01-15-2022, 01:45 PM
Deals are to be found on the used market.
You can go locally with music stores, Craig's List, FaceBook Market Place, or better yet Reverb.com.
https://reverb.com/
If you mess around with the settings/filters on that Reverb site you can set it up for local sellers only.
Also Music-Go-Round is another local used place to even try out different used models.
https://www.musicgoround.com/locations
The only advantage to buying used (obviously lower price) is that some of the guitars are already set-up.
If you don't know what I mean by "set-up", it is that some new guitars don't have string height, intonation, and other adjustments.
Also you might get lucky and some upgrades to the guitar might have been made as well.
Sweetwater.com is the only place I'd buy new guitars online. They do a much better job at having a ready to play instrument than Musician's Friend or American Musical. I've heard that they are more particular even receiving stock from guitar company suppliers. The ones that are denied get sent to the others. So beware if you find a deal elsewhere that there could be issues right out of the box.
As far as guitars go I'd say you can't go wrong with a Strat into a Fender amp as far as beautiful clean tones. You can always use boost, fuzz, distortion, compression pedals to handle more aggressive sounds for classic rock styles.
Marshall is good for classic rock tones but the clean channel leaves something to be desired.
There's a lot of affordable solid state & modeling amps out there these days but most beginners(and some old schoolers)don't like fiddling with menus and added features.
There's been some good input in this thread already. Like weight of Les Pauls being heavy(you can get chambered ones that are lighter)and that some Epiphone versions are on point. I have a 60s tribute Epi that I'd put against any newer Gibson LP's. It has American Gibson pickups and pots/switches in it.
Good luck and feel free to ask questions as there are several guys in this community who have experience in playing and equipment.
You can go locally with music stores, Craig's List, FaceBook Market Place, or better yet Reverb.com.
https://reverb.com/
If you mess around with the settings/filters on that Reverb site you can set it up for local sellers only.
Also Music-Go-Round is another local used place to even try out different used models.
https://www.musicgoround.com/locations
The only advantage to buying used (obviously lower price) is that some of the guitars are already set-up.
If you don't know what I mean by "set-up", it is that some new guitars don't have string height, intonation, and other adjustments.
Also you might get lucky and some upgrades to the guitar might have been made as well.
Sweetwater.com is the only place I'd buy new guitars online. They do a much better job at having a ready to play instrument than Musician's Friend or American Musical. I've heard that they are more particular even receiving stock from guitar company suppliers. The ones that are denied get sent to the others. So beware if you find a deal elsewhere that there could be issues right out of the box.
As far as guitars go I'd say you can't go wrong with a Strat into a Fender amp as far as beautiful clean tones. You can always use boost, fuzz, distortion, compression pedals to handle more aggressive sounds for classic rock styles.
Marshall is good for classic rock tones but the clean channel leaves something to be desired.
There's a lot of affordable solid state & modeling amps out there these days but most beginners(and some old schoolers)don't like fiddling with menus and added features.
There's been some good input in this thread already. Like weight of Les Pauls being heavy(you can get chambered ones that are lighter)and that some Epiphone versions are on point. I have a 60s tribute Epi that I'd put against any newer Gibson LP's. It has American Gibson pickups and pots/switches in it.
Good luck and feel free to ask questions as there are several guys in this community who have experience in playing and equipment.
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