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glw
Lover of Fine Antigua
Joined: 18 Jul 2005
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Location: Oxfordshire, Uk
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Yeah, Gretschs are sure nice guitars, although they do have their own quite distinctive sound so I wouldn't see them as competing as such with Gibsons and Fenders. Each guitar holds its own in its own category.
Same applies with Rickenbackers before someone says it. |
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lee_UK
Rolling Stone No.8
Joined: 04 Feb 2005
Posts: 3386
Location: London, UK
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| Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2005 3:26 pm Post subject: |
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Maybe we should all ditch our collections in favour of the new £500 line 6 Variaxe? a guitar for all seasons?  |
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glw
Lover of Fine Antigua
Joined: 18 Jul 2005
Posts: 1175
Location: Oxfordshire, Uk
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| Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2005 3:48 pm Post subject: |
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| lee_UK wrote: | | Maybe we should all ditch our collections in favour of the new £500 line 6 Variaxe? a guitar for all seasons? :lol: |
...and no soul.
No thanks. |
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lee_UK
Rolling Stone No.8
Joined: 04 Feb 2005
Posts: 3386
Location: London, UK
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| Lots of people use PODs, whats the difference? its all software generated amp/guitar sims? i think they would be OK for basic recording but i cant see them being played live, you cant beat an electric guitar (humbucker or single coil) going flat out through a valve amp on full tilt, amongst my small collection of amps i have an AC15 VOX all valve with an alnico blue speaker, and played at full volume gives the most glorious tone, and the hotter the valves get the better thay sound. |
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gazzla
Joined: 17 Jul 2005
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For years i ponderd this , it came down to humbucker or singles.
I also ponderd amps- fender or marshall and the advantages of having either a good clean sound or a better distorted sound.
I sinply love strats so my main guitar is an american 'fat' strat deluxe with humbucker in the bridge and two two hot rodded noisless singles,
so i can do the fender and gibson thing in one guitar, Its great if you love strats but still want to match the gibson 'punch'. I'm a strat man at heart.
As for the amp dilema i settled for Mesa boogie .
In other words i 'sit on the fence' if you like. |
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glw
Lover of Fine Antigua
Joined: 18 Jul 2005
Posts: 1175
Location: Oxfordshire, Uk
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I recently got myself a Washburn WI 165-DL which has this Voice Contour Control system (VCC) which basically means you can mix between single coil and humbucker sounds - not just one or the other but all the "inbetween" sounds as well! It's a fantastic guitar.
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christhompson23
Joined: 04 Sep 2005
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| Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2005 9:59 pm Post subject: screw fender/gibson...check out dean guitars brand new line! |
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| Dean Guitars signed Michael Schenker and check out this cool guitar at www.deanguitars.com" and "Check out the guitar Dimebag Darrell started his career on ...this is the same guitar on the cover of Cowboys from Hell ...check out how it looks today http://www.deanguitars.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4912 |
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1bassleft
Lowdown Cack-hander
Joined: 16 Feb 2005
Posts: 3951
Location: "Hit The North"
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With the handicap of being a bass player aside, I'd still go for the "one of each, please!" response if my ability justified it. The Fender and the Gibson are two different guitars that do different things better than the other does. Skipping my half-arsed attempts at designing/building (another thread), I've found that different approaches to build kindof influence the way I want to play them.
What follows is a load of irrelevant tosh about two of my 5-string basses, but please try and trawl through it. Do proper guitarists experience the same thing when switching guitars?
Bass #1 (Mahogany/koa body, mahogany/maple thru-neck w rosewood f/board, two soapbar HBs). This one has heaps of warmth. I usually like to play plec, but I'm doing more and more fingerstyle and soft thumb to make the most of it.
Bass #2 (Newly acquired, alder body, bolt-on maple neck w rosewood [wish it were maple] f/board, two "Jazz Bass" pups). Much more like familiar territory. After a while, I tend to revert back to plec or fingernail.
There appear (to me) to be obvious LP/Strat comparisons but I'm not a six-stringer. I haven't thought about scale length and fingerboard radius, but I'd list the most important factors as:
1) Pickup construction
2)Woods employed
3) Neck-body join
In that order. Obviously, I'm leaving out the 12-strings and hollow-bodies, before someone smartarses me. What do you think? Does that set-neck, mahogany Gibbo lead you to modify your style compared to picking up the strat-type? Interested in your ops...
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Tim
Low Frequency Out
Joined: 14 Aug 2005
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Location: Probably at the bar.
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Sometimes in life we come across these tough descisions, what sounds better, a 1970 Dodge challenger (gibson) or a cat on the spin cycle (fender) and really its down to personal preference, I prefer the dodge myself...but then again I'm a bassist, so you can ignore me entirely.
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glw
Lover of Fine Antigua
Joined: 18 Jul 2005
Posts: 1175
Location: Oxfordshire, Uk
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What curious analogies!
Have you had your ears syringed recently? |
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