As the title says, In relation to guitar shops, I'd like to know how to tell between a guitar that is set up decently but can't get much better than it already is, and a guitar that might of been my dream guitar but is so poorly set up it is probably collecting dust in the corner of the shop.
A while ago when I went to a guitar shop to test out guitars, I was very confused. I tried out most of the guitars, and the most comfortable guitar I found was a -$1000
Schecter (C-1 I think). Now, I didn't try out or pay as much attention to the ibanez's as I should of (they were all RGs with a similar price tag, and took up nearly half the wall
), I also tested out a $4000
Washburn and a MAB dragonflame model, and found those slightly lacking and awkward compared to the Schecter.
How can you tell between what really feels good to you and what is simply set up better than most of the other guitars? Not saying that Schecter doesn't make good guitars, but I would have thought I'd be blown away by the MAB model or something. Keep in mind that this was a while ago, and I've made big leaps in my playing recently. I more or less sucked when I went to the store
