Guitar talk! [formerly Unfunny Commentary]

[TithonusSyndrome]

what kind of axe yall got anyways los

[Losonti Tokash]

Well, I still have that terrible Squier that I started with. It's got some rust around the jack now which for some reason makes me like it more.

A while back I got an Ibanez, although to be honest I don't remember anything more specific than that. It was just one of those things where I picked it up in the store and went "holy shit, this is my guitar." I should get back to practicing, I kinda lost all my motivation when I moved.

[TithonusSyndrome]

honestly those squiers are solid like a brick house for the money and the intended market (south korean ones with basswood body that come in the box with the little peavey raptor amp correct?)

like in many ways they're not appreciably worse than an honest to goodness strat and you can get a lot of miles out of them

fuck i need another guitar

[The Vortex Empire]

Get a Les Paul. You will never regret it. Best tone out there for just about any genre, and they're solid. Plus, they're sexy. Mine's black with gold trim around the edges and gold hardware. Best damn guitar ever built.

I also have one of those cheap squier Strats, Cream body with a white pick guard. Not so sexy.

[Losonti Tokash]

look man to be honest i don't like the way les pauls look and if i think a guitar is ugly i'm not gonna play it even if playing it causes every female around me to spontaneously orgasm

well maybe then but since that's unlikely my argument stands

[TithonusSyndrome]

yeah sure okay lemme just take the spare $5000+ i keep for such an occasion and go down to the music shoppe

i already have all the smooth bell-shaped covers-all-the-frequencies tone i need out of my explorer thankyouveddymuch

it is playability that i now seek

[The Vortex Empire]

look man to be honest i don't like the way les pauls look

BLASPHEMY! BURN THE NONBELIEVER!

[TithonusSyndrome]

yeah light him up in a big mound of money that'll show him how to buy guitars

[Losonti Tokash]

i was in the same room as a $12,000 guitar at a store in new york once

then they realized a college student can't afford that and i got kicked out

[TithonusSyndrome]

there's actually a store in edmonton that is pretty world-class in terms of guitar selection and actually has a number of guitars in that price range

priced thusly because famous people once owned them and possibly even played them or moved them around from residence to residence

KILL YOUR IDOLS is unfortunately not a well-known maxim in the world of guitar

[The Vortex Empire]

At that kind of price it's just ridiculous, unless the guitar can cook and wipe your ass for you. There's no real difference between a $12,000 guitar and a $2,000 guitar.

[Losonti Tokash]

perhaps the appeal is that of owning a guitar that sold for $12,000

also, holy shit on this hijack, good work everybody

[TithonusSyndrome]

I guess it's worth noting that some guitars will have better off-the-shelf hardware than others, as well. The factory pickups in my Explorer (which *is* a Gibson) actually run hot like a motherfucker, and might be somewhere near the range of an active-type pickup that would run you $200.

[Shroom Man 777]

fucking...

rogue this is all your fault now all these assholes are talking about their stupid guitars

can we go back to making fun of russians or the us air air force or something guys?

[TithonusSyndrome]

ohohohoho we have learned that guitars get the shroomster a bit wound up

in fact, one could say that that'd be how you CRANK DAT SHROOM MAN

[Pollux]

I need to get a new bass one of these days... it's bad when your guitarist and drummer both have a nicer bass than you do...

Being poor sucks.

[TithonusSyndrome]

fuuuuuuuuuuuuck that just get a distortion pedal and max it out and go METAL TENFOLD THROUGH THE DEADLY BLACK HOLE

[Shroom Man 777]

seriously

we should set all their guitars on fire

and THEN break them!

[TithonusSyndrome]

didnt biting hendricks style get dusted like at least 20 years ago

[Oskuro]

seriously

we should set all their guitars on fire

and THEN break them!

Man, if your guitar doesn't burst in flames and ends up smashed on the floor, you're doing it wrong.

[Rye]

I sorta want a new guitar. My current one does this weird echo thing if I press down on the first frets. But I love it so much and don't have hundreds of pounds and we get horribly raped on this island for music stuff.

[tim31]

Protip for people ashamed of their cheap no-name strat:

*remove neck(take off strings first)
*replace with 'genuine' Fender neck with decals and everything bought for about $100 after browsing online auction sites
*Buy strap that says 'Fender'
*Profit

Seriously this works. The other 'tarist in my group did this and at one christmas party gig we did last year some chick was actually grinding his leg. Even his wife was impressed by this. POWER OF LEO!

[Manus Celer Dei]

I really want a new guitar but oops turns out lefty guitars are about double the price of normal ones in shops (fuck you right handed people)

I guess i could just buy one online or something but I'd rather try it out first y'know?

[TithonusSyndrome]

I sorta want a new guitar. My current one does this weird echo thing if I press down on the first frets. But I love it so much and don't have hundreds of pounds and we get horribly raped on this island for music stuff.

You have more than likely worn down the frets around there because of the horribly stupid taste in music you have I suspect you're probably playing a lot of songs with riffs that focus on doing a lot of pulloffs and hammerons around the first few frets. My first guitar was bought secondhand from someone who did just that and it had a "weird echo" effect.

[tim31]

I had the fretboard rebuilt on my Axis for about AU$100(he redid all the wiring at the same time and performed the usual housekeeping), which was money well spent; got rid of an annoying E rattle and gave the whole thing a new lease on life.