and it’s great. I’ve reached out to his contact page, I really would love to see Cliffs on there. A show about the recording, production, writing would be fantastic and really help get that band out there. What are the chances you and Rick could put something like that together? I just love that album, love their music, would really like to see more people listening to them, they just seem like great guys.Appreciate your work! Thank you for posting that video during recording, you’re hilarious, and man you had great suggestions during recording, loved seeing that side of the music.

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  8. Is the Riverwood Dr. address still the best to send a gift. Don’t want it to get lost in the shuffle in case it has changed.

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  9. Buk,I’m coming out to Nashville on the week of October 13-17.I’m going to see Guthri play at the 5 spot on Wednesday the 14th.Just checking to see if you were playing anywhere. Would love to come out and see you.

    Thanks,
    Ken Sluga

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  10. Uncle Larry, I love the homeschooling’ videos. Always enjoyable, and surprisingly, I even learn things.

    I downloaded the new acoustic recording with Guthrie Trapp and Jedd Hughes…really great stuff!

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  11. Greetings from Croatia,

    Big fan of your work and channel.

    You’ve mentioned somewhere in your channel that you keep your strings fairly low.

    Question: How do you setup your guitars with 7.25 radius not to choke out but also to have as low action as possible.

    I’m having mine strat curently at high e of almost 1.75mm and low e at 2.2 mm and it seems quite high but when I lower it it chokes out.

    Thank you for the help.

    Best,
    Zdeslav

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  13. Hi Larry. What’s your take on early-60s Gibson J-45 plastic bridges? I found a 1963 (my birth year) J-45 ADJ in cherry sunburst. No cracks or repairs, all original. It has the plastic bridge and adjustable ceramic saddle. I think it sounds pretty good, and it plays great, but I know many people replace these plastic bridges.

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  15. Hey Tom! If you’re still with us (on the planet, I man) , maybe you could reach out to all us Home Skoolers, and let us know about what happened to your HomeSkoolin’ (501chorusecho) YouTube channel !!!

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  16. Does anybody know what happened to Tom Bukovac’s YouTube page? It was up last time I checked, but now I can’t access it.

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  17. I so hope your dealings with Google go well and that your YouTube channel gets reinstated, stat…! Love your content. Thanks for all that you do.

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  19. Where is your YouTube channel!! I was cut off watching my daily dose of home skoolin with a message that said the channel was TERMINATED!

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  21. Hi Tom, i just logged into youtube from the uk, looked for my daily hit of 501chorusecho and it says

    ’Video unavailable. This video is no longer available because the YouTube account associated with this video has been closed.’

    I’m hoping this is a temporary glitch as your videos have been truly epic since forever. Please point us in another direction if we need to look elsewhere for you.

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  24. Tom Bukovac you mentioned you were looking for a Danelectro amp twin 12 ,there is one on ebay
    2 12’s $500.00 Home skool’r Michigan Bob Gingas

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  25. Hey Uncle Larry, I’m a big Morgan Wallen fan and found you through his music. I’m super interested in Joey’s production and mixing, and I was wondering if you could talk about what happens on a session with him. No one has music that sounds like his and you do awesome work. Thanks

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