The Official Guitar Thread

Any luck with Sweetwater buying guitars? I've bought other stuff from there just wondering how buy a guitar works out and shipping and such. I've only bought a guitar in person before.

Sweetwater is a great company to deal with and do a great job shipping. Either in a case or very well protected

Thanks. Bought my guitar at a guitar shop and my other one I had given to me. The few times I've been into a guitar center (maybe 3 times) I've seen a guitar dropped each time. Kind of killed off me wanting to buy one there. Good to know, got a gift card for sweetwater was just kinda leery on ordering a guitar. Have bought other things from them no problem. The few things I have ever ordered from musicians friend (stuff not a guitar) it has taken at least 3 weeks each time. I don't know why. Address is always the same it comes via the post office the last bit and the tracking always shows it coming to town then going back to them and coming a different way around the US to get here.

I've never bought a guitar at guitar center but you can ask them to play a new one out of the box. If they want the sale, they'll do it

I bought a guitar from a shop in Nashville and had them ship it to me. I would say they went overboard with the packing. It was pretty ridiculous. I also bought a Carvin and they shipped that to me. No issues there either. Companies that are used to this stuff know what they're doing.

Also Sweetwater takes pics of every guitar they sell, so you can view each one individually

Going to "the big city" lol next week for an appointment I'm going to go to GC and at least play a few of the ones I'm interested in. It feels like going to Best Buy to look at stuff before you order it from Amazon.

Borzak said:

Going to "the big city" lol next week for an appointment I'm going to go to GC and at least play a few of the ones I'm interested in. It feels like going to Best Buy to look at stuff before you order it from Amazon.

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That's how we do it lol

So we've got around 89 pages mostly of us just posting gear. I wonder how helpful it'd be if we started posting exercises for everyone to learn. Or just licks in general.

Not sure if it's possible to embed guitar tabs @a_skeleton_03

We could also just trade guitarpro files.

It would be either licks you find fun to play, or something you think will get you into other styles. The reason I thought of this was.actually listening to marty Friedman play. He has a strong knack for making extremely complex melodies while he plays and plays notes you don't think he will. Got me thinking of breaking myself out of my style that I pigeonhole myself into. Might be a dumb idea

Could also consider a mini contest where we have a collection of licks and do a 1,2 or 3 month progress video. What you sound like day 1 vs day 90

If you look at songsterr or ultimate guitar.com they do it, but it might be proprietary stuff

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Went to GC this afternoon. Didn't help much. They need to move to another part of town.

Anyone fill me in on the quality of ephiphone guitars? I'm wanting something different than my telecasters, but not really a Les Paul. They had an epiphone hollowbody I "kind" of liked it had the ability to split the humbuckers giving a single coil sound to it in either posistion. Either the neck or bridge or both etc...Like the sound, kind of fit my rockabilly and country play. Don't know much about epiphones however, quality wise.

Not sure if they still are. But Epiphone was made in the same factory as gibson

I've heard good things about the 335-type Epiphones, they're supposedly 95% Gibson quality for 15% of the price. I'm considering a hollow body for next guitar, but I'm leaning towards the Gretsch 5422 rather than the Epiphone.

I've never come across an epiphone I like. but that's probably just me. If I wanted a low price hollow body, I'd go Ibanez artcore.

I'm going to order a chibson from chin a soon. People are saying they are not able to tell the difference some times, and they have been getting better and better reviews. I know it will never ever be a gibson, but an epiphone quality guitar that looks like a custom one for 200$ instead of the custom price of 7k$ +, yes please. And before you ask/say. Fuck yes i would download a car. (I already own a real gibby) Looks damn sexy for 200 $ (yes this is a fender, capt obv)