Next step up from a beginner guitar amp?
I've been playing guitar for about a year now and i definitely notice a difference in my playing than when i first started. But i've had to play my guitar unplugged because my sucky first act amp that i got free is terrible. I'm currently playing a mexi strat and i'm into rock n roll, metal, and some random blues jamming. I've been looking into a peavey vypyr 75watt, line6 75watt, or a marshall. I want something i can play with at low but hearable volume because i play mainly all night and my parents are asleep. Any ideas? I don't care about loudness. Mainly a good tone with good clarity and a great distortion. maybe 30watts and above? Thanks
GUITAR sound better on computer speakers or amp?
No you would have to pay upwards of $200 to buy equipment to plug your guitar into your computer and you would have lag between when you pick the notes and when you hear them. Try this guitar. http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/ESP-LTD-M53-Electric-Guitar?sku=515729 and this amp (also amp sound way better than computer speakers its just common sense.) and this amp http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/Marshall-MG10CD-Combo-Amp?sku=482798 Can't go wrong with ESP and Marshall. Hope this helps.
Should I buy a new guitar or a new amplifier?
I use a Blackstar 5 watt all tube amplifier.I use this amp for jazz gigs, blues and rock.5 watts isn't much, some may say. Here is my reasoning:Everyone knows that when playing rock or blues, a tube amplifier sounds best when it is cranked up. That is when it really starts to sing.You just can't do this with a Marshall stack without risking ear damage. You sure can't practise like this. But my 5 watter sounds sweet.On the gig I just mike it up. There is a line out option but I like the sound coming off the speaker.As for quality; always buy the best you can afford. As a youngster I wanted big amps but I didn't have much money. I sacrificed quality for power and wound up with a crummy sound.Same goes for the guitar but mass production has brought the cost of pro guitars way, way down. In the 70s only a pro could afford pro gear. The alternatives were sometimes not very good; guitars with actions you could drive under, amps that should have been used for: Number 6 your meal is ready.So, if you can afford it, buy both. But always buy quality.
Will a better guitar help me improve my technique?
Okay, for about 2,5 years I've been playing guitar. I started off with a generic beginner pack with a crappy little amp, cheap Strat knockoff. I've already bought a beast Blackstar amp, because I you can make a bad guitar sound OK through a great amp, but not otherwise. I play a lot of metal, like Priest, Maiden, Sabbath, Metallica, Motörhead... and for most general riffing I can play everything easily. But recently I've gotten complaint about me playing the same stuff every day. Well, I'm trying to learn solos, but that's the hard part. The action of my guitar isn't all that good and adjusting it doesn't really help. So, I've reached a level where riffing (fast palmmuting, tremolo picking, tight gallops) and chords aren't a problem anymore (although I still don't get the 7th chords and such). But I'm having trouble stepping up from there. I know plenty of scales and I can play them slightly fast, but nowhere near shredding. And I'm obviously miles away from sweeping. I don't need to be a shredding god like, I dunno, Chris Broderick. But I just want to be capable of busting out some decent solos. I've been eyeing a Jackson JVXMG, would such a new guitar, with a good setup, help me to learn this stuff? My mom keeps telling me that noone needs a great guitar to learn every technique... of course I'm disagreeing with her. But am I right?
I got a guitar from my dad,I can’t get to sound very electric my amp came with the guitar I was hoping to get a Nirvana or Green Day vibe?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyhta9QA... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EPylNwi... Ignore the guitar and amp part and focus on what effects they use. There are three "sounds" of an amp which are sometimes referred to American, English and German. American Fender amps were known for their clean tone, the English amps, such as Marshall and Orange were known for their crunch and the "latest" sound comes from Germany with some high distortion amps. Note that you will have a smaller sound chain then them. What they hear and what the audience heard were two different things. The more equipment in the system such as microphones, microphone placement, PA systems, sound boards etc. all change the sound. Many people buy distortion pedals to sound like AC/DC, but they never used distortion pedals.