I’ll sum it up like this: Pros- you get a nice collection of guitars to choose from and no matter what they try to tell you that all humbuckers sound the same or all single coils sound the same they don’t, each guitar has its own characteristic and sound. Con- you’re gonna need a bigger place in which to store them.
I guess im asking randomly but does someone know a trick to get back into an Instagram account? I stupidly forgot my password. I appreciate any assistance you can give me
@Fernando Soren i really appreciate your reply. I found the site thru google and I'm trying it out now. Takes a while so I will get back to you later when my account password hopefully is recovered.
Either Theory is fine . I'm in Camp of a Happy Medium . Like Different Colours in a Crayon Box. It's the Journey . Taken me Years to build my collection. Love every one. There all take on a life of there own.
Having to adapt to different kinds of guitars makes you a better player. Eventually it becomes automatic, and you can execute most anything on any guitar without really thinking about it. Jumbo frets let players with big fingertips do bends easier. If you don't have fat fingers, you don't need jumbos. If you go sharp playing jumbos, your fretting is too heavy, and you need to improve your technique. The price of a guitar has little to do with the playability and sound quality. Decent fretwork and pickups can be found at many price points for a given type of guitar. Unlike acoustics, electric guitars are not designed to be speaker cabinets. Playing them unplugged doesn't tell you much. I tend to use Floyd Rose locknuts on all my builds, both for tuning stability, and because a metal nut will sound more like a fretted note. But the average listener will never notice the subtle difference in treble response between an open and fretted note with a non-metal nut. More guitars means less TLC and playing time for each guitar on average - generally a bad thing. It's not possible to make one guitar with all the classic tones. You can't do a tele bridge and floyd rose trem on the same guitar. The tele ashtray bridge is part of the bridge tele pickup tone. One of my current builds has an interchangeable pickup system: coil split quadrails, PAFs, high out PAFs, EMGs. Gold Foils, Filtertrons, and Lipsticks - but no tele bridge pickup. it uses a Steinberger "R" trem - headless guitar. Signal processing (pedals, amp models, etc) can approximate the tone of specific gear, but almost never perfectly. Like non-metal nuts, the typical listener will never notice the difference. I tried to limit my Guitar Acquisition Syndrome to "one of each type". 6, 7, 8, 12, and 20 strings; non-multiscale and multiscale (where available); Fender and Gibson scale lengths; set neck, bolt-on, solid body, semi-hollow body (tele and ES335 types), hollow body, steel string acoustic, classical acoustic, etc. All the classic types: Esquire, Tele, Strat, LP, LP jr, ES355, Archtop, V, Moderne, Jackson Roswell (I sold the Randy Rhodes), Danelectro, etc. That's probably about 40 guitars or so right there. I've been playing since 1979 and building guitars since 2019. I currently have 92 guitars in my collection, including 5 basses. You forgot to mention the biggest downside of more guitars - running out of room for all of them!
I generally agree. "Having to adapt..." is true, but goals matter too. If you want to be the master of all fretboards, I would agree this adds versatility. I respect this goal, but time spent mastering multiple fretboards is time not spent on other goals.
@@jasonpillingmusic Not really a goal - I learned on a bunch of hand-me-down freebie guitars. I played for 9 years before I bought my first guitar of my own (1969 Fender Villager acoustic 12 string). 5 years later I bought my second guitar (an early 90's ESP-LTD M2 with an EMG 81 - they didn't make the 81x yet). I don't play professionally, so I've never had any particular goal. When I was composing, I would challenge myself to write new types of music, often based on a particular guitar's tone or some effect such as pitch shifted fifths (Digitech RP-10 "Fantasy Fifths"). For a professional player It's probably better to master a single style such as fingerstyle, jazz, blues, metal, etc. While you might impress a blues audience with your fingerstyle or metal licks, odds are they'd rather hear you play blues. Only the true musicians in your audience will be impressed with displays of versatility. But as a musician, I hold versatile musicians in especially high esteem. It takes real talent and skill to execute both "Eruption" (metal) and "Spanish Fly" (fingerstyle) by Van Halen. While some of the techniques in both are similar, one is done on a nylon string classical, and the other is on a FrankenStrat.
A musician once told me, if you have a decent amp, even a fairly cheap guitar will sound good. I personally have a sx sst57 and a Peavey Vypyr all in £220 and the sound would be hard to beat with another guitar costing 4/5 times as much. I think a good amp is the main key for a quality sound, obviously combined with a competent player. Enjoyed your video and I am toying with the idea of getting a Squire cv 70s as that would be the max I would be prepared to pay for a guitar. How the hell can they justify £2,000 plus for a supposedly top end guitar. I use my ears and the sound difference is miniscule. Just my opinion. It would be interesting to see your or anybody else's thoughts. Ps I do agree that getting used to a guitar that is aesthetically pleasing to the eye and making it your number 1, does help in becoming a better player. Best wishes.
