Clean and Blues tone. What equipment?

[Kaye]

Hello people. I'm helping my friend to do some reseach here. He's most probably gonna get a electric guitar.

He's into John Mayer stuffs... a hardcore fan of his. Looking for a nice clean tone. Maybe a lil blues element would be nice.

So which kind of guitar should he get? Strat? Tele? etc? And how bout the amp? A amp with built in efx would be nice, nothing fancy.

He thought of getting a fender. Any recommandations?

Thank you!

 

[embryo]

A Classic 50's reissue Strat with a Blues Junior full tube amp. That's it! Guitar and Amp... the rest is all in the fingers and whole lotta soul!

 

[aaroncheong]

i love the keeley modded ts808 too in order to add a lil bit of punch for the leads

 

[Kaye]

Oh maybe i'll post up his budget. Total.. around 1600 or so.

 

[strats]

mmmm a Fender Strat MIJ. add a nice smooth overdrive like one of the tubescreamers and you're good to go.

 

[turtlemuscle]

Strat > Fender all tube amp. won't go wrong.

 

[Kwerty]

The cheapest tube amp is Blues Junior? It is already 1.1k if I'm not wrong.

 

[baobaojon]

y not consider the valbee?

 

[penta-tonic]

id say get a jap strat from ishibashi. the ones with the texas special pickups. and get either the fender pro/blues junior or the carvin vintage 16 amp. should manage to squeeze all this into the budget and a plus that everything is first hand.

 

[tany]

get it from G77

 

[ciel21]

Japan Fender Strat and the Vintage 16 should do it for 1.6k if you buy everythign new. Might have a little bit left for a pedal to push the front end a bit.

 

[FullMetalJacket]

id say get a jap strat from ishibashi.

sorri,who's ishibashi? I'm noob

 

[turtlemuscle]

The cheapest tube amp is Blues Junior? It is already 1.1k if I'm not wrong.

950 can get a brand new one. not so ex.

 

[turtlemuscle]

pro junior even cheaper. 800 can get already. so you got another 800 to get a good Jap strat.

 

[FullMetalJacket]

so you got another 800 to get a good Jap strat.

A new MIJ is $800? :? or used one?

 

[turtlemuscle]

can get a ST-45 for about $800 at luther. and if you don't mind look out for a 2nd hand piece at this price but better build. i think there was a couple of them selling at luther class ad.

 

[ChanMin]

+1 for all the strat --> tube amp suggestions

keep em both fender if possible

 

[Lifehouse]

Fender Strat, as for exact model it would depend on your friends though he might want to look at the Big Dippers or Texas Special. 3 x Single Coils is a must.

Amp wise, John Mayer uses Two Rock. But I think any Fender amp should have good enough clean to get him there. I pretty like the Deluxe Reverb though.

 

[jono007]

id say get a jap strat from ishibashi.

sorri,who's ishibashi? I'm noob

Ishibashi is a jap website. They will mail it to you.
Google ishibashi for the site...

 

[Kwerty]

800? That's cheap. Where did you guys see it?

The last time I checked was at guitar gallery. Saw their webbie it was 1.1k