General Music Chat

I can't do Les Pauls.
Sound great, feel like crap.
I dont like the necks and they weigh 1200lbs.

Perfect fiddle for me would be a strat with rail pickups, maple board, spretzel tuners, input jack that feed from the bottom of the body and a two knob configuration so that the traditional volume was farther away from the strings.
Oh, and a three way pickup switch.

Good name for a guitar. I am designing a guitar with character that, well, have you ever sat down with a guitar and it wants to push it's way off your leg because it is rounded where it is not friendly to sitters? This one is going to sit on your leg when you sit. Ever try sitting with a "Flying V"? Forget about it. Standing, for instance this guitar will show no clue to it's shape, other than it's different. The advantage is a longer practice guitar, or for sitters like myself after a while because my foot was crushed last May by a fork lift. It Is a perfectionist's guitar.

Don't like Fenders much. Tele's and Strat's are too "Flat". It feels like you're playing a plank of wood rather than something that has been shaped to play. I had one as a kid and learned on it. I played one at GC the other day and put it back on the wall after about 8 seconds. I like necks that angle back toward the player slightly.

You know, I have a lot of Strat bodied guitars. Lately I've been getting into lightweight Basswood bodies. I have 4-guitars now that weigh between 4-5lbs.

My poor Les Paul has been sitting in a closet since the One Day Broken days. I only recently re-wired it and set it up. Never use it for HaleAmano.

We went in the studio to record our new EP, and wouldn't you know it, my Les Paul was the king of my guitars today. It's really hard to beat a Les Paul with Burstbuckers through a Fender amp for clean channel stuff. That guitar was MONEY!!

For my next trick.. I'm doing a solo on one of the songs with an Ibanez GIO through a Marshall MK2 Master 50 tomorrow. No joke, I paid $40 for the guitar and put a $25 pickup in it. It was only meant to be a beater guitar for our upcoming outdoor gigs, but it screams like a champ.

If you go to my profile, you can hear my at home rough draft recording of the solo with that GIO going through a Distortion pedal straight to the board.

Once you do whatever it is you do to a guitar, and once it's set up properly, the sounds it makes just are what they are. If you always just think about your different guitars as just that, "different than the others", I think you become happier with what you have. I can play that solo better on that guitar than any of my others. As much as I've gone through that solo on all of my other guitars, that one just has the mojo for it. So I'm going with it.

I used to have a Japanese made Strat. Got so far with it, Then decided I didn't need it. Sold it. No regrets. I have heard Mexican Strats with qualities to be desired. Clarity, definition, and so on even with a lower grade (no wammy or factory nut locks). Gibsons, of any configurations on the other hand, have always found good reception in my hands, although I've never played a Real "Flying V",but close enough in Washburn. After that, I never had an inclination to play one. Washburns have been my signature brand, and have never been disappointed. Dollar to dollar, I think you get your Bang for the buck, and I don't see ever selling any of my 4 Washburns in this lifetime.

I like most electric guitars. I prefer my Strat sounds and contours, but love my Pauls and SG's also. My big arch top "F" holes are a bit bulky, but I like them also.
Most flat tops are a problem for me because I don't like my arm having to hang over a wall to get at the strings. Being a lead picker pretty much explains it.