Topic: Everything about guitar, bands and music!

[Mr. Bo Jangles]

I say go black with the explorer. oooooooooor get the steel one that ESP makes. I love that one.

[Pat Khils]

You mean the dimond plated explorer  

Yes its awsome, but its far bigger and uncomfortable than the regular Explorer. Realy I tried it once, and it was huge, a bit hard to play on standing.

But I love the regular Explorer, the tone is awsome, the feel is great, looks are great, and I feel pretty comfortable too.  So black it is i guess  

[Godhead's Lament]

All of this talk about Explorers,..

Like I said in my first post, my workhorse guitar is an Ibanex X-Series Destroyer pretty similar to an Explorer (only cooler  )

If by cooler, you mean like in a Def Leppard panzyish sort of way, yeah. jk, heh.

[Eldanesh]

Here's a novel idea; Buy the one that SOUNDS the best,..heh,.

[Pat Khils]

yes Eldanesh, i figured that much! thanks for the idea!  
Seriously I would never buy a guitar for its looks, the looks come second. Thats why i said I loved the sound and the tone of an Explorer.  And its in my price range, well will be  .

[Godhead's Lament]

Sounds better than a junk esp or a gibson? Pop a really good pu in almost any guitar and it won't sound that bad.

[Eldanesh]

My suggestion - go to E-Bay and type in 'Turser' in the search line. Jay Turser are friggin' great and you won have to take out a line of credit to get one. The red Les Paul in my first post pic was a Turser. I swear by 'em now.

[Shadow Lord]

thanks for stickying the thread Eldanesh. Now we can enjoy it without it droping.  

[Pat Khils]

yes thank you for stickying this thread, now we can discuss whatever without the fear of being swallowed by numerous new threads  

[Sr. Commissar Gribb]

ugh! jay turser? gag me with a fork! those things are crap

[XfinianX]

Here's a novel idea; Buy the one that SOUNDS the best,..heh,.

obviously sound is all important unless you're buying a stage guitar - most venues won't get you studio quality sound - so in which case, choose what looks/feels best on stage. Its all about a nice big piece of tone wood with emg pick-ups

if i wanted to get picky i'd say go for neck-thru guitars for more natural sustain, but then it depends exactly wat sound you want to make

ugh! jay turser? gag me with a fork! those things are crap

care to clarify your comments a little more? WHY are they 'crap' ?

[Narvlen]

I have Never had a Problem with a Guitar or Equipment !
If your Good at Guitar   , You should Have no Problem
Playing anything !  

[Pat Khils]

I found a good use for my telecaster  , it seems to do great in performance for melodic metal.  
I love melodic metal, what I usually play  . Stuff like Rhapsody and  Iced Earth.  
Melodic metal sometimes is hard to do and requires good aqustics and clean guitar once in a while, and switching quickly from clean to distortion (and sounding good while doing so  ).
Also this style of metal most of the time uses normal tuning, which in my opinion telecaster plays better on.

I will soon get a pic of my tele soon. I had to replace the picguard back to the old one, my other black one craked (dont ask why  ).

[Narvlen]

Melodic metal , you crack me up Rokugan Samurai  
The whole point of Metal for guitar is to be all over the place the only really person you need to keep on Beat with is the Drummer and in Metal Rock that isn't very hard !  

[Seer Questel]

yesterday me and my mum went to check out another music place with my mum mentioning to me that we were only looking and not buying now.

bout 3/4 of an hour later.........A very happy Michael walks outta dat place with a whole starter set thing, as an early b'day present!

I think i've figured out what most of the things on the amp do and so far it sounds pretty cool (mmmm.......making the floor vibrate)

i even made up a gallery thing here:
http://www.pbase.com/mike_lee/mikes_new_guitar

thanks for the help guys

[Mr. Bo Jangles]

Nice. You went with the Squire Fat Strat I see. I started on a Fender Strat but meh...

[CD]

Oh yeah? I started on a Yamaha Strat from a department store.

Nobody can beat that.

But swinging back around on topic, good job Questel, keep playing and have fun!

[CD]

How is Melodic metal a joke Nevlan?

Opeth, for instance, is Melodic Metal, just listen to Deliverance.. every two minutes it switches from Death Metal to calm, soothing classical stuff...
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I finally decided on the amp I'm going to buy. For around $500 American (about $700-$750 Canadian) I can get a Peavey Classic 30.

-30 watt
-Three 12AX7 preamp tubes (I LOVE Tube amps )
-3-band passive EQ
-Push boost switch
-Effects Loop
-2 Channels

I think I'll get the Digitech Metalmaster this month (big pay day coming up ), and I'll get this amp next year. I wanted to upgrade my guitar, but just today it doned on my that my guitar was the last thing I upgraded, and I don't need to do that two times in a row without getting a better amp or pedal.

The only problem with the Classic 30 is that its speaker won't be too much more resilient than the one I have now, and will problably crap out in a few years. However, after I buy my guitar (next on the list following the amp), I think I'm just going to replace the speaker with a Celestione or something that'll last a while.

[Scars]

weeeeeeeeee, aren't you a lucky little munchkin?  Enjoy yer guitar!

By the way my first andd only electric guitar is a Ibanez *insert numbers here*.

[Pat Khils]

Alright he listend!   Good job, hope you enjoy the wonders of guitar, but stay with it, the first few months are going to be rather disapointing. After you get the hang of it, then its a piece of cake  
Great start for a guitar! right on man!

By the Way, my first and recent is a Telecaster. But ohhh wait till I get my Explorer (ohhh I long for it  )