2 guitars to cover every Genre
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Jackson Distortion
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Re: 2 guitars to cover every Genre
B.C. Rich Mockingbird Polarity for it's piezo and split-coil sounds.
B.C. Rich Mockingbird ST for it's varitone control, out-of-phase sound and split-coil sounds.
B.C. Rich Mockingbird Polarity for it's piezo and split-coil sounds.
B.C. Rich Mockingbird ST for it's varitone control, out-of-phase sound and split-coil sounds.
TimmyPage
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Re: 2 guitars to cover every Genre
Literally any electric guitar + any acoustic guitar. I've heard everything from heavy metal to jazz played with strats, semi-hollows, solidbody HH guitars etc. 100% more about the player, amp and pedals than it is the guitar.
My two optimal guitars would be a PRS Custom 22 (or similar guitar in their catalogue) and an HSS strat (I prefer Suhrs at the moment). I like having one guitar for fat sounds and one guitar for thin/glassy sounds, trems are required for both.
Literally any electric guitar + any acoustic guitar. I've heard everything from heavy metal to jazz played with strats, semi-hollows, solidbody HH guitars etc. 100% more about the player, amp and pedals than it is the guitar.
My two optimal guitars would be a PRS Custom 22 (or similar guitar in their catalogue) and an HSS strat (I prefer Suhrs at the moment). I like having one guitar for fat sounds and one guitar for thin/glassy sounds, trems are required for both.
PFDarkside
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Re: 2 guitars to cover every Genre
I've been thinking about this quite a bit lately. I know the 3 + 1 I'd do....
-Vintage/Modern style Strat (vintage construction and pickups, modern radius and frets)
-HSS Floyd Charvel style with hot rodded pickups
-Les Paul with slightly overwound bridge and slightly underwound neck
-Martin 000-28V
I'm not sure how to combine those three electrics. Maybe a humbucker in the bridge of the Strat and drop the Charvel style:
I've been thinking about this quite a bit lately. I know the 3 + 1 I'd do....
-Vintage/Modern style Strat (vintage construction and pickups, modern radius and frets)
-HSS Floyd Charvel style with hot rodded pickups
-Les Paul with slightly overwound bridge and slightly underwound neck
-Martin 000-28V
I'm not sure how to combine those three electrics. Maybe a humbucker in the bridge of the Strat and drop the Charvel style:
Mr. B
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Ibanez RG in HSH configuration. Gibson SG with push pull pots. RG for rock, metal, fusion, shred, and middle strat tones. Gibson SG for more classic humbucker tones including blues, classic rock, warm cleans.
I will add, however, that it would be easier to pick 2 genres to go with your two guitars than to make 2 ultra versatile guitars to cover every genre. Every choice limits some other tonal possibility.
Ibanez RG in HSH configuration. Gibson SG with push pull pots. RG for rock, metal, fusion, shred, and middle strat tones. Gibson SG for more classic humbucker tones including blues, classic rock, warm cleans.
I will add, however, that it would be easier to pick 2 genres to go with your two guitars than to make 2 ultra versatile guitars to cover every genre. Every choice limits some other tonal possibility.
Chistopher
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1- Single bridge humbucker Floyd Rose equipped Charvel
2- Single neck humbucker Floyd Rose equipped Charvel
1- Single bridge humbucker Floyd Rose equipped Charvel
2- Single neck humbucker Floyd Rose equipped Charvel
Re: 2 guitars to cover every Genre
Anything Reverend will cover a lot of territory with the bass contour giving a nice flow between single coil and humbucker sounds, especially if it's using P90s. Gives you an all around, so you can focus on the other electric being more specific to taste. As for acoustics, Taylor 800 series are all fantastic in my experience and can run the Gambit!
Anything Reverend will cover a lot of territory with the bass contour giving a nice flow between single coil and humbucker sounds, especially if it's using P90s. Gives you an all around, so you can focus on the other electric being more specific to taste. As for acoustics, Taylor 800 series are all fantastic in my experience and can run the Gambit!
kramersteen
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Re: 2 guitars to cover every Genre
Two guitars for every genre.
Two guitars for every genre.
MetalManiac
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Re: 2 guitars to cover every Genre
Aint gonna happen. Not even if you put tapped pickus or whatnot into Strat or Tele. You'll need a dedicated thick body Metal Guitar-Something like a Zakk Wylde with actives at the very least, then you are going to need a semi Hollow, there is no way around that if you want to cover *every genre ( sure a Tele can do jazz, but really, not really), then you need a classic Mahogany Paul style with low output 'Buckers, then either a Tele or Strat with traditional single coils. You need 4 at the very least.Thats my story and I'm sticking to it.
Aint gonna happen. Not even if you put tapped pickus or whatnot into Strat or Tele. You'll need a dedicated thick body Metal Guitar-Something like a Zakk Wylde with actives at the very least, then you are going to need a semi Hollow, there is no way around that if you want to cover *every genre ( sure a Tele can do jazz, but really, not really), then you need a classic Mahogany Paul style with low output 'Buckers, then either a Tele or Strat with traditional single coils. You need 4 at the very least.Thats my story and I'm sticking to it.
