Ashley wrote: Sat Feb 13, 2021 7:28 am
It's taken me many years to get all these VST's and cost me a lot of money, maybe a couple of K all up.
I was playing in an active band for a few years. Because I was composing in multiple tunings, I was using 5 guitars on stage. All acoustics. 3 were Martins, so I had some money in those. But........ there was me and my old friend Randy, who had large disposable incomes so, we put money in where the other guys who worked in the service industry could not. And that's fine. Randy more than me. Our banjo player was also a working psychologist, so he was making the big bucks. We pumped some money into some serious live sound gear to make it work. It was worth it.
I'm really fond of the modern mid range guitars. Martin has some really nice guitars for 800 to a grand. And Schecter for 500 is one of the best electrics I have ever played.....except for that PRS I posted in the gear thread. That one I grabbed for 900 on a sale. Normal retail is around a Grand. It's just such a good instrument. And it's an SE model that is made overseas for them. I'm thinking of saving for one of their signature models which is the American made ones. They are hand made in the US and are fast becoming considered one of the fine electrics. The neck design and the action are like butter. I swear I could blow on a string by a fret and get a clear tone.
Another Acoustic brand I have really looked at but not dropped money on is Breedlove. Really well made and good sounding acoustics you can get for under a Thousand dollars. The guy behind them was a luthier for Taylor and developed his own guitars and founded his own brand. I've also been eyeballing some of PRS's acoustics. I have not played those though.
When I was a teen and my dad saw I was getting serious about guitar, he bought me a Gibson SG, back in the 1970s. And somehow, found a Martin acoustic that was made in the 1950s. I had both for years and both, to this day, were probably the best guitars I ever held. I did not know what I had and sold them both after I had my first child on the way. And I think my father spent less than a thousand on both back then, on both guitars.
Wow that sounds wild, is that your voice, sounds scary almost. Its put together nice mind, wow reminds me of my metal head friends. Good work.