r/Guitar

It's my friends birthday and he plays the guitar. I want to buy something for him that will upgrade his look.

Please help guys

I decided buy a guitar on Saturday, first in 26 years! I got a dirt cheap Fender Starcaster and wow I forgot how important callouses are. After 4 days playing it my fingers hurt so much that I finally ordered a Yamaha C40II classical for ease of playing. I got home to a huge box and opened it to see a ton of cardboard. I opened the box and then opened the center box and found the guitar. I thought the packaging was a bit excessive but I just tuned it up and started playing. What a dream it feels like compared to acoustic! Then I figured I would check the packing materials and found TWO more guitars. I phoned a friend to show off the sound and tell about the extras. Then I pulled out the empty center box and found that it was wedge shaped, so I checked under it and found THREE more guitars! Six total for the price of one, haha. Just thought I would share this story before I contact Amazon and let them know about their error.

I've been wanting to get one but i dont live alone so i would like to know how loud they are (unplugged)

I want to upgrade the machine heads on my strat, but I was wondering which ones to get. Are the Fender ones any good, or am I better off going with a different brand? I'm curious to learn from others' experiences before buying anything. I'm more interested in the highest quality option vs budget-friendly. Cheers!

With all the Fender drama, im seeing a lot of youtubers saying that the ironic part is that Fender doesn't even make the best "S style" guitars nowdays.

Wich brands are you go to, besides Fender and Squier?

Thinking of changing the bridge pickup in my epiphone sg g400, it's tuned to drop C and with my band I mostly play stoner/alternative-like metal, was thinking of a medium/medium high pickup but I can't decide

They offered me a set of vintage dimarzio super distorsions but I don't know

I don't shop at big guitar stores so I don't get to see high end guitars in person very often, but a pretty big store near me was closing down and I had the chance to play a few mid to high-end Gibson and Fender models the other day. $3000~4000 USD and $2000~$3000 respectively.

There was some issues with the finishes on a few of the Gibsons, and the some of the Fenders were not setup very well. Fair enough I suppose.

They played well of course I'm not going to deny that, but for $3000 I expect alot more. The Gibson actually felt pretty similiar to my $200 LTD that I practice modding on, but maybe that was just the neck shape.

The pickups sounded good on both, but in this day and age its hard to find ones that don't, and people usually replace them with something else.

I don't really see the appeal *in the modern day* besides the logo on the headstock and the knowledge that greatest players in history used them. I know they were amazing back in the day because your only other option for most players was cheap bargain bin guitars like first-act, and/or Japanese (which was seen similiar to how Chinese-made is today) like Ibanez.

With the decline of quality in both companies and rising costs, I'm seeing less people buy Fenders and Gibsons, especially the younger generation. They aren't bad guitars by any means, but ignoring any finish flaws and setup problems assuming I just got unlucky and played lemons, that much for CNC guitars? Made of cheap~mid range woods?

I could ask a great luthier to make anything I wanted by hand to my exact specifications for less than $4000 man.

TL;DR I played a Fender and a Gibson and they were decent guitars with high price tags.

Hey guys, first post here but me and my (room)mate have started playing together and want to find more songs to eventually perform (at some point lol)

I’ve been playing 10+ years and he’s about 2 years in, we’ve got good amps, 2 acoustics and 2 electrics.

Currently we play supersonic, live forever and rock and roll star (oasis) + rooster (Alice in chains) + tomorrow (Silverchair)

I’m hoping to find more songs to learn with that ^ sort of vibe, any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!!