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Took advantage of guitarguitar selling these cheap. very impressed. i mainly play bass but mess with guitar for funs and recording. This will be all the guitar I ever need. Plays really well and sounds great with the p90s. looking forward to the thin finish wearing for a bit of a genuine relic!

I’d visit more if it was a bass forum. could call it bass chat

Jacks instrument services in Manchester are good. Used them a couple of times. i normally do my own set ups but I’m no good with those wobbly bridge things. The guitarist in my band is thinking of setting up as a specialist in Floyd Rose set ups around Manchester!

Tone is in the eye of the beholder

Budget wise I love the boss me50. knobs to control everything, decent tone, built like a tank and battery powered if needed! £50 second hand if you get a good deal!

These speakers get a really bad rep on forums but I picked one up on eBay for £25 to upgrade my Laney Ironheart 112. the stock HH custom speaker was pretty muddy but it’s a really nicely made cabinet. due to the bad reviews I was reticent to order the seventy 80 but I’m so glad I did! massive improvement over the stock speaker, may be the best £25 I have ever spent! Gone is the low end muddiness and now crystal clear joy to thoroughly let my little valve head do it’s thang Playing more distortion and crunch the Celestion is actually not quite as nice as the stock HH but not a huge difference, but on cleans it’s night and day. Very happy, and what a difference a speaker can make to tone!

Likes we have over on basschat, let’s see what y’all have! i like me some cheap German fun. This is my Te70 rosewood deluxe that i’ve Put a new neck on. The original neck had a couple of issues so I bought a new neck off eBay and finished it with tru oil. New neck needed a thorough shimming. Thinking I might get some new tuners and a fancy bridge. I figured the stars made me think of a Wild West Sheriff so it’s earned the name Sheriff Fatman as I love a bit of Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine.

I’m certainly no genius on the guitar, I like to play simple and loud, so the stuff I play is really influenced by the likes of Kurt Cobain, Noodles from the Offspring or the Foo Fighters. Really though, most of my guitar education has come from YouTube and the likes of Marty Schwartz or Justin Guitar have probably influenced me just as much, if not more.

I used to enjoy Rocksmith on the PlayStation but I’ve never tried any pc or tablet apps. I’m interested to see any replies myself. would it be better in the general discussion section? May get more views.

My main guitar is a bit of a metal beastie with active pups, I bought this Squier to be a different option. I bought it second hand from my local guitar shop, I tried it in store and it played wonderfully so had to come home with me. Cost £200 and is well worth it. The neck is pretty thin, which I like, it plays fast. Tuners work smoothly and hold tune perfectly. The trem is nice, it gives a nice wobble, great for a surf rock kind of sound. It doesn’t do big dive bombs like a floyd rose though. It has a myriad of options and switches. Flick the main switch upwards and it uses only the bridge pup with the upper volume and tone wheels. main switch down uses both pups and the lower switches. One each to turn on and off each pickup, along with a high pass filter to cut the low end for an exaggerated single coil sound. The volume and tone knobs work with this circuit. The pickups are Duncan Designed and review very well, widely considered better than the Fender Japan pickups. I certainly like them, they are clear and with a lovely quack. Sound really nice clean and crunchy. i wouldn’t swap them for what I use it for, easily good enough to gig or record with. Very satisfying sound and exactly what you want in a Jaguar. There is so much to like about this guitar, especially for the price. However one thing many people complain about is the bridge. Squier tried to keep this guitar as faithful to the sixties model as possible and that includes the bridge, which is bad. It has loads of tiny grooves which the strings do not sit in well. I’m a pretty heavy handed player (mainly playing bass) and if you hit the strings hard they jump around in the saddles, not helping the tuning and intonation. This is easily solved though. As per most other reviews, I fitted a Mustang bridge, which is a drop in replacement. It has a proper groove in the saddles. Mustangs have a different radius on the fretboard so I got a bridge with adjustable saddle heights and it is perfect. I put 11 gauge strings on it which in conjunction with the new bridge solve the problems perfectly. It is a slightly shorter scale guitar than normal so the thicker strings work well with it. The scale makes it ridiculously easy to play. To sum up, this is an amazing guitar for the money. Plays really well, easy and fast. sounds great, iconic single coil tones on tap and clear note and chord definition. A quick £10 bridge replacement and you have a great axe that punches well above its price point. The guitarist in my band has an American Fender Jaguar and it is assuredly a better guitar, locking tuners but less tonal options. His sounds a little bit better, but nowhere near better enough to justify the price tag from my point of view. If you are looking for a great value guitar that is good enough to practice, record or gig, with versatility from jazz and blues, to rock and punk this guitar does everything far better than its price would suggest. You’ll struggle to find anything better for anywhere near the price.

I bought a £60 one, I like the idea, they are very convenient. However, it couldn’t cope with the output of my active guitar or my active bass so it went back. I’m using a friends spare line 6 wireless now and it’s great. The two guitarists in my band use line 6 wireless and they’re great. I love using wireless, very liberating!