If you mean an Ernie Ball Axis, well then... duh. That kind of guitar isn't the kind of investment that you can really just scrap the minute some frets get worn. I wouldn't bother refretting my first guitar unless I was really sentimental about it, and if I have money to burn in the future I might just be, we'll see I guess.
Long story short - refretting isn't cheap and if your guitar didn't cost that much to begin with, your refretting funds might be put to better use by aiming for a more upscale guitar.
Confession: not a genuine Ernie Ball, but rather an OLP copy. I still think it was worth the money spent getting it redone; one day I might actually be able to get the genuine article, but for now I got other bills to pay.
Yeah, you spent like 1/3 of the cost of the guitar on refretting it, dincha? I guess you're fairly attached to it then. What are you running it through?
As for rig, nothing special there either. Ashton GA100 combo; not as loud as the head/cab rig I used to have, but I don't need it that loud anyway.
The 'good' axe I use is an SG special, since I'm delegated to playing rhythm most of the time while singing. I like it as a performer; the Axis is usually for noodling at home.
Peh, it's not like I can talk; Peavey Chorus 212 m'self. I'm not one to settle for "intermediate" equipment when I can save my ducats and lunge for the top, but that amp has tremendous sentimental value as something I bought off a friend months before his passing away.
Well sir, I have a ticket in powerball tonight. If it comes good, you get a new twanger and amp, your choice. Hell, I'll buy everyone in this thread a new guitar
Ford Prefect wrote:real mean play gibsonsthe clarinet
Fixed for you.
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??? What do you mean Les? As in Les Paul? The Les Paul is a Gibson. BUt yes, real men do play Gibsons.
I'm going to forgive Ford the slip on account of Les Pauls being their own elevated brand of wank. Which is not to say they aren't good guitars, but I prefer the SG over the LP for my own reasons, even if the man himself didn't agree
The Vortex Empire wrote: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.
The Vortex Empire wrote: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.
Pfft, real musicians tune their own instruments, they don't let some godless commie machine do it for them. Tuning it yourself also improves your ear, so self tuning guitars are not a good thing.
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I dunno, I'd be fine with a self-tuning guitar for performances and the like, assuming it doesn't sound like shit. I just wouldn't practice or rehearse with it.
I need to find that clip of Jeff Martin demonstrating the self-tuning guitar on the Discovery Channel way back when the Tea Party was still together as a band. He said it was great since he needed a different guitar for every song because of all the weird tunings they had, and the Transperformance upgrade meant he didn't need to keep switching guitars anymore.
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Say, do you want it to be a threesome with your wife? Or a foursome with your wife and sister-in-law? I'm up for either.
Rye wrote: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.
isn't horribly stupid you jerk
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The Tea Party used different tunings? Didn't the dude just have to noodle around on the same half of a harmonic minor key for a whole song, play a few major chords for the choruses, and then try to croon and strut like Jim Morrison?
That kind of guitar isn't the kind of investment that you can really just scrap the minute some frets get worn. I wouldn't bother refretting my first guitar unless I was really sentimental about it, and if I have money to burn in the future I might just be, we'll see I guess.
