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Lummer:
--- Quote from: mrcarter ---1) Wood does suprisingly little. I have built guitars, I know this for a fact. D'Aquisto once built an archtop out of, I shit you not, cardboard, a little bit of plywood, and paper maché. It could kick more ass than 90% of guitars out there. It's how the materials are put together, not what they are.
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Again, that was from a qualified luthier. If it's something put together by a machine, it does make a difference. Why is it then, that mahogany and alder guitars sound totally different? The guitar fairy you mentioned earlier?
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2) You really have no faith in people. It's easy to say "people know Fender, so they're going to buy them." As far as I'm concerned, anyone who goes into a store and buys the first guitar they see just because of some name isn't a guitar player, they're a tool. God forbid they'd play more than one thing before they buy.
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You mean to tell me there is absolutely no unjustified hype around this brand?
--- Quote from: mrcarter ---3) http://toronto.craigslist.org/msg/180920377.html enough said.
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Holy Squier Showmaster Batman!
--- Quote from: mrcarter ---Name something revolutionary that another company is doing?
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Gibson inventing the humbucker.
Conklin's fanned-fret extended range instruments, Steinbergers Graphite necks since god knows when, Ibanez and Schecter making 7-strings and baritones available to mere mortals, Rickenbacker (IIRC) making 24-fret guitars available.. The list goes on, but that's all I can recall at the top of my head.
--- Quote from: mrcarter ---4) Lets see... Funk, Punk, R&B, Jazz, Soul, Gospel, Rock (and yes, strats can handle hard rock, and regular teles can actually hold their own in metal settings), Pop, Klezmer, Reggae, Ska, Dub, and just about everything else - Fenders can handle it.
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Handle is one thing, excel is an entirely different ball game. Why is it that I only see a fraction of Jazz guitarists playing anything other than hollowbodies? Why do the punks either use Gibson-style guitars, or put humbuckers in their Fenders?
You're right on the Ska, Funk, Reggae and that stuff. That's where they do excel.
But tele's for metal?! What? Do you even play metal in the first place? First of all, you'd need a pickup change. The body woods used for teles are actually good for that genre, as Ash and Alder give a nice clarity in the tone, especially when detuning. However, the standard Tele bridge just looks to flimsy to me, and not really well suited for palm muted trem picking, or any kind of brutal playing.
A few death metal dudes, most notably Obituary and Jon Levasseur (ex-Cryptopsy) have used strats, but with modifications aplenty.
And IMO(!!!!) single coils just don't deliver a good rock rhythm tone, no matter what you do amp-wise, it'll always lack balls compared to humbuckers.
--- Quote from: mrcarter ---5) Fuck /no one/ needs an American strat. Shove some Duncan's in a Mexicaster and holy hell that's a fine ass guitar for way less than your nancy-boy pointy-ass Ibanezs. The only thing cool about the Prestige series (other than the DiMarzios in some, those are the sex) is the piezo bridge - but wait, Fender has that. And they're better piezos at that.
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Still a matter of taste. And just for the record, my Ibanez is as pointy as a tennis ball. It's an S-series. My washburn on the other hand is a lil' kinky lookin'.
What model fenders have piezos? I've never seen those. As far as I recall, Carvin has them as well.
--- Quote from: mrcarter ---Go out and actually play a Fener tomorrow. A stock, Mexican made (Japenese if you're feeling particularly peckish) Fender. Play a couple. Guaranteed you'll find something you love. Perhaps a nice black telecaster with a sexy sexy maple fretboard. Then you're going to go see a replacement pickguard in the clearance bin, and suddenly you won't feel so bad about it looking like someone else's guitar.
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Dude.. Why do you think I've been saying all this? Really. Think hard. [/quote]
FreshJive787:
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Go out and actually play a Fener tomorrow. A stock, Mexican made (Japenese if you're feeling particularly peckish) Fender. Play a couple. Guaranteed you'll find something you love. Perhaps a nice black telecaster with a sexy sexy maple fretboard. Then you're going to go see a replacement pickguard in the clearance bin, and suddenly you won't feel so bad about it looking like someone else's guitar.
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go out and actually play a fender? ive played plenty of strats and teles but none of them hit the sweet spot for me like a gibson. however i still do like fenders.
but seriously stop being such a fender whore.
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either you like a brand or you don't. it's all personal preferance. woo hoo.
does anyone play a 12 string?
Lummer:
--- Quote from: iamyourpirate ---
does anyone play a 12 string?
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I wish I did, but I haven't the cash to buy one. It would be great though, to have an electric 12-string and just go drone-crazy.
At this year's Roskilde Festival, I saw Opeth, and when they played "Closure" Mikael whipped out a PRS 12-string which was just teh uber-sex ov sexiness +2. I've wanted one even more since that.
Thrillho:
--- Quote from: iamyourpirate ---either you like a brand or you don't. it's all personal preferance. woo hoo.
does anyone play a 12 string?
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I've played a few. Bastard to tune, dream to play. Absolutely wonderful.
As for PRS...I despise PRS guitars. And not just because I think they look like shiny crap and are ridiculously priced - oh wait, that is why I despise them.
But I wouldn't like them that aside. I don't like the way they sound or the way the play, or the way they feel.
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