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A disgusting publicity stunt IMO. They claimed that the guitars had some sort of fault, but I call shenanigans on that. Those guitars could’ve gone to worthy causes or schools no matter what was wrong with them (other than a poorly conceived idea for a guitar). However, Gibson have proved themselves to be the current POTUS of the guitar industry, so we shouldn’t be surprised.

Someone mentioned jamkazam to me the other day, apparently the way it works minimises lag.

Get an entry level Yamaha (they don’t make a bad instrument at any price point IMO) and that should cover both options.

Nice mix of trad and pointy goodness in your collection .

No idea of its provenance, but it looks really nice.

Before I had stands, I always leant mine against my amp, strings toward the amp (TBH I probably leant it against whatever was closest: bed, chair, shelf, wall. The fact that I was a grubby teenager at the time is my only excuse).

Rusty screws are necessarily a bad thing, unless it prevents some sort of adjustment, reliced models come with rust as standard. The jack socket might be a bit of a nuisance to put back in place, not impossible, just fiddly.

First up, Secondly, I had a Tanglewood electro acoustic some years ago, great guitar for the money. Therefore, I reckon stick with that until you feel the need to grow the collection, certainly given that you’re a lefty and sinister options are thinner on ground than regular.

First up As to your problem, that’s a head scratcher As it seems to be activated by particular notes, I’m wondering if it’s a loose connection type of thing where the frequency of the note is causing the connection to disconnect and make with the waveform. Your tech should be able to trace it eventually but it may take time (I used to be a repairman for office equipment and intermittent faults are a PITA).

I don’t think you’ll be sorry. I have an Area T hot on mine because I wanted something a bit more more P90ish, but it is still fundamentally a Tele sound. I love the guys at DiMarzio, always helpful and their products are great.

I grew up with Duane Eddy, Chet Atkins and Les Paul, my dad was a fan. My favourite guitar is a Gretsch 6120 (which both Duane and Chet used in their careers), there’s just something about a big old hollow bodied, single cutaway guitar with a Bigsby vibrato that makes me melt. I don’t own one any more sadly, although I did come very close to buying another one a few months ago, but common sense and ‘the look’ from Lady Ez stopped that happening (I stuck a Bigsby on my Epiphone Casino instead).

As Dad says above, what genre you want to play, who your influences/heroes are, budget, etc, will help with any recommendations folk might have. The good news is, the choice and quality of beginner instruments is fantastic these days and will be able to stay with you longer as you progress. However, I would initially suggest something with a cutaway as that’ll help you access the upper register when you start wanting to investigate the ‘dusty end’ of the fretboard, unless of course your influences use non-cutaway instruments and you want to emulate them.

DiMarzio do some very good hum cancelling Tele pickups, that still sound like a Tele, the Area T for instance.

You like what you like, nowt wrong with that.

Gosh, I like the sound (metaphorically speaking of course) of those P90s. I’ve had Filtertrons and they are great, with a very specific set of tones (Brian Setzer uses them all), but P90s (or p/ups voiced like P90s) are my favourite pickups. A ‘Tron in the bridge of your Strat might be an interesting addition, after all, Fender use them in Cabronitas.

Man alive that’s a tasty shopping list! I hear only good things from Kemper users and the one time I heard them knowingly live, I was very impressed. They don’t have the visual presence of a big old Marshall stack, but they can do so much more (and don’t need the services of an osteopath). LP wise, it’s nice to have one’s heroes guitar, but I feel it can get in the way of being yourself and people might tend to view you as a wannabe and judge you against Mr Hudson rather than on your own merits. Full disclosure - I’m a huge fan of Goldtop LPs (preferably with P90s for my own use) they just look so right and age wonderfully. Still, nice decision to have to make.

Eric Johnson Robben Ford Brian Setzer

We’d love to see some photos of your guitars.

Damn the Torpedoes!!!

Nice. You really don't see a lot of Ric trebles out in the wild.

Yeah, sounds like it’s bleeding voltage somewhere. As Kiwi says, the caps would be a good place to start. However, please exercise extreme caution around the power caps, they can hold deadly voltages and need to be discharged correctly before any maintenance is attempted. You may already know this, but it bears repeating.

Following on from Kiwi's trawl thread, here's mine for my guitar dirt box of choice. Having seen a pedalboard run down video with Dave Kilminster (I like him a lot), I was very taken with the sound of his Suhr Riot pedal. Then I found a video of my current fave guitarist, Lari Basilio, using the mini version and it still floated my boat. Thinking this might be the very pedal for me, I trotted off to my local guitar emporium and tried one out, even with me using it, it was very pleasing to my ears, but horribly expensive given my bedroom guitarist status these days. So some way of getting one at a lower cost was required, Google time - "Suhr Riot Clones". Select videos and, et voila, as they say over the Channel. I forget how much it was, but it wasn't expensive at all (£30ish give or take) and so this resides at Ez Towers and does the job very nicely.

DOH! And done.