Question for Musicians

[BlasterBates]

I was thinking about the 6 string version.

hmm I think the "jangly" might fit with my style. My speciality is a 50's style, as I learn't in a stage band doing swing, hmm "rockabilly or Buddy Holly" best describes it, so a strong treble would be good. I did play a cheap semi-acoustic but it wasn't clear enough.

Do you reckon it would fit with that ?

[freakydancer]

I was thinking about the 6 string version.

hmm I think the "jangly" might fit with my style. My speciality is a 50's style, as I learn't in a stage band doing swing, hmm "rockabilly or Buddy Holly" best describes it, so a strong treble would be good. I did play a cheap semi-acoustic but it wasn't clear enough.

Do you reckon it would fit with that ?

A Rickenbacker would be perfect. Either that, or a Gibson ES335.

Rickenbacker is better though....

[BlasterBates]

...aha so a Rickenbacker sounds like a Gibson does it ?

[freakydancer]

...aha so a Rickenbacker sounds like a Gibson does it ?

Well, as far as the two of them using humbuckers, then yes, they are similar, although the sound is brighter than the Gibsons.

[Shimano105]

Hmmm... a 335... nice

As for acoustics and sound not being governed by price - so true! My Sigma (Korean Martin) is one of the best sounding acoustics I've played. Rosewood back means it has deep lows instead of loads of nasty midrange. Cost £80 new.

My Ovation, however, sounds as artificial and souless as the plastic bowl it is made from.

[BlasterBates]

Just read some reviews on Epiphone. Sounds like the Epiphone ES335 is good value for money.

Anybody play it ?

[freakydancer]

Just read some reviews on Epiphone. Sounds like the Epiphone ES335 is good value for money.

Anybody play it ?

Great guitars, and a snip at under £400....

[BlasterBates]

I'm tempted to buy one of these as well, I mean for £400; I might even pick up a secondhand one for a couple of hundred.

[DS23]

Just read some reviews on Epiphone. Sounds like the Epiphone ES335 is good value for money.

Anybody play it ?

yup. well kind of...

epiphone are gibsons budget guitars. ie pretty much the same thing only cheaper.

anyway, epiphone guitar manufacture is (or at least was) outsourced to a korean company called samick. samick make their own guitars as well as being an outsource manufacturer for other peoples wares. i have a samick 650 which was their version of an epiphone 335.

but i don't understand - didn't you just get a brand new rickenbacker? you want a 335 too?

[DS23]

I'm tempted to buy one of these as well, I mean for £400; I might even pick up a secondhand one for a couple of hundred.

ahh OK.

indeed a 335 copy will only set you back a few bob.