I would agree that upgrading a budget amp will have more impact than a budget guitar. Something like a nice reverb and vibrato on an like an AC15 will do a lot for a cheap guitar. But a cheap amp will max out the potential of a nicer guitar is probably fair to say. However, once you have a nice amp, you'll also have more "headroom" to experience the sonics of what comes out of a nicer guitar.
@@jasonpillingmusic Thank you for your reply, a friend of mine who also thinks along the same lines as myself has just bought a Hartley Benton TE80 Tele type guitar, Ash body alnico 5 pickups a Prince copy of sorts and it does sound very good. A question for you. What guitar would you buy with £250 s/h or new that is good quality, has a good sound and you would gig with Strat or Tele style preferably. I think my 75w Vypyr would be a good enough amp. My friend does solo pub nights with an old line 6 spider jam. Many thanks Kim.
@@TheKimgower I did a video on this topic: ruclips.net/video/GHlbfqyyPWU/видео.html but you may not like the answer...I'm suggesting you increase your initial budget but look at the total net cost of what you pay vs what you can re-sell it for. High quality used guitars hold value fairly well. At most price levels I'd generally say a Tele design is best bang for the buck because of the two pickup design and slab body is the cheapest to manufacture. Some of 2nd tier brands are fine. Machine manufacturing is getting really good and the budget guitars can have "good bones", but usually still need part upgrades. But I'd don't really have preferences. I think Darryl Braun is a good RUclipsr / experienced player who tries and comments on a large variety of budget guitars.
Tell me again why I'd take the advice from an admitted "non-guitar" player about how many guitars to have? Lucky thing is that you're bang-on with all of this, so...I guess that would be why. Great video!
I think the reality is that a used cheap guitar isn't worth much. But sometimes it's a relief to just take the loss and mentally move on? I'd either consider it a nice thing to do for someone (e.g. give to a kid), or I'd do some experimental mods you wouldn't do with a nicer guitar.
You know you have a problem when you start searching "how many guitars is too many"
I’ll sum it up like this:
Pros- you get a nice collection of guitars to choose from and no matter what they try to tell you that all humbuckers sound the same or all single coils sound the same they don’t, each guitar has its own characteristic and sound.
Con- you’re gonna need a bigger place in which to store them.
I guess im asking randomly but does someone know a trick to get back into an Instagram account?
I stupidly forgot my password. I appreciate any assistance you can give me
@Adrien Kameron Instablaster :)
@Fernando Soren i really appreciate your reply. I found the site thru google and I'm trying it out now.
Takes a while so I will get back to you later when my account password hopefully is recovered.
@Fernando Soren it did the trick and I actually got access to my account again. I am so happy:D
Thanks so much, you saved my ass!
@Adrien Kameron You are welcome xD
Either Theory is fine .
I'm in Camp of a Happy Medium .
Like Different Colours in a Crayon Box.
It's the Journey .
Taken me Years to build my collection.
Love every one.
There all take on a life of there own.
Either theory is definitely fine.
Having to adapt to different kinds of guitars makes you a better player. Eventually it becomes automatic, and you can execute most anything on any guitar without really thinking about it. Jumbo frets let players with big fingertips do bends easier. If you don't have fat fingers, you don't need jumbos. If you go sharp playing jumbos, your fretting is too heavy, and you need to improve your technique. The price of a guitar has little to do with the playability and sound quality. Decent fretwork and pickups can be found at many price points for a given type of guitar. Unlike acoustics, electric guitars are not designed to be speaker cabinets. Playing them unplugged doesn't tell you much. I tend to use Floyd Rose locknuts on all my builds, both for tuning stability, and because a metal nut will sound more like a fretted note. But the average listener will never notice the subtle difference in treble response between an open and fretted note with a non-metal nut. More guitars means less TLC and playing time for each guitar on average - generally a bad thing. It's not possible to make one guitar with all the classic tones. You can't do a tele bridge and floyd rose trem on the same guitar. The tele ashtray bridge is part of the bridge tele pickup tone. One of my current builds has an interchangeable pickup system: coil split quadrails, PAFs, high out PAFs, EMGs. Gold Foils, Filtertrons, and Lipsticks - but no tele bridge pickup. it uses a Steinberger "R" trem - headless guitar. Signal processing (pedals, amp models, etc) can approximate the tone of specific gear, but almost never perfectly. Like non-metal nuts, the typical listener will never notice the difference.
I tried to limit my Guitar Acquisition Syndrome to "one of each type". 6, 7, 8, 12, and 20 strings; non-multiscale and multiscale (where available); Fender and Gibson scale lengths; set neck, bolt-on, solid body, semi-hollow body (tele and ES335 types), hollow body, steel string acoustic, classical acoustic, etc. All the classic types: Esquire, Tele, Strat, LP, LP jr, ES355, Archtop, V, Moderne, Jackson Roswell (I sold the Randy Rhodes), Danelectro, etc. That's probably about 40 guitars or so right there. I've been playing since 1979 and building guitars since 2019. I currently have 92 guitars in my collection, including 5 basses.
You forgot to mention the biggest downside of more guitars - running out of room for all of them!
