Most Overrated/Overpriced Electric Guitars

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Most Overrated/Overpriced Electric Guitars?

  • Gibson

    Votes: 289 51.9%

  • Fender

    Votes: 93 16.7%

  • Gretsch

    Votes: 38 6.8%

  • Parker

    Votes: 38 6.8%

  • PRS

    Votes: 160 28.7%

  • G&L

    Votes: 17 3.1%

  • Epiphone

    Votes: 32 5.7%

  • Rickenbacker

    Votes: 49 8.8%
  • Total voters
    557
Greg_L said:
Was it a Zakk Wylde model by any chance? That's the only Custom I know of with EMGs. That would be a marginally better excuse than someone purposefully putting those pickups in a Custom.
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Nope was one of these:

Gibson Custom Les Paul Custom (Alpine White) | Sweetwater.com

AT LEAST he didn't route it for a battery (that would have been so much worse). Battery was in control cavity.

I like EMG pickups alot, but not more than the 490R and 498T they come with stock. I used to have a guitar with gibson burstbuckers. Gibson makes some damn fine pickups.
 
Guitargodgt said:
Nope was one of these:

Gibson Custom Les Paul Custom (Alpine White) | Sweetwater.com

AT LEAST he didn't route it for a battery (that would have been so much worse). Battery was in control cavity.

I like EMG pickups alot, but not more than the 490R and 498T they come with stock. I used to have a guitar with gibson burstbuckers. Gibson makes some damn fine pickups.
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Oh man, that's a beauty. And the guy put EMGs in it? Terrible.

My LP has a Burstbucker3 in the bridge, and it was one of the selling points for me. What a fine pickup. Vintage PAF sounding with a little extra bite, but not "hot". Great pickup. Way better than any gay assed EMG. :D
 
He may not have, he said he got it used for $2700 (still way to much fucking money).

As far as the burstbucker over the EMG, they are just different entirely. It's like comparing apples to oranges to me. I love a good orange just as much as an apple.

But I wouldn't be sticking one inside a $4k guitar. haha
 
Yeah they are different. Really different. One sounds good, the other doesn't. :D
 
I know you are I wasn't taking you seriously at all, because you said "sounds good" to one of the clips I recorded with that guitar.

EMG lovers are pretty fucking crazy I have to admit. I would dare to say lundgren, bare knuckles and lollar pickups have the same kind of crazy fallowing by those that use them.

I've never used lollars, but the first 2 mentioned above sound like shit to me, especially the lundgren.
 
I've never heard of lollars, but anything with a LOL in it has to be good.
 
Greg_L said:
Yeah they are different. Really different. One sounds good, the other doesn't. :D
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Sorry for the late LOL, but that deserves an LOL. :laughings: Nothing against active pickups or the EMG brand, but most situations in "home recording" would not require active electronics pickups in a guitar. Imo. They are great for live rigs, though.
 
Seeker of Rock said:
...but most situations in "home recording" would not require active electronics pickups in a guitar. Imo. They are great for live rigs, though.
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Sense. This made absolutely none.

What the heck are you talking about?
 
Anything more than $1500 bucks is overpriced imo. That being said, I've always wanted an Alpine white Les Paul Custom which is about $3000 and if I had the money I would spring for one in a second. I also would love to have a PRS 513. I have an Epiphone Les Paul Studio that I swapped the pickups out and it is one of my favorite guitars and the total cost was $300. You dont need an expensive guitar to get great tone and once you pass the $1500 price range you are paying more for aesthetics and a name. The amp and cab is just as if not more important than the guitar. The most important piece in the equation - The Player.
 
Once you build a few guitars, you'll find that they all are overpriced.

Not much to them.

No mystery.

Just another tool.

Nothing to be feared, or revered.:thumbs up:
 
tutut said:
how much it cost for a brand new electric guitar?
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An electric guitar? When did that happen?:confused:


I imagine it would cost quite a bit; if one used a switch, pickup, input thingy, sirens, and flashing lights.:cool:

Would probably need to have a way of making it louder, maybe they'll design an output device; which may add to the cost of $22.00, or so.


They may be able to create one for $30-40 someday.
Saw something similar in the 1940s Popular Mechanics. But, it only had 2 strings.

The article said a person could play several, old timey, 2 chord, 5 note; melodies.:guitar:

Someday......:(
 
The above post had a trifle of sarcastic wit attached, in case no one noticed.;)
 
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