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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2017 16:42:31 GMT
What would you say is the difference between, say, a $2000 guitar and $500 guitar? Besides price, of course.
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Post by theshape25 on Mar 2, 2017 18:22:02 GMT
The name. For example a Gibson SG or Gibson Les Paul will cost more than an Epiphone version of an SG or Les Paul.
Where it's made. Guitars made in the USA cost more than guitars made in China or Mexico.
Usually the more expensive guitar will have better hardware, pickups, and will have better craftsmanship. To go back to the Gibson/Epiphone comparison, I have a Gibson SG and I had an Epiphone SG. The Gibson had better tuners, the pickups on the Gibson were higher end pickups, and the volume tone knobs seemed to be a bit more sturdy. The wiring on the Gibson was a bit neater. The frets on the Gibson were smooth and the frets on the Epiphone were a little more on the sharp side.
The more expensive guitar usually comes with a hardshell case, where the cheaper guitar will come with a soft gig bag or no case at all.
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Post by muttonbuster on Mar 2, 2017 18:59:56 GMT
What would you say is the difference between, say, a $2000 guitar and $500 guitar? Besides price, of course. It absolutely depends; but these days with technology taking more and more of the work off the luthiers hands, the difference is almost exclusively materials, parts, and above all premium for the name brand. Good example would the ESP Kamikaze-1 I have and the LTD version which for some reason I've yet to unload. The ESP was handcrafted in their custom shop in Japan, while the LTD came out of a factory in Korea. It was an early LTD, so the quality control was garbage. The ESP is sheer perfection, while the LTD yikes. The neck is slightly warped, and the tremolo cavity looks like a chimpanzee routed it. These days, though. The LTD's have gotten much better. Other than that the wood. The ESP is maple neck, maple body, ebony fingerboard. The LTD is basswood body, rosewood fingerboard. The pickups on the LTD are garbage and will pickup everything but the strings it seems. The pickups on the ESP are Seymour Duncans. I could go on. But basically near identical looking guitars to the untrained eye, only one goes for $400 and the other $2,000. |
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Post by marco26 on Mar 2, 2017 19:43:55 GMT
Don't be fooled by high price. Low end guitars can be on the level of high end ones.
Back in the day ('50s, '60s, '70s, even the '80s) the low end, cheap guitars were absolute crap. You buy a cheap guitar from Sears you might as well have bought a lawnmower from Sears because the sound you got from that cheap guitar was worse than that of a lawnmower. Those cheap as dirt Kay guitars or Teiscos were unplayable and sounded worse. But today...
Today's cheap guitars, say a $99 Epiphone or a $119 Squier, are absolutely decent guitars. With a proper setup, they can play and sound just as fine as their $1,300 Gibson or Fender counterparts. The main difference is the cheaper guitars come with cheaper components. The volume pots, pickups, tuning pegs, the wood, the finish will be lower quality. But in today's day, that "lower quality" is actually pretty good stuff.
One other thing, when you pay $2,000 for a guitar a large part of that price is the name. I have played Gibson guitars and their budget line Epiphone guitars. Because Gibson is an iconic name in the industry, bam, tack on another $1,000 to the price. I have owned a Gibson SG and an Epiphone SG....yeah, I like the $1,400 Gibson more, but I am telling you, that $400 Epiphone SG was a very good guitar to play.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2017 20:21:51 GMT
Thanks for the replies. You all play electric guitars. I play Classical/acoustic. I have really cheap guitars that sound almost as good as the expensive ones. Expensive to me is anything over $1000.
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Post by marco26 on Mar 2, 2017 20:40:19 GMT
Most electric players have one or two acoustic guitars in their arsenal.
I admit I have played a $3,000 Martin D-28 and that thing was the best guitar I have ever strummed, but the same thing applies to acoustic guitars as electrics: some low end guitars can be quite good players.
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