@Akrid: I was thinking any artist, doesnt have to be a guitarist but Im into Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, Joe Pass, Django Reinhardt, Allan Holdsworth, Herbie Hancock and so much more
Fender 60th Anniversary Stratocaster USA with a JB jr. in the bridge position. I'm probably going to put a duckbucker and little 59'er because those stock pickups aren't noiseless.
Fender Acoustic starter pack guitar. First acoustic I had. I play it in my room only and a 1/2 step down.
G&L Rampage Tribute Jerry Cantrell's Signature guitar from Alice in Chains. It a great sounding/ playing guitar with a piss poor khaler bridge. Gonna get a design on the body at some point.
Hohner HR-800 Bought it from a guitar shop that was about to go out of business. It's a beautiful guitar but doesn't sound great. Might put a real Floyd Rose and some Seymour Duncans in it some day, but for now I don't really use it.
An Ibanez artcore that a family friend pinstriped as payment for some work I did for him. It sounds and plays as good as it looks.
" @nintendoeats: I don't know any songs by Nick Drake specifically, but that's the right general style of song. "
Any musical recommendations? I would like to expand upon that style in my repertoire. "
Sure, one of the latest songs I've been working on figuring out is Priscilla Ahn's Living in A Tree. It's one of her few gender neutral songs (there are some hilarious YouTube videos of guys changing her lyrics so they could sing her other songs without sounding bizarre). I've been playing with her songs so I could find a non-practice use for my loopstation.
Lately I've been loving lots of different songs by Caetano Veloso (a old Brazillian singer songwriter). The guitar bits are generally fairly easy to learn; it's just the lyrics are in Portuguese. If you have the patience to memorize the lyrics and practice making some sounds that Americans (or whatever nationality you are) normally don't make, it's a lot of fun. Since he is popular in Latin America it's generally pretty easy to find tabs for his stuff.
I generally play a lot of Sufjan Stevens -- not a crazy "guitarist", but I love the guys songs. His tabs are generally short repeating fingerpicking patterns, with some hammer ons and pull offs sprinkled in the middle to spice it up.
Jackson DK2 (with dimebucker/hot rails, active gain boost) 2004 Fender American Stratocaster (Now with Dimarzio Tone Zone in the bridge and sparzel locking tuners, stickers now removed Group shot of my Carvin MTS 3200, strat. Ibananez Talman TCM50 and a 1996 Ibanez Jem555 (now broken) My Ibanez RG470 body rebuilt with a JEM 555 neck and electronics My 1996 Ibanez Talman TC420 (now discontinued)
@Stokes: This Carvin is an amp, the Master Tube Series 3200, now sadly discontinued. it is the sucessor of the Carvin x100b which is the amp that Vai used to use in the early days. Its got 4 6L6 tubes, and 5 12AX7 tubes - 2 celestian G1275T speakers
I haven't had the pleasure of playing a Carvin guitar (yet) but everyone I know who has played one has nothing but great things to say. Lots of people compare them to the older 80's style Jacksons and charvel guitars, they are built for shred and they have some of the best finishes in the industry. I want one of their DC727 seven strings!
" Gretsch Electromatic Pro Jet Music Man Sub (Discontinued) "
Now the goldtop Gretsch is pretty great, but that Music Man should be playing so much punk that Johnny Lydon would give up and stop doing butter commericals. Awesome.
"@jams: I've got Cantrell G&L Rampage as well. Pretty sweet guitar. It's my first guitar with a tremolo, but mine seems to play fairly decent.
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Is it a tribute version or the USA version? I've already sent my first one back to G&L twice and they couldn't fix it then they sent me that one and it has the same problem. Maybe I'm particular, but I need my guitar to stay in tune and the G&L doesn't (when using the tremolo). I think there is a fix where you solder the strings, but I don't wanna go through that crap.
picture taken with xbox live vision cam super cools i've got some other guitars but they are not very good & i'm too lazy to take another picture. Also I doubt you care.
@bjorno: Haha yeah seven string baritone 0.o, I really dig the sound you get from the middle pickup, but aesthetically it would look pretty janky with three pickups so one had to go haha. I should be getting it in June or July.
My Ibanez. I replaced the bridge pickup with an EMG ALX. It's a cool thing, has it's own frequency modifier and gain boost thingamajig you install inside the guitar and it uses a push-pull pot for the gain booster. Also I pulled out all the wiring for the neck pickup, never use it anyway. I play stuff like Children of Bodom and Gojira...
Right now I've got that starter pack Laguna (so...the 100 model I think?), and a starter pack Fender acoustic. My ideal guitar:
Orgasm, with strings attached Oh my god, sex sex sex. I'm not sure that's the exact color I want--I saw one a year or two ago in person, and the red edge of the sunburst was lighter than that, so I'm not sure it's exactly the same--but it's quite possibly the sexiest thing I've ever seen. I actually took one down and played it, and it was amazing, just as I'd figured it would be.
Only problem is the $1000 price tag for a new one. But it'll be totally worth it, once I commit to playing. And I will, someday.
@nintendoeats: It's a custom shop. I still haven't ordered it yet due to this shop opening up only twice a year, but I have the cash saved up and I should be able to pay it all off haha, I'm pretty anxious!
@GiroMindTricks: High five! Fender Jaguar sunburst all the way! You got a Mustang bridge on that? I swapped the bridge for a Mustang one immediately because the strings weren't digging my post-rock strumming one bit on the old bridge. How sweet are those tone controls!
