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Use whatever works on the day.
I play all my guitars at home as the mood takes me. For home recording I pick which guitar works best for the track.
Going forwards I've got a feeling I'll be mostly playing my new Telecaster at home because it's by far my lightest guitar.
I now only have a 335 (and an old American Standard Strat set up for slide) in addition to my main Strat.
The next step of my regression may well be buying a Music Man amp and pretending I'm 20 again....
I also use my acoustic a lot and it being the cheapest of all my guitars it is most probably the best and is my favourite.
I flogged the lot and bought a nicer car.
Now I'm lucky that I could (within reason) have any production guitar I want and an amp to match but about 3-4 months ago I stumbled onto the PRS s2 range and something clicked.
Again sold old everything I had and now I'm playing either a standard 24 satin or a Vela, both feel like they where made for me and I'm back to playing daily and love it.
Since i I got the Mesa single rectifier I've not felt the need for another amp. The clean channel is very clean or you can push it with the flick of a switch which adds however much gain you want plus slight compression and the dirty channel hs a vintage or modern switch that provides great variety.
I wont say I'm done buying guitars but I've honestly stopped looking for now. I'm taking 2017 off from buying and I'll enjoy playing again more.
Neck P90 and bridge humbucker is a pretty versatile combo, I can get all my rock and metal sounds from the bridge and anything fendery and clean from the neck.
One with HBs (Blacktop strat) one with a P90 (SG Jr) and one with a single coil (Esquire).
Which I choose to play is determined by what sound I have in my head- esquire for jangly, Jr for snarly and Strat for roaring- but I can (& do) play anything on any of them. If I'm jamming I'll grab whichever I fancy and enjoy whatever sounds I get.
That said, I always seem to write using my Faith acoustic.
If we're doing a wedding with a black suits and white shirts it kinda makes sense to use a black and white guitar. Alternatively, if you're playing in a pub to a bunch of bikers, jeans, a black T-shirt and a sunburst Les Paul seems about right. It's also interesting to note that since I started thinking about this stuff, the rest of the band has followed suit (pun intended!) and consequently we're now looking more like a band than just a bunch of blokes playing together.
. If I cant be bothered getting the pedal board out, then the best sounding guitar I have straight through the dirty amp channel is my Chapman ML2. Consequently, that is the guitar that gets played the most. Plus with the coil tap option, it gives a wide array of sounds.
I take both the Strat and LP to band rehearsals but for the style of music we play it's the LP every time for the whole session.