Most Overrated/Overpriced Electric Guitars

[Greg_L]

I totally agree. I pretty much when I saw it.

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.

 

[Guitargodgt]

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.

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.

 

[Greg_L]

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.

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.

 

[Guitargodgt]

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

 

[Greg_L]

Yeah they are different. Really different. One sounds good, the other doesn't.

 

[Guitargodgt]

Yeah they are different. Really different. One sounds good, the other doesn't.

To each his own I suppose. I like both.

 

[Greg_L]

To each his own I suppose. I like both.

Lol. I know, I'm just being a douche, like EMG lovers.

 

[Guitargodgt]

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.

 

[Greg_L]

I've never heard of lollars, but anything with a LOL in it has to be good.

 

[Seeker of Rock]

I like EMG pickups alot, but not more than 490r and 498t they come with stock.

Amen. 490/498 combo is pretty damn sweet.

 

[Seeker of Rock]

Yeah they are different. Really different. One sounds good, the other doesn't.

Sorry for the late LOL, but that deserves an LOL. 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.

 

[Guitargodgt]

...but most situations in "home recording" would not require active electronics pickups in a guitar. Imo. They are great for live rigs, though.

Sense. This made absolutely none.

What the heck are you talking about?

 

[xxGIRTHxx]

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.

 

[Slowrider]

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.

 

[Slowrider]

how much it cost for a brand new electric guitar?

An electric guitar? When did that happen?


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

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.

Someday......

 

[Slowrider]

The above post had a trifle of sarcastic wit attached, in case no one noticed.