Recommend me a new guitar...

OzZie

OzZie

OzZie

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At the moment i have two guitars: One electric and one acoustic. The electric is a fender strat (not the real good one) and the acoustic is some relatively cheap ibanez with some elexir's which doesnt sound too great but at the same time isnt awful. :)

I have about £300 to spend really, maybe £350 at a push.

However, i dont know what type of guitar to buy as the electric-acoustic is also an option and would be great to own one just because its another type of guitar to play and they come in a nice variety of shapes and colours like standard acoustics. I'm straying towards a different colored body too as im sick of the standard light brown colours. I love colours like green or blue on the body.

I still love playing my electric, but i want something a little more deep in sound as my fender sounds awful on distortion and the sounds never ring long enough and im constantly having to strum. They also look horrible in red and white. If i go for an electric, black, white or orange etc are colours i like. (similar for all guitars actually)

Basically, what should i go for? Electric, Electro-acoustic or acoustic? (bear in mind i'd probibly need another amp to get decent sound as i doubt my fender one is up to much)

What offers the most models for £300 or thereabouts?

I'm clueless at the moment. I dont know of any decent sites to start looking at models or reviews so i've left it up to you guys to recommend me something. (even if its just a couple of review sites or something!)

Pictures would also be good if anyone wants to post them of their guitars so i can see what the colours look like etc.

Many thanks :)
 
I can seriously recommend a Les Paul, you'll get a thicker sound than the Fender and you should be able to get a half decent Epiphone brand new within your price range :)
 
riddlermarc said:
I can seriously recommend a Les Paul, you'll get a thicker sound than the Fender and you should be able to get a half decent Epiphone brand new within your price range :)
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Only if you switch the pickups for something better. I have a Epi LP Standard as my backup guitar and although nice to play, I had to swap the pickups to Seymour Duncans to get a nice sound.

The other thing to remember is that 90% of the sound is in the amp, not the guitar. If I put my SG standard through a practice amp, it doesn't sound a lot different than a £100 guitar.

£300 is a reasonable ammount of money, but think about how you want to spend it. If you have an accoustic, do you really need and electro as well? I can't really see the advantage if you're not going to be plugging it in to play live. From what you say, you are not that happy with your "sound", but in order to change that, you are going to be a lot happier by getting a new amp, or investing in pedals/amp modelling. Also, IMO, the £300 area of the market for guitars isn't really that much better in quality from the £200 area. Most of the stuff that I've played that feels and sounds good starts from about £450 as they stop scrimping on pickup (Tokai for example). Havng said that, I have heard good things about the PRS SE Soapbar which is around £350.
 
starscream said:
Only if you switch the pickups for something better. I have a Epi LP Standard as my backup guitar and although nice to play, I had to swap the pickups to Seymour Duncans to get a nice sound.

The other thing to remember is that 90% of the sound is in the amp, not the guitar. If I put my SG standard through a practice amp, it doesn't sound a lot different than a £100 guitar.

£300 is a reasonable ammount of money, but think about how you want to spend it. If you have an accoustic, do you really need and electro as well? I can't really see the advantage if you're not going to be plugging it in to play live. From what you say, you are not that happy with your "sound", but in order to change that, you are going to be a lot happier by getting a new amp, or investing in pedals/amp modelling. Also, IMO, the £300 area of the market for guitars isn't really that much better in quality from the £200 area. Most of the stuff that I've played that feels and sounds good starts from about £450 as they stop scrimping on pickup (Tokai for example). Havng said that, I have heard good things about the PRS SE Soapbar which is around £350.
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Best thing that ever happend to my squier strat was to put it through a nice Randall RG75 G3 which is a decent amp for £300 it totally changes the sound hes right get a new amp
 
starscream said:
Only if you switch the pickups for something better. I have a Epi LP Standard as my backup guitar and although nice to play, I had to swap the pickups to Seymour Duncans to get a nice sound.
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My Epi LP Custom Plus has excellent pickups, it sounds as good as my DXMG that's fitted with EMG 81/85's.. depends on which LP you buy, that's the thing - my Custom Plus can now be had for ~£380, which I know is a little over budget but it's worth it for the uprated pickups etc.

Check out the user reviews on www.harmony-central.com for some real world opinions :)

As others have said, putting your guitar through a decent amp makes the world of difference.. my Epi sounds a million times better through my stack than if I run through my practise amp.
 
Might look at a new decent amp then :)

My current one is a Squire SP.10. No idea of it's quality, but i can imagine that it is pretty shocking by most standards!

I've also looked at replacing the pickups as for one: They buzz when on a certain setting (3 out of the 5) so i am forced to use the other two if i want no buzzing when i'm playing loud, and two: They can provide me with much better sounds when replaced with some decent ones.
 
Sorry to keep asking, but say if i were to go down the acoustic route, what would you recommend for the same money. I'm guessing £300 should get you a pretty decent one as long as i get some nice strings to go with it? :)
 
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