Almost anything Ibanez, the guitarist in my band has a beautiful Prestige RG and a S series from the 90/early 2000 that I drool over.
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TB'ers. what guitars do you like?
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Right. I just discovered that a thing called the Fender Mustang exists. What a beauty.
And there is a white one from Squier. And a red one. And a blue one.
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And they're affordable. And I was looking for a cool single coil guitar, and I don't want a Tele or Strat. Crikey.
And there is a white one from Squier. And a red one. And a blue one.
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And they're affordable. And I was looking for a cool single coil guitar, and I don't want a Tele or Strat. Crikey.
I have a Mustang and love it.
Mine's a Fender, but the Squier ones are nice too.
I actually prefer playing a Mustang to a Strat--although I like Strats too.
But having a Mustang has possibly kept me from buying a Strat.
And it's not about scale length--I have a guitar with the same scale length--and of course my basses are longer scales.
Mine's a Fender, but the Squier ones are nice too.
I actually prefer playing a Mustang to a Strat--although I like Strats too.
But having a Mustang has possibly kept me from buying a Strat.
And it's not about scale length--I have a guitar with the same scale length--and of course my basses are longer scales.
I got great value from a Peavey Generation EXP - the one with the piezo acoustic emulation. The acoustic emulation sounds great if you use good playing technique and roll off the treble a bit. It comes with three magnetic pickups - the neck pickup is a humbucker, the other two are single coil. It's so versatile, it really does everything. It replaced an old 80's Ovation Balladeer because the Peavey acoustic emulation sounded better than the Ovation when plugged in. The Ovation unplugged sounded like crap, loud but crap, so I wasn't sorry to see it go.
My other electric is an Ibanez archtop - AF105NT - which I use for practicing cool jazz chords. I set it up so it's really easy to play and sounds great.
My other electric is an Ibanez archtop - AF105NT - which I use for practicing cool jazz chords. I set it up so it's really easy to play and sounds great.
View attachment 469255 View attachment 469257 I like these 2; '87 330 Rickenbacker and an early '70's EA-250 Epiphone. Both sound great played through the Rick amp, or the little Gretsch.
Posted the ones I like earlier. This one, though, is my favorite guitar; a '70s Epi EA-250, badly converted to a 12-string lefty. Why? Because it's not really playable (the bolt on neck would come off in about 15 minutes, if it was ever tuned to pitch), and my thick stumpy fingers are perfectly un-suited to a 12-string, anyway. So, I have never felt the slightest twinge of guilt about not playing it. Makes a good wall-hanger, though.
I managed a guitar store for 11 years and for most of that I only owned one guitar, a Yamaha FG-160. I bought it new in '73. The FG-160 was about $130, made in Taiwan, and the best deal in a laminated acoustic guitar for years. I did eventually build up a Jazzmaster which I should have kept. My personal favorites are pretty much what I own now at least for me. For example, I love Telecasters when people who use them well play them but I never get them to sound good.
I have a Guild A50 (mid '90s flattop, not the late '50s archtop) and a Guild F47 (cutaway flattop), a Strat, and a Guild Starfire IV. I'd like to have a Jazzmaster again too. BTW, I'm pretty dogmatic about electric guitars. The body shape is pretty meaningless. But it's not a Jazzmaster if it does not have all of the parts- Jazzmaster PUPs, the rhythm/lead switching circuit, and the Jazzmaster trem. Without those it's just another modified Strat with a different body shape. And a real Strat has a Fender trem and tree single-coil PUPs.
The Starfire is what would happen if every Gibson ES-335 was made correctly with attention to fit and finish details, had a properly cut nut from the factory, a stable neck, and excellent fret work.
My Strat is a MIM Classic '60s reproduction of an early to mid '60s Strat- vintage trem with the bent saddles (a critical factor in it sounding like a Strat), 7.25" radius neck with smaller frets, and the cosmetic features of the early '60s.
