Now I just have to break my piggy bank, and to persuade my wife that it will not be another paperweight like my last guitar bought a dozen of years ago
I donât know what is the Mission Impossible among the 2
Likely both LOL
I just posted because you seemed quite keen on getting one at one stage, and I was suggesting something that might not break the bank.
Iâm not sure why you think maple is a poor wood. I know nothing about, it but Suhr, Fender, Vigier, Gibson, PRS all use maple in their top guitars costing many thousands of dollars. Even with Mahogany bodies, these companies often use maple necks, and most contoured bodies are finished in maple.
Hereâs another suggestion, given in the spirit of trying to find ways for you to get better feeling and realism, even with a crappy guitar. www.jamorigin.com No amp required and you can feed it straight into a bass synth of your choice (EZ bass ?). As long as the guitar is in tune, it could be made out of plywood, as it wonât change the sound (audio or acoustic).
⊠but there is still the issue of the finger tips⊠you could try putting putting a glue like Bostic on them and letting it dry before playing .
Thanks for effort, but the real reason I prefer my MIDI keyboard is the stress on my fingertips, and you need a lot of exercise every day to have your fingertips strong enough to cope with the friction
The last time I tried with this fine Yamaha guitar
well, I see that maple is used for aesthetic reasons, so it can be fine, but poplar is a weak wood so not ideal for the body, and I think it is just used because is very cheap, while mahogany is certainly better
You are absolutely right. In fact, one maple neck can cost in four numbers.
The other type of wood used for necks is rosewood. It apparently gives a bit âwarmerâ sound.
Personally, I prefer maple necks because this kind of wood is generally lacquered or varnished and in fact you donât play directly on the wood but on the varnish so it is easier and faster travelling up and down the neck.
As for those cheap basses and guitars, I donât necessarily recommend them even to beginners. They might be really bad. With good luck, you can get a decent instrument, which is really rare. you usually have to have it serviced and adjusted by a professional right away unless you know how to get a playable instrument out of it. In the worst case, it still wonât be good enough.
I totally agree
I bought cheap stuff in the past, but no more an option
I want the best I can afford
If I canât reach a good stuff, even used, I donât buy
Personally I wouldnât be quite so sure. Obviously all just opinions here, but I have seen plenty of these âunboxingâ style videos in which experienced musicians are frequently âblown awayâ by the quality of cheap instruments.
A lot of the sound is in the player. Give a good player a cheaper instrument, itâll sound fantastic. Give an average player a really expensive guitar? Itâll sound âaverageâ.
I realise you get what you pay for, and Iâm not saying one must admire cheap products. Iâm simply saying donât be quick to dismiss budget priced instruments, and particularly because a lot of the big brands arenât actually terribly well made and theyâre stupidly over-priced because of the name. I wouldnât own a Gibson (for example) if you gave me one!
Seriously, Gibson guitars are great instruments, but so overpriced even for their quality.
My first electric guitar was Squire Strat. With a few inexpensive mods, one can have good sound. The body is excellent, tne neck is great. Change the tuners and it becomes very decent guitar.
well again, just as my opinion, I donât really see âfor their qualityâ evident in todayâs Gibson instruments.
I was in a guitar shop in London not so long ago, and picked up a 335 dot, largely because I wanted to compare it with the really excellent Tanglewood âMemphisâ 335 copy I own. That guitar cost me ÂŁ100 off Ebay. Surely, I said to myself, this ÂŁ3500 Gibson Iâm holding is going to be clearly much better made.
How wrong I was! The purfling inside the body was terrible - roughly cut, no finishing. Things like fret setting, neck fit, overall finish? Not terrible, but no better at all than my cheapo copy.
One only has to go looking for the videos out there showing factory production for mid-price instruments like Peavy, Westone, Carvin etc. and to see guitars coming off a SINGLE production line⊠these guitars then go left, where the Peavey labels are applied and then sprayed in their colours. Other guitar goes right and has a different label attached⊠Yes Iâm cynical, but since I jumped in by defending Harley Benson (indirectly) I have no problem at all believing that these cheap brands are made in the same factories, alongside more established names.
Unlike âback thenâ when, if you needed a guitar, you just went into the local store and bought what you could afford but which was only likely to be a Fender, Gibson, Burns, Gretsch, Hofner etc. today itâs all about âmarketingâ and convincing people that this wire, used in this configuration, or that this type of paint finish or wood, or pedal, is going to make someone sound like Hendrix. Hendrix would sound like Hendrix if he played a broom, NOT because he had âXâ type of thingummy-jig.
Everybody knows the similar cases in cellphone industry.
Anyways, my second axe is MIM Fender Stratocaster and this one is really a great guitar. If Buddy Guy uses them, why wouldnât I? Ok, put the playing aside.
You should try a real bass. So much better!
