I don't know if this topic has been chewed over yet but here goes. What would you rather use-a great guitar and a horrible amp or a great amp and a POS guitar.I think I'd be inclined to go for the great guitar rotten amp option-others?

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I have to go with the playing would be better on a good guitar but tone is all inthe tubes. give me a good amp.

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well the sound wouldn't produce anything good if the guitar or well a bass is mediocre or the amp... since i'm a bass player well.. if there's a DI, i could just go direct with a good bass..

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The greatest guitar will sound like crap thru a POS amp IMO. Amp first for me, when it comes to tone.

You'll never catch me with a bad guitar, but I don't need any better than a common axe. On the other hand, I find any price amp completely justafiable because of tone.

Depends on how horrible the amp is or how great the guitar is. I think I would be equally happy playing a Custom Shop El Cabronita through a 10watt Crate solid state vs a Squier Bullet through a 57 Twin reissue. Not as happy as I would be playing the El Cabronita through the 57 Twin RI though

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i'll take a good guitar. i couldn't dial up a good tone on the best amp ever made. clean tones, yes. my dirty tones have described as a chainsaw. then i asked, "yes but what kind of chainsaw? some sound better than others".
as usual noone laughed.

I would prefer a great amp. Its the final link in the chain for great tone.

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09 Fender american deluxe strat.
97 Gibson les paul special P90's double-cut
65 Princeton reverb re-issue
2010 Guild Gad-F40e

If the guitar is set up properly (i.e., stays in tune, action not too high, no fret buzz, etc.) give me crappy guitar into a good amp.

I've played my guitars (all of which are very good-to-great in quality) through cruddy amps at one time or another, and it just sounded lousy.

I've played my daughters Squier Mini-Strat (which actually doesn't sound bad--it has good pickups!) and a friend's cruddy Strat copy through my 63 Re-issue Vibroverb and it sounded great.

Amp is more important than axe; having said that, I wouldn't purposely go out and buy a lousy guitar just because I have a good amp.

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I would have to go with a good bass and deal with the amp.

Mediocre both would be okay...

...but for the purpose of this, a decent, excellently set up guitar will allow most player expressiveness. Hope to dial in at least something sort of acceptable on the amp.

guitslinger, as most have written I've had all of the combination's and a great guitar is my choice because I just can't deal if the guitar doesn't play well. IMHO, YMMV.

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I'd take the crappy guitar through the awesome amp. As long as the crappy guitar had a good set up. I think a Squier Bullet would sound incredible through a $10k Dumble. But a $10k Custom Shop Fender would sound horrible through something like that old solid state Squier Champ 15 I used to have.

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i think i would rather have a crap guitar as its easier to set up a crap guitar than make a crap amp sound good peace

Great Guitar crappy amp for me

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