Fender or Gibson?

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What kind of Electric Guitar do you favor?

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noisedude said:
One starts with an F, the other with a G. But both of those are really great letters of the alphabet.

Now do you see?
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I'm illiterate !:D :)
BUT SERIOUSLY FOLKS !!
I can't tell the difference. But I know when a beer is out of date.
 
I like the way the Les Paul recorded...but after a few hours under the lights my tele is alot better choice.

Im considering liquidating my collection down to a few since I bought the variax.
 
grimtraveller said:
I'm illiterate !:D :)
BUT SERIOUSLY FOLKS !!
I can't tell the difference. But I know when a beer is out of date.
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It's like, you've got a can of Fosters and a can of Carling. They're both out of date. They're both AWFUL beers. Which do you drink first?
 
I think you have to go back to the early 50's when Gibson and Fender were introducing solid body electrics and realize they were intentionally making guitars that didn't look or sound like the competition. Gibson was an established instrument maker using traditional manufacturing methods while Leo Fender was a tool & dye guy new to guitars and using early solid body electric like Bigsby's as prototypes, hit the ground running.

I like and own both.
 
noisedude said:
It's like, you've got a can of Fosters and a can of Carling. They're both out of date. They're both AWFUL beers. Which do you drink first?
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Funny thing there Noisy, I can often tell differences when it comes to food and drink, particularly out of date mouldy stuff. But there are so many guitar players and performances from the 50s to the present day in almost every genre on so many different kinds of guitars {many applied with a huge variety of effects} at various volumes in a variety of technologies recorded by great to average engineers & producers that I really dig......I simply can't tell the difference !!:D
 
grimtraveller said:
Funny thing there Noisy, I can often tell differences when it comes to food and drink, particularly out of date mouldy stuff. But there are so many guitar players and performances from the 50s to the present day in almost every genre on so many different kinds of guitars {many applied with a huge variety of effects} at various volumes in a variety of technologies recorded by great to average engineers & producers that I really dig......I simply can't tell the difference !!:D
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Hmmm .......... I give up. You have bested me. :p
 
If I'm playing live, Gibson. If I'm recording in the studio -- or, more importantly, if I'm recording someone else in the studio -- both.
 
well yeah.. thats why i have both but as was said earlier the gibson has a very thick tone ... the fender type stuff seem to have an extra dimension that is great especially in the studio.

however looking at jimmy page work that gibson on song remains the same you have to admit that it wouldnt have been quite the same if it was a strat.

having said that gilmore makes that strat sing...

my point is you need a huge guitar collection!:)
 
Fender

I am deffinatly a fender man, i just love the way a nice tele plays and also the way it sits on the strap. I have played a few les pauls and they always seem just abit to bulky and somehow too self indulgent for my tastes. Teles all the way :)
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i use gibsons live but also a G&L which i think of a real fender if you know what i mean. ;)
 
I have a Gibson LP Studio vintage mahogany. It's stripped-down, and inexpensive. You get reasonable quality (American-made, Burstbucker Pro pickups) without paying for the decor. You can easily split the coils and have something that is more versatile than a typical Gibson without losing "name cache" if that's why you're limiting yourself to Gibson and Fender.

That said, you can pickup a decent Ibanez that has it all. Just throwing out an option to satisfy something we all think too much about.
 
I'm an LP guy for guitar, Strats make my ears hurt, too long playing too loud, or at least the guitars being too loud. I like the thick sound. For bass, gotta be Warwick.
 
They each have their own sound quality: Single coil vs humbuckler...then you have the P90 sound and I presume you mean Solid body. Electronics and neck length in the Tele make it more twangy so you have a variance sound between a Strat and Tele that as well. With a Fender its like a lego kit and you can virtually make it sound like anything you want...A Gibson: The electronics are harder to work with but the sound is purer and cleaner. You have to be a better player to use a Gibson, its not forgiving...but everybody wants one because they cost more..LOL! A Fender is much easier for 'bending' and leads unless your as good as Derik T... sweeping is easier on a Gibson because of string tension... It depends on the sound you want and playing style.... In Jazz, the Fender has too much sustain for many but if you want long sustained bending notes for blues its cool, the Gibson is a pure sound with less sustain unless you work with pedals, echo, reverb, etc... and each sound different with Tube vs Solid State, but with effects, you get what you want... Don't forget those old country standard Guilds. Its about the sound, player style, money you want to spend and if you want to change out pickups, etc.
 
JoeVague said:
They each have their own sound quality: Single coil vs humbuckler...then you have the P90 sound and I presume you mean Solid body. Electronics and neck length in the Tele make it more twangy so you have a variance sound between a Strat and Tele that as well. With a Fender its like a lego kit and you can virtually make it sound like anything you want...A Gibson: The electronics are harder to work with but the sound is purer and cleaner. You have to be a better player to use a Gibson, its not forgiving...but everybody wants one because they cost more..LOL! A Fender is much easier for 'bending' and leads unless your as good as Derik T... sweeping is easier on a Gibson because of string tension... It depends on the sound you want and playing style.... In Jazz, the Fender has too much sustain for many but if you want long sustained bending notes for blues its cool, the Gibson is a pure sound with less sustain unless you work with pedals, echo, reverb, etc... and each sound different with Tube vs Solid State, but with effects, you get what you want... Don't forget those old country standard Guilds. Its about the sound, player style, money you want to spend and if you want to change out pickups, etc.
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man ...... that's almost all backwards.
Gibsons have a shorter scale so bending on them is easier than with a Fender when using the same gauge strings.

Teles and Strats have the same scale length so there's no real neck length difference between the two.

In general Gibsons are thought of as more forgiving because the humbucker set up tends to have a less defined attack than Fender single coils.
Gibsons tend to have very good sustain because of the mass and the humbuckers and, in general, it can be argued that Fenders have a purer sound because the single coils magnets pick up a much shorter section of string so they don't get covered with as many harmonics and such. That's what makes the Fender sound so thin compared to a humbucker.
And there's no way Fenders tend to have too much sustain for many. Maybe for you but in general, they tend to sustain a bit less than a Gibson.

These are all generalities, of course. ANY guitar might be an exception but the tendency towards those generalities is in the majority for those brands.
 
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