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Jackson Soloist SL1 with JB bridge, Hot Rails neck & middle, Floyd, Super Switch for neck parallel, neck/middle outer coils
Jackson Soloist SL2H with my choice of hot active humbuckers, Floyd. Would help if the neck can be switched with a push-pull to a single-coil mode.
Martin 00-15M
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I guess an alternate electric could be a really sweet pre-1963 ES-345.
Jackson Soloist SL1 with JB bridge, Hot Rails neck & middle, Floyd, Super Switch for neck parallel, neck/middle outer coils
Jackson Soloist SL2H with my choice of hot active humbuckers, Floyd. Would help if the neck can be switched with a push-pull to a single-coil mode.
Martin 00-15M
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I guess an alternate electric could be a really sweet pre-1963 ES-345.
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Boogie Bill
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The acoustic is easy; my choice would be my Martin HD-28VE Retro. Great sounding acoustic, and the Fishman F1+ AURA is an amazing preamp.
Then a 2HB, and here I think my personal choice would be one of my Gibson ES-335s, by a hair over my Les Pauls. I am amazed at how versatile the 335 is. I have a 1960 Les Paul Historic, another amazing guitar. It's a toss up.
Then I'm going for a Strat. My choice in strats for the last 25 years has been G&L. The Legacy has SSS vintage alnicos, the S-500 has the hotter MFD singles. The Legacy Special has Gotoh Dual Blades, with a thicker PAF-ish tone, and finally the Comanche with those quirky, yet incredible Z-coils. I'm comfortable with any of them, but for today I'll go with the S-500. The MFDs are hot, but still have single-coil DNA. These guitars have the Leo Fender designed PTB tone controls for superb tonal range. The Dual Fulcrum Vibrato is my all-time fave; my G&Ls have had better tuning stability than friends' guitars with Floyd and Kahler locking systems, though admittedly won't dive as deep.
Perhaps the most important, yet unmentioned, part of this exercise is the amp. Having a variety of guitars to cover many genres won't help you, if all you have is a Marshall Major full-stack to do a small jazz club gig. So I'm bringing along my Mesa Mark V 112 C90 combo, and it'll sit on top of a Mesa Wide-Body Closed-Back 112 V30 cab. The Mark V is unmatched for versatility, with three channels, nine modes, three power levels, graphic EQ and choice of tube or diode rectifier. I can even get a nice, usable tone with the Martin. And with all that delicious gain I make even vintage single-coils sing, grind and scream. I wouldn't feel deprived if all I had to work with was one of my Mark IIIs or a Mark V, either.
Bill
The acoustic is easy; my choice would be my Martin HD-28VE Retro. Great sounding acoustic, and the Fishman F1+ AURA is an amazing preamp.
Then a 2HB, and here I think my personal choice would be one of my Gibson ES-335s, by a hair over my Les Pauls. I am amazed at how versatile the 335 is. I have a 1960 Les Paul Historic, another amazing guitar. It's a toss up.
Then I'm going for a Strat. My choice in strats for the last 25 years has been G&L. The Legacy has SSS vintage alnicos, the S-500 has the hotter MFD singles. The Legacy Special has Gotoh Dual Blades, with a thicker PAF-ish tone, and finally the Comanche with those quirky, yet incredible Z-coils. I'm comfortable with any of them, but for today I'll go with the S-500. The MFDs are hot, but still have single-coil DNA. These guitars have the Leo Fender designed PTB tone controls for superb tonal range. The Dual Fulcrum Vibrato is my all-time fave; my G&Ls have had better tuning stability than friends' guitars with Floyd and Kahler locking systems, though admittedly won't dive as deep.
Perhaps the most important, yet unmentioned, part of this exercise is the amp. Having a variety of guitars to cover many genres won't help you, if all you have is a Marshall Major full-stack to do a small jazz club gig. So I'm bringing along my Mesa Mark V 112 C90 combo, and it'll sit on top of a Mesa Wide-Body Closed-Back 112 V30 cab. The Mark V is unmatched for versatility, with three channels, nine modes, three power levels, graphic EQ and choice of tube or diode rectifier. I can even get a nice, usable tone with the Martin. And with all that delicious gain I make even vintage single-coils sing, grind and scream. I wouldn't feel deprived if all I had to work with was one of my Mark IIIs or a Mark V, either.
Bill
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Heh, Well, you could do a Tele/Strat option with a Framus Diablo (HSS or HH with splitable coils, of course they come standard with SDs, covers a LOT of sounds) and maybe a Les Paul with some Throbak pickups, or an SG depending on the sound you're going for.
Heh, Well, you could do a Tele/Strat option with a Framus Diablo (HSS or HH with splitable coils, of course they come standard with SDs, covers a LOT of sounds) and maybe a Les Paul with some Throbak pickups, or an SG depending on the sound you're going for.
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