Poll - If you could only have one electric guitar
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+1ledogboy wrote:Any high quality ES-335 (or knockoff). I adore semi-hollow's and have pretty much stopped playing anything else.
My musics.fossiltooth wrote: That's like saying you hate Fenders because of Yngwie Malmsteen.
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I am honestly surprised to be the first Les Paul on this thread. Maybe a '59 re-issue, but I can cover a lot of ground with a good standard. With a bit of EQ, I can make my LP sound like my Telecaster, but not so much the other way around. Besides, nothing FEELS like a Les Paul.
Wire an LP up for coil tap, phase reverse, and series/parallel and you've got a really flexible axe. Ok, I just love 'em, I've cast my vote.
Not that I don't love my Tele, also. If I had to keep only one, it would be the LP though.
Todd Wilcox
Wire an LP up for coil tap, phase reverse, and series/parallel and you've got a really flexible axe. Ok, I just love 'em, I've cast my vote.
Not that I don't love my Tele, also. If I had to keep only one, it would be the LP though.
Todd Wilcox
Telecaster. No question. Something like my current one (heavily modified '85 Made in Japan with a Dimarzio Evolution in the bridge position and a PAF Pro in the neck position, wired for coil tap on both pickups and phase reverse on the rear, with a Kahler flat-mount trem) but without the trem and with a lower output bridge pickup. Maybe something like my friend's '61 Tele reproduction but with a flatter neck and six piece bridge.
I'm in disbelief that I'm the first to say a strat. Rosewood fretboard, fat neck, tremolo blocked off or hard tail. Any decent single coil pu's, I like fender Texas Specials. I can get pretty much any tone I need out of a strat.
I own a Hamer 335 copy, a G&L tribute ASAT, a 70's Ibanez Artist and a G&L tribute Legacy (strat copy), and if I had to pick one I'd take the Legacy.
I own a Hamer 335 copy, a G&L tribute ASAT, a 70's Ibanez Artist and a G&L tribute Legacy (strat copy), and if I had to pick one I'd take the Legacy.
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You and me both! Don't get me wrong, a telecaster/ASAT is a great guitar, and I love mine, I just never knew they were so popular. They're not that flexible, either, IMHO.JASIII wrote:I'm in disbelief that I'm the first to say a strat.
We're up to 9 votes for a telecaster or tele-style, and less than 4 of everything else.
My biggest beef with the tele-style guitars is the microphonic feedback of the bridge plate at high gain/high volume settings.
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