Controversial guitar opinions you have.

Aidanspaghetti · September 2023

Controversial guitar opinions you have.
"The Force is strong with Yoda it is."

TTBZ · September 2023

flying_pie said:

TTBZ said:

soma1975 said:

Mountain bikes are the equivalent of quilted top PRSs.

You mean road bikes. Especially those rank seafoam green Bianchis and the like.

I'd put the list of wankiness as follows:

All E Bikes
Gravel bikes with suspension
Gravel bikes
Hipster fixies
Carbon road bikes
Carbon full sus MTBs (high.pivot is wankier than 4 bar)
Alu/steel road bikes
Alu full sus MTBs
Hardtail MTBs
"It's all I can afford and I just ride it" bikes

Lolwis for this! I'm a mixture of alu FS but with "all I can afford" parts as I'm still on 26" til they die. I actually wouldn't mind a gravel bike though and ebikes are starting to turn my head (til I see the price) - so I guess I'm around a PRS SE level of bike wanker

Basher · September 2023

Messing with the relative pickup volume levels on a two humbucker guitar with both pickups on is pointless.

The sound with them both at the same volume is great. It's my favourite sound on a LP or 335 and I wish Gibsons had a master volume so you could easily turn this up and down. However I've never found all the amazing tones that apparently exist when slightly backing one volume off, according to the articles in old guitar magazines.

For me it doesn't take much control turning until the two pickup sound is 99.9% identical to the loudest pickup on its own.

Maybe I have crap ears? Or crap guitars? Probably both.

Philly_Q · September 2023

Nerine said:

Eric Steckel is shit. So incredibly bland and cliched.

I probably wouldn't have singled him out for criticism, but since you've mentioned him.... I tend to agree. I saw an interview where he was calling his music "blues metal" as if it was something he'd invented, and I thought "Really....?"

And... I don't think his Knaggs signature model is as nice as the regular Kenai. Why bother changing it?

Philly_Q · September 2023

Basher said:

Messing with the relative pickup volume levels on a two humbucker guitar with both pickups on is pointless.

The sound with them both at the same volume is great. It's my favourite sound on a LP or 335 and I wish Gibsons had a master volume so you could easily turn this up and down. However I've never found all the amazing tones that apparently exist when slightly backing one volume off, according to the articles in old guitar magazines.

For me it doesn't take much control turning until the two pickup sound is 99.9% identical to the loudest pickup on its own.

Maybe I have crap ears? Or crap guitars? Probably both.

I tend to agree (not with the last line, that's for you to decide). However...

I've never believed in the "both pickups on, that's where the magic happens" stuff, I'm not that subtle, but it does depend how well-matched the pickups are. If you have a shared volume control and one pickup's way more powerful than the other, the both-together position is pretty useless.

And having separate volume controls does come into its own if the pickups are out of phase (which I realise is unusual, and generally unpopular). In that situation, playing with the volumes lets you vary the amount of "out-of-phaseness", which I quite like.

hollywoodrox · September 2023

Kittyfrisk said:

Offset said:

skunkwerx said:

Guitar 'faces'. Sure, have some expression.. but not 'that' much.. looks creepy and rapey and fake as shit.

Este Haim is renowned for her 'bass face'...

I find her & her face pulling quite arousing

pluckbuddy · September 2023

Threads about the price of guitars and the antics of bedroom dealers are about as interesting these days as repeated cheap jokes about Ian Elson and so on... Yes we know and we agree, but it's getting boring now.

Philly_Q · September 2023

hollywoodrox said:

Kittyfrisk said:
Este Haim is renowned for her 'bass face'...

I find her & her face pulling quite arousing

We probably didn't need to know that.... but I can see where you're coming from. Not literally.

Lebarque · September 2023

Only sad sacks refer to a Les Paul as a 'Lester'

Seziertisch · September 2023

I think in-between position sounds are all a bit shit.

S56035 · September 2023

Small independent builders should admit their Strats, Teles and LPs are a rip off of other people's work no matter how much better they may be.

KevS · September 2023

hollywoodrox said:

Kittyfrisk said:

Offset said:

skunkwerx said:

Guitar 'faces'. Sure, have some expression.. but not 'that' much.. looks creepy and rapey and fake as shit.

Este Haim is renowned for her 'bass face'...

I find her & her face pulling quite arousing

I thought that was Philomena Cunk at first..

skullfunkerry · September 2023

After 55 pages of this thread, I've come a realisation: there a lot of things which boil other people's piss, which literally don't even occur to me to be annoyed about

Philly_Q · September 2023

Based on my daily "what's new" visit to the Peach website.... I'm sure they're beautifully made and sound wonderful, but Mayones guitars are bloody ugly. And their name gets on my wick, it sounds like Mayonnaise.

ICBM · September 2023

Basher said:

Messing with the relative pickup volume levels on a two humbucker guitar with both pickups on is pointless.

The sound with them both at the same volume is great. It's my favourite sound on a LP or 335 and I wish Gibsons had a master volume so you could easily turn this up and down. However I've never found all the amazing tones that apparently exist when slightly backing one volume off, according to the articles in old guitar magazines.

For me it doesn't take much control turning until the two pickup sound is 99.9% identical to the loudest pickup on its own.

