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There correct answer, as always, is SANTANA!
I'd agree that's never a bad answer. Considering that the classic Santana is morless a tarted-up Les Paul Special, or some other variety of LP DC (usually with maple top)...why is it that it's so much sweeter a guitar than any of those? Addition of Strat-type trem (and subtraction of the wood on the bottom to accommodate it?correct answer, as always, is SANTANA!
Also a great answer. If OP wants something as different as possible from the rest of his menagerie, a bari would certainly do the job. But I have a strong weakness for baris, and never know if I'm recommending one because the other guy really needs one...or whether I'm projecting.Baritone.
All other guitars are trash.There correct answer, as always, is SANTANA!
Thank you! Yes, I'm having to choose currently between a Hollowbody or the Brent Mason, and I'm leaning towards the Hollowbody.If you can find a PRS Brent Mason, (used, because they don’t make them anymore) buy it! It’ll get Tele/Strat, and p90 tones, pretty much spot on. Plus, the 25 1/4 scale lets it play much better than any 25 1/2 scale guitar. The Korina body, maple neck/fretboard, combined with the 408/Paul’s pickups make for a very articulate, snappy and well balanced tone. I’ve seen a few on reverb…good luck!
Definitely like that idea. Hard to find though.Baritone.
So many nice guitars!Sounds like a FUN search
I would look at
Vela , Just a fun guitar great tones
Pauls Guitar the Pauls pickups just cut thru the mix really great with lots of instruments
Brett Mason Sig , and a 305 pickup in the middle of a Pauls guitar
408 - The original before the Pauls Guitar more powerful bridge pickup I Love mine !!! on most days my #1
( the Frost one is mine now ) and I made the pedal in the demo
513 - If you can only bring one guitar , 513s can do so much also one of my top guitars
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Sounds like something in the future. I'd like to get the 6 down first.7 string. Or an 8 string.
Def leaning towards the hollow body but probably not an SE. I’m not sure whether piezo or not.Get a Hollowbody. The 335 is a semi-hollow. I’d say one of the SE’s. The standard is very close to your 335. The Hollowbody piezo has the greatest difference in sound. The SE Hollowbody gets the sound of a full Hollowbody, and it’s own sounds.
Thanks. I’m coming to the same conclusion and the guitars are becoming more for me and the sound and feel I’m looking for. Granted it will be a perc if someone in the future wants a particular sound/guitar. That’s one of the main reasons I didn’t go for the tele. I played a few and disliked all of them. But that’s my opinion. . Thanks again!I liked and respect everyone's suggestions.
However, I disagree with all of them.
I've been writing and recording original music for national TV ads for 32 years. I play guitar on my tracks, and occasionally hire players who do things I don't do to play on them. I also have done many non-ad sessions. I'm not limiting my comments to ad work.
When I first got into the biz, I was told I needed the Usual Suspects. So I went and bought them all.
That advice was nonsense. I was a sucker! Want to know how many times a client asked for a particular guitar in that 32 years? Once! A guy wanted me to play a Rickenbacker, and it was a big project, so I bought one.
There have been many years I've had one electric, one acoustic, and one amp, and have done just fine, doing a crap ton of music in a variety of styles, and being very well paid for it. I've traveled in the US and to Europe for multi-week recording sessions with ONE guitar.
"You didn't have a backup?"
"Didn't ever need one in all that time."
I currently have a few guitars and amps, but it's more of a recent inspiration kind of thing to get myself fired up to write something.
If you're doing pro session work, and need to please outside producers, then sure, you might need a handful of the usual suspects, if only so they don't get pissed if you haven't got what they want. However, there aren't all that many producers who insist on a guitar type, and there are any number of highly successful pro session players who play ONE model of guitar (think Larry Carlton, David Grissom, etc.). There are many players in bands who play one guitar type. ONE.
If you're the type who likes buying stuff, and if you have fun doing that, great! Buy stuff. But there is no real musical need to have even one single guitar more than you already have to do as much professional recording as you can ever realistically be doing, and you could probably get rid of a few.
In fact, I find that having too many choices in guitars causes 'paralysis by over-analysis'.
My advice: play well, learn the guitars you have like the back of your hand, get good tone, have good timing and...did I mention play well, with good timing and tone? And for goodness' sake, write good parts that you can play perfectly; they don't need to be complicated - just musically interesting.