Anyone can reccomend any good electric guitar with amp?

[watme]

I bought my guitar... but it was crap as the nut has problem and it not well-designed as my teacher told me. I wan to get a new electric guitar with tremolo..i am a beginner right now.. but i wan to get to try this too. The price maybe around 300-500, i also wana to buy another new amplifer with the guitar. If possible is there any good package for this? Thanks man!

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so actually i should get a other guitar and not tremolo one... as changing strings will be troublesome for me..i bought my LTD F-10 at Davis Guitar.. when i was totally a lousy beginner and i duno how to buy my first guitar...then i found out my amp overdrive is terrible and my guitar's nuts got problem..Thanks for the fast reply =)~

 

[I_M_Ken]

well, tremelo meaning something like a fender's vintage trem? or a floating trem like a floyd rose or wilkinson?

with a budget of $500max, there are lots of choices for a beginner especially if you choose to go the 2nd hand route.

as for amp, i believe something solid state and about 15w should do since u're just starting. that can be easy to find as well.
Luthermusic or G77 have this Randall RX20 i think. is quite a decent amp for the price. do check it out

 

[subversion]

do share what your teacher told you. btw, which guitar is giving you this bitter encounter?

Ken: which Wilkinson model is a floater?

 

[watme]

erm.. my teacher was using a floyd rose.. i like it so much , so i wana to try getting one.. but i playing punkrock , so is it suitable?? if i got a budget of 600+ with tremolo + amp can i get ? erm.. can i see whats floating trem and wilkinson? i never heard b4 of that.. sorry.. what are guitar brand are there with tremolos?

 

[almondx]

Ah play punk rock no need trem. Cause punk rock is mostly your power chord riffing and rhythm, not so much of single note lead and solos. If you have a floyd rose one it will be troublesome to change strings and set up especially for a beginner. Then it will create more problems and give you even bigger headache if you don't know how to use it or set it up properly. Besides that, a floyd rose or even normal type of trem sacrifices some of that shiokness when you play power chords. Not such a big fat sound.

Eh don't mind me laughing about this

erm.. my teacher was a floyd rose..

so your whammy skills should be quite zai :wink:

On a more serious note, the novelty of using a vibrato bridge, which is the correct name for a tremolo bridge, will wear off over time. Unless your playing style incoporates a wide usage of vibrato effects, you'll find having a vibrato bridge troublesome as you progress.

The lower end ibanez SA series should be within budget, and even more so when Swee Lee has a half price sale. The bridges stay in tune relatively well too.

 

[watme]

Wow.. Thanks for the large information u have here..ok.. i listen to ur advice =)... i actually look for a suitable good guitar + amp only . Budget was 600+ , as my first guitar and amp is totally crap!

 

[reez_rock]

wah....ur teacher using a tremolo....I imagine Steve Vai posted this question in a forum long time ago when Joe Satriani still his teacher.... :lol:

 

[almondx]

Eh it's ok starting with crap equipment really. I started out with 8 bucks china made acoustic guitar. Practise my chord changes on action that was super high until my fingers literally bleed. As long as can play I happy le. Slowly lah =) no rush wan.. that dream guitar or amp will always be available for you to buy sometime in future. And until now I still love my $80 fender copy. My first electric baby

 

[slashlk]

Get a Cube-15X from swee lee or a Vox Pathfinder 15R from Swee lee. both are good practice amps.

about the guitar I don't have little experience myself but I'm using a LTD viper-50 from davis. got it at 320 and its really good enough. but no trem bridge!

 

[deathism]

dey..swee lee dun carry VOX leh.

 

[lifele55]

See Tee music. .. Hehh, I meant City Music btw.

 

[re_unknown]

LTD F-10 at davis.
if u want packages u may get stuff even lousier(unless u upgrade)
sx? stim? all thoose crap i used to think was good.

 

[almondx]

I be more specific arh, my main issue with locking tremolos and even normal tremolos at that price range is that they don't stay in tune well, and the difficulty in changing string part applies for floyd rose bridges only. Sorry if I was unclear in other posts. For floyd rose bridges it can take at least 10-15 mins to change even after you become proficient at doing it. Shredcow is the master here and he can teach you how to change strings easily with floyd rose =p Just buy his favourite strings for him can liao.

At the price range you're looking, the guitars with normal tremolos don't come with locking tuners, which is half the equation to staying in tune. The only way to have close to perfect tune is to have your strings locked down at the bridge end and nut end of the guitar which is what the floyd rose achieves. Normal tremolo already not locking, so if the tuners also not locking then how can it stay in tune well! That's why those type of normal tremolo only suitable for light usage of the trem bar. And for floyd rose at that price range, they are very very lousy in quality. You buy original floyd rose is like 1/4 the price of your budget already. Those type of lousy floyd rose use abit then out of tune liao. So you will spend more time retuning then playing. Hence my reason for asking you go fixed bridge =)

ps. paiseh my posts always super duper long

 

[Crawldaddy]

Hmm.

Get a fixed-bridge guitar since you've already been fore-warned about the hassles of non-locking vibrato bridges and you mainly play rhythm.

Suggested brands:

Hamer (City music)
Squier (anywhere also can find)
Epiphone (if you can live with the default pickups)

You can also browse through the amplifier review section for the pros and cons of individual amplifiers within your budget.

However, if you can live with your current set-up, just change the nut and save up... once you are in a comfy $1000 cash range you will have more options and less headache.

 

[slashlk]

Yea pathfinder from City music at peace centre. sorry

 

[watme]

Maybe when i am more advanced, I should change my guitar's fretboard neck off? Currently my amplifier is totally SUCK man, i can't totally prac with overdrive. Is it true that some guitar suit to certain amp? Vox look so funny le..like a gate =X, what get i can for 200dollar for amp? or should i get 2nd hand amp? =X

 

[df]

SX guitar after upgrade = good...but the amp = crap.

 

[Crawldaddy]

Hmm.

The trick in spending your money is to get 2nd-hand goods at a decent price, so that you already have a seasoned (and proven to be playable) instrument to start off with, along with a decent amplifier which the seller wishes to get rid off due to his / her own quest in upgrading.

The whole idea of modification probably should only enter your mind if and when you feel that the tone that you get from your GUITAR does not suit your style of playing. If you can live with it, just bear with the itch in your fingers, don't waste your cash on gear-upgrading sprees, and upgrade the entire instrument accordingly rather than splurging on kuching kurau things.

 

[FREEKILL9566]

You know if you say SX is a bad brand I don't think so. I had an Ibanez GRG 270 and a SX strat. The SX is good and compatible with the Ibanez. First time I went on-stage I used my SX they thought it was a good guitar but because of its brand name, They think it sucks... The brand name is nothing as long sound good can, so please don't diss brands because they are not famous. I plan to scrape to brand name off my SX strat hehe

 

[slashlk]

saying out of experience. my 1st amp was this second hand crate had good reviews of it all around. but since my 1st electric guitar setup I had no experience whatsoever of what a good one should sound like.

after buying 2nd hand i realized it sounded very harsh and e amp died in a few weeks. 8O

so id rather go to a store where there are ppl to help u buy what u want. i found city music's service really great.

VOX looks like a GATE??!!! :smt075.. hahah i thought vox had the coolest vintage looking front covers, followed by fender silverfaces.

no but ive tried the pathfinder and I really like e sound and looks of it. its under 200 and plus, it has a year warranty! :lol: