I need a tip for buying a new guitar

for reverb id say the holy grail nano the guys in the 1975 use it but i have one and its simple and covers a lot of ground

Well guys, drawing conclusions I chose to shop the Standard Strat, beacause I'm definitely sure that with a "traditional" guitar I can play it safe. The Offset's Mustang is a "risk", perhaps it sounds really good too, but if it doesn't have the timbre of the vintage Mustangs than that guitar isn't properly for me. Thank you all!

the recorded guitar sounds that are your bench mark have been through gobs of processing, the difference between a mustang with a strat bridge and a mustang with a mustang bridge will probably be less noticeable to you than the fact that you have a different amp, different speakers and you're not being recorded by an expensive mic into a neve 1073 and a distressor

just play as you man, you're overthinking this.... find some guitars you like to play and embrace them for what they are.... when you wanna chase some toens down the rabbit hole it'll be when you're expanding your guitarsenal, not starting it

i know Adam used hiwatts and now for at least new stuff is running fender vibrolux's, but they also have a huge budget and their gear probably have new gear in the mix regularly

hiwatt? there's a pricetag. The ehad alone is a 1.5-2k buy in for a good one on a good day!

we were just talking gear for the 1975 lol, their lead guitarist uses them

its too much amp for most humans though, trust me.... when they say hiwatt they mean HIwatt. Watt for watt the loudest punchiest amps ever made for instruments, Just WHOA. Super fast and unforgiving too. Don't make a mistake.

i know i love them, i demoed a Fano JM6 through one at CME, the headroom is insanely good and they can wail but they are too loud for most small-midsize club venues. they handled pedals better than fenders

I really like a hiwatt that's just breakin' up with maybe a little slapback as an effect and that's it.... of course, for that sound you have to be willing to kill a few people in the front row of even a 500 seat venue.... just liquefy the fuckers with sound pressure

if you can't feel the air moving is it really live tho????? but those things can cause tornadoes with how much air the move. they definitely have to be behind/under the stage or else someones gonna get their insides turned to mush

"I was kind of on a search for the perfect acoustic guitar" "If you're on the search for the perfect guitar, just stop and write some songs"

i feel this tim mcilrath quote is relevant when it comes to guitar shopping lol

if you can't feel the air moving is it really live tho????? but those things can cause tornadoes with how much air the move. they definitely have to be behind/under the stage or else someones gonna get their insides turned to mush

You're talking to a guy who toured with a 100 watt plexi and a dual showman (twin in a head, no reverb) for YEARS, so I know loud. And I played them turned way the fuck up too, okay?

to be perfectly honest, unless I'm playing jazz I pretty much don't play any of my current stable of 30 to 50 watt amps below like 5 or 6 either. I play loud. But Hiwatt? They're soemthing else. As are the original Oranges, but Hiwatt, whoa loud. Marshall, fender, orange, sunn? damned loud.... the wind from the cab will blow your pants off, but a hiwatt head paired with a hiwatt stack will take your balls with your pants and blow them 2 states away so you can't have them sewn back on.

i played a 50 watt custom and that thing was a haus, i couldn't imagine being in front of it without in ear monitors i have no clue how townshend did it. i couldnt crank it i was afraid of being to loud and everyone hearing me mess up and blowing an eardrum

in ears, anything that sits that close to your ear drum is worse for your hearing than standing in front of a raging hiwatt, though the in ears won't lower your sperm count. Floor wedges. All these in ear bands are slack-pussy frenchmen. Nothing against the french, that's just a funny insult I once heard someone use. Give me blazing amps and blazing floor wedges any day. And Rx earplugs too...

i currently use floor wedges but I'm not running my gear loud enough to have any issues with volume but everywhere i look is people talking about the importance of them

the volumes I like to record at are almost earplug level... even ebfore I sold my ac4hw to Narcist last year I found myself playing it up so far on the volume dial that I might as well push a few more dB and use my ac30HW or Matchless in 15 watt mode. Some of what makes a loud tube amp sound good are pshed power tubes and speaker, workin' hard, but some of it is just that your ears like the loud.