New Guitar! (It's sex)

[Dog--]

I tighten all 3 high strings a half step to a full step more, then tune them back, and the 3 low strings a half step higher..

It stretches them and makes it stay in tune with god damn new strings.

 

[Hazar]

I just stretch them with my hands but one time I got a bit carried away with the e, the other time I wasn't paying attention while winding it up and it just snapped.

 

[The Monkey]

I was one second from smashing the guitar in the floor when I broke the string. Guitars are such great aggression outlets.

 

[benxbec1]

I prefer Fender over ALL. I do think that Ibanez is the next best choice though, I have an RG model in Red, but I think that Fender makes the best instruments for all styles of music. I believe that Gibson is the worst high end brand.

My guitars.

Fender Highway One Telecaster. I still love it.

Fender VG Stratocaster, my newest, it features the ability to change tuning, become 12-stringed, swicth from Natural to stratocaster to telecaster to humbucker to acoustic, and all of that can be done instantly by the turn of a knob. And it has a nice blue light.

This is the Ibanez I have, my second guitar, i'm getting ready to sell it. I used to think that it was great back in the days that I thought metal was cool. Now I play Jazz, Blues, and Classic Rock. Metal is so stupid now that I look back. No skill required.

 

[Dalamari]

Eww, VG Strat

Can't say I was all that impressed with it, as a strat it was alright but all the other sounds were a bit...odd

 

[Shift]

Looks pretty cool although I've never been a fan of Ibenez, however the pickups look pretty decent. I tend to aim for the more alternative guitar makes like Parkers and Mansons, although I own a Peavey Raptor and a jag, which are consistent with gigging since my parker fly and manson require batteries.

And yes, custom finishes to guitar add a lot of value because it makes them stand out when gigging, it all adds to the band image, personally I love seeing unusual or unknown guitars within bands.

 

[knut]

Far too much throwing words around as if they are facts here. Value is different to everyone, and whilst I appreicate that it may be something you like, it's not the same for everyone else so let's just drop it at that. I've already said all of this but I've tried to at least stand some ground by accepting others opinion whilst stating my own.

I, for one, am totally against ''band image'' and I wouldn't want anything else but the music to stand out at a gig. If people were interested in anything else then I'd be a bit worried, but then my idea of a perfect gig is standing behind a curtain so whatever.

 

[nipples]

I'd rather everyone's gear at a gig to look like they just raided a dump, rather than..."pretty".

 

[Dog--]

Yea, like I said, I don't really care for the brand at all, I look at feel and sound. This guitar met both my expectations on it, so I'm happy. Hell, I've played a SQUIER - A F*CKING SQUIER - that was amazing. Sure had different pups in (can't remember what kind), but stock tuners, bridge, everything. Thing was mint.

The big 3 (Ibanez, Fender and Gibson), they have their characteristics for certain sounds and feels though. Gibson always gives me a 'bigger' tone, and since the neck is thicker it feels bigger as well, for example of one brand.

Whatever, it's whatever feels and sounds best to you as the player, no one else matters.


P.S. I would LOVE a tele.

 

[Dog--]

Metal is so stupid now that I look back. No skill required.

Woa I totally missed this part - the F*CK are you talking about?! Have a listen to any Symphony X song, you are probably just basing that around Metallica and Sabbath (which even then isn't exactly easy). I am by no means a metal guy (I do listen to some though), but that statement is just retarded.

 

[Shift]

That is pretty daft lol, although I don't like the majority of metal, a lot of it isn't easy by any means.

 

[knut]

I never saw that part either. Blanket generalisations that try to sum up an entire genre in one fell swoop never cease to amaze me.