Which is the best guitar?

rgjmce · 03-10-2008 9:41am #1

I can't decide whether to buy a Gibson Explorer/SG or ESP Explorer Ex-400, somebody please help me.

DeadSkin · 03-10-2008 9:46am

Instrument forum is that way dude

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Edit: that was some ninja thread move

Karl Hungus · 03-10-2008 9:46am

DeadSkin wrote: »

Instrument forum is that way dude
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No, it's this way. Moved from Rock & Metal.

DeadSkin · 03-10-2008 9:49am

rgjmce wrote: »

I can't decide whether to buy a Gibson Explorer/SG or ESP Explorer Ex-400, somebody please help me.

Have you tried playing either of them?

rgjmce · 03-10-2008 9:59am

I have played the sg and i have played an epiphone explorer

DeadSkin · 03-10-2008 10:00am

rgjmce wrote: »

I have played the sg and i have played an epiphone explorer

.................................and your thoughts????

rgjmce · 03-10-2008 10:12am

I love the feel and the sound of the SG. I love the feel of the Epi. Explorer but wasn't mad about the sound. I have heard ESPs sound on youtube and thought it sounded way better than the both of them but not sure what it feels like.

rgjmce · 03-10-2008 10:13am

I also think the gibson is overpriced

OK-Cancel-Apply · 03-10-2008 10:27am

rgjmce wrote: »

I love the feel and the sound of the SG. I love the feel of the Epi. Explorer but wasn't mad about the sound. I have heard ESPs sound on youtube and thought it sounded way better than the both of them but not sure what it feels like.

You can always get the Explorer and change the pickups and/or pots. That could help with the sound, although, you'd be taking a chance.

EDIT: The Epiphone one that is!

CianRyan · 03-10-2008 10:31am

I'd back the ESP, for my personal music style, but it really depends on what you are going to be playing.
With the ESP you'll be getting a very hard, newschool grindcore/deathcore kinda sound (depending on the amp of course) and with the Gibsons, they'd sound better for classic rock, blues and all that carry on.

In the ESP, would you be going for EMG active humbuckers or Seamor duncans?
That'll make a good difference as well.
A lot to be concidered here.

rgjmce · 03-10-2008 10:36am

Well I play old school rock and metal and little bit of blues. I have heard the ESP playing in a blues-rock style and i thought i sounded fantastic with loads of tone.

rgjmce · 03-10-2008 10:39am

I could do that but i don't really want an epiphone (I know their great guitars). and also I don't really want to change pickups

OK-Cancel-Apply · 03-10-2008 10:41am

I personally think that almost any guitar will sound good for the Blues, as long as the player is feelin' it...you dig?

:pac:

CianRyan · 03-10-2008 10:41am

Yeah i mean you can use an ESP for anything really, used with a compresser you can get some great jazz tones with them as well.
Id say the ESP is the way to go, in my experience, gibsons havent been great for playing metal, but hey, its all personal prefference.

Instrumental, just off o'connel street have a wide range of ESPs and LTDs.
Some of the more expencive LTDs are not far off the quality thier ESP equivilents. And i may be wrong, but i think i remember hearing that metallica have used LTDs in the studio.

rgjmce · 03-10-2008 10:44am

Yeah I'll think I'll get the ESP, thanks for the input

FlipperThePriest · 03-10-2008 2:08pm

rgjmce wrote: »

I can't decide whether to buy a Gibson Explorer/SG or ESP Explorer Ex-400, somebody please help me.

The chances are mate if you can't make your mind up between those three totally different guitars, then your not ready to spend that kind of money on a guitar. A mate of mine bought an sg a few yrs ago when he was 17 or 18 and it was wasted on him, he just wanted it cuz it was an sg! I'm not suggesting for a second that this is the case here but as was said already: go and play with them each, you'll probably find that you'll fall in love with one and you will be inseparable. I was in NY and walked into a huge music shop with no intention of buying a guitar, and stumbled upon a strat that I fell in love with the sound! Had to have it, and it only cost a few hundered $.

rgjmce · 03-10-2008 3:52pm

Well I'm not gonna make that mistake, I haven't played all of them but I will, their is no way i could buy a guitar without playing it first

Alanstrainor · 03-10-2008 4:50pm

Unless you're buying a bacchus:pac::pac::pac::pac:....
*legs it*

rgjmce · 03-10-2008 4:57pm

Alanstrainor wrote: »

Unless you're buying a bacchus:pac::pac::pac::pac:....
*legs it*

What?

spoonbadger · 03-10-2008 9:03pm

Alanstrainor wrote: »

Unless you're buying a bacchus:pac::pac::pac::pac:....
*legs it*

I like the way you think!.

Why dump cash on any of these guitars when you can go MIJ

rgjmce · 03-10-2008 9:50pm

spoonbadger wrote: »

I like the way you think!.

Why dump cash on any of these guitars when you can go MIJ

huh?

GBX · 03-10-2008 9:52pm

Bacchus ... guitar pron for the seasoned pron researcher. :cool:

spoonbadger · 05-10-2008 8:34pm

rgjmce wrote: »

huh?

We're talking about japanese made guitars like bacchuses(eseses....), edwards or tokai. They're guitar companies in japan that are making better,cheaper guitars than gibson. The biggest problem is buying unseen

.

Step 1.Seach bacchus on ebay
Step 2.While page loads,Remove belt....

You'll figure out the rest from there

Which is the best guitar?

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