Upgrade guitar or pedal or amp?

[donyuso123]

planning to upgrade everything but not sure which to upgrade FIRST. i currently have a LTD M-100FM. It has Floyd Rose. Im wondering whether i should buy a new fixed bridge guitar as it is troublesome to play drop tunings because of the Floyd Rose. should i upgrade my guitar or buy a second guitar? Also, I own a Zoom G3 pedal. Not bad but can use 3 effects at one time only, therefore quite hard to get a good tone. Dont think i should upgrade pedal as it is new. Im currently using headphones straight from the pedal, no amp. So, should I get a decent tube amp first or get a new/second guitar first? Thanks in advance.

 

[J.custom]

You might want to invest in a tremol-no, will save you the hassle in retuning all the strings when you drop tune. Do you dislike anything else on your current guitar right now? If you like the feel of it, you like how it sounds then just stay with it.

How often do you use more than 3 effects at once? More effects doesn't always equate to better tone. Sometimes less is more! You may have a hugeass pedal board with 10+ pedals but yet, tone still sounds like shit. You probably just need to learn how to tweak the stuff in the G3.
IMO for the Zoom G3, since it has amp simulation, you should make use of that to your advantage. You might be able to get better tones by assigning one of the 'channels' for amp modelling, then use the 2nd channel for maybe an OD pedal or distortion pedal, third pedal for delay/mods. There are many permutations and combinations you can try out here.

 

[donyuso123]

You might want to invest in a tremol-no, will save you the hassle in retuning all the strings when you drop tune. Do you dislike anything else on your current guitar right now? If you like the feel of it, you like how it sounds then just stay with it.

How often do you use more than 3 effects at once? More effects doesn't always equate to better tone. Sometimes less is more! You may have a hugeass pedal board with 10+ pedals but yet, tone still sounds like shit. You probably just need to learn how to tweak the stuff in the G3.
IMO for the Zoom G3, since it has amp simulation, you should make use of that to your advantage. You might be able to get better tones by assigning one of the 'channels' for amp modelling, then use the 2nd channel for maybe an OD pedal or distortion pedal, third pedal for delay/mods. There are many permutations and combinations you can try out here.

Hey thanks for the advice. I think i feel neutral of my guitar. Planning to get a guitar with nice design and better pickups. So, I think ill either stay with it and change pickups later or ill get a better guitar (because of the design and maybe pickups). Yea but the problem with the G3 is that if you use OD + Amp there will be alot of noise. So you have no choice but to use the third space for noise reduction pedal.

However, do you think i should get an amp first or the guitar first? and, do pickups make a lot of difference for tone?