Ever appreciate your own rig more after going to a guitar shop?

red5 · #1 08-08-2005, 04:35 PM

Anyone ever find additional appreciation for their rig after going to the guitar shop (and playing nice equipment but that just didnt match up)?

Happened to me on Saturday. Everything I played seemed like **** next to the Jem and SL-X. Damn I love that combo!

**elcid** · #2 08-08-2005, 05:23 PM

Most of my local stores just stock Peavey, Washburn, Dean and junk like that.

Tom Gilroy · #3 08-08-2005, 06:30 PM

Over here all you can get are Fender guitars and Peavey/Marshall/Fender amps. I own the best strat I've ever played so I always feel good when I compare it to ones in shops. I don't really feel anything for any popular amp brands (I like Fenders cleans though, but tis too overdone for my ears) so and I own a Peavey so i've never felt better or worse about my amp.

Shep · #4 08-09-2005, 03:00 AM

marshall and fender ...thats all the amps you have to choose from when trying a new guitar at my local shop.

rufes · #5 08-09-2005, 03:48 AM

I've got better gear than any guitar shop in the city.

screamndemon69 · #6 08-09-2005, 11:20 AM

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Originally Posted by elcid

Most of my local stores just stock Peavey, Washburn, Dean and junk like that.

junk? i like some of Peaveys amps (Classic 30, 6505, JSX)- i wouldn't say junk unless they only have the non-tube stuff which IMHO still isn't junk.
i would like the new JSX my local store has on the floor but i get more tone and sounds from my rig and my guitars are spot on for playability - which you will rarely find in a music store.
the same store had a Peavey Rotor export w/ a trem hanging up so i played around for a little while (it looks very cool with the white binding on a black guitar!) and for a guitar that is under $300, it was a pretty stable and nice sounding guitar. the stock pups weren't bad - i'd spend my $ on it.

JJEMMER777 · #7 08-09-2005, 11:24 AM

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Originally Posted by red5

Happened to me on Saturday. Everything I played seemed like **** next to the Jem and SL-X.

I think that says it all

I rarely see Jems at the music store, and if they do have one its way up high where you can't touch / play it. Then if by some chance they let you play it, the action / set-up is usually crap from the factory.

Flobanez · #8 08-09-2005, 12:50 PM

Sometimes I drool when I go to the music store. Then again, I like having my simple rig.

bonehead189 · #9 08-09-2005, 12:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Flobanez

Sometimes I drool when I go to the music store. Then again, I like having my simple rig.

Yep, me too.

Tom Gilroy · #10 08-09-2005, 03:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Flobanez

Sometimes I drool when I go to the music store. Then again, I like having my simple rig.

Dude if your rig is simple then you are a master of getting cool sounds.

red5 · #11 08-09-2005, 05:14 PM

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Originally Posted by screamndemon69

junk? i like some of Peaveys amps (Classic 30, 6505, JSX)- i wouldn't say junk unless they only have the non-tube stuff which IMHO still isn't junk.
i would like the new JSX my local store has on the floor but i get more tone and sounds from my rig and my guitars are spot on for playability - which you will rarely find in a music store.
the same store had a Peavey Rotor export w/ a trem hanging up so i played around for a little while (it looks very cool with the white binding on a black guitar!) and for a guitar that is under $300, it was a pretty stable and nice sounding guitar. the stock pups weren't bad - i'd spend my $ on it.

Yes I love the Peavey Classic 30/50 amps a lot.

I was actually playing a Jackson SL-1 through a 5150 and an old JCM 800 combo. The 5150 just has way too much midrange and too little low end for that guitar. I actually liked it better with EMGs which I am not really a fan of.

I was at the Albany Guitar Center. They have Gibsons, Fenders, Schecters, Jacksons, Marshalls, some Boogies and quite a few old blackface Fender amps there often. But I do not find the current line of Marshalls to be worthwhile, and never been much into the Boogie sound. Fenders are quite clean and I love that sound from them, but I'm more into playing with a little bit more dirt.

They do happen to have a really nice '58 custom shop Les Paul reissue there which I dream about, but aside from that I like my rig a lot better than anything I could have bought there with an unlimited cash supply!

red5 · #12 08-09-2005, 05:14 PM

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Originally Posted by JJEMMER777

I think that says it all

I rarely see Jems at the music store, and if they do have one its way up high where you can't touch / play it. Then if by some chance they let you play it, the action / set-up is usually crap from the factory.

Mine wasn't setup too terrible when I bought it. The intonation was a little off, but the action was not bad.

To think - doing a setup could sell more guitars!

unique77 · #13 08-09-2005, 05:37 PM

If places like guitar center hired people to jsut go around the store setting up guitars, they would sell like mad. Ive never picked up a guitar there and had it feel totally set up, or feel really really nice, except for this one time, when i bought a jem

Flobanez · #14 08-09-2005, 09:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Tom Gilroy

Dude if your rig is simple then you are a master of getting cool sounds.

Thanks. I guess compared to EJ's rig....

**elcid** · #15 08-09-2005, 09:59 PM

[quote=screamndemon69]junk? i like some of Peaveys amps (Classic 30, 6505, JSX)- i wouldn't say junk unless they only have the non-tube stuff which IMHO still isn't junk.
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Yeah I thought about that after I posted, Peavey amps are nice, I've had a few, butwith the exception of the Wolfgang, I don't like Peavey guitars, and this particular store only has the Korean stuff, which in my opinion is junk. Not to look like a dick, but personally I have no use for that stuff, if someone was going to give me one of those guitars for free I wouldn't take it since it would just take up space and not get used. and the topic was appreciating my own rig more after going in, and I do appreciate my stuff much more after playing the stuff they carry.