My new hot take is that modern mid priced equipment plays better and sounds better than a lot of high end stuff from the 90s/2000s. Most pickups have not significantly changed but sweet jesus, modern digital amps in the $300-500 range blow away most of the $1000+ digital stuff from then. The fit and finish on the $300-500 import guitars rivals or surpasses that of older $1000+. Yeah, its cheaper materials, but they are getting really well made with excellent setups out of the factory now.
All that said. I really want a guitar with a nitro finish. I love the way they smell, especially a hollow body…
I’m over here in acoustic guitar land, where we argue over the same thing. And even here I think it makes much less of a difference than people think. For electrics? Seems like a pointless distinction.
But if I didn’t spend hours online talking about the importance of an real ebony fret board and the blood moon mahoganynbody only producing good sounds when it has the blood of the innocent infused on the fourth new moon of the seventh equinox, what would you suggest I do with my time? You don’t actually expect me to play my guitar do you?!?!
Fan-fret-7-string-headless-baritone is definitely something I’d go for! Miss me with hollowbodies and t-style, though. I like good ergonomics and low notes.
In electric guitar loony land, tone woods
I have many opinions, but I’m mostly leaning towards “whatever works for you”.
6 strings in standard E is fine if the music you play benefits from it. Same goes for any other combination.
The tube amp supremacy seems to have died down these past decades, but I never gave a shit. Solid state is also fine.
My new hot take is that modern mid priced equipment plays better and sounds better than a lot of high end stuff from the 90s/2000s. Most pickups have not significantly changed but sweet jesus, modern digital amps in the $300-500 range blow away most of the $1000+ digital stuff from then. The fit and finish on the $300-500 import guitars rivals or surpasses that of older $1000+. Yeah, its cheaper materials, but they are getting really well made with excellent setups out of the factory now.
All that said. I really want a guitar with a nitro finish. I love the way they smell, especially a hollow body…
Completely agree.
I’m over here in acoustic guitar land, where we argue over the same thing. And even here I think it makes much less of a difference than people think. For electrics? Seems like a pointless distinction.
But if I didn’t spend hours online talking about the importance of an real ebony fret board and the blood moon mahoganynbody only producing good sounds when it has the blood of the innocent infused on the fourth new moon of the seventh equinox, what would you suggest I do with my time? You don’t actually expect me to play my guitar do you?!?!
The topics for hot debate in guitar land are endless.
6, 7, 8 strings? 9? 4?
Should you even tune lower than E-standard?
How much scale length do you actually need for low tunings?
analog vs. digital effects
multieffect units vs. buying each effect separately
I really want a fan-fret-7string-headless-baritone-semi-hollowbody-t-style, just for the weird factor.
Fan-fret-7-string-headless-baritone is definitely something I’d go for! Miss me with hollowbodies and t-style, though. I like good ergonomics and low notes.