In an ideal world I'd have a ton of guitars to pick and choose from as I jam at home or indeed when I play live. Even better, they're all hanging on the wall or leaning proud on a stand ready to be picked up and used on a whim. Or my guitar tech will hand one to me with a moment's notice.
Reality is that I've got a small space in the spare room to keep my kit, so having a single guitar is the sensible option. Similarly, I don't often play live just now and even if I did I couldn't afford the guitars let alone the guitar tech.
But I like to play a few different styles of music, or the music I play tends to have differing guitar sound requirements. I like to play Pink Floyd and Dire Straits, but I also like heavier stuff like Alice In Chains, Tool, Soundgarden, etc.
Add to the criteria that I don't want a meaty beast of a guitar - my back used to get very uncomfortable when using my Epiphone Les Paul Standard for a gig.
So, to summarise, I think I want a medium-lightweight guitar, which has an assortment of pickup options - humbucker, single-coil, P90s, EMGs maybe?
What's your thoughts?
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just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
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I have a variax JTV69 and its pretty good. The last software update increased the accuracy of the Strat and the Semi Hollow models but I think the Tele suffered a bit. I can’t get the crispness from the tele models that I would expect from a genuine tele.
I actualy like the stock bridge pickup, but use teh Jazz and 12 string Ricky models quite a bit. Also the sitar and dobro are OK.
Yamaha SG (mine's a 1000).
The coil split is wonderful, especially on the neck pickup. You can get some really nice Tele type sounds and obviously the LP-type tones are there in buckets.
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Better still, learn to experiment with your volume and tone knobs, and also use your amp's EQ and vol/ gain settings - you'll be surprised how many bases you can cover with the same guitar just by getting stuck into your amp's controls.
That said, I do think a Tele tops the lot for sheer ventriloquist-like ability to cover so many tones and musical ground. Unbelievablygood!!!
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As it's pickups are strictly 'pared single coils' that occupy a humbucker space ... you can do 'Strat neck' through to huge overdriven bridge lead. You can have a single coil ...or anything between one and a full bucker in any position. I suppose it's not a PAF sort of neck bucker tone ... so minus a point there ... but for most things it's my 'Swiss Army knife'.
Keep thinking of putting a hardtail Strat Stetsbar on it ...
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