I generally agree. "Having to adapt..." is true, but goals matter too. If you want to be the master of all fretboards, I would agree this adds versatility. I respect this goal, but time spent mastering multiple fretboards is time not spent on other goals.
@@jasonpillingmusic Not really a goal - I learned on a bunch of hand-me-down freebie guitars. I played for 9 years before I bought my first guitar of my own (1969 Fender Villager acoustic 12 string). 5 years later I bought my second guitar (an early 90's ESP-LTD M2 with an EMG 81 - they didn't make the 81x yet). I don't play professionally, so I've never had any particular goal. When I was composing, I would challenge myself to write new types of music, often based on a particular guitar's tone or some effect such as pitch shifted fifths (Digitech RP-10 "Fantasy Fifths").
For a professional player It's probably better to master a single style such as fingerstyle, jazz, blues, metal, etc. While you might impress a blues audience with your fingerstyle or metal licks, odds are they'd rather hear you play blues. Only the true musicians in your audience will be impressed with displays of versatility. But as a musician, I hold versatile musicians in especially high esteem. It takes real talent and skill to execute both "Eruption" (metal) and "Spanish Fly" (fingerstyle) by Van Halen. While some of the techniques in both are similar, one is done on a nylon string classical, and the other is on a FrankenStrat.
A musician once told me, if you have a decent amp, even a fairly cheap guitar will sound good. I personally have a sx sst57 and a Peavey Vypyr all in £220 and the sound would be hard to beat with another guitar costing 4/5 times as much. I think a good amp is the main key for a quality sound, obviously combined with a competent player. Enjoyed your video and I am toying with the idea of getting a Squire cv 70s as that would be the max I would be prepared to pay for a guitar. How the hell can they justify £2,000 plus for a supposedly top end guitar. I use my ears and the sound difference is miniscule. Just my opinion. It would be interesting to see your or anybody else's thoughts. Ps I do agree that getting used to a guitar that is aesthetically pleasing to the eye and making it your number 1, does help in becoming a better player. Best wishes.
I would agree that upgrading a budget amp will have more impact than a budget guitar. Something like a nice reverb and vibrato on an like an AC15 will do a lot for a cheap guitar. But a cheap amp will max out the potential of a nicer guitar is probably fair to say. However, once you have a nice amp, you'll also have more "headroom" to experience the sonics of what comes out of a nicer guitar.
@@jasonpillingmusic Thank you for your reply, a friend of mine who also thinks along the same lines as myself has just bought a Hartley Benton TE80 Tele type guitar, Ash body alnico 5 pickups a Prince copy of sorts and it does sound very good. A question for you. What guitar would you buy with £250 s/h or new that is good quality, has a good sound and you would gig with Strat or Tele style preferably. I think my 75w Vypyr would be a good enough amp. My friend does solo pub nights with an old line 6 spider jam. Many thanks Kim.
@@TheKimgower I did a video on this topic: ruclips.net/video/GHlbfqyyPWU/видео.html but you may not like the answer...I'm suggesting you increase your initial budget but look at the total net cost of what you pay vs what you can re-sell it for. High quality used guitars hold value fairly well. At most price levels I'd generally say a Tele design is best bang for the buck because of the two pickup design and slab body is the cheapest to manufacture. Some of 2nd tier brands are fine. Machine manufacturing is getting really good and the budget guitars can have "good bones", but usually still need part upgrades. But I'd don't really have preferences. I think Darryl Braun is a good RUclipsr / experienced player who tries and comments on a large variety of budget guitars.
@@jasonpillingmusic Many thanks for your reply, I will take a look at your video. Best wishes 2U. Kim
I have 7 guitars 6 electrics and 1 Acoustic/electric I'm very satisfied with what I have
Maybe you should sell a couple of your guitars and get a Relish, where you can VERY quickly (like under 10 seconds) hot-swap the pickups.
I HAVE considered getting a Relish. It's an excellent idea, and I hope it catches on and there's more choice and competition for that feature soon.
Tell me again why I'd take the advice from an admitted "non-guitar" player about how many guitars to have? Lucky thing is that you're bang-on with all of this, so...I guess that would be why. Great video!
Thanks. Glad you liked it. How many guitars do you have now?
The correct answer is to never ask this question.
I see your point.
What is the best way to get rid of your old cheaper guitars without giving them away for free?
I think the reality is that a used cheap guitar isn't worth much. But sometimes it's a relief to just take the loss and mentally move on? I'd either consider it a nice thing to do for someone (e.g. give to a kid), or I'd do some experimental mods you wouldn't do with a nicer guitar.
@@jasonpillingmusic Maybe I can give my old acoustic to the Salvation Army.
Sell it now everything is going like hot cakes
@@bc454irocz89 It's too late. I love them now.
Strat
LP
Semi hollow
Acoustic
Bass
Acoustic bass
I think that's a pretty good list. First 5 are fundamental choices. Acoustic bass is obviously more personal choice.
Ukulele too, its a fun instrument