expirediconian | Staff posted Mar 02, 2025 07:14 PM
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expirediconian | Staff posted Mar 02, 2025 07:14 PM
EVH Wolfgang Standard Quilt Maple Electric Guitar (Chlorine Burst)
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Also this one for $419
It's a fine low-end guitar, if a person wants to put up with the added complexity of a cheap Floyd Rose trem. If you don't know what that means, there are likely guitars that are better suited for you than this.
It's a fine low-end guitar, if a person wants to put up with the added complexity of a cheap Floyd Rose trem. If you don't know what that means, there are likely guitars that are better suited for you than this.
I've been playing on an LTD EC-256FM and a MIM Fender Standard Strat off and on for a while. I like both the guitars and am in no hurry to replace them, but I feel at this point going with another "good bang for your buck" guitar would be at best a sideways move, which was my first thought on this guitar and why I was asking.
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Pickups should be exact same. Thick and smooth. Almost wanna toss some in a Gibson. They're really good for rock and metal imo.
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The SS260 isn't a bad guitar, but this or the Jackson are much better deals at these prices.
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Guitars are more about look and feel than specs. Too often you'll see a guitar that looks great online but the neck feels weird in your hand, or it doesn't hang comfortably against your body, or it doesn't sound the way you wanted it to, so you don't play it much. Or you'll buy something in a color you don't like because the specs are great, and then you don't play it much because it's ugly.
There are about a million different electric guitars out there. Finding the one that you want to stare at AND pick up AND is comfortable to play is difficult, but it's not impossible. You usually have to go through a bunch of guitars before you find it, though.
Body wood hardly matters to the sound. Neck wood can matter a little, but everyone uses maple except Gibson. Really thin necks can lose sustain on basses, especially 5-string basses, but it doesn't matter as much on guitars since the strings are so much lighter.
Reverse headstocks don't make much difference when you've got a Floyd because of the locking nut. On a guitar with no locking nut, it can make the bass strings a bit softer to bend, and it makes doing the intro to Iron Man easier because there's much more string to push on.
Pickups and strings are about 85% of the tone. Pickups are easy to swap, but it's easy to spend hundreds of dollars needlessly when most of the tonal differences are within the range of a basic bass/treble EQ. There's a Chinese 4-knob EQ/booster usually branded "Rowin", "VSN" or "Amuzik" that you can find under $30 and works great. Metal guys like to use a Tube Screamer for the bass cut, but it also muddies up the sound, and you can get a better effect with just EQ in my opinion.
Have fun learning to shred. I hope this helps! (Rep me if it did.)
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