Your next guitar?
- KVRAF
- 12354 posts since 7 May, 2006 from Southern California
I saw those. It's part of the reason I was mulling over the Variax to begin with. The black one is tempting.
I still feel like I would want a "normal" guitar that I could change parts on easily.
I still feel like I would want a "normal" guitar that I could change parts on easily.
- KVRAF
- 6095 posts since 5 Jul, 2001 from Just about .... there
https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail ... gray-black
https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail ... ingerboard
The PRS in that price range are probably better playing guitars than the fender IMO. But the strat is more versatile. The other option is ibanez, they also have excellent price/performance if that's the tones you want.
https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail ... g570-black
Just more ideas ... cuz you know narrowing down guitars is a futile job LOL
https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail ... ingerboard
The PRS in that price range are probably better playing guitars than the fender IMO. But the strat is more versatile. The other option is ibanez, they also have excellent price/performance if that's the tones you want.
https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail ... g570-black
Just more ideas ... cuz you know narrowing down guitars is a futile job LOL
If you have to ask, you can't afford the answer
- KVRAF
- 12354 posts since 7 May, 2006 from Southern California
My first instrument was bass and I mostly play Ibanez 4-strings but for some reason I don't really like their guitars.
That PRS looks pretty sweet for the price! Thanks for the suggestion!
That PRS looks pretty sweet for the price! Thanks for the suggestion!
- KVRAF
- 6095 posts since 5 Jul, 2001 from Just about .... there
On the plus side once you kind of hit around the $500 mark your chances are pretty good of getting a really good guitar even if it has to go get some setup love. Back in the day $500 would net you a 2x12 with strings nailed on.
If you have to ask, you can't afford the answer
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- KVRAF
- 6804 posts since 20 Jan, 2008
The Variax standard is... Pretty damn standard. You can swap out the ceramic pups if you like. Also swap out the neck. It doesn't have much of a trem plate there isn't enough room so that can't be switched nor can the saddles.
Then again you can always do a transplant (routing at your own risk)
If you want to throw money around you can always do or have someone do a transplant. Transplants were all the rage about ten years back or more.
Then again you can always do a transplant (routing at your own risk)
If you want to throw money around you can always do or have someone do a transplant. Transplants were all the rage about ten years back or more.
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- KVRAF
- 12354 posts since 7 May, 2006 from Southern California
I decided to go with the Variax Standard. I'll be getting the Sunburst one. I'll let you all know how we get along.
- Boss Lovin' DR
- 12621 posts since 15 Mar, 2002 from the grimness of yorkshire
Acceptable choice. Not white.
- Boss Lovin' DR
- 12621 posts since 15 Mar, 2002 from the grimness of yorkshire
Let's see how long it takes you to wonder what it sounds like if you use the tuning facility to have the 3 lowest strings all the same note, and the top 3 the same an octave higher.
It sounds f**king marvellous....
- KVRian
- 1100 posts since 9 Jan, 2015 from NY, NY
I think Lou Reed did something like that, and called it “Ostrich guitar” for some reason.
Sweet child in time...
- KVRAF
- 10598 posts since 31 Aug, 2013 from Somewhere near the Morgul Vale.
Stephen Stills tunes Suite: Judy Blue Eyes to EEEEBE, or DDDDAD.
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- KVRAF
- 5752 posts since 29 Sep, 2010 from Maui
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- KVRAF
- 6804 posts since 20 Jan, 2008
I hadn't had a white guitar in decades. white was the obvious choice when I bought mine.
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- KVRAF
- 10598 posts since 31 Aug, 2013 from Somewhere near the Morgul Vale.
I had a white MiM Strat. It was rather blah. I was thinking of getting one of the XIIs as I mentioned here, but the only colour that was left was white, so I didn't even bother. On a Strat, I like a nice burst, or natural.
Some of these alternate tunings really make me scratch my head. Like, who comes up with these things? Jimmy Page's tuning for the Rain Song is another bit of obscure weirdness, yet when you hear the song, it's perfect. The only one I use with any regularity is Drop D. I was messing around with DADGAD for a while, which is neat, but...I've come to realize that, if I'm not quite getting the chord right, then there's a good possibility there's an alternate tuning happening.
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
-Martin Luther King Jr.
-Martin Luther King Jr.
- Rad Grandad
- 38044 posts since 6 Sep, 2003 from Downeast Maine
try dropping the the low A to a G, I did this little acoustic thingy years ago in DGDGADBombadil wrote: ↑Mon Jan 21, 2019 11:36 pm I had a white MiM Strat. It was rather blah. I was thinking of getting one of the XIIs as I mentioned here, but the only colour that was left was white, so I didn't even bother. On a Strat, I like a nice burst, or natural.
Some of these alternate tunings really make me scratch my head. Like, who comes up with these things? Jimmy Page's tuning for the Rain Song is another bit of obscure weirdness, yet when you hear the song, it's perfect. The only one I use with any regularity is Drop D. I was messing around with DADGAD for a while, which is neat, but...I've come to realize that, if I'm not quite getting the chord right, then there's a good possibility there's an alternate tuning happening.
https://soundcloud.com/hink/accoustic
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