Guitar anyone? Electric or accoustic

[billiejane]

wooo another fingerpicking player!

mind if i ask what you are playing?, seem to have hit an block of not being intrested in playing anything.

ive been learning some ben howard recently, which is cool to play mostly as i can play the whole way through and sound pretty good lol

[Blue Senpai]

I'm more of an acoustic guitar player, fingerstyle.

[Jill F]

Going to see Yngwie Malmsteen tonight.

I'm probably going to need to have a guitar bonfire afterward.

[Megan82]

Most of the songs I know are just short songs, and I just randomly picked songs to learn.

Some songs I know:
Für Elise
Sailors Hornpipe
Study in A Minor
Stretchin Blues
Pirates of the Caribbean

[Jill F]

Just got back from the Hard Rock Casino in Vegas.  Queen was freakin' awesome with Adam Lambert.  I still miss Freddie every day, but last night was such a vast improvement over what had happened with Paul Rodgers.

I also fingerf***ed a 1977 Stratocaster (I mean it was hanging on the wall right over the table I was eating brunch at... I HAD to!) that David Gilmour played on the original Pink Floyd The Wall tour in 1980 as well as Rick Allen's original electronic drum kit from just after his accident.

Lots and lots of killer guitartifacts on display all over the place there.

And I only lost $25 gambling...

[Hikari]

hmm, I used to have a 1979 Fender American Stratocaster, but I certainly never had anyone from Pink Floyd play it

I know this is heresy, but right now my primary Guitar is the FL Slayer plugin or Image Line Hardcore when I need strings, not keys and mouse clicks...I love analog sound but, I also love tight integration into my DAW of choice.

[Jill F]

Why, oh why did I have to just look on eBay for guitars?   So there's this new Paul Reed Smith Marty Friedman model.  Apparently it has that wide, fat neck profile that I prefer, as well as a stupid rare 1991 purple Jeff Beck Strat with probably an even fatter neck.     

I know, I know, I have way too many guitars already, nowhere left in the house to put them and I just put myself even deeper in the hole after paying the doctor, but GRRRRRR!!!

Bad Jill!  Step away from that *buy it now* button and go the f*** to bed!

[V M]

Guitar addiction can be a difficult horse to saddle

[V M]

Okay, I was bad girl and bought a new one    I was feeling a bit guilty about it    But my Sis assured me that I shouldn't

My folks gave me such a bad time for doing anything to feel happy or please myself in some way, let alone it involved a guitar and such... Oh the drama, it must be the influence of... Satan!?!?!? (See SNL Church Lady Vids)

Anyway, nothing to brag or gloat about, just a decent electric acoustic called an Epiphone Texan that I enjoy playing

Hugs

[Jess42]

Okay, I was bad girl and bought a new one    I was feeling a bit guilty about it    But my Sis assured me that I shouldn't

My folks gave me such a bad time for doing anything to feel happy or please myself in some way, let alone it involved a guitar and such... Oh the drama, it must be the influence of... Satan!?!?!? (See SNL Church Lady Vids)

Anyway, nothing to brag or gloat about, just a decent electric acoustic called an Epiphone Texan that I enjoy playing

Hugs

Feakin' love the church lady skit and old school SNL. Don't feel so bad. Its just an Epi. Just bought another Epi SG myself a week ago with every intention of going into GC and getting a Gibson SG. Again The Epi blew the Gibsons away. A full "66 pickguard which none of the Gibson's had. The D neck that is a little thicker, which none of the Gibsons had. Hotter than hell pickups which none of the Gibsons had either. I move around quite a bit and the really thin c necks come out of tune when I lean back or foreward. The Gibsons weren't even in the classic SG colors they were all matte or the new sunburst. Plus the Gibson SGs with the exception of the matte finish had that new minetune on the back of the head. I have a tuner. I don't need one on the back of the head, just something else to mess up and bcome useless if I accdentally hit the mic stand.

I don't know what Gibson is doing with the classic types of SGs, even the Epiphone SGs seemed to be being phased out. Everyone one of the Epi SGs I have is out of production and what is out the is all there is. To be completely honest with you VM, I wanted the open book shaped headstock to look a little more professional but for the sound alone, not even considering the price, looks like I'll be sticking with the clipped dovetail headstock. To be completely honest Epiphone seems to be impressing me a lot more in the last 3 years than Gibson all across the board. Even the Les Paul models, the Epis were still not better than the Gibsons put dead even at least.

[billiejane]

i can hardly wait, im going to a festival which has both ben howard and jack johnson headlining.

should be awsome, very acoustic music

[Valleyrie]

Both, haha! If I had to choose between either I'd have a very hard time deciding. I play mostly metal but I do finger pick and play the acoustic on the occasion.

