Recommend me a guitar

[hibidy]

Dammit, I guess I'll never know.

I guess I'm just a clueless air-head............cause I don't get it..............

However, I'm sure it's some clever inside-joke...............?

[frequency_algorithm]

isn't buku like when you buy marijuana that's fake. Buku buds?

[hibidy]

I've always been under the impression it means "allot"................

I want to share somthing (if it's not a bother......)

I have two guitar centers near by.........the point is that only ONE has the "hip" or "sought-after" guitars.........

I am currently looking for a tele, though CERTAINLY not ready to buy.......but it take a while to get my "bearings" straight......... (pun?)

(get to the point hibidy!!!!!!)

Ok, I was kinda interested.....for dumb "asthetics" reasons in the NO'casters custom/masterbuild stuff.

To my surprise..........51' reps have SUPER WEAK UNUSEABLE neck-positions pickups. NOPE, I'm not kidding.......standard teles.........fine. NO' casters (um, 2300 to 3500 usd) have these "way too fricken vintage for my dame taste" neck pickups!!!!!!!!!!

bridge pickups.........? INSANE! Center postition? AWSOME! Playability? 10 outa 10! but the neck pickup is a JOKE!

Ok, just wanted to share.........carry on..........

[Lunch Money]

hibidy: So, I was right in my guess of "beaucoup". You just didn't seem to be confirming.

It's pronounced "Bo Koo", though (rather than "Bu Koo"), and spelled as above. <chuckle> Since you've confirmed that you meant "a lot", that puts us on the same page now. You're not missing any inside joke.

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Weird about the no'caster. I like a meaty neck pickup. I live in the neck position and only rarely venture into bridge zone.

[frequency_algorithm]

SO beaucoup means choke?

[hibidy]

concentrate more on my tele story........

[frequency_algorithm]

Tele's are fricken cool guitars. I'd buy one if I didn't want a mustang so badly. But tele's have a twang. Nothing you can do. The twang is good, don't get me wrong. But sometimes you dont want the tele twang. Sometimes you want a MUSTANG.

[DaveL60]

One question about the online stores- Sweetwater talks up their '55-point inspection' prior to shipping the guitar. Is this really something special, or do Musician's Friend, Sam Ash, etc. all do the same thing?

I can't say for sure that it's unique, but I suspect that the other sites would advertise it if they did something equivalent.. I do know that my Ibanez played wonderfully right out of the box.

DaveL

[Toxikator]

Buy an Ibanez S or S prestige. They come in 6s and 7s (I have the S7320). The ZR Bridge is the greatest thing to happen to guitars since the invention of the humbucker, it is a miracle.

[PaulG]

Okay, just some personal thoughts from playing rock for 25+ years and I used to teach...

If you love Les Paul's get one. If you don't, don't. They're heavy to play with standing up. Les Paul people *tend* to stick with them only.

Forget your friend's comment about the bell tone crap with single coils. If you ever want to play ANYTHING pop-rock with ANY sort of gain, you'll need a humbucker or else you'll have noise up the yin-yang and not that much gain.

I've had a slew of guitars. I told my students to check out Ibanez for the quality-price ratio. The styles cover a broad spectrum and you can get necks with up to 3 frets more than a traditional Strat neck.

I bought a Variax 300 and I was incredibly blown away at how well it played and how good it sounded. It doesn't use tracking so there's no latency. And now they cost $299. I gave it to one of my students and am going to get another one.

At your level of expertise, those tones your friend said to get a strat for are no problem.

Either one of those two would be a good choice for your level right now.

I'd actually stay away from an actual strat or a copy unless you're really keen on that exact style. Other companies make double cutaways that give you more features and better pickups, too. Ibanez is just one.

If you ever get into lead playing, 21 fret necks like standard strat necks don't give you much room to even bend a note up to an E. A three half-step bend is just too hard to handle if you're not a pro already. You can do it okay with a 22 fret and of course a 24 fret neck hits the high E without any problem, and you could always ben up to an F# to enhance a lead with, but 24 fret necks can be harder to come by.

An Ibanez "S" series is one choice you wouldn't do too bad in considering.

[Chuck E. Jesus]

concentrate more on my tele story........

it's not a bu-fu tele, is it?



sorry

[guitarzan]

Forget your friend's comment about the bell tone crap with single coils. If you ever want to play ANYTHING pop-rock with ANY sort of gain, you'll need a humbucker or else you'll have noise up the yin-yang and not that much gain.

So, I take it you've never listened to Richie Blackmore, Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top), Neil Young, or Yngwie Malmsteen...those guys all use single coils with a bit of gain. Single coils definately DO have a more bell-like tone. I don't like humbuckers much at all myself, they get rid of the hum by cancelling out all the shimmering top end - they remind me of the old Dolby B noise reduction ... no hiss but no cymbals, no air etc. I'd rather manage the noise than have no sparkle left at all, myself. I like a lot of players who do use humbucker guitars, but for my own thing they just sound like the tone knob is cranked all the way down to me.

[Chuck E. Jesus]

i like 'em both...

[Lunch Money]

Billy Gibbons? Are you mad, man ? Yes-- he's a guitarist with a whole CLOSET of guitars, but his main guitars have always had humbuckers... including the Pearly Gates by Seymour Duncan. I can't seeem to find any lit on the SD website linking the two, mind you. Perhpas they had a falling out? "Texan Rock" appears in the description, though, if that's a clue.

I'm with Paul, though. The noise is simply unmanageable in some cases. You might not believe me, but there is no way to "manage the noise" in my particular apartment. Even humbuckers hum a bit. I'm too close to the mains and telephone intersects, and I suspect there's a wireless node around here somewhere, too. It's also concrete, so any EMI/RFI that gets in here stays in here. As far as I can tell, a lot of the residual hum (when playing my humbucker-equipped guitar) is actually being picked up by my recording device and possibly one of the cables (main guitar cables are shielded, but that only gets you so far). Yes, I've "Quieted the Beast" (full shielding) and no I don't have an CRT monitors, dimmers, or fluorescents on. I've tried everything I can to manage the noise.

Didn't mean that as a rant-- just explaining. So, even thought the humbuckers leave me with SOME hum, it's the only way to go for me. I haven't touched my LG since I got the 'bucker-equipped guitar, except for clean passages where the noise floor WAS indeed "manageable" at that point in time. For high gain, there's no way on earth I can handle it anymore.

You can tell I hate the noise in my apartment, no?

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Mind you, there's always after-market pickups, no matter WHICH guitar you get. A set of Laces or EMGs will sort you out.

Greg

[Chuck E. Jesus]

mr. money: did you try lifting all the grounds (on your audio rig) to one common, and earthing it?