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Post subject: What squier is best for me?
Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 6:57 pm
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Hey all I should be coming into a bit of spare cash in the next month or two and I am thinking of picking up a Squier to use for gigging and recording. I play mostly 90's style alternative rock/grunge. A lot of melodic power chords and such, a lot of fooling around in drop D tuning. I have an Epiphone Les Paul Custom but honestly its not the best guitar for this style of music in my opinion, I find its tone is just too warm and I want something brighter and crunchier.

I am thinking of picking up either a 50's classic vibe strat, a 60's classic vibe strat, or even a classic vibe duo sonic. I have yet to play any of these but I have heard great things about them and i plan to play them next time I go to the guitar shop. Anyways I was wondering what you guys think would be the best for the style of music I play, or would another squier model be better like say a deluxe strat or a jagmaster, etc. Any input is much appreciated. :)


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Post subject: I agree
Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 11:33 pm
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I agree on your point

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Post subject: Re: I agree
Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 11:35 pm
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ramthakur wrote:
I agree on your point


huh?


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Posted: Thu May 06, 2010 4:41 am
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Well, I'm just gonna toss some random thoughts in here...just my opinions as always, please use them for what they're worth.

Well if you're looking for something brighter than an LP, yea...I'd say a Strat is probably the way to go. Personally I'd probably avoid the Tele for that kind of music though unless you want to go from "bright" to "twang".

While I haven't played many of them, I have recently played a couple of the CV Squiers and I do have to say they are pretty impressive instruments. Very decent quality and workmanship for the price. That said, for the style/genre you're looking at there, I would also expect to probably budget for some different pickups...again just my opinion here but when I think of "90's alt/grunge" I'm thinking of something just a bit heavier than "Vintage styled" Strat single coils. If it were me, I think I would lean towards either some seriously over-wound single coils or maybe something like some stacked humbuckers such as Duncan Hot Rails...a little pricey, but worth it.

That said...and again my opinion here but...if you haven't already, I think I'd also budget for the right amp too...remember that if you're looking for a specific "sound" (or in the case a specific genre at least), you're amp is going to be half your sound. Ok...this is probably showing my age a little bit and it's not really my main music by any means but I do have to admit that I'm a "child of the 80's" to some degree (had I of graduated, it would have been in '83) and as I was growing up I did have a period where I was getting really heavily in to that late 70's/early 80's punk...stuff like Wendy O, The Clash, Electric Prunes...hell...even Devo! LOL!!! Of course, I've always been a huge Neil Young fan as well (and he ain't called the "Gran-daddy of Grunge" for nothing! So when I think of what came out of that later in the 90's and such (which again isn't really my thing, but it beats the hell out of rap!) when I think guitar there I think, "Big amps and cheap guitars". You're early punkers were really like that...they didn't get all bent out of shape over "tone", they had a statement and they wanted to make it LOUD, LOL!!! And ya know that a lot of those early British folk were pretty much living on the streets and such...not like most of them could have even afforded a $1000 guitar back in those days...best get a cheap guitar and a really big amp! LOL!!!

Of course the stuff that came out in the 90's certainly isn't "punk" by any means but I think a lot of it really grew out of the early punk scene...sort of like the hippie's of the 60's who grew up and started mass-producing organic teas and ice creams! LOL! That 90's alt/grunge is, in many ways like a more mature version of the stuff that was coming out back in my dad...I could be wrong but I do think there's some evolution to be scene there. So again, if you haven't already looked in to it, if you're going to be gigging at some point, make sure you have yourself an amp that can do the job. There's an old saying; Even a fairly cheap guitar can sound reasonably decent through a "good" amp but even a $4000 Custom Shop instrument is going to sound "cheap" on a crappy amp.

Now I wanted to mention that in regards to the guitars because if by chance you don't already have a suitable amp, then instead of the CV's (which are again, very decent guitars), you might want to consider a Squier Standard (which is also a very good guitar) or something cheaper instead and then save the difference to go towards the amp.

Of course, if you already have a decent amp that you're happy with...please disregard those last couple of paragraphs! LOL!

Anyways, last but not least please remember that all of this stuff is of course subjective and much of it simply comes down to individual preference...what may sound good or great to me may sound like dung to you (and vice-versa). The Strat in general is a great all around utility tool to say the least...blues, country, metal, funk, disco, classic rock, jazz...the Strat pretty much does it all. And while I know this tends to irk the crap out of some people, Squiers -are- real Strats..and some of them are pretty damn fine instruments. So that said, yea...go to your local music shop and play as many of them as you can...in the end you are the one who's going to have to live with your purchase so get one that makes -you- happy.

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Posted: Thu May 06, 2010 10:32 am
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They Epi LP can do it.... just mess around with the tone knobs on the guitar and the bass, treble and mid knobs on your amp

That being said I've played the Classic Vibe Duo Sonic, it's an awesome little guitar but it's kinda eh when it comes to having some "umph" but if you changed the pickups I'm sure it'd do alright, especially if you could fit a hotrail in the bridge position but hell, even them hotter Strat pickups could work

As for the Strat's I haven't played the Classic Vibe ones to my knowledge so I can't tell you much about them but I can tell you that if you play alt/grunge I'd suggest taking a look at the Squier HSS Strat's because those are pretty decent and should get you close to what you're looking for

And you should try looking at Tele's, they have more meat on their bones than some people think because I've managed to get some pretty heavy stuff out of one before but you won't be using the neck pick-up much... but I suggest looking for around for a Vintage Modified Tele Custom because I have one of those and have it in everything from Standard to Drop B and it's never let me down... until an old friend of mine essentially broke it


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Posted: Thu May 06, 2010 1:27 pm
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Give the Jagmaster a try, see how you like it.

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Post subject: Re: I agree
Posted: Thu May 06, 2010 3:59 pm
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ramthakur wrote:
I agree on your point


fuuk off kid you dam 5hit head spammer


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Post subject: Re: I agree
Posted: Thu May 06, 2010 4:00 pm
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Grunger91 wrote:
ramthakur wrote:
I agree on your point


huh?


he's is a spammer, look at his signature, they are links to websites.


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