Guitar Nerds Anonymous

I could lend you a sansamp pedal? Not exactly the same thing, but it's close if the in house PA isn't too bad? I'll ask around as to who has a spare cab at the mo.

Incidentally - where's the best place to sell a well loved but toured Fender Jazz Bass? Maple and mahogany five year old reissue.

Thanks Snowy, got a D/I box a last resport. PA is lively to be small vocal only thing so, possible but not ideal. Cheers anyway.

I always recommend the TDPRI although it's a Telecaster site and predominantly American they have good active subforums and classified section the peeps there really know their Fenders.

Just thought I'd post this due to talk of Gibsons over the classifieds. My uncle's 1965 mint ES175. PAFs and all...

^ lubberly!

^delish! Is he using flatwounds?

Of course.

Splendid

very nice, jammy

My word, that's pretty.

That's lovely

will any amount of subliminal messaging make you sell me the pickups?

lol only joking, lovely guitar!

Lovely. I'm shifting some FX pedals in an attempt to save a bit of cash for a nice Semi-Acoustic. Not sure where to start though. I want a loud one thats for sure. Nuffink vintage though[t].

What you gots for sale mister zed?

Had a reesult with the bass amp hunt. Bought "my" old one back off my old label. got me this bad boy back:

http://www.ampeg.com/products/bassamp/ba115hp/index.html

Dun a gig with it last night... well our bass player did. awesome room filling amp.

Had a fun set up too. Had a Peavey Classic 30 AND a champ running together, new strings on the tele, bit of slap back and a compressor... Scotty Moore a go-go.

Bit of a question for Jammy, hope you swing by this thread:

I'm mainly an electric player, les paul fanatic, but I'm lookin to get an acoustic, just for chording around on really, and a bit of slide perhaps.

I learnt to play guitar on a really old heavy Kay acoustic which is now beyond repair, and played a yamaha f-something or other, worth around £200 quid for years. I actually had no complaints about the Yamaha, i thought it was a good sounding well built guitar.

and without the input of anyone else, to be honest im tempted just to go to the guitar shop and pick up whatever yamaha i can afford for about £300- although, my budgets always become much more flexible when i see something really nice.

Are there any brands or even particular models you would recomend at this kind of level of spend ? Im just looking for something nice sounding, I cant really describe the tone i like in an acoustic, something rich in bass, but nice and bright and clear at the same time -
can you recomend looking at anything in particular before i just settle for a Yam, which im sure i'd be perfectly happy with.

tone and quality over looks always

cheers

My usual bit on cheap guitars:
What goes at the lower end of the guitar market is time in manufacture, and quality control. £300 these days will get you a guitar with a solid top (and in some cases, solid wood back and sides), but this isn't the be all and end all.
What you should do is play EVERY guitar in your price range (bar the shitty £70 ones which aren't worth bothering with) and see which sounds the best. You may find a gem for £200, you may not.

Think of it this way

£200>£300 price bracket: 1 in 15 guitars off the production line will sound great (due to a lucky co incidence in bracing/string weight)

£300>500 price bracket: This may drop to 1 in 7 say, but the hardware and finish will be consistently better

£500>1000 price bracket: 1 in 3 perhaps, perfect fit and finish most of the time .

£1000+: Depending on manufacturer, 1 in 3, to every guitar will sound good, you will still find the odd gem though that really has something special over the others.

Getting close with my 7 now too! Just settling down under string tension for a few hours

My usual bit on cheap guitars:
What goes at the lower end of the guitar market is time in manufacture, and quality control. £300 these days will get you a guitar with a solid top (and in some cases, solid wood back and sides), but this isn't the be all and end all.
What you should do is play EVERY guitar in your price range (bar the shitty £70 ones which aren't worth bothering with) and see which sounds the best. You may find a gem for £200, you may not.

Think of it this way

£200>£300 price bracket: 1 in 15 guitars off the production line will sound great (due to a lucky co incidence in bracing/string weight)

£300>500 price bracket: This may drop to 1 in 7 say, but the hardware and finish will be consistently better

£500>1000 price bracket: 1 in 3 perhaps, perfect fit and finish most of the time .

£1000+: Depending on manufacturer, 1 in 3, to every guitar will sound good, you will still find the odd gem though that really has something special over the others.

This is very good advice.

My first guitar was (is) an £80 Columbus series 2 Les Paul copy with a bolt-on neck. It is made from plywood and is particularly difficult to play, requiring quite a high action. The PAF 'humbuckers' were in fact single coils under PAF covers. But, and it's a big but, I played loads of guitars in the store when I bought it, and this one just sings. It sounds great and sustains forever. I still have it and have upgraded it over the years. I probably have the only unplayable cheap piece of crap lawsuit guitar with hand-made pickups in.

My second guitar was (is) an Epiphone SG copy with a bolt-on neck. Much easier to play, but it has always sounded absolutely shit. It's muddy and dull. My dad bought it (out of a shop window) for my 21st because it was pretty.

I bought a Line 6 Variax 500, and I tried a few, seemingly identical, models. The one I bought played and sounded so much better. It cost £400, down from £800, and is actually a really good musical instrument. Many are not. The fancy Variax electronics are a bonus.

When I bought a bass I had a small budget (£250 or so) and went to every shop in Charing cross rd trying the basses in that range. All were terrible except for the Squier Jazz I ended up buying from Macaris, which was streets ahead in playability and sound.

When I bought a Gibson Les Paul I just phoned every store until I found one with the one I wanted in stock and they posted it. And when it arrived it was perfect in every way, and I love it to bits. Bit of a gamble, but Gibson aren't going to let a substandard guitar out of the factory. I don't know if mine is particularly good or they're all that good.

Dooks not all that much. Some D*A*M boxes and not much else. My other pedals are mostly BYOC clones which I put together myself and will keep.

back up for sale
http://www.lfgss.com/thread38856-2.html

Oooh missed that. I used to have one of those 80s Jap Strats. loved it. The trem's a bit ugly but they work well. Unfortunately i've just sold a Strat so not really in the market for another. G'luck with it though. That's a good price I think.

My next guitar is going to be an Epi Casino i'm pretty sure. Be something of a departure for me as i've never owned anything but Fenders for ever.

Zed, I'm thinking about selling my Sigma (Jap made Martin) electro-acoustic. Very nice. Not sure how much I want for it atm.

Zed, I'm thinking about selling my Sigma (Jap made Martin) electro-acoustic. Very nice. Not sure how much I want for it atm.

Hey i've got one of those! Never come across another one either. I love it. Mine's a DR28. It's solid spruce topped but i'm not unnconvinced it's not entirely solid. Sides are rosewood.

If i'm honest mine's got a lot of sentimental value which clouds my judgement but it's still a nice sonding, playing and looking guitar for the money.

Zed, I'm thinking about selling my Sigma (Jap made Martin) electro-acoustic. Very nice. Not sure how much I want for it atm.

Not heard of those. Is it a semi-acoustic/hollow body Matty?

I'm lusting after one of these at the moment... :s

^ nsfw!