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Points: 21196 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 24 2006 at 05:19

^ I can only say that I find the Fender Strat sound far too limiting. I once had a decent Strat and sold it, because there are some things you just can't do with it. Then on the other hand there are things you can't do with a LP either.

The bottom line: Beginners should NOT buy an expensive specialized guitar. They should look for an affordable all-purpose guitar ... either an Ibanez RG, or a Yamaha ... or the Variax, which gives you the most versatility. And no matter what vintage/audiophile fetishists tell you - the Variax has a more than decent sound. There's only one way to find out of course - go to the store and play the guitars!
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Points: 3254 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 24 2006 at 05:29

That fender guitar with special tex mex pickups is pretty versitaile i tell you that!

It has that excellent clean fender tone but it can also get a great hard rock distortion because of the bridge pickup has been hotwired.

Besides cheap Variax guitaris has a lot of sounds yes...but they are all pretty crap

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Points: 3254 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 24 2006 at 05:32

And cheap Yamaha and Ibanez guitars got the most horrendrous necks ever...
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Points: 10063 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 24 2006 at 07:14
Im a sucker for Strat! i love Danbo's white guitar.. *drool*

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Points: 21196 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 24 2006 at 07:19
Originally posted by Lindsay Lohan Lindsay Lohan wrote:

That fender guitar with special tex mex pickups is pretty versitaile i tell you that!

It has that excellent clean fender tone but it can also get a great hard rock distortion because of the bridge pickup has been hotwired.

Besides cheap Variax guitaris has a lot of sounds yes...but they are all pretty crap

You say they're crap and I say they're ok ... let's keep it at that. The only way to find out is to listen for yourself ...
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Points: 21196 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 24 2006 at 07:22
Originally posted by Lindsay Lohan Lindsay Lohan wrote:

And cheap Yamaha and Ibanez guitars got the most horrendrous necks ever...

That is so not true. The first rule when buying guitars is:

The price of a guitar is not necessarily related to its quality.

There will always be some cheap guitars which are just perfect ... and some extremely expensive ones which sound like crap.

BTW: This reminds me of Steve Vai ... one of his favorite guitars has the neck of a Jem 555 ... the entry level model. Go figure.
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Points: 3254 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 24 2006 at 07:23
Originally posted by MikeEnRegalia MikeEnRegalia wrote:

Originally posted by Lindsay Lohan Lindsay Lohan wrote:

That fender guitar with special tex mex pickups is pretty versitaile i tell you that!

It has that excellent clean fender tone but it can also get a great hard rock distortion because of the bridge pickup has been hotwired.

Besides cheap Variax guitaris has a lot of sounds yes...but they are all pretty crap

You say they're crap and I say they're ok ... let's keep it at that. The only way to find out is to listen for yourself ...

Well i prefer a guitar that can offer a good clean and a good distorted sound, you dont need 20-30 different sounds that are merely OK...but still i use the POD XT and that is a great little thing although the distorted sounds lacks a bit of something...but im quite old fashioned when it gets to guitars...prefer to have good ol ALNICO coils and 250k pots and thats it

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Points: 21196 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 24 2006 at 07:28

You're not a beginner. Beginners don't know what their favorite guitar sound will be like ... you only know that after years of playing around with various sounds and technologies.

The ULTIMATE solution for a beginner is a Variax combined with a Pod XT Live. Using the special cable, people can switch guitar configurations from the floorboard ... and you can connect the Pod to the computer and configure both your amp and your guitar in a trillion ways. Or you can keep it simple and use the presets of course.

What I'm trying to say is: With this solution you can quickly switch from a decent Fender sound to a decent Les Paul sound and hear the difference. I find it amazing ... and thinking of my first years on the guitar - what I would have given to have that kind of freedom!
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Points: 3254 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 24 2006 at 07:30
Originally posted by MikeEnRegalia MikeEnRegalia wrote:

You're not a beginner. Beginners don't know what their favorite guitar sound will be like ... you only know that after years of playing around with various sounds and technologies.

The ULTIMATE solution for a beginner is a Variax combined with a Pod XT Live. Using the special cable, people can switch guitar configurations from the floorboard ... and you can connect the Pod to the computer and configure both your amp and your guitar in a trillion ways. Or you can keep it simple and use the presets of course.

What I'm trying to say is: With this solution you can quickly switch from a decent Fender sound to a decent Les Paul sound and hear the difference. I find it amazing ... and thinking of my first years on the guitar - what I would have given to have that kind of freedom!

Had he not already played for a couple of years?

EDIT: Whoops no- my mistake...



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