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To me you can almost split guitars in to humbucker and single coil sounds. A Strat type and a H/H fat sounding thing (Les Paul) would cover a huge amount of ground tonally. Even with pickups I often feel like only broad stroke changes are worth it. If a guitar is average but the amp is great you should still get a great sound, it usually isn't as easy in reverse.
A Squier into a great amp will sound better then a great guitar into a cheap amp.
A good Epiphone LP does sound like a Gibson LP. (Feel is a different thing)
But an amp that costs £400 new does not sound like a £2000 amp. To my ears at least.
It's a combination of all the bits working together well. From your fingers and/or pick to the speakers, it's all part of the instrument.
Though if forced I'd rather have to use a poor guitar with a good amp than the other way round.
I feel much more confident with a great sounding amp. A well set up guitar always feels good though
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That being said, if push comes to shove I think amp is more important. But both are important, really.
I personally tend to think that the guys with the eighteen variants of strat all made of slightly different wood with slightly different pickups are kidding themselves more than a bit when it comes to tonal variation.
I certainly always laugh a bit when you see guys with loads of different guitars, justified by pointing out all the different sounds, but who only own one amp.
That said for me as long as guitars play well then i think the amp + pedals will have far greater bearing on sound than choice of guitar...
Well until someone sticks an sm57 in front of it!
The real answer though is that YOU affect the tone the most. You and i play the same rig, will sound totally different
I always wonder about this. I love my Epi Sheraton and often think should I get a second one? Perhaps as mine has P90's and I could keep the other with HB's so I could justify the tonal difference.
But when you find an amp that seems to react the way you want it to, plugging different guitars (with different output levels etc) into it will give you variation but within the parameters you like.
Well, that's my opinion. :-)
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