So just to be clear:
MY PURE SWEETNESS
Also, someone said something about hating guitar elitism, it's all about the tone? Well guess what, there's actually a fine craft dedicated to perfecting and tailoring that tone. It's still a subjective matter of course, but price and quality are certainly connected in some way and you can't get every sound out of every guitar. I don't mean to brag, my guitar also pales in comparison to hand-crafted customs - but I don't like this self-righteous justification of having a cheap guitar, "so real man". I guess black metal is to blame - let's make the production values shitty This can be a conscious choice for effect but it tends to be overdone. Burzum himself wrote this whole statement about the instrument industry standing in the way of pure art, which I find complete bull. Production values can't save a shitty song but they can certainly make an amazing song sound just right. What's wrong with a broad palette.
Gibson Les Paul's are pretty big where I grew up since it is Les Paul's hometown. Both my dad and I own one and my dad was lucky enough to get his signed by Les. I received mine as a graduation gift from high school and was in awe when my dad surprised me with it! Here ya go:
I have an acoustic at my friend's house, and my first guitar is in pieces now getting painted (so I could mount it somewhere). But here's the rest!
My PRS, probably my most played guitar. Completely awesome all around. I love it!
The Jackson. Probably my ballsiest guitar, although I just had a problem with the electronics. Warranty, ftw.
My second guitar, an Epiphone. Super comfortable to play. I spent a summer saving up for this and a Marshall amp, and then my friend's dad painted it. Lots of memories with this guy. My old Ibanez with piezo pickups. For some reason, I use this purely for clean playing. The bluesy tone is phenomenal, and that's not what I bought this for. Extremely low action, very fun to play.
My Breedlove acoustic. For years I played a free Carlo Robelli, before I decided to upgrade to one that could be plugged into an amp. So glad I got this one, it's an amazing guitar.
The only nylon string guitar I own. I got it to practice classical, and now it's one of my favorites to play when I'm feeling calm. It just feels great to play. That's all I got in the house, not including my keyboard, trumpet, or piano. Music kicks ass!
Great thread so far. It's good to see that there are a fair few musicians on the site.
Anyway, here're mine:
My Les Paul Standard...
...and my Fender Baja Tele. I love 'em both, but my Les Paul seriously is the best sounding guitar I've ever had the pleasure of playing. I wouldn't part with it for the world.
@BBQBram: Yeah, I put a Mustang bridge on it. Strings kept moving about on the stock one. Also added a Seymour Duncan strat hot-rail to the bridge and a Seymour Duncan Jaguar Quarter Pound to the neck.
i have a question.... what are so special about fender stratus? i was watching auction wars and the person got like $1200 or along there for a guitar..
" i have a question.... what are so special about fender stratus? i was watching auction wars and the person got like $1200 or along there for a guitar.. "
Have you heard a proper Strat? They have this really awesome tubular sound that I've never really heard anywhere else.
I'm glad no one's had a Warlock or something along those lines. They've always been the most annoying looking guitar, like someone's trying too hard to be hardcore.
" @Elazul: Those are some really nice ones. I'm digging the acoustic especially (though I'm always into a PRS)."
Sorry dude, wrong guy. I've just got the Les Paul and the Tele. I'll agree that his acoustic is pretty nice though.
@iam3green: Buddy, if you think that's alot you should check out some of the higher end PRS guitars. They seriously get into the tens of thousands. See?
I'm rocking a Fender Strat. One Humbucker and two single coils. Its Mexican, though. Guess the wood and pick-ups are slightly cheaper than their American counterparts. Still a great guitar.
" @csl316: Your PRS is fucking lovely. Me want one. I'm rocking a Fender Strat. One Humbucker and two single coils. Its Mexican, though. Guess the wood and pick-ups are slightly cheaper than their American counterparts. Still a great guitar. "
Thanks dude. It's an SE Custom, meaning it was made in Korea rather than the U.S. I thought about upgrading to the Mikael Akerfeldt model ( here) , due to the 24 frets, bird inlays, and complete sexiness, but I like this one too much. Maybe I get get both someday. So I can do this authentically:
Curious why I can't see this video^ I've embed plenty in my day...
My best friend actually just graduated from one of the only authentic guitar building craft (there's gotta be a real world for that) academies left in Europe. Anyone wanna order a sick handmade custom god tier acoustic built with OG wood from spain? I'll get you a discount :P
I just got a regular old Epiphone G-400. I think we all know what they look like. Oh, and a Slammer Bass. And a nice Takamine acoustic-electric, and a 1990's Yamaha acoustic, and an Epiphone Les Paul Special, and an Art & Lutherie 12 string. They're all scattered around the house though so I don't feel like rounding them all up for pics
ALSO I HAVE A QUIZ Me and my friend went to Germany, where he's from, for Christmas one year about 4 years ago. We seen this guitar we had never heard of before. It was a Fender, and shaped like a Telecaster, but it was all silver sparkles with no pick guard and the neck seemed fused to the base, almost as if it and the base were the same peice of wood. The whole body was the same silver sparkle. He ended up buying it in our nearest city (Halifax) when we got back to Canada (it was the only one anywhere around), and I played the shit out of it. But for some reason I can't remember the name of it even after all the time i had spent with it. Any guesses?
nobody posted this yet? "
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