i’m thinking of buying an electric guitar. i have about 300 dollars or so. i have some friends who play, and they told me thu usual fender, gibson thing, but fenders and gibsons are always too expensive, everyone seems to have one, and if i meet another guitarist with an SG im going to puke (dont get me wrong, I LOVE the gibson SG, but something like HALF my friends have one) and Im looking for an electric guitar that is more original anyway. i’m going to use it to play heay metal, but it does not have to be a typical heavy metal guitar, just a good solid body electric guitar that i could play heavy metal with, or any kind of music with because who knows, i might start to hate hevy metal by the time i learn to play well.
i did not want to go activly shopping for an electric guitar till i passed this question out to the unicycle forum bedcause i have a feeling that unicyclists might have some interesting and original ideas out there on electric guitars.
so, any suggestions from all you guitar playing unicyclists out there?
You’re not going to get a very good electric guitar for under $300. If you’re serious about learning and playing, I’d throw down the cash. If you just want to mess around, buy any cheap $100 electric guitar you can find. If you don’t want a Fendor or Gibson, maybe you could get an Epiphone.
For that much money, you can probably get a pretty decent Ibanez or a Jackson.
Or you can get a Fender or Gibson, dont expect to be getting anything high-end though for any brand for that much money, you can get a good starter though, or you can get a B.C Rich starter pack, that comes with the guitar, strap, picks, an amp, and I think a guitar book.
It really all on your preferences though, like me, I like the feel of off-brand guitars like squire and epiphones better than the feel of a gibson or fender, you should go to you guitar center, or any guitar shop you have around you, try out the guitars, see what necks feels right to you, do you like how the body of the guitar is, how the strings feel and the frets, and they will let you try them all out, and help you choose.
One more thing, you can play any music on any guitar, there are some out there that are more “metalish” because of the components they made them with, like having a crunchier pick up installed instead of a bluesy twang sounding pick-up, but it really doesnt matter, on any one of my guitars, I can play any style, you just gotta learn how to play the styles. =p
You can get a good guitar, Sure its not gonna be a three thousand dollar one, but there isnt much difference in them, type of wood, design, pick-ups, the pups in them, more electronical stuff.
All of my guitars have been under 500 dollars, including my flying v and les paul, both from epiphones cause i like them better, and they sound just as good as the 3000-5000 dollars ive played on at guitar center.
Its the guitarist that makes a guitar sound good, not the price.
Godins are really nice guitars. They are made up here in Canada (quebec, actully) and they are assembled down in the US o’ A. The Godin SDxt is my axe, and its great! The pickups are really nice. Seymore Duncan. They dont say Seymore Duncan, but they are made by them. It isn’t too pricey either, but Im not sure where you can get them if you live in the states. In Canada, Long and Mcquade carries them, so does Steves music and St John’s Music (these companies are in many places accross canada).
Other than that, you can get a low end Gibson or Fender. These are sold as Epiphone and Squier respectively. The Squier Strat is an ok axe.
Then you need an amp. Start with a crummy pratice one. I’ve seen them for as little as $50.
Just go to your local music store and take a look for these guitars. Ask if you can try one out. Even if you can’t play, just get a feel for it. Does it fit into your hands? Do you like the sound (play one string or something). See if they have the strat pack. They probably do. Guitars are great because they are cheap and common.
I hope you read all of this. Have fun leaning! Visithttp://www.zzounds.com if you can’t get out to a music store. This site should give you an idea of prices and makes. Squier, Epiphone, Gibson, Fender, Ibanez, Jackson and Peavy are common makes (but I spelt a few of them wrong). This is a really good site to help you out by the way! http://guitar.about.com/
EDIT: Godins are less common than your Fenders or Gibsons.
Well Bud, let me the first to thank you for posting something intelligent
I’ve played for a little over a year, and I learned on a squire…I got a starter pack at the local guitar store for about 250, came with guitar, amp, picks, strap, and a book.
While you’re learning, the type of guitar doesn’t matter so much…and as Jerrick said, style and sound is much, MUCH more the player and the price tag or the guitar…I can play a bunch of styles on my 150 dollar squire…and then if you get an effects pedal after that, even more doors are opened.
I’d recommend a good, solid starter pack guitar…Squire is a good one.
Of course, to some degree. I’m not saying anyone should spend a whole lot–there are unicycles to be bought after all! I think $300 is a good starting point. I just didn’t want Bud to buy the guitar analog of a Savage Unicycle.
The main thing you’re paying for with an electric guitar is the pickup(s) (the electrical part). If you buy too cheap of a guitar, the pickup will be really noisy and sound bad no matter who plays the guitar.
I think I’ll be guitar-shopping for a while, i’m not in a big hurry. Someone once told me that 75 percnt of the fun of buying an electric guitar is the shopping part, trying out a few. I’m having fun doing that right now. In the end, I think I’ll probebly take the starter pack solution as monkeyman and Jerrick suggested–the squire guitar that my friend has seems really good, and the fact that it comes with an amp is really nice. I 'm going to also try the BC Rich starter pack, that looks like fun. Still, I would like to try out that ICEMAN, I saw one at Sam Ash but I did not try it out. And Eorick, a friend of my Dad’s has a Godin bass, and he swears by it. He said the EQ controls arre awsome
If my guitar hunt turns out as well as my unicycle hunt, ill be really happy. I have no idea what kind of unicycle I have (someone once suggested that it is a “sun” with a “KH” seat, but there is no brand name on any of it) and the brand could be really crummy for all i know, but it does the trick.
Thanks again for the electric guitar suggestions; I knew the true place of reason on this would come from the unicycle crowd!
