Buying a new guitar

[Razor Ramon]

BC Rich guitars are edgy, you assholes.

[BRAD73]

If you decide to go electric the best bang for your buck on amps is the Vox Pathfinder 15W. Best sounding solid state amp I've ever heard and played through. Fender makes a 15w tube amp and I think the Vox sounds better and gets better tone for only around $110. I'd definetly start with a cheap Fender Squire and this amp over an acoustic, then you can play clean or distorted at will at a low budget.

[BRAD73]

It's ok man. My brother has a crate amp. He payed $20 for it. At least he admits is a piece of shit.

I knew a man who sold me his 84 Fender twin Reverb for around $400 because he fell in love with Crate Amps. I thought what an idiot but I guess it's whatever tone you are looking for.

[Hubbitron]

Let's get serious. His tubes must have blown. Crate is not a tone, its deranged uncompressed solid state paper-thin frequency. Midrange squealing robot earfucking. That's all. Did he give you a ride on his blue ox?

[Razor Ramon]

I picked up my guitar again after about a month without playing and I sound terrible. I need to be unemployed so I can start playing all the time again.

[Anthony]

I picked up my guitar again after about a month without playing and I sound terrible. I need to be unemployed so I can start playing all the time again.

Your only a phone call away.

[icarusfall]

I bought a Washburn EA16 acoustic/electric about 8 months ago for $200. It's one of the best guitars I've ever owned - expensive guitars (more than $500-$600) are not worth the money.

Amps on the other hand... You get what you pay for.

Unless it's the Roland KC-60. It's cheap, awesome, and loud - a RARE combination.

[Gohron]

I bought a Washburn EA16 acoustic/electric about 8 months ago for $200. It's one of the best guitars I've ever owned - expensive guitars (more than $500-$600) are not worth the money.

My pop (who's been playing for 35 years and is probably far better then anybody on this board) would disagree with you. He doesn't really have anything good to say about signature models but would much rather play a $1200 model of his choice then a guitar for $200.

[icarusfall]

That's not at all what I said. I said they're not WORTH the money. If your dad wants to pay an extra 7-8 hundred dollars for a barely discernible difference, then he can feel free, but it's rather silly to do so. A friend of mine's dad owns Mandolin Bros. music store in Staten Island (it's probably the best guitar store on the planet). They stock $15,000 guitars. I've played such guitars. There is NO point to them.

[Josh]

I've owed expensive guitars, and I've owned cheap guitars. I like cheap guitars a lot more.