Please Help! Want Gibson & Fender in one Guitar

[Empty Pockets]

Re: Please Help! Want Gibson & Fender in one Guitar

One Gibson, one Fender, and a good amp....you're set, man.

Get a Fat Strat, it's a perfect compromise.

-X

 

[Mojoe01]

Re: Please Help! Want Gibson & Fender in one Guitar

If you really need to limit it to one guitar, then I'd say get a fender with a humbucker in the bridge. If David Gilmour is your favorite guitar player, you're definitely going to want a single coil in the neck. He gets some of the most amazing sounds, and a split humbucker is never going to bring you close to his tone. Then you can use the humbucker in the bridge to give you the nice fat les paul sounds.

 

[strat_master]

Re: Please Help! Want Gibson & Fender in one Guitar

a strat with a humbucker will sound exactly that, a humbucker in a strat. the two sounds are very distinctave and having both in one is very unlikely. I would say go with prs because of the split coil option.

 

[Jonny R]

Re: Please Help! Want Gibson & Fender in one Guitar

You could always try getting a mahogany body, with a maple top, off Warmoth, with routing for H-S-H

Set it up with coil splitting.

Like some of the others have said, you'll lose a little bit of strat-quack, but it would be one heck of a great versatile guitar.

 

[Feyd]

Re: Please Help! Want Gibson & Fender in one Guitar

Thanks everyone! You've all given me alot to think about. BTW what is a Fat Strat?

 

[nuntius]

Re: Please Help! Want Gibson & Fender in one Guitar

a strat with a humbucker in the bridge

a double fat has a humbucker in neck and bridge

 

[Mincer]

Re: Please Help! Want Gibson & Fender in one Guitar

Try a Ernie BallMusic Man Silhouette Special..on mine I can clone a great Fender and a great Gibson sound...of course, I changed the pickups to HH (splitable). Or try a Brian Moore, which has very versatile switching.

 

[Quencho092]

Re: Please Help! Want Gibson & Fender in one Guitar

You know, i was an Lp guy until this guy at guitar center let me try a deluxe am strat. The tone is just so addictive and more colorful to me i guess. I say either get an LP or a strat, let either one grow on you, then get the one you dont own if the LP or the strat hasn't grown on you. I guarantee you will fall in love with the LP tone or the Strat tone, you'll be satisfied with both, then you can get the other one if you so please.