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One electric that can actually do it all or very close to it
Classic surf, rockabilly, blues, country, classic rock, funk, pop, 70’s punk, 80’s metal, and 90’s grunge. And not a Strat/Tele for example with a humbucker, P90, and a single coil. A guitar in its classic configuration like a Strat with 3 single coils. A bigsby or tremolo can be added to any of these guitars.
My nominee is a Les Paul or SG Special with P90’s and a Bigsby.
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Consider the humble Mexi-Jag. I have one. It's a Classic Player HH. More switches than Carter has Little Liver Pills. But it is amazingly versatile. The only electric I own. It can imitate a Strat because the humbucker pickups are coil split so you can dial them back to single coil. It can do a 335. It has a short neck scale (24") so the string tension is not an issue.
And the welter of switches keeps the curious from asking if they can give it a test drive. So I don't offer. For me, I only want one electric guitar. And this has to be the one because of its versatility. YMMV, of course. Last edited by Jack the Pearl; 09-26-2021 at 12:45 AM. |
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I’d say a Gretsch 6120 would come mighty close. Choose your pickups, filtertrons, dynasonics, maybe a p90 in the bridge.
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Please ignore this duplicate post
Consider the humble Mexi-Jag. I have one. It's a Classic Player HH. More switches than Carter has Little Liver Pills. But it is amazingly versatile. The only electric I own. It can imitate a Strat because the humbucker pickups are coil split so you can dial them back to single coil. It can do a 335. It has a short neck scale (24") so the string tension is not an issue.
And the welter of switches keeps the curious from asking if they can give it a text drive. So I don't offer. For me, I only want one electric guitar. And this has to be the one because of its versatility. YMMV, of course. Last edited by Jack the Pearl; 09-26-2021 at 12:49 AM. Reason: corrected some typos. Did it wrong. wound up with duplicate posts. made one go "Poof!" |
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Probably the '13 PRS Custom 24 I had for a while.
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One electric that can actually do it all or very close to it
MIK '16 G5622T-CB Electromatic (discontinued) - my road warrior for the last five years, most likely for the foreseeable future, and I'll probably score another as backup while I can still get one for under $1K (yeah, they really are that good):
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Any decent guitar with at least two pickups and a tremolo can do it and the most important part is the player.
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There are so many new guitars made today that give the feel of a classic guitar, but they also innovate, and they wouldn’t fit in your neat box of “classic configuration” with no pickup mixing…
Reverend Guitars make incredibly diverse guitars with classic shapes, special pickup configurations, innovate tone roll-off knobs, etc. I have a Reverend Trickshot, which is very standard Tele, because that’s what I like, but they have Double Agents, Eastsiders, and a few dozen other models which you have to play to believe. I’m actually real interested in how they are doing “that Gretsch tone….”. If I get a second guitar, that’s the tone I want. I used to have a Chet Atkins Tennessee Rose in the 1990s. Loved the tone. Hated keeping it tune… |
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I think an H-S-S Strat is very diverse. You can get your metal tones (Dave Murray of Iron Maiden has used Strats for 40+ years) and, naturally, the SRV tone. However, you mentioned not to include a Strat with humbuckers but I still think it's worth a mention because you can buy a stock H-S-S Strat albeit it isn't the vintage form.
I love the Les Paul and the SG. The Les Paul can cover a lot of ground once you use the volume and tone knobs but it's still not as diverse as an H-S-S Strat... but I love that Les Paul (or SG) tone more than any guitar that covers more ground. |
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I have a Tom Anderson hollow Cobra S with splittable humbuckers. It can cover a really wide range of tones and is awesome as well as being under six pounds.
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You can have a guitar with every single option. But back in the days. 1950’s. 60’s And the 70’s. Most people had one guitar and they made it work and discovered their instrument had far more depth than they realized. A piano has basically one tone but you can play a lot of different genres on it. Playing a single pickup guitar like Junior has given me some perspective.
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A new contender from Emerald:
https://emeraldguitars.com/models/virtuo/ Emerald also has an arch top: https://emeraldguitars.com/models/kestrel/ |
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I gig with an Anderson Cobra, and I use it for everything. But yeah, any decent guitar with pickups and knobs can do it all. It has as much to do with the amp and with your right hand as with anything else. |
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My thoughts exactly. A guitar itself can be versatile, but what about he or she who plays it? A guitar, for example, may be capable of playing surf guitar, but maybe its player isn't.
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And we shouldn't forget that because guitars are colorful things we hold and pluck and are right there in the pictures of our influences and heroes, that amps, effects, and on records recordists and their equipment impact the sound a great deal too. Here are a few things from my experience that offer a bit more in terms of sound. The OP wants us to skip suggesting guitars with replaced/"mismatched" pickups, but that's the easiest and most time honored path to more timbral versatility. I own not one, but two, three pickup Telecasters with humbuckers in the neck position. Versatility is what I aim for with them, and they supply that. Some pickups offer more variety of timbres. P90s do this as well as any I've tried -- good P90s are uncanny in that regard. Smaller or brighter voiced, more focused humbuckers can offer a bit more. The traditional Tele bridge pickup has a lot of different tones too. Split-able traditional humbuckers are aimed at variety, but the single coils sound is often uninspiring, even if, as advertised, different. I have a Line6 Variax. I does have different electric guitar sounds in it's modeling mode, but at least so far they are uninspiring to me compared to even my typically inexpensive versions of "the real thing." I do like the instant altered tunings features and the Variax banjo/sitar/acoustic guitar settings -- while not overly realistic -- are easy to select for a quick "I'll fake it" section and require less equipment than the more flexible but more finicky MIDI options that I also use.
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