best electric guitar under 200?

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i know you all will laugh, but i just need a guitar to get me by.
i want it to kinda sound ilke hot hot heat or other dancey bands.

anything at all i could get?
 
Are hot hot heat a dance act? they werent last time i heard em? maybe they changed direction?

anyway thats beside the point. the guitar:

i recently purchased a greg bennet Torrino which is a SG copy.
Cost me £199 dunno how much this is in US money.

i love it and play it more than my mexican telecaster. although i would go and try some as quality can vary quite a bit between guitars qwhen you are buying cheap.

http://www.gregbennettguitars.com/electricportal_torino.html
 
theres a whole group of guitars, almost 1 from every brand from $130-160.

ive played the

1. "WI14C Idol Series Electric Guitar Pack" the guitar plays alright pickups sound good.

and 2. "Les Paul Special II Electric Guitar"(epiphone)

I actually like the les paul special II better... has better playability, and also a good sound. It also came very nicely setup out of the box. I had to tweak the washburn because the action was a little high.

and I personnaly dont like fenders, especially a squire.

the amp and the pickups will make the greatest difference in guitar sound (of similiar body styles, ie. solid, semi-hollow, or hollow).

so.. cheap guitar, probably an epiphone.... pick a style you like... and 9 times out of 10, you get what you pay for.

gl
 
cheap guit

I was looking at the Oscar Schmidt OE30 and OE40 models at musicians friend. OE30 is semi-hollow and OE40 is hollow body. They look like the best guitars under $200. I read lots of good reviews of those and plan on giving one a try. Right now I'm working on a custom built guitar, so I'll see how that goes first.
 
also...

Actually I just remembered my first electric was a Kramer Focus from musicyo.com ($80) -- not bad. I've done some minor work to it, it has a heavy solid body, but I still play it.

I wouldn't recommend Squire guitars-- they sound horrible.
 
im thinking an epiphone as well

haha well hot hot heat always makes me wanna dance!
 
The Squier Black & Chrome Telecaster is one of the best cheap guitars I've ever played. I'm thinking about picking up two and installing a bigsby on one of them.
 
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uncle_j73 said:
I read lots of good reviews of those and plan on giving one a try.
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Please do review the Oscar when you get one.. I have been looking at them for quite some time. I wonder how they compare to a Dot.
 
Squire Strat. I know why people slam them too, they're all over the place as far as quality. If you take the time to pick between a few (or have a guitar playing friend pick) and find a good one, they can rival american strats in playability. The pickups and electronics aren't anything to write home about, but the strat design makes them infinitely upgradeable. Most of the Squire bodies are completely routed out under the pickguard so you can drop in a new pickguard with any combo of humbucker or single coil. I started on a Squire 10 years ago and it's still one of my favorites.
 
reshp1 said:
Squire Strat. The pickups and electronics aren't anything to write home about, but the strat design makes them infinitely upgradeable. Most of the Squire bodies are completely routed out under the pickguard so you can drop in a new pickguard with any combo of humbucker or single coil. .
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I agree %100. If you shield it and switch the bridge single coil for a humbucker, you will be amazed at the difference. You can read up on shielding here. Read thru it a couple of times, the mod is not difficult.
 
About 2% of Squire's seem to be decent, meaning that you have to sift through 50 of them to find a good one. The wiring and pots are total poop in a Squire. too.

The Yamaha's have better quality control and it's rare that you'll ever have a problem with one.
 
with those 2 choices... definately the epiphone. like i said before, I played one straight out of the box and it was sweet, even the fender sponsors out there say you'll prob need to mod the squire to get it to sound decent. we pitched in and got one (special II) for a friends b-day, it made me a little jealous, since i've been playing a crappier guitar for 10 years (which i payed more for, used, back then).

i looked around too, and its pretty much a straight price for them everywhere, unless you can find a blem/open box.

gl
 
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