Guitars! Yay!

[The King of Rock and Roll]

I'm a guitar player, my name is freaking Tone Zone, most of you should get that. LOL. If not, go and buy one right now!

I play, I have a Les Paul Studio, a Fender Squire, an a couple of acoustics.

I play metal, rock and blues. And lately, I've been working on chord forms and bluesy metal. Similiar to Thin Lizzy, Led Zeppelin, and W.A.S.P. but nowhere near as good. I've played for about a year and a half.

Also, I've got several hundred dollars saved up and am thinking about a new guitar. Would you people be so kind as to make recommendations. At the moment, I've been thinking about a Master Series Warlock, or a Strat of some kind. But I'm open to other ideas if anybody has them.

You cannot go wrong with an Ibanez. The SZ series is fantastic, i've posted a link in the OP of my SZ320. They're shorter scale (can't remember what though), 22 frets. Quite havy guitars, thicker body and neck than the usual Ibanez builds, nice and chunky, which is great for me. The Mahogany body and string-through-body system give it a really warm tone and absolutely amazing resonance, to the point that it actually sounds decent played acoustically. Pretty good stock pick-ups as well, and as usual with Ibanez it' great value for money.

I'll look into those as well. Im also a fan of thick body guitars, after all, I do own a Les Paul. I probably should have specified that it was a Gibson.

And Ibanez are mostly shred guitars with high playability am I right?

For Ibanez; Go Japanese or USRG or go home.

Ibanez are for shredders, try and get something from the mid 90's before the Edge trems were phased out.

Alright, thanks. Any model recomendations other than the SZ series?

Also, I'm curious, does Ibanez have a full, rich sound, because thats what I've been going for lately with my playing style. I've been doing some bluesy metal/rock with alot of open chord forms, would Ibanez be good with that kind of thing. I know that with shredding and arrapegios and the like it's a great guitar, but is it well rounded? Does that depend on model, series, ect?

Most Ibanez are focused more on shredding, and if that's not what you're looking for then definitely stay away from the RG series. The SZ is definitely a well rounded guitar, it's fairly good for shredding and the like, but the ticker neck and body stop it from being focused on it. Honestly, i can't actually find anything wrong with it. I'll admit i'm a bit of a fanboy about the whole series.

Take a look at their website, they've got a huge range.

Yeah, I've been on there and the Jackson site today, just wondering what people who have experiance playing these guitars thought. I do like the SZR720 alot. But considering that I have a Les Paul, nice blues/rock sound to it, maye a total shred guitar would be good. Thanks for the advice anyway.

 

[QuirkyTambourine]

I have six guitars, all of them different, and I like to play quite frequently. I'm at school as a guitar focus so I play a lot of jazz.

Here's my three primary ones

Spoiler: Epiphone Joe Pass Emperor II

It's a great archtop I got for 500 bucks my freshman year of high school, I still use it today

Spoiler: Fender Dao Acoustic

The pickguard is a bit different but look at how freaking beautiful the wood is on this thing! It freaking sings.

Spoiler: Eric Johnson Strat

What more needs to be said? It's one of the best sounding guitars I've ever played and I've been blessed with the opportunity to own one myself.

 

[shazlor]

I own an Epiphone Casino and a Cole Clark Fat Lady 1.
The Fat Lady has some of the best stock pick ups for a budget acoustic I've ever heard, and the Casino... well, Lennon and Noel Gallagher both play the thing so I needed to buy one, although I don't get to play it as much anymore that I've become a lead vocalist, I'm stuck on rythym with the acoustic.

 

[Tonimata]

Ibanez is quite literally perfect.

*Forces OT to high five*

I own and Ibanez too, and I hope to be able to get an Iceman and change the pickups around to make it a soloist guitar. I like me the JEM pickup disposition. It's just great sounding. And yes, I play metal too. So once again, high five.

Oh and I believe we are on fire

Holy shit, this thing's up again?! The last post was in January, someone has some glorious necro skills.

I do love my Ibanez, although i've pretty much stopped playing guitar now. It's stopped being fun, it's more like a chore than a hobby. I might pick it up again further down the line, but for now i'll just gaze at my beautiful, beautiful Ibanez.

Edit:

Yeah been playing for about 3 years now.
I can play most things...except for sweeping.
MY one weakness
well...i have several
Fender man-current guitar is a white strat, even the neck is white, i love it XD
started with acoustic songs, but moved on to metal and punk rock.

Sweeping's a tricky one. Obviously, you need to follow the old rule of practice makes perfect, but it takes longer with this style. The co-ordination and timing needs to be spot on, it gave me a lot of trouble when i learnt it. Incredibly rewarding though.

If you haven't got anything like this already, i strongly advise you pick up this DVD. It's incredibly helpful for introducing and mastering sweeping, plus it introduced me to Andy James, who is absolutely incredible.

Maaa, you don't just stop playing an Ibanez. For me, it's more of an addiction than a hobby. Which model do you have? I forgot to put it before, but mine's a GRG170DX (I think?), I had to go cheap because the others were too expensive. Oh and yes, I've only been playing for 8 months more or less, and I can alreasy sweep. You can call me Mr Genius when you're headbanging at my concerts (SMUG SMUG).

But yeah, to the other guy, just practice, and really, have the will to want to do it. Some people in my course started playing guitar after they saw me start, thinking it would be easy, to run full pelt into a brick wall. They didn't want to learn to play guitar. They just wanted to pose.

And I do believe my fingers are on fire.