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Unpopular Opinions about Guitars
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JIMMY JAZZMAN
Tele-Afflicted
I'm going to echo several other threads on this. Paul Reed Smith guitars have great fit and finish, but
they sound meh. Not bad, not good, just meh. Is it me?
they sound meh. Not bad, not good, just meh. Is it me?
northernguitar
Poster Extraordinaire
northernguitar
Poster Extraordinaire
I've seen this one kick around for some time: just looking at your Gibson guitar the wrong way will cause the headstock to pop off. And all used Gibson's have had their neck repaired, every single one.
SixStringSlinger
Poster Extraordinaire
I hear my LP's headstock repeatedly flinging itself against the inside of its case every night.
northernguitar
Poster Extraordinaire
You should have NEVER bought one! It's doomed!
Rickenbackers are only good for jangly pop stuff.
Riiiight.
You know what they say: "a jangly carpenter always blames his tools."
Riiiight.
You know what they say: "a jangly carpenter always blames his tools."
JPWFaith58
TDPRI Member
Fender guitars suck. Gibsons rule - especially SGs.
What do Gibsons have that Fenders don't?
* Separate volume & tone controls for each pickup.
* Adjustable pole pieces under each string. (How can you properly set up an electric guitar without them?)
* Pickups that will overdrive an amp without turning the gain on "10".
* Set, not bolted on necks (aesthetic consideration only).
Fender's bridge pickups are ass-backwards. The treble side should be further away from the bridge, not closer, for better balance - unless you like the boom-dink effect.
Les Pauls suck, SGs rule. Why make it so hard to reach the upper frets (especially with your thumb - actually, impossible).
Neck dive? What about "body dive"?
And speaking of "neck dive," you're supposed to support the neck with your fretting hand. Duh.
And BTW - 100% agree about PRS and Taylor guitars...
What do Gibsons have that Fenders don't?
* Separate volume & tone controls for each pickup.
* Adjustable pole pieces under each string. (How can you properly set up an electric guitar without them?)
* Pickups that will overdrive an amp without turning the gain on "10".
* Set, not bolted on necks (aesthetic consideration only).
Fender's bridge pickups are ass-backwards. The treble side should be further away from the bridge, not closer, for better balance - unless you like the boom-dink effect.
Les Pauls suck, SGs rule. Why make it so hard to reach the upper frets (especially with your thumb - actually, impossible).
Neck dive? What about "body dive"?
And speaking of "neck dive," you're supposed to support the neck with your fretting hand. Duh.
And BTW - 100% agree about PRS and Taylor guitars...
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I'll add a couple that I fully believe. Go ahead and fite me!
1) Whatever finish your guitar does or doesn't have, and what it's made of has way less 'dampening' effect than sandwiching the guitar between your arm and gut when you play it.
2) Most people who dislike pointy shred guitars have never played one. They are the top form of evolution for the electric guitar.
3) Nobody can hear your tone live. At band volume it all sounds like "ZHHHHHHHHHHH". You only notice the nuances of it when you're playing alone. To the audience it just sounds like "guitar".
4) Modern budget guitars are good enough for most anyone.
5) That said, it's perfectly fine to spend way more money building a partscaster, just because you want to build a partscaster. Nobody else will love it the way you do, though.
6) Incredible-sounding solid state amps and terrible-sounding tube amps both exist. The former is more common than you think.
7) Tube amp snobs who poo-poo SS amps and claim they'll never plug into one don't see the irony of sticking a pedalboard full of SS circuits chained together in front of their vintage tweed whatever.
8) One guitar is all anyone really needs.
9) Steady practice is what all of us need to sound better instead of that next guitar/pedal/amp
10) The studio album usually sounds better than the band live.
11) Accordion music is so much better to listen to than banjo music.
1) Whatever finish your guitar does or doesn't have, and what it's made of has way less 'dampening' effect than sandwiching the guitar between your arm and gut when you play it.
2) Most people who dislike pointy shred guitars have never played one. They are the top form of evolution for the electric guitar.
3) Nobody can hear your tone live. At band volume it all sounds like "ZHHHHHHHHHHH". You only notice the nuances of it when you're playing alone. To the audience it just sounds like "guitar".
4) Modern budget guitars are good enough for most anyone.
5) That said, it's perfectly fine to spend way more money building a partscaster, just because you want to build a partscaster. Nobody else will love it the way you do, though.
6) Incredible-sounding solid state amps and terrible-sounding tube amps both exist. The former is more common than you think.