[V M]

Other than the price, there is nothing cheap about this guitar    She is of beautiful quality and a joy to play, helps me settle my nerves

I think I'm in love

Scroll down to the Epiphone Texan http://www.epiphone.com/News/Features/2014/The-Ltd-Ed-Lefty-Collection.aspx

[Jess42]

Other than the price, there is nothing cheap about this guitar    She is of beautiful quality and a joy to play, helps me settle my nerves

I think I'm in love

You're right, other than the price, Epiphone aren't cheaply made. I've never had one problem out of mine and I play the crap out of them.

[kariann330]

I play and just got a new to me guitar that some people might say is kinda vintage. It's a strat style Aria Pro 2 Road Warrior made in Japan in the mid 80's.

I'm currently shopping new amps and need yalls opinion, Crate Flexwave, or Line 6 spider. Both are gonna be half stacks. The only reason I'm leaning towards the Spider is it has a bunch of presets that can be controlled by stompbox, kinda like a Rolland VG, but without the 13 pin connection.

[Miss_Bungle1991]

Line 6 makes horrible amps. (But their effects pedals are all right.) I would go with the Crate if I was given the choice between the two.

[Jess42]

I play and just got a new to me guitar that some people might say is kinda vintage. It's a strat style Aria Pro 2 Road Warrior made in Japan in the mid 80's.

I'm currently shopping new amps and need yalls opinion, Crate Flexwave, or Line 6 spider. Both are gonna be half stacks. The only reason I'm leaning towards the Spider is it has a bunch of presets that can be controlled by stompbox, kinda like a Rolland VG, but without the 13 pin connection.

I like Line 6 I have a 150 watt half stack and a 15 watt practice amp. They aren't really bad for modeling amps and I get some real dirt out of them both. I never ever use the presets. The channels I have my own sounds dialed in. The presets just really don't sound right to me. Either too much bass or too much midrange and so on. I also have a 15 watt Marshall tube amp and a 150 watt Marshal half stack with a tube head. Metal I go for the Line 6 every time, more classic rock tones I use the Marshall and overload the tubes for natural distortion. Clean palm mutes and the harder you hit the strings the more distortion. The Line 6 dirty I can get the distorted palm mutes. Line 6 is cheap, Marshall tubes ain't. I think Line 6 makes a tube head and it's up there in price too. But I only use one pedal and that is a wah wah, and that's it as far as pedals go.

I have never dealt with Crate. Orange is fairly good but pricey. Really kariann, is it for gigs or just play for fun or what? 30 watts is usually enough to make the neighbors complain if they are close enough to you a 150 watt head and a 4x12 cabinet only with the rest of the band and gigs if we can get the two pups trained enough to actually play and both are where we practice at and their nearest neighbor is more than a mile away and they have even complained. I would save a little money and go down a little on the amp unless you are going to be playing gigs and really need to reach out and touch someone I would go with something a little more portable. 15 and 30 watters you can tale everywhere.

BTW I am not trying to dissuade you out of the half stack, by all means. Just if you have close neighbors believe me, they will complain. And you just gotta turn it up or it don't sound right.

Line 6 makes horrible amps. (But their effects pedals are all right.) I would go with the Crate if I was given the choice between the two.

Sorry Laura. I like Line 6. Now I'm gonna duck just in case you wanna throw something at me.

[Miss_Bungle1991]

I have never dealt with Crate. Orange is fairly good but pricey. Really kariann, is it for gigs or just play for fun or what? 30 watts is usually enough to make the neighbors complain if they are close enough to you a 150 watt head and a 4x12 cabinet only with the rest of the band and gigs if we can get the two pups trained enough to actually play and both are where we practice at and their nearest neighbor is more than a mile away and they have even complained. I would save a little money and go down a little on the amp unless you are going to be playing gigs and really need to reach out and touch someone I would go with something a little more portable. 15 and 30 watters you can tale everywhere.

Sorry Laura. I like Line 6. Now I'm gonna duck just in case you wanna throw something at me.

