The Official Guitar Thread

So I've been playing again for about a year now, playing various $3-500 models of guitars, and doing okay. Decided to splurge on the ESP LTD JH-600 because I wanted something with a floating bridge, and after playing with a couple Floyds and talking to my friends that have been playing a long time, I decided to go Kahler, and they're not really very available on production models, this is one of the few. This is a $1000 guitar, which is a little more than I was comfortable spending, ended up getting a new one off Ebay for $800. I am honestly fucking shocked at the difference between a $500 guitar and a $1000 guitar. I didn't figure there would be THAT much difference, but holy shit.

This is the meanest sounding guitar that's ever run through one of my amps (and I've had buddies bring theirs over to play) with no effects at all, by a mile and a half. I'm not into noodling around, I'm into crunchy, guitar driven metal, and this is built expressly for that purpose. The sustain and harmonics are out of this world. You get used to decent guitars with decent strings with crap intonation and then you pick up a professional grade guitar and everything you thought you knew goes out the window.

I don't even have the skill to properly make use of this thing. That's awesome!

Lemmiwinks_sl said:

Christmas gift question.

My older brother has been playing steadily for about 10 years now, and hes pretty fucking good. He can play SRV solos, tons of Metallica ect completely clean without mistakes. Hes self taught and plays every day for about 2 hours or so minimum. Would someone around that skill level get some use out of a month membership as a christmas present you think?

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I haven't been playing anywhere near that long. The friends I have shown stuff on Jamplay to tell me things like "You're gonna be better than I am pretty quick, because you've got better methods to learn more efficiently. 10 years ago, we had tabs printed off dot matrix printers, and half of them were wrong." It's hard to say if he'll get any use out of it, but if he's genuinely interested in music, there's more than enough musicians on there to talk about their stuff, and theory and higher end skills, and that should appeal to anyone who loves music.

Duppin_sl said:

I'm really tempted by the Jamplay sale, but I'm already paying for lessons and am really happy with my teacher. I probably don't NEED it, but it might be handy to have some different perspectives on how to do things.

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Eh, not much else can be said about it man. It's a great value for the resources that are there. Either you've got the $100 laying around and are willing to devote it to your hobby, or you don't or don't think it's worth it.

Your guitar teacher isn't gonna be around at 2am when you can't sleep though