My favorite guitars when I'm playing bass? Depends on the guitarist. The most recent guitarist I worked with had a huge collection (I quit counting at 30- he always said "I don't play golf") ranging from a very cool old G&L S-2 to two PRS McCartys (one solid, one completely hollow). I hated the sound out of all of his Les Pauls, and he did nicely with his Strats. But he had a specific custom-shop Tele (rosewood board, vintage 3-saddle bridge, and real Telecaster neck and bridge PUPs) that sounded awesome when he played it. I also loved his solid PRS McCarty and his Fender Custom Shop Robben Ford (my all-time favorite of his). Another excellent guitarist I worked with had an awesome sounding mid to late '70s Strat (and some of you know my disdain for that era Fenders) that Tommy made sound great.
If I could only have one single musical instrument it would be my Guild F47CE however. An acoustic guitar rules over everything else for the mythical "desert island" instrument.
John
I have a Guild A50 (mid '90s flattop, not the late '50s archtop) and a Guild F47 (cutaway flattop), a Strat, and a Guild Starfire IV. I'd like to have a Jazzmaster again too. BTW, I'm pretty dogmatic about electric guitars. The body shape is pretty meaningless. But it's not a Jazzmaster if it does not have all of the parts- Jazzmaster PUPs, the rhythm/lead switching circuit, and the Jazzmaster trem. Without those it's just another modified Strat with a different body shape. And a real Strat has a Fender trem and tree single-coil PUPs.
The Starfire is what would happen if every Gibson ES-335 was made correctly with attention to fit and finish details, had a properly cut nut from the factory, a stable neck, and excellent fret work.
My Strat is a MIM Classic '60s reproduction of an early to mid '60s Strat- vintage trem with the bent saddles (a critical factor in it sounding like a Strat), 7.25" radius neck with smaller frets, and the cosmetic features of the early '60s.
My favorite guitars when I'm playing bass? Depends on the guitarist. The most recent guitarist I worked with had a huge collection (I quit counting at 30- he always said "I don't play golf") ranging from a very cool old G&L S-2 to two PRS McCartys (one solid, one completely hollow). I hated the sound out of all of his Les Pauls, and he did nicely with his Strats. But he had a specific custom-shop Tele (rosewood board, vintage 3-saddle bridge, and real Telecaster neck and bridge PUPs) that sounded awesome when he played it. I also loved his solid PRS McCarty and his Fender Custom Shop Robben Ford (my all-time favorite of his). Another excellent guitarist I worked with had an awesome sounding mid to late '70s Strat (and some of you know my disdain for that era Fenders) that Tommy made sound great.
If I could only have one single musical instrument it would be my Guild F47CE however. An acoustic guitar rules over everything else for the mythical "desert island" instrument.
John
I have an ESP (256 FM maybe?). It's got a push/pull volume knob to run it in single coil "mode or as humbuckers, so it emulates a strat as well as being a Les Paul style guitar. Works really well with Rocksmith, and it helps me formulate some ideas if I'm writing.
I really don't care about scale lengths, TBH. I have 34" and 35" basses, and before I read the specs of my Gretsch bass, I didn't even know it was only 30.3". If I like an instrument, I'll play it. Same goes for string spacing by the way.
How would you compare the sound of a Mustang to a Tele or Strat? The Squier Mustangs are really hard to find here in Holland so I wanna know as much as possible before I travel a lot to get one
It's got a bit of Strat in it and a bit of Tele--the pickups aren't as powerful--but if you play around with the settings and use some dirt you can get similar to a dirty Tele sound--but it is a sound of it's own--especially with the out of phase option--which is one of the things that drew me to it.I really don't care about scale lengths, TBH. I have 34" and 35" basses, and before I read the specs of my Gretsch bass, I didn't even know it was only 30.3". If I like an instrument, I'll play it. Same goes for string spacing by the way.
How would you compare the sound of a Mustang to a Tele or Strat? The Squier Mustangs are really hard to find here in Holland so I wanna know as much as possible before I travel a lot to get one
