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If you are playing for a medium sized church (most are acoustically built), I would think a small 25w amp (digital or not) is sufficient. Any larger, and you can always get picked up by the mic. For a guitar, the tele is great for lead riffs and can be switched down for melody. I have played them, but never owned one (bucket list guitar). I would also suggest comparing the tele with a PRS for playability and sound.
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which electric guitar?
Hi strummers and pluckers and course Adaw.
Well nice question! The answer really falls into X gaps. Firstly lets agree that your sound will come from: strings, pickups, tone controls, solid, semi or solid guitar and what your Amp can give you after realizing your self what you want,. So that got the difficult bits out of the way: 1. at this stage DONOT spend a lot of money on anything- probably no more than 100$ for the guitar ( best will be second hand for that money) so you will find a nice one for that 2. Borrow an Amp from a store or friend and play with it and learn how an Amp helps the guitar and the other way round. Don't do anything else until you are happy with the results. Another way is to buy a beat up chipped electric and change the strings and controls, this is really the best way forward at your level of interest. If you way to race a car you don't buy a Ferrari --- do you!! Good luck and let us all know how you progress. to help watch some vids of players and their 'road worn' and just listen to those bad boys S |
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There's an old proverb among American hot-rodders attributed to the late engine builder Keith Black, "Speed costs money - how fast do you want to go": if you want to run F1/NASCAR Cup Series/NHRA Top Fuel plan on a multi-million-dollar budget - and if you want to run a competitive car at the local track on the weekend (as I've done), it'll still cost you a fair piece of change in parts, maintenance, and personal safety equipment if you plan on coming home in one piece at the end of the day. Just as I'm not likely to be taking home any trophies from Monaco, Talladega, or Pomona, most of us are not likely to become the next Joe Bonamassa - but that by no means implies we shouldn't get the best working tools we can afford in either case... In case you haven't noticed, those "road-worn" instruments many well-known players use were quality pieces right from the beginning - Teles, Strats, LP's, SG's, 335's, and the like - and given their age and celebrity connection, would sell for far more than the modest cost of any of the guitars recommended here; BTW, if there's a candy-apple-red hardtail '64 Strat with a painted headstock floating around southern France for $100 American, PM me with a photo - considering that's a $40K guitar over here I'll gladly wire you the money and pay for the shipping...
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Just to update, I went to guitar center today and played several guitars. I THINK, that I have decided I like the hummbucker Les Paul type guitars more than strat style. That being said said I'm now wondering what to do about amps. I plugged into a fender bass breaker while there that sounded great for clean tones. But I couldn't crank the gain up at all bc it was way too loud. I could always plug a pedal into the front..
Option two is a modeling amp. I've heard good things about the fender mustang. I tried using a Peavy modeling amp at GC but the thing was so dang complicated I couldn't really figure out how to dial in my sound. Option three is a digital pedal board like the line 6 hd500x or something similar. But then I'm assuming I still need an amp to play at home? I really liked the sound of the bass breaker if only it wasn't sooo loud with the gain up any at all. Thanks for any advice..
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Also I definitely understand the logic of not spending much on a first guitar. To be fair this isn't really my fist. I have a cheap $100 strat nock off and line 6 spider III amp. Tone is garbage, doesn't stay in tune, or intonate past the third frett.. So now I'm out looking for nothing crazy expensive top of the line but just good quality midrange stuff that while meet my needs for however long in satisfied..
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I've owned 108 guitars since I started playing on Feb 10, 1964. Kept notes on all of them.
SO... after all the Pre CBS Strats, a '53 Tele, '58 Tele, Jags, Jazzmasters, Custom Shop guitars, Gibson's, Guilds, etc., I finally found MY tone in a 1960 Harmony Meteor w/Bigsby. Probably first sold out of a Sears Catalog, but I could care less. The FAT tone out of those DeArmond Gold Foil pickups just can't be beat. It's my all-time favorite electric guitar! While they made a lot of them, you don't see them very often. I've played this one at Gryphon and it ROCKS: https://shop.gryphonstrings.com/prod...teor-h70-47783 |
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go to basics.... size and feel in your hand scale and nut width resonance unpluged beyond the above...everything can be modded recommend low wind output...much easier to dirty up/hotter than to clean up a dirty buy used and mod...are relatively very easy diy on electrics. there is alot of quality stuff hitting the used market and it is not moving...current #1 is a mia peavey predator...pawnshop score for $80 with about $200 in mods to my specs don't discount old odd ball amps...one of mine favs is a 1949 pp6v6 monoblock the other one is a 1950's se6l6 record player conversion...neither one is going anyplace before I die.... even with a bit of bench time they were an absolute steal tonewise compared to the contemporary pcb off the shelf...both amps were under $70...one is like a tweed deluxe type and the other is tweed princeton like on steroids |
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That's true, but a Tele is a Tele and no Strat will replicate that sound, especially the bridge pickup. Even if you put an overwound Strat single coil in it, which I did it's not the same. You can get close but no cigar. You can wire a Tele to get more out of it if you feel the need. There are a multitude of neck pickups out there that will reproduce a Strat neck pickup so well you can't tell one from the other. I have A-B'd my Strat neck and my specially wound Tele pick and did the "blinfold" test with another player doing the work....couldn't tell which was which.
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