Nutriaitch
Redshirt
Wow! Some seriously nice guitars! I love the custom shop Strat iced tea Les Paul & the '61 SG. Really like all of them..
thank you sir.
now if only i could learn to actually play instead of just collect.
Wow! Some seriously nice guitars! I love the custom shop Strat iced tea Les Paul & the '61 SG. Really like all of them..
thank you sir.
now if only i could learn to actually play instead of just collect.
Ha! I know exactly what you mean. I got into collecting too. I suffer G.A.S. (Guitar acquisition syndrome) continuously. Pisses my wife off though! I can't blame her.
I've got a '61 reissue too. I love SGs & Les Pauls. Lately, I've been playing a PRS with an East Indian rosewood solid rosewood neck & Brazilian rosewood fingerboard. I fell in love with the neck. It's unfinished & fits in my hand perfectly. Very fast neck.
I was wondering what kind of amps you're playing through?
i have a Fender Mustang vII.
connect it to my laptop and i have access to thousands of presets.
or if i had the knowledge/ability i could make my own tones with hundreds of effects.
like tons of pedals, pre amps, multiple amps, post amps, etc
and each part has all the knobs and adjustments on them that can be manipulated.
i typically play my acoustic/electric through an Outback explorer speaker.
That sounds pretty damn cool! I bet you can get some amazing sounds. I guess I'm old school, I haven't used my computer yet to get into multiple sounds. I'm still just plug & play.
that’s the beauty of this thing.
there is a shit ton of presets online that you can download.
then the “app” for the amp opens those presets and BAM you playing with same tones as the artists who played the song.
What type of music do you play mostly? I know @Bengal B loves the Stevie Ray Vaughan blues style. I play mostly "Classic" rock & some metal.
i’m a blues based rock mostly.
but can’t really “play” anything. lol
Gibson owns Epiphone.
so the Epiphone equivalent will be built to same “spec” as the Gibson.
meaning more size, shape, weight, neck profile, etc.
so it will look and feel like a Gibson.
the difference is the quality of woods, electronics, finish, etc.
if you buy an ultra low end Epiphone, you’re buying mostly junk. not terrible for a young child’s first guitar. but even a teen would notice the lack of quality if you bought them one.
mid-range epi’s are really well made guitars.
my SG, my 339 and my Les Paul Standard all fall in this range.
i highly recommend them in the “bang for your buck” category.
all are beautiful guitars, play very smooth, and have a very gibson-esque vibe to their tones.
then if you go top of the spectrum Epiphone....
WOW!
my tribute Plus was about the most expensive Epiphone available at time i bought it. Extreme top end for them, but still comfortably under $1,000.
it’s on par with Guitars well over that price range.
blows cheap Gibson out of the water too.
has all american gibson parts solid mahogany body, hard maple cap grover licking tuners, true Gibson USA pickups, etc.
it’s just built overseas.
Finish is a cheaper grade than the Nitro used in America, but is still gorgeous in person.
and she is powerful!
thank you sir.
now if only i could learn to actually play instead of just collect.
i have a Fender Mustang vII.
connect it to my laptop and i have access to thousands of presets.
or if i had the knowledge/ability i could make my own tones with hundreds of effects.
like tons of pedals, pre amps, multiple amps, post amps, etc
and each part has all the knobs and adjustments on them that can be manipulated.
i typically play my acoustic/electric through an Outback explorer speaker.
I'll have to give it a try. I've heard it's pretty easy to do. I know I'm behind.
I've got a friend that does it & he's even built a tiny studio in their spare room. He's got it completely soundproofed, lol. He's got so much different stuff, it's hard to keep up with. But he's running the midi stuff through his laptop. Hard to believe, but he can get a small Marshall combo to sound very close to a clean Fender amp. Amazing stuff.
What type of music do you play mostly? I know @Bengal B loves the Stevie Ray Vaughan blues style. I play mostly "Classic" rock & some metal.
Not that I can play like SRV but it seems blues are easier to sound OK on than playing lead on classic rock songs. If only I could play like Duane Allman
Fender makes the Squier, a copy of the strat. I started playing with a Squier I paid $150 for new. Seemed not bad until I got a real strat. I would hope Epiphone is a better Gibson copy than Squier is a strat copy.
That's true! I like the blues too, more expressive notes & sometimes slower leads. I got caught up in 70's & 80's hard rock. When I first heard Randy Rhoads play, I almost put my guitar down for good. He was so good at like 22 or 23 years old, I figured I'd never play on that level. And I was right, lol. But I still have a lot of fun playing.
Just thinking back, for about a year & half, young guitar players everywhere were like Eddie who? Seriously, EVH became "He's ok" overnight, due to Blizzard if Oz & Diary of a Madman. And then RR was gone, like Buddy, Hendrix, Duane & SRV would follow. I'm not sure Eddie fully recovered, especially with SRV coming along big, right after RR..different styles, but still..
the holy grail for me has always been David Gilmour.
not true, it’s Jimi. but he wasn’t human, so he doesn’t count.
But Jimi, Gilmour, Santana, BB King, Slash.