I am a blossoming beginner/intermediate guitar play with an seagull acoustic, Epiphone les paul, and an Ibanez artcore hollow body I just got for christmas. I play every day for hours and I fucking love it. I have have a fender mustang amp.
What is the next piece of musical equipment I need? A looper? A better amp? A good microphone? In terms of what kind of music I like to play, pretty much everything. I like folky songs I can sing in front of people, but I also like playing sludge funeral metal when I'm alone.
I fucking love electric guitars, but I feel my money might be better spent getting something before I drop a buttload on a strat. Again, what is the next piece of equipment I should get?
>>61271425
Perhaps BOSS, MXR, or Ibanez pedals chosen to your liking. If you're really after a kind of metal tone just get one of the BOSS distortion pedals that isn't the Metal Zone. I had one when I first started playing and it absolutely sucked.
>>61271425
What pedals you want greatly depends on what genres you enjoy playing most
>>61271776
Well...will a hollow body I'm not going to be doing TOO much sludge/doom/metal of course, but music is quite malleable. What pedals/equipment would you recommend for a hollow body to play on the rock side of things?
>>61271834
Honestly, when my teacher would use his, he often used an overdrive pedal but with the drive knob turned down quite a bit for a cleaner tone. His was a Fulltone OCD if I can remember correctly but he would occasionally use others that I can't quite remember the name of at the moment.
>>61271834
I second the OCD
I'd avoid getting a ton of different guitars if you're intermediate so that you don't end up down the road with several mediocre guitars
Think about saving up a lot of money and once you've got your mind set on what kind of music you want to play go and buy a really nice amp that suits your style
>>61272032
Good advice. No reason to keep buying guitars just yet.
Would you recommend upgrading from the fender Mustang right now?
>>61272032
By the way it is the 100 dollar small mustang amp.
>>61272078
>>61272109
Marshall MG series. Not too bad for solid state and you can find them mostly anywhere. Go try one in a store, the CFX models are neat with the different effects you get built-in and you can even save your settings. Downside is that they can get fairly expensive once you go above 30 watts (e.g. MG30CFX)
>>61271834
Klon/soul food are good for a lighter clean boost, but can dirty up pretty well. The standard for tube screamers are Ibanez ts 9 or ts 808. Those are commonly used in classic rock. On the heavier side, I love my big muff, but zfex also makes some killer fuzz pedals. However, I would recommend getting a decent tube amp before getting pedals. The sound is just that much better.
>>61272163
pic related
Hey op, could you share any tips on learning. I've got the itch but don't feel like I'm making progress. I practice everyday but I'm not sure I'm practicing the right way. Been doing so for about a month.
>>61272231
Not OP, but what I did when I started, I would try to learn a new song every one to two weeks once I decided on one. Challenge yourself to do songs that become marginally difficult until you master them.
