It is not about features, it is about quality.

[Johnny the Kid]

Re: It is not about features, it is about quality.

Quality is absolutely important but I look for features before quality. And I say that meaning that I will nautrally gravitate towards something Gibsony. If it fulfills my needs, then I look at quality. if the quality is poor, I will not purchase it. So rather than picking through 100 guitars on different styles, I pick through 20 guitars of a certain style.

 

[KeeperOS]

Re: It is not about features, it is about quality.

Can't have one without the other in at least an acceptable degree.

A single bucker, 22-fretted hardtail with no volume wouldn't be enough no matter how great the neck felt or the bucker sounded.
A 24-fretted HSH Floyded superstrat with two volumes, two tones, push-pulls to split each pickup and a 5-way superswitch that did everything but coffee wouldn't cut it if the neck was unplayable and sounded poorly.

 

[Will S-T]

Re: It is not about features, it is about quality.

Modern global manufacturing has made quality cheap these days.
We don't have to polish turds anymore. $200 in secondhand upgrades
can usually make most guitars decent.

 

[Phantasmagoria]

Re: It is not about features, it is about quality.

When you pluck a note and the whole body seems to resonate in sync with the neck, this means that a significant part of the initial energy is wasted via this vibration. You'd want the neck/body completely still if sustain is the goal. We've been all this before. Apart from basic Physics I/II (Haliday Resnick) in univ, I didn't took any other serious Physics course but I believe what I wrote is true.

I'm talking from my personal experience. Don't know if you've played a guitar that seems to feel practically weightless (regardless of it's actual weight) in your hands when you rock it loud ..alive actually...that's what I think it (that type of acoustic vibration/resonance) translates to ..and they sustain for hours. The resonance I'm talking about is a 'deep' warm sort of resonance not just simple vibration. Wish I could put it into words, but it's tough to do. When I feel it going on..I know I have a great guitar. Sorry if that does'nt tie in with the law's of physics, but it's never failed me and I'll stick with it...

 

[Gearjoneser]

Re: It is not about features, it is about quality.

With everything from a Fender Esquire to a Line 6 rack X3 I'm selling because it gives me a headache just looking at the 3 ring binder manual.

No thanks, I'm a caveman who plays, not an electronic engineer who could pass college math in his sleep. Two different brains.

 

[NecroPolo]

Re: It is not about features, it is about quality.

It's all about functionality. For me it has nothing to do with price as my most fav axes are feelgood supercharged cheap junk that are upgraded to the point that they can deliver. I love them that way. There is a story behind all of them.

 

[Hank-]

Re: It is not about features, it is about quality.

I'm talking from my personal experience. Don't know if you've played a guitar that seems to feel practically weightless (regardless of it's actual weight) in your hands when you rock it loud ..alive actually...that's what I think it (that type of acoustic vibration/resonance) translates to ..and they sustain for hours. The resonance I'm talking about is a 'deep' warm sort of resonance not just simple vibration. Wish I could put it into words, but it's tough to do. When I feel it going on..I know I have a great guitar. Sorry if that does'nt tie in with the law's of physics, but it's never failed me and I'll stick with it...

Thou has surpassed the laws of physics, beware of the quantum realm & ultrasonics that lie therein, very few have achieved such state of peace but they soon disappeared into the unknown.. Beware i tell you!!

got nothing else to add to that lol

Quality for me as far as the thread is concerned, although features can be added later by myself but i have been using the more simple layouts these days, no fancing switching but would like to have more guitars with different pickups for variation & fun. Speaking of quality, i bought a cort g250 online sometime back for home practice, poor quality check in finish & assembly but its sounds great with some oem godin pickups i had around, not sure of neck resonance but man does it sound great with different p'ups and has the perfect playing neck for my hands.

 

[beaubrummels]

Re: It is not about features, it is about quality.

I'm not too concerned with either features or quality. If I pick it up, close my eyes and play, and can get a sound I want out of it, it's the one.

Other than that, I will look for certain 'recipes', like 2 Hum mahogany maple cap, or SSS Alder/ash maple neck, etc. as a starting point for the above.

 

[Mincer]

Re: It is not about features, it is about quality.

Well, I've never been concerned with overtly blingy instruments. My tastes run toward the plain- satin finishes, dot inlays, a few switch positions I actually use, etc. Most important are balance, weight, ergonomics. I can alter the sound with pickups, but I won't play a guitar that is uncomfortable. I also won't bend to the features of a guitar- it has to bend to me.

 

[uOpt]

Re: It is not about features, it is about quality.

Not gonna happen.

1) Features are easier to express in a sales brochure and, more importantly, in the powerpoint presentation to the suit who makes the decisions but doesn't play guitar

2) There is no good defense against competitors producing cheap gear of lower quality claiming in their sales brochures to have the same quality

3) (probably most important) you can have year-to-year new features to have new products but you can't do that with quality