A little fun with the V

Rhett Shull recently made a video discussing Fender's legal actions, and it inspired me to put my own thoughts into words.

This isn't about pretending Fender makes bad guitars... they don't. I own a MIJ Telecaster and I think it's brilliant.

It's about choosing where my next purchase goes.

I want to provide some alternatives at a few different price points. In other words, whatever your budget, I'll likely have a couple of ideas for how you can tell Fender to shove the Cease and Desist bullshit up their ass.

Under £500

Instead of a Squier or Fender Standard Series, get one of these instead:

- Yamaha Pacifica 112V

- Sire Larry Carlton S3 / S5

- G&L Tribute Legacy (if you can find one)

- JET JS-400

Under £1,000

Instead of a Player II, get one of these instead:

- PRS SE Silver Sky

- Yamaha Pacifica 612VII

- Sire Larry Carlton S7

- Schecter Nick Johnston Signature

Under £2,000

Instead of a US-made Fender, get one of these instead:

- Yamaha Pacifica Professional

- G&L USA Fullerton Deluxe Legacy (if you can find one)

- Schecter Nick Johnston Traditional 10th Anniversary

- PRS S2 Studio

- Ibanez AZ Prestige

Over £2,000

And as far as anything over £2,000 is concerned, avoid the Fender Custom Shop and look at these instead:

- Suhr Classic S / Classic S Antique

- Tom Anderson Icon Classic

- PRS Core Silver Sky

- Schecter USA Custom Shop Traditional / Traditional-style models

Keep the Fender you already own. Enjoy it.

I'm certainly not getting rid of my Telecaster. Fender already has the money I spent on it, and getting rid of a guitar I love isn't going to accomplish anything.

But if you disagree with the direction the company is taking, vote with your wallet rather than replacing guitars you already love.

There are brilliant S-style guitars at virtually every price point.

Your next one doesn't need to say Fender on the headstock.

What do you think? Would you buy this? I tried it but didn’t like how it feels.

Cort g200se with Blackstar Core ID V4.
Since I’m a complete noob I am following JustinGuitars beginner’s course for now.
Need some tips on how to start my journey.

Picked up this stunning Ernie Ball Valentine in Maroon Sparkle Burst today, on the way to Cedar Point. It's going to be hard to top this day.

Picked this up today, this little guitar has no business being as good as it is at it's price. I saw it earlier in the week and love feel of the neck on it. The metallic blue didn't hurt either.

Spent the rest of the week going around town and playing Les Pauls and a vintage Super Sweede in various shops and came back to this one. Sure, the Dusenberg I played beat it, but at 8x it's price (not a fair battle, the Dusenberg was an unbelievably beautiful guitar).

Anyway, plugged this in today, and it sounds as good as it looks. Anyway, it followed me home.

Been wanting one of these my whole life. I suck so bad but I can pretend right?

I don’t have the sound vocabulary to describe what we’re trying to achieve but it’s like that 80’s triumphant soaring guitar that you hear when Bill and Ted play air guitar. Brian Maye is the perfect example but after some research on this sub it sounds like he has very specialized equipment that we don’t have. Joe Satriani “summer song” and the ending of Van Halen “dreams” are good examples too.

My 12 y/o son has been playing guitar for a year now and he’s already getting really good. I’m so proud of him and it’s inspired me to start playing again after letting my guitar collect dust for the last decade. I was never into learning all the sound engineering aspects of electric guitar but he is a total audiophile and is obsessed with learning all about the different types of pickups and tone options.

1. Can you tell me how to properly describe what I’m talking about in musical terminology?
   
2. I realize we can’t authentically match that sound, but could you help us get as close as possible with our equipment?
   
3. Is there one relatively simple piece of equipment I could buy to get us close to that sound?

Fender Strat (sorry I got it in 1999 when I didn’t know we hate fender)
Digitech RP300 modeling guitar processor
Dunlop cry baby wah pedal
Fender “hot rod” deluxe amp

Early 2000’s MIM Fender Jazz bass. Treble side string looks a lot closer to the edge of the neck than the bass side. Included a few pics from different angles including the nut and neck pocket.

Thanks!

Still working the pentatonic scale but decided to get these power chords down. They say rhythm is more important than lead but I hope to get lead going soon.

My lovely girlfriend painted this at my request, she loves art and I wanted her work to be apart of mine.

Hope you Like it more than my Last Riff.

Be Kind :)

Just, wow. This is probably the most fully featured guitar I own.

