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    Posted: July 09 2005 at 19:19
Does any one know of a good guitar model for beginner less than $4oo. I was looking at OLP guitars are thay any good?
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Points: 21342 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 09 2005 at 22:05
Ibanez makes good starter guitars, as does Squire (Fender subsidiary).
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Points: 84 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 10 2005 at 01:29
The lower line Yamaha models are good too. I think they're called Pacifica or something like that.
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Points: 16310 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 10 2005 at 16:16
All my friends have squire and they are Crap witha capital P
plus I want a whammy bar thats pretty good
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The Pacificas have a whammy bar. It's decent. I don't use it though. I got a lot stronger springs so I could put on medium heavy strings. :-D
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Fender Stratocasters aren't bad, but some get too spendy. Stay the hell away from Epiphone and Squire.
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Squire are nasty. Although I'm not keen on Ibanez generally, their starter models seem to blow away most other brands in the price range, and they do 7 string starters, I think.
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Points: 562 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 11 2005 at 06:30

For $400 you might want to consider checking out some 2nd hand guitars.

Depends on where you live and whats available (garage sales, auctions etc) sometimes you can get lucky and buy something pretty decent.

Picked up a pretty reasonable Washburn electric appx 18 months ago for a couple of hundred bucks.
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Points: 84 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 11 2005 at 22:33

This is what my yamaha pacifica sounds like.

I got bored and recorded this.

 

It has the humbucker on rhythm the first time and single coil the second.

And opposites on lead...blah blah. Oh, and if anyone DOES listen to this. Sorry about the microphone, it sucks, and I had it in a bad place. :-D

 

http://seabre986.homeunix.net/~seabre/pacifica.mp3

 

I'd sell you mine for $400 :-D



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Points: 16310 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 12 2005 at 01:20
Thanks for all the feedback. After I almost broke my friends ibanez guitar during a Vai style dive bomb i said " Man I got to buy my own". So I contacted a friend of mine who was going to let me  buy his Gibson guitar, but when I got a hold of him he said that he was going to study at Berklee and that he is taking the guitar with him. So in a fit of rage I bought an OLP Petrucci guitar and a floyd rose trem. Can't wait to get my hands on it, but I will let a pro install the floyd because I know I will ruin it.
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yamaha is wonderfull to start with...
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Since you live in the states you should check out the kramer guitars on http://www.musicyo.com Graet guitars for great prices. The USA series is great, specialy the"custom"
It is said to be the first Test-pressing of the corean release??

http://www.freewebs.com/ligyrophobia/
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