Fender vs Gibson vs PRS.

Wich is the best the groovy sound of a proper strat or the heavy sound of a gibson lp or the combination of the two with a PRS.

Well for looks the gibson is great but the PRS is even greater but none of these guitars are as comfy as a strat. Although the looks are a bit dull its just because it have been copied by every single small guitarproducer.

Now for the sound the strat sounds a bit more sharp and has just a groovy sound wich i find beutiful for slow parts picked with fingers. While a gibson Lp with their humbuckers are a bit round and sounds great when distorted but is pretty cool on jazzy runs as well.

However the fender got a tremolo wich is great to have for making strange sounds, although i dont use it all the time it is nice to have on such a expansive guitar. Although you can get tremolos on lps as well these are usually bigsbys wich i find is crap. Anyways many say that the standard sync vintage fender tremolo goes out of tune but i find that after streching the string a bit you can even do divebombs without it going out of tune.

Then you got the prs witch you can get to sound a bit like a humbucker and a bit like single coil by using various mic set ups( By paralell and serial switching)

Anyways i prefer the fender strat because of their great V shape necks and great single coil sound. I also got a tbx circuit so that the single coils sound abit round like a humbucker would do. And i also tried prs and gibsons and i found that the Fender strat eric clapton signature was the best one

Who cares as long as you can play.

I've seen people with the nicest guitars and still couldn't play one worth a sh*t.

PRS, Gibson, and Fender are good, it just depends what kind of sound you want..

In opposit to all the gearheads out there, I am a tonehead. I don't understand why people spend so much money on their equipment to get something that is ok with everybodey, instead of buying a guitar and mod it to suit just you. This way you get a guitar customised to your spesification, and you get the tone you always wanted. I would never ever dream of buing a prs. Yes, they are great to play, and they sound ok, but you end up paying 20000 for laquer.

I myself now have a 1964 hondo-strat copy, with the neck shaped after my spesification. It got a gotho tremolo with piezo, sperzel locking tuners, a brass nut and brand new jumbo frets. I have Duncan pickups in midle and bridge possition, and a 1971 fender strat in the neck possition. It also have some custom wiering, with a mid boost controll and 7 pickup switching oppertunities. My best friends dad, which is a true gearhead once tried this guitar, and swore it was the best thing he had ever played, and that he had never heard a guitar with such a great tone. This comes from a man with four PRS guitars (one witch is the Santana 1), a bunch of vintage fenders, a couple of gibson LP's and a lucile. He claimed it was the best sounding vintage fender he had ever played. You should have seen his face when i told him i bought the guitar of ebay for 80$. Everyne who plays this guitar falls in love with it.

This is the guitar, but it's before modding. It is now raped with sandpaper, and looks realy reliced.

My other guitars are:

 a 1993 samick, moded with gotho tuners, a real floyd and EMG's. Plays like a dream, and sounds very much like the ESP KH2. Looks like a Ibanez s-series.

a 80's korean kramer strat copy with dimarzio PUs, mighty might bridge gotho tuners and custom wiering. This also has a special shaped neck, much like the hondo, and the fretboard is scalloped. Added a quilted maple top, laquered in transperant green with a burst to black and abalone inlays.

A 1996 Epiphone LP with duncans and gotho tuners. Plays like a dream.

A squire strat, moded to a hard top hollow-body with a f-fole. Has an acoutic bridge, and is strung with nylon strings. Piezo electronics and gotho tuners

The squire and first hondo is not pictured. Old photo.

I think all this guitars have costed me around 2500$, witch is is much less than a good Prs... And all this guitars is just the way I want them. Sort of my own customs, with the set up I find suitable for each spesific guitar. I plug it all in home made effects, a Jen crybaby and a old Hiwatt 50 watt combo with an aditional 2*12 cabinett.

1One1 wrote: Les Paul. All the motherf**king way.

Quite bold words for a n00b who asks why the top 3 strings are brighter than the bottom 3 ...