Better guitars are easier to play.
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Metalman_666
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Oh yes.
I played a friend's USA HH Strat (not sure which series) that he is very happy with and to my hands, it felt wrong
Put it beside a beater Amazon "Lyx" that I recently disassembled and turned into wall art, and the Fender is by all accounts a better guitar.
But the Amazon special was easier/more fun to play than the USA Fender which is almost 10x the price
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alex1fly
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This is what makes a guitar "better" IMO.
PFDarkside
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One part of what makes a guitar better, IMO.
Another part is the neck shape, width, radius and fret size being comfortable for you.
Finally, you do need good components, no matter what I did to my old Ibanez, the nut was going to bind. It had to be replaced.
But 100% a well setup mid level Guitar will destroy a non-setup custom shop Guitar!
GuitarStv
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Depends on what you're playing. Some guitars have designs that prevent you from comfortably playing up high on the neck. I love the sound of 335s, mine is set up well . . . but playing stuff fast above the 17th fret is always miserable. Compared to a guitar with great upper fret access (SG, Jazzmaster, V) it's always going to be a disadvantage.
Mononoaware
Active member
Yep, this. For which we should all be thankful. We live in a Golden Age of gear and information about that gear.
solspirit
Ultimate Post Liker
Absolute truth. I had an old bow neck Aria that was Horrible that I couldnt play a note on but my friend Paulie could shred on it.
solspirit
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You can now get a $300 decent instrument that would have been in the $7-800 range a few years ago. Or an $800 instrument that was $1-1200.
Better is usually better, I would agree. How much better and what that price point equates to can vary radically. Higher end instruments typically have better detail work and the little things that make a guitar comfortable to play (set up etc) are dialed in nicer than the budget instruments. I also agree that no two guitars are alike and some guitars excel at certain things better than others do. That is the beauty of all of this. You have variety and all kinds of tools to create your own musical path. You simply need to find your own unique voice, be comfortable with it and continue carving your path.
GuitarStv
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I mostly agree with you, but Taylor makes remarkably uniform and consistent acoustic guitars when comparing the same model type to the same model type in their lines. Two Martins or two Gibsons of the same model will sound wildly different, but the Taylors seem to be very similar.
Cynical
Active member
Define "better". What about a guitar whose neck shape isn't as nice of a fit for my hands (thus is harder to play), but sounds better?
GuitarStv
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A guitar that you don't like to play is worse. Doesn't matter what it sounds like if you don't lift it off the stand to make music.
Cynical
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It's not really that simple. Sure, guitar A might be easier to play than guitar B, but if guitar B sounds better, guess what I'm going to reach for when it's time to record? Or what I'm going to be reaching for during my practice sessions for the week before I record?
Both tools have a place.