This. It’s one of the reasons I have a PRS and not a Gibson.

Philly_Q said:

I've never believed in the "both pickups on, that's where the magic happens" stuff, I'm not that subtle, but it does depend how well-matched the pickups are. If you have a shared volume control and one pickup's way more powerful than the other, the both-together position is pretty useless.

I don’t find that at all - I always prefers much more powerful bridge pickup, and the both-together sound is still my favourite.

The trick is to choose the right pickups and adjust them correctly.

Dan_Halen · September 2023

‘Tone is in the fingers/hands’. No it isn’t, that’s technique.

If you buy xxxx’s amp and pedals you won’t sound anything like them. Yeah you will. Well, you’ll sound a lot closer to e.g. Slash with a Les Paul and a Marshall than you will with a Strat and a Princeton. Might not be able to play like him, but you’ll sound a lot closer.

carlos · September 2023

Bonkers prices on the classifieds aren't that bonkers if the guitar is still there after a year.

EricTheWeary · September 2023

Lebarque said:

Only sad sacks refer to a Les Paul as a 'Lester'

I noticed that Mick Taylor did this on TPS and I thought ooh I bet there are some Fretboarders seething.

Philly_Q · September 2023

EricTheWeary said:

Lebarque said:

Only sad sacks refer to a Les Paul as a 'Lester'

I noticed that Mick Taylor did this on TPS and I thought ooh I bet there are some Fretboarders seething.

If they were awake.

skullfunkerry · September 2023

EricTheWeary said:

Lebarque said:

Only sad sacks refer to a Les Paul as a 'Lester'

I noticed that Mick Taylor did this on TPS and I thought ooh I bet there are some Fretboarders seething.

What about people who call it a "Paul"?

Lewy · September 2023

skullfunkerry said:

EricTheWeary said:

Lebarque said:

Only sad sacks refer to a Les Paul as a 'Lester'

I noticed that Mick Taylor did this on TPS and I thought ooh I bet there are some Fretboarders seething.

What about people who call it a "Paul"?

While we're on the subject, what about British people who make a point of pronouncing it "Lesss Paul" as opposed to "Lez Paul"?

Bennyboy-UK · September 2023

skullfunkerry said:

EricTheWeary said:

Lebarque said:

Only sad sacks refer to a Les Paul as a 'Lester'

I noticed that Mick Taylor did this on TPS and I thought ooh I bet there are some Fretboarders seething.

What about people who call it a "Paul"?

Also wank.

Seziertisch · September 2023

Bennyboy-UK said:

skullfunkerry said:

EricTheWeary said:

Lebarque said:

Only sad sacks refer to a Les Paul as a 'Lester'

I noticed that Mick Taylor did this on TPS and I thought ooh I bet there are some Fretboarders seething.

What about people who call it a "Paul"?

Also wank.

What about referring to it as a ‘Polsfuss’?

Philly_Q · September 2023

Bennyboy-UK said:

skullfunkerry said:

EricTheWeary said:

Lebarque said:

Only sad sacks refer to a Les Paul as a 'Lester'

I noticed that Mick Taylor did this on TPS and I thought ooh I bet there are some Fretboarders seething.

What about people who call it a "Paul"?

Also wank.

What about "Lez" or "Less"...? Ooops, sorry, I see the question has already been asked.

flying_pie · September 2023

Seziertisch said:

Bennyboy-UK said:

skullfunkerry said:

EricTheWeary said:

Lebarque said:

Only sad sacks refer to a Les Paul as a 'Lester'

I noticed that Mick Taylor did this on TPS and I thought ooh I bet there are some Fretboarders seething.

What about people who call it a "Paul"?

Also wank.

What about referring to it as a ‘Polsfuss’?

I prefer to use the term "snappy neck, back breaking dad rock tool"

Philly_Q · September 2023

ICBM said:

Philly_Q said:

I've never believed in the "both pickups on, that's where the magic happens" stuff, I'm not that subtle, but it does depend how well-matched the pickups are. If you have a shared volume control and one pickup's way more powerful than the other, the both-together position is pretty useless.

I don’t find that at all - I always prefers much more powerful bridge pickup, and the both-together sound is still my favourite.

The trick is to choose the right pickups and adjust them correctly.

I'm standing by my point about out of phase.

DoctorX · September 2023

Barefoot buttons make your pedalboard look shit regardless of how good the pedals they’re attached to might be.

ICBM · September 2023

Philly_Q said:

I'm standing by my point about out of phase.

I agree with you about that, it's the only real purpose for separate volume controls. I still find a simple phase switch equally useful though.

ScreamingDave · September 2023

Lewy said:

skullfunkerry said:

EricTheWeary said:

Lebarque said:

Only sad sacks refer to a Les Paul as a 'Lester'

I noticed that Mick Taylor did this on TPS and I thought ooh I bet there are some Fretboarders seething.

What about people who call it a "Paul"?

While we're on the subject, what about British people who make a point of pronouncing it "Lesss Paul" as opposed to "Lez Paul"?

I have literally never heard anyone say “Less” Paul

soma1975 · September 2023

Wasn't there literally a Les Paul model called the Less Paul which was thinner?

Howdy, Stranger!

Categories

In this Discussion

Become a Subscriber!

Controversial guitar opinions you have.

Comments