7) Tube amp snobs who poo-poo SS amps and claim they'll never plug into one don't see the irony of sticking a pedalboard full of SS circuits chained together in front of their vintage tweed whatever.
8) One guitar is all anyone really needs.
9) Steady practice is what all of us need to sound better instead of that next guitar/pedal/amp
10) The studio album usually sounds better than the band live.
11) Accordion music is so much better to listen to than banjo music.
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I'm a recent SG convert myself. Got my first last year and it quickly ascended to king of the throne over all my other guitars.
I know it's all personal preference but I do feel like the whole neck dive thing gets very overblown. Is it there? Yeah, I guess. Is it a "problem"? Not in the slightest. But everything else about the SG is just so perfectly ergonomic.
I bought a used one a year or so ago for $450 with a RoadRunner case. Boring tobacco-burst because I couldn't find one roughly the same color as the background of this forum.
Doomguy
Tele-Holic
This exactly. I love my Gibson but my cheap Jacksons and Epi SG are fantastic guitars that tend to inspire me more then the Gibson does. They are absolute tanks.
Big disagree on only needing one guitar though, I use way too many tunings for that to work.
Lotek
Tele-Meister
You can spend a million dollars on vintage guitars and hand wired tube amps, but most listeners wouldn't be able to tell the difference in sound from a $500 laptop.
NeverTooLate
Tele-Meister
Here is my entry 
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Thinking that a a heavy and uncomfortable brick with half-power pickups and the looks of vintage furniture, cough, a 1959 Les Paul, is somehow better than a 2023 Pia or Wolfgang or some current Shecter model makes about as much sense as thinking that a 1959 Ferrari is *better* than a 2023 Ferrari.
Oh wait, I get it, there is a genie somewhere in those 1959 Ferrari transmissions that turns you into a bona fide Formula 1 contender but you need to keep buying one after another until you stumble across the right ONE
:Thinking that a a heavy and uncomfortable brick with half-power pickups and the looks of vintage furniture, cough, a 1959 Les Paul, is somehow better than a 2023 Pia or Wolfgang or some current Shecter model makes about as much sense as thinking that a 1959 Ferrari is *better* than a 2023 Ferrari.
Oh wait, I get it, there is a genie somewhere in those 1959 Ferrari transmissions that turns you into a bona fide Formula 1 contender but you need to keep buying one after another until you stumble across the right ONE
Lotek
Tele-Meister
Cherry Bursts look silly
GRAVITY-LHP
Tele-Meister
Fender relics and pre aged guitars are for poseurs. 🫤
And FCS/Gibson Murphy Lab etc are for doctors / lawyers.
The Silver Sky is the best strat ever.
And FCS/Gibson Murphy Lab etc are for doctors / lawyers.
The Silver Sky is the best strat ever.
northernguitar
Poster Extraordinaire
I’ll take the ‘59, thanks. Then I can sell it and buy hundreds of Schecters and Wolfgangs.Here is my entry
Thinking that a a heavy and uncomfortable brick with half-power pickups and the looks of vintage furniture, cough, a 1959 Les Paul, is somehow better than a 2023 Pia or Wolfgang or some current Shecter model makes about as much sense as thinking that a 1959 Ferrari is *better* than a 2023 Ferrari.
Oh wait, I get it, there is a genie somewhere in those 1959 Ferrari transmissions that turns you into a bona fide Formula 1 contender but you need to keep buying one after another until you stumble across the right ONE
When people say "the audience in a bar can't tell the difference between these pickups and those pickups or this pedal and that pedal."
The point of music isn't to make a guessing game for the audience. Tools make different sounds and you use the tools that make the sound you want for the part of the song you're making. Nobody is playing certain amps because they want the audience to guess what amp they're using on each track of the album. They're using what they decided makes the sound that fits the context.
The point of music isn't to make a guessing game for the audience. Tools make different sounds and you use the tools that make the sound you want for the part of the song you're making. Nobody is playing certain amps because they want the audience to guess what amp they're using on each track of the album. They're using what they decided makes the sound that fits the context.
JPWFaith58
TDPRI Member
Can’t believe my last post didn’t draw any anger. So here’s another one:
The Rolling Stones aren’t the “greatest rock 'n’ roll band in the world” - AC/DC is (was?)
- JW
The Rolling Stones aren’t the “greatest rock 'n’ roll band in the world” - AC/DC is (was?)
- JW
