Fender hater converts...

[drew_half_empty]

Re: Fender hater converts...

hm, sg's feel like a giraffe, and les pauls feel like a fat midget. For some reason i love tele necks but hate les paul ones, just the overall feel of the guitar is...bad. and the rythm pickup is too muddy for my taste, and at over a grand, even if i got one i'd hafta wait a long while before i could afford to replace it

 

[midnite_man]

Re: Fender hater converts...

For me, it came down to asking myself if I wanted a "copy" guitar or the real deal. There's a reason why there are so many guitar models built in the shadows of the originals from the '50's. I see so many knock-offs and copies of the Stratocaster and Les Paul, and there are a lot of good quality models out there....but they're all styled after their respective Fender and Gibson forefathers who have withstood the tests of time and remain the most played and sought after electric guitars around.
Fender and Gibson must have made a few right moves along the way or there wouldn't have been so many others riding their coat-tails, IMO.
....Bob

 

[Indie P Bass]

Re: Fender hater converts...

well, I don't HATE single coils... but I prefer the beef of a humbucker over any single coil any day... they do have their place, though. Gotta love the jangle...

Also, I've always loved strats, but until recently I've thought of Fenders as overpriced. Aren't strats just sexy to hold? Mean... they're so... petite and docile... I love them.

 

[beandip]

Re: Fender hater converts...

Aren't strats just sexy to hold? Mean... they're so... petite and docile... I love them.

Whoa....hold on there cowboy. :laugh2:

 

[jcarlos]

Re: Fender hater converts...

Single coils versus humbuckers is just merely a means to get different tone. Certain music sounds great on my classical guitar, where as other music sounds better on my streal string acoustic. I prefer using humbuckers, but if I want that historical blues sound, then I need single coils. I think we all should have at least four guitars, humbuckers, single coils, classic and acoustic. I play them all. Check out Joe Satriani's latest album, he uses single coil and humbucker guitars, 6 string acoustic and I believe a twelve string. "Is There Love In Space?" But I don't think it should be limited to a fender. I prefer Suhr guitars over the Fenders.

 

[B2D]

Re: Fender hater converts...

The best kinda single coil tone is that deep, rich, piano-meets-bell bottom end, clear and articulate mids, and crystalline top end that gets smoother as you get higher up in the register. Eric Johnson does this perfectly. THATS a single-coil tone, not those cruddy SC's in the Ibanezes and Squiers. Those are so paper-thin weak and plasticy I dunno how anyone stands them.

Great job on seeing the light, man.

 

[Jonny R]

Re: Fender hater converts...

I used to be a young metaller-shredder who played Ibanez guitars...

Then I went off them, got more into blues, jazz, funk, country, rock, pop, etc...

And bought a Tele and a G&L Legacy

They say it happens to most guitarists at some stage.

 

[Creedis777]

Re: Fender hater converts...

Well, I used to hate Fender until I started looking for new pickups for my Epi special 2. I tried a few to listen to the pickup sound. I like the feel of a strat but not so much the tele. I also thought that the pickups weren't quite for me on both guiatrs. But, then, at that time I was a fairly inexperienced guitarist and didn't have an exact idea of my tonal needs. I ended up getting a 59' and a JB and am not satisfied anymore. (Of course my local guitar dealer had me play a vintage Gibby semi-hollow with original buckers, so my appreciation for most other pickups is probably spoiled. :13: ) Once I am ready to buy my next guitar I am going to try out some Fenders, though. I am wondering if maybe an SSH config might be right for me. Or an Epi LP with some Antiquity buckers. So, I am kind of nuetral at this point I guess. Anywho enough of my rambling. :burnout: