I've got a zoom3000 effects board, it's a lot of fun. My first proper pedal was an Ibanez Tubescreamer. After I bought it I came home and checked a review of it on the web and it said "Not only does it sound nasