This seems like kind of an interesting topic: If you play guitar (or even if you don't), what guitar do you use, or what is you favorite guitar and why?

While I am not a serious guitar player I do own a Johnson 620 player acoustic. It's not very good but its all i need. As my favorite I guess I will go with the Fender Telecaster. 52'.

I'm all about the SGs. But in general I am not much of a guitar tech guy. I don't really care, as long as it's comfortable to play, and of all the guitars I've played my SG is the most comfortable to play.

As far as acoustics go, I started out playing classical and I have a hard time playing steel string acoustic guitars - the frets are so small and the strings so damn hard. I have some sort of Alvarez Yairi whose model number I can't remember off the top of my head. It cost me a decent bit but it's worth it. I'm not picky about electric guitars, it's all going to come out digital and processed anyway, but you can't skimp on a classical guitar.

Telecaster. I've always preferred the sound of Fenders to Gibsons. They just seem so much brighter. The Tele wins out over the Strat just for being cooler looking.

I also like the Fender Jaguar, but it's a little confusing with all those damn switches.

I bought a Yamaha Pacifica a month ago, my first guitar.

I have a Fender precision bass as well.

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Originally posted by odysseyandoracle:
I'm all about the SGs. But in general I am not much of a guitar tech guy. I don't really care, as long as it's comfortable to play, and of all the guitars I've played my SG is the most comfortable to play.

Do you have a Gibson SG?

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Originally posted by odysseyandoracle:
I'm not picky about electric guitars, it's all going to come out digital and processed anyway, but you can't skimp on a classical guitar.

I beg to differ

A good electric guitar should sound big and bright with plenty of sustain before you plug her into anything.

I’ve found that it’s generally easier to make a cheap acoustic sound big and dynamic, than it is to make a cheap, poorly setup electric running through a cheap solid state amp. Actually, I don’t think I could imagine anything more musically frustrating than the latter, especially if you’re dealing with those Korean made squires that feedback like a motherfucker as soon as you pump the gain.

All up I have 4 electrics and 2 acoustics, but I mainly hang off my Gibson LP; lots of balls, lots of tone, and plenty of versatility. As mentioned above, I can sit back and play it unplugged and it sounds great

I kind of agree with odyssey. About acoustic guitars I mean. In my experience if you have a cheap acoustic guitar, it will sound cheap. Although you can make a cheap electric guitar sound fine with a good amp.

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Originally posted by Awe-inspiring Jamshed:

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Originally posted by odysseyandoracle:
I'm all about the SGs. But in general I am not much of a guitar tech guy. I don't really care, as long as it's comfortable to play, and of all the guitars I've played my SG is the most comfortable to play.

Do you have a Gibson SG?

Yep.

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Originally posted by odysseyandoracle:
I'm not picky about electric guitars, it's all going to come out digital and processed anyway, but you can't skimp on a classical guitar.

I beg to differ

A good electric guitar should sound big and bright with plenty of sustain before you plug her into anything.

I’ve found that it’s generally easier to make a cheap acoustic sound big and dynamic, than it is to make a cheap, poorly setup electric running through a cheap solid state amp. Actually, I don’t think I could imagine anything more musically frustrating than the latter, especially if you’re dealing with those Korean made squires that feedback like a motherfucker as soon as you pump the gain.

All up I have 4 electrics and 2 acoustics, but I mainly hang off my Gibson LP; lots of balls, lots of tone, and plenty of versatility. As mentioned above, I can sit back and play it unplugged and it sounds great

Yeah, I can understand that, but it depends on what you're doing with the guitar. I don't play my electric nearly as much as I do my classical, and when I do I'm usually trying to make it sound as odd as possible. I'm not saying the type of guitar doesn't matter at all, just that it isn't nearly as important as it is with an acoustic guitar. You can make an electric guitar sound like anything these days, especially when recording, but there's nothing to hide behind when you're not plugged in.

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Originally posted by red-white mayweather:
I kind of agree with odyssey. About acoustic guitars I mean. In my experience if you have a cheap acoustic guitar, it will sound cheap. Although you can make a cheap electric guitar sound fine with a good amp.

Yeah, that too. Depending on what you're doing, there are a lot of links in the electric guitar chain where you can beef things up or make things irrelevant. There's no way to make a 100 dollar nylon string guitar sound like anything other than crap. This also makes it easier to distinguish between two different acoustic guitars than between two different electric guitars, at least as far as my own experience goes, which is admittedly heavily weighted towards the former.

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Originally posted by odysseyandoracle:

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Originally posted by Awe-inspiring Jamshed:

Do you have a Gibson SG?

Yep.

Sweet

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Originally posted by odysseyandoracle:
Depending on what you're doing, there are a lot of links in the electric guitar chain where you can beef things up or make things irrelevant. There's no way to make a 100 dollar nylon string guitar sound like anything other than crap. This also makes it easier to distinguish between two different acoustic guitars than between two different electric guitars, at least as far as my own experience goes, which is admittedly heavily weighted towards the former.

Well, since mine are generally with the latter, I’d disagree to an extent. I don’t play classical guitar, and I never play nylon string acoustics, so I really have no experience with them and they really all sound the same to me for this reason although I doubt that there isn’t a difference between crap and quality, both in tonal resonance and playability.

A good electric guitar shouldn’t need to have all its natural tonal qualities drowned out with various effects and compression to the point of creating an obscure or completely different tone or effect (strictly to sound good) unless that is specifically your objective, and if so, there’s no reason why this can’t be achieved with a good electric, the only difference being that with a crappy electric, or poorly setup electric, you may be limited to it.

I know a couple of guys who can pick out most guitars in a studio produced recording. I myself can often distinguish between a Gibson LP and a Fender Strat or Tele in distortion or clean, by ear, although I’m sure if someone really wanted to screw with a signal and test me, they could at some point pull me up on this.

Either way, I’d agree that as you said, it depends on what you’re doing and thus your priorities. If someone was looking for an electric guitar to make samples, and would rarely need an electric guitar in their music, then I’d tell them to get anything that works.

If someone was in a rock band writing and recording all their specifically electric guitar orientated parts, I’d suggest they heavily investigate electric guitars to find something quality that suits them. Then, once they have the great sounding guitar, move on to find the great sounding amps, and then the great sounding effects. Start from where the signal originates and move forward in that progression.