posted on Sep, 3 2017 @ 11:14 AM
Well it sounds like you know what you want! I had a Strat and i just couldn't get the sound i wanted with it. then i got an Epiphone Les Paul
standard and wow i could play just the way i wanted to and a Marshall valvestate amp! Its a heavy guitar and worked perfect for the style i was
playing, sludge, doom stoner metal ala Melvins etc, but I've moved to a more extreme type of metal and a Jackson v is lighter and with an "Orange
crush" amp I'm playing much faster and shredding seems easier
I've been playing for 44 years and the way i purchased my guitars was to play play play until i was sure thats was what i wanted! I don't use much
effects just a good balance between overdrive and gain and distortion, echo etc
I tried a Floyd Rose tremolo and found it difficult to tune especially quickly on stage I also use a Yamaha acoustic that sounds beautiful! so my
advice fwiw is play and play something till it feels comfortable to you! to me it's not so much the guitar it's who's playing it
these are my inspiration's
I first tried to get a Dick Dale sound
then Martin Barre from Jethro Tull
then Tony Iome from Black Sabbath
then Bob Mould from Husker DU
then King Buzzo from Melvins
these I've achieved mostly and have moved up to bands like Amon Amarth and Gojira etc and i play my own original stuff
I'm not a great player to my mind but i will play till i croak i try to learn a bit every day
Keep going and always have fresh strings!
edit on 03 08 2017 by TimHeller because: spelling correction