looking for a new guitar

sound_wave

hey everyone!.

its coming up to the end of college (woohoo) and my band is getting back together again after our study break. Im gonna take the plunge and sell my two , i must say ****e, guitars and buy a good versitile top quality guitar. id be thinking of spending about 800 euro or so. care to recommend me some makes and models of guitar? i know the buy and sell is the way to go os what can i expect with the amount im willing to spend?

thanks

NeMiSiS

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Tom

dragon_ninja82

It would be easier to make a recommondation knowing what type of music you intend to play on it, but for 800 smackers you cant really go wrong with one of the PRS SE series guitars, one of the santana or soapbar ones! or maybe one of those Gibson les paul specials Les Paul Special ! But if you plan going the second hand route you might be able to get your hands on a real nice strat/tele, maybe a gibson les paul studio.

feylya

Those Les Paul Specials are god awful machines. The neck is horrible, the pickups muddy and horribly over priced. Of course, it depends what you play, but I'd point you towards some LTD guitars, the cheaper version of ESP.

For €800, you could get an EC-300 or an EC-400 with EMG 81 pickups

Paladin

For versatility of guitar Id recommend a Strat or strat copy. I bought an artist series strat about 3 years ago and its fabulous for everything, light to heavy.

Recently I bought an epiphone les paul standard for €400 new and Im am delighted with it. Currently I gig with the les paul and leave my strat in the bag because the les paul has fantastic distortion sounds with my marshall amp. I cant see any major reason for splashing out too much more for a les paul guitar unless I was really really loaded or going to play for a living.

Must say though, those ESP's look tasty feyla.

Still though, les pauls just dont have the clean sound that Strats have(sweet extra hot texas special single coils on mine anyway)

Zoton

Originally posted by feylya
I'd point you towards some LTD guitars, the cheaper version of ESP.

Some of the LTD are quite pricey though.

feylya

Originally posted by Zoton
Some of the LTD are quite pricey though.

But worth it tbh.

Originally posted by Paladin
Still though, les pauls just dont have the clean sound that Strats have(sweet extra hot texas special single coils on mine anyway)

That's where the EMG 81's come in. Not the same characteristics of single coils but uber-clean when they need to be

Zoton

Originally posted by feylya
But worth it tbh.

But they're meant to be the cheap versions?

feylya

They are the cheap versions! ESP are €1500+ at least. LTD's rarely break €1000. Never said they were the cheapest guitars in the world but they are lovely to play and they are worth every penny imo.

Doctor J

Get an Eggle off ebay.co.uk