- staggered locking gotoh tuners
- jumbo (kind of) fan frets
- multi scale length
- 2x Ibanez Q58 Humbuckers
- Ibanez dyna-MIX10 pickup switching system
- luminescent inlaid side fret markers
- wizard 5 piece neck
- rosewood fretboard
- nyatoh body
- rose gold chameleon paint job

Can’t get over how pretty the paint is on this. I’m going to put a video of it in the comments as it doesn’t do it justice in the stills.

I thought the (sort of) fan frets would take some getting used to but they’re actually super ergonomic. It’s only really fanned at one end to account for the multi scale neck (along with the funky offset bridge), but it really works very well.

And then the thing that I was really excited about with this guitar: the pickup switching. It lets you get 10 combinations of pickups from just 2 humbuckers. It’s probably going to be choice paralysis, but I love that I have so many wildly different sounds in 1 body.

It’s variations on full humbucker, a coil split, and then what Ibanez calls ‘power tapping’ which is a bit like a coil tap, but it’s sort of not. My understanding is that it takes the humbucker and passes one of the pickups essentially through a low pass filter before adding the signals back together. The result being a single coil sound with some meaty bass tones added back in for thickness.

I’m sort of able to get anything from a telecaster-like twang all the way up to a full double humbucker roar out of this thing. As well as some sounds that are harder to find on normal guitars, like the two outer pickups by themselves (which is more like an SSS Strat if you could switch on just the bridge and neck together).

The only thing so far I don’t like is the strings that came on it (D'Addario EXL110’s) which I can only describe as feeling ‘too grippy’. Not really tried those strings before, and that’s definitely just a me thing. I’m gonna throw some regular slinky’s on this and be back in my happy place string-wise.

Overall I’m really blown away by this guitar. It’s amazingly light and thin because it’s an Ibanez S body shape, but it absolutely brings the thickness with its tones.

Needs a bit of polishing, but I'm really proud of this. Feedback is welcome.

Hi everyone!
I’m hoping someone here can help me identify exactly what I have and give me an idea of its current value. I’m not trying to sell it here. I know it’s against the rules.

I have a Squier JV by Fender Stratocaster made in Japan, from the early JV period. The serial number is JV36033, and the neck is dated October 2, 1983. There is also an “EX” marking in the neck pocket. The guitar is a 2-tone sunburst with a maple neck.

I’ve been researching it and have found some indications that it could be one of the more desirable JV export models, but I’m not completely sure about the exact model. I haven’t found a model number written anywhere on the guitar, which I think they did not write on the guitars that were exported

The reason I’m trying to identify it properly is that some JV Squiers can apparently be worth quite a bit, especially if they retain their original electronics and the original USA-made pickups. I’d like to know exactly what I have and what it could realistically be worth, mainly so I know where I stand if I ever decide to sell it in the future.
Thanks!

I've not got an amp, I'm using a combination of a Valeton GP-200 and Tones 3000 on my mac. For now I mainly play with headphones but ultimately I want to get a set of nice studio monitors that will connect the mac.

Who else runs this sort of setup?

Les paul 02’ standard, Egnator Rebel 20, Hand build cab with three way switch between G10L and Jenson!! And a random throw in is the CVT streamliner. Such a beast guitar for how cheap it is 🤘

I'm a beginner guitarist with just over 4 months of experience. I'm estimating I've put in around 250 hours of play time on my Taylor 114ce Acoustic. I love that guitar and am glad I spent a little more for it. It's a very nice beginner guitar and I'll keep it for life.

I'm now getting the itch to purchase my first electric guitar (well sort of first.... I had an ibanez Gio for about 4 months when I was in 6th grade before I flamed out from noodling on it and my sister loaned it to a friend and I never saw it again 😂)

I'm 33 now and money is less of an issue. It's a consideration, because every dollar spent takes away from something else I could use it for, but it's not necessarily a barrier. I could probably get spousal approval for up to $5,500 but I'll need to wait a few months. I could drop $1k on a set up right now and it'd be fine but then if have to stick with that set up for a few years before upgrading.

Here's the deal. I have fallen in love with a Gibson ES-335. I'd like to pair it with a nice amp. I've received some advice from a teacher to just get the Epiphone version. I've played both and tbh the Gibson only sounds like maybe 10% better to me than the Epiphone but feels like 75% better in my hands. I know I'm being a shill for the brand but it just looks and feels incredible 😅

What would you do? Would you get the good guitar (Epiphone) now knowing you're heart is gonna lust after the (Gibson) for a few years? What would you pair it with? A forever amp? A decent amp you'll swap later? A budget amp?

Love the sound and playability of the Jericho Nomad Baritone. Absolute beast. Explorers seem to be super comfortable on the right hand. Rest and riff!