I had a Crate G40XL a long time ago. It was my first amp and I got a lot of good use out of it. I sold it in early 1998 once I gave up on guitar (for a very brief period amount of time) and I was messing around with bass guitar and doing harsh noise stuff using mics and effects pedals. I actually killed the Crate very slowly without realizing it by running feedback loops through it with my DOD Death Metal pedal. I sold the Crate (and a Zoom 505 multi effects) to a guy for $300 and then, I guess the amp blew up a few weeks after he bought it. He was really pissed at me but I didn't know that the amp was going to do that. Had I not been doing that, it would have never blown up, most likely. But I was a bit of a mad scientist with audio stuff at this time (and I killed a few pieces of audio equipment in the process. Broke a few mics being crazy and thrashing stuff around..but they sounded awesome right before they died. )

But I bought a Line 6 around 03, I think, and I HATED it. I had a really great ESP guitar by that time that sounded amazing. But this stupid amp made it sound like absolute garbage. I gave it away to a guy I knew that really liked it for some weird reason. I could have thrown the thing off my balcony or kicked it down the stairs and I wouldn't have gave a damn. That thing sucked. So, I basically threw away $250 and gave the amp to him. He was totally broke so, he couldn't pay me but I didn't care. I just wanted it out of my sight. In case your wondering, I bought the amp used so I couldn't get a refund. I've stayed the hell away from modeling amps (and Line 6 amps) ever since. I love their Echo Parks and the DL4 delay, though.

[Jess42]

I had a Crate G40XL a long time ago. It was my first amp and I got a lot of good use out of it. I sold it in early 1998 once I gave up on guitar (for a very brief period amount of time) and I was messing around with bass guitar and doing harsh noise stuff using mics and effects pedals. I actually killed the Crate very slowly without realizing it by running feedback loops through it with my DOD Death Metal pedal. I sold the Crate (and a Zoom 505 multi effects) to a guy for $300 and then, I guess the amp blew up a few weeks after he bought it. He was really pissed at me but I didn't know that the amp was going to do that. Had I not been doing that, it would have never blown up, most likely. But I was a bit of a mad scientist with audio stuff at this time (and I killed a few pieces of audio equipment in the process. Broke a few mics being crazy and thrashing stuff around..but they sounded awesome right before they died. )

But I bought a Line 6 around 03, I think, and I HATED it. I had a really great ESP guitar by that time that sounded amazing. But this stupid amp made it sound like absolute garbage. I gave it away to a guy I knew that really liked it for some weird reason. I could have thrown the thing off my balcony or kicked it down the stairs and I wouldn't have gave a damn. That thing sucked. So, I basically threw away $250 and gave the amp to him. He was totally broke so, he couldn't pay me but I didn't care. I just wanted it out of my sight. In case your wondering, I bought the amp used so I couldn't get a refund. I've stayed the hell away from modeling amps (and Line 6 amps) ever since. I love their Echo Parks and the DL4 delay, though.

Yeah, modeling amps are something that should be used just strictly for certain sounds. I can get some really heavy sounds out of my Line 6s. But I buy everything new. I never buy anything used or buy anything that I don't try or can touch with my hands and see the sound I can get from it. This goes for guitars, amps and anything else, if I ever go for a pedal board. I come out with way cheaper guitars most of the time than what I actually went in looking for. The absolute only thing that I will spend extravagant amounts of money on is Marshall. Not even Gibson. Yeah, in order to look professional I really need the Gibson head with the open bookend but usually coming out with the clipped dovetailed heads of Epiphones. Belive it or not every Epi that I have bought since 2010 have blown the Gibson's away. And I usually play for an hour with a guitar before I buy it from Skynerd to ACDC to Sabbath to my own metal junk I have yet to come across a guitar that sounds as good as the newer Epi's. Like VM said, the only thing cheap is the price, but the quality is on par with Gibson. That is just my opinion though.

[Jill F]

Hi, people!

Now for my take on amps. 

I like Orange, but I've never owned one.  Line 6 amps annoy me and Crate, well, sorry, that's something I wouldn't touch with a barge pole. 

I have always had a thing for vintage Marshalls and Hiwatt.  For clean(er) tones I like my Marshall Super Lead from 1969, and for dirty I like my Marshall Silver Jubilee from 1987.   Hiwatt is for when I want to sound like David Gilmour or Pete Townshend.  I love using an Ibanez Tube Screamer (TS 808) for overdrive and a Way Huge Fat Sandwich for fuzz. 

I had a Hiwatt combo amp once that I knew was dying, so I traded it to this serious jerkwad a*hole (A guy that once tried to screw me over once on a vintage Strat deal.) for a real refinished 1954 Strat body at a guitar show.  When he plugged in the amp he was very pleased with himself.  I got the hell out of there immediately because I knew the amp probably had an hour or less of playing time left in it before it blew a ->-bleeped-<-. (Did I just say that in that particular context? Bad Jill!!!)  I put a 1965 neck on that 1954 body with a bunch of other vintage parts, and to this day, that is my favorite guitar to play.