Recommendations On A Serious Shredder Guitar |
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Recommendations On A Serious Shredder Guitar |
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Mar 14 2012, 09:38 PM
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Ibanez RG 2570, made in Japan, absoluteley wonderful to play at a very good price (I also bought mine on a special sale). The green colour is also very cool |
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Mar 14 2012, 09:53 PM |
My son is turning 12 and has been playing acoustic and electric for about 2 years, and up until now has been using my Fender Strat Plus (He also has an old Kraemer Focus but it doesn't tune very well). I want my Strat back so I want to get him his own electric - He is more into faster power chord changes and starting to get faster at tremelo/speedpicking. He is really starting to take off, I want some recommendations on guitars in the $250-$450 range. I was thinking of trying to get him a used Fender Tele or Gibson SG because I am at a point where I like guitars that hold value, but not sure at his age if thats what he wants. I was thinking maybe a Ibanez, PRS, Schecter, or Jackson, with a fast neck. it definitely won't be his last guitar but he is serious enough where I know he wont quit and he performs live at our church as well, so I want something quality built that he will use for many years, even after he gets GAS and wants more guitars like we all do. active Pickups might be an option. I am not too concerned about his size - He plays a full size concert acoustic electric, but he has small hands at his age. He even can handle my Gibson Les Paul Standard, although he likes the weight and feel of the strat more for obvious reasons. Anybody got some recommendations of brands and models - I am even interested in closeouts as long as its a quality guitar. I need to narrow the field Thanks for your help. Michael Take him out let him play a few different ones, I love my Gibsons to death but I rarely play them anymore since I got a 7 String Schecter. If you could get a used Fender J5 Tele with the single/humbucker I'd say that he may like that a lot. I never had the chance to play one since they sold out fast and discontinued that model version. But it has the tele feel with a slightly thinner neck. I see a lot of people talking very high of the PRS SE models, Cosmin uses the Paul Allender SE in purple. That guitar feels great to me, its not super light, great neck, and I hear when setup amazing action. They use to be around $700 new but since the newer model with red and green options it went up almost $200 but you can still find them used at like $450-500. Schecters I absolutely adore my Jeff Loomis model, neck is thin but work out well with the 7th string. I'm told that the hellraisers 6-strings have a slightly thicker neck. If you look around you can tend to find them under $500 Ibanez is a shred guitar with thin necks so I've been told I have played a few ranging from low-end to a gem. Somewhere in the middle around $500 new they feel pretty good I personally liked the JS100 model was an average neck, guitar was on the lighter side, nice curves. Jackson I haven't even picked one up in I bet 10 years or so. But people love the Soloist model. I hope that helps, but personally I would go for a PRS SE great guitar for a good price and still looks great. -------------------- Guitars:
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Mar 15 2012, 02:23 AM |
http://images.piens.be/ibanez/Ibanez_RG-2570_E_VGD.jpg Ibanez RG 2570, made in Japan, absoluteley wonderful to play at a very good price (I also bought mine on a special sale). The green colour is also very cool That's a very spiff axe If he likes playing fast, it's hard to go wrong with the WIZARD neck on ibanez. These are very inexpensive guitars in relation to some other vendors that play about as well. So good bang for buck, playable, good call : ) But than again I'm a bit of an IBANEZ nut so maybe I'm not that objective. As a learning guitar, the FRETLIGHT GUITARS are cool. They light up on the neck with LEDs to show you chord progressions or solo licks etc. I sometimes use them when teaching. The starter model is about a third the price of the pro model. They work with GUITAR PRO tablature software which is handy. You just get the guitar pro file, and hit play in the software and you hear the song play and see the lights on the frets. It's not for everyone but I really wish I had one starting out! |
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Mar 15 2012, 07:40 AM |
That's a very spiff axe If he likes playing fast, it's hard to go wrong with the WIZARD neck on ibanez. These are very inexpensive guitars in relation to some other vendors that play about as well. So good bang for buck, playable, good call : ) But than again I'm a bit of an IBANEZ nut so maybe I'm not that objective. As a learning guitar, the FRETLIGHT GUITARS are cool. They light up on the neck with LEDs to show you chord progressions or solo licks etc. I sometimes use them when teaching. The starter model is about a third the price of the pro model. They work with GUITAR PRO tablature software which is handy. You just get the guitar pro file, and hit play in the software and you hear the song play and see the lights on the frets. It's not for everyone but I really wish I had one starting out! thanks for the info. He will be playing this guitar live so i am not sure the fretlight would be a good option for his only electric -but i could see as learning tool maybe. The RG2570 is a bit out of budget but what about this model-seems to have great reviews - http://www.musiciansfriend.com/guitars/iba...electric-guitar anybody have any experience with this model. mh -------------------- "Three Chords & The Truth . . ."
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Mar 15 2012, 09:00 AM |
All great advice above.
But in addition don't forget the Kramer Focus was a pretty good 80's hot rodded strat style guitar. It probably just needs a decent setup. -------------------- My SoundCloud
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Mar 15 2012, 07:10 PM |
Check the Agile Brand of guitars, mostly LP clones but I've heard nothing but good things about them
lhttp://www.rondomusic.com/electricguitar-ss9.htmll They start here This post has been edited by PosterBoy: Mar 15 2012, 07:11 PM -------------------- My SoundCloud
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Mar 16 2012, 04:14 PM |
+1 on Ibanez.
Not sure which model at that price range though. But a second hand prestige would probably be a good buy. -------------------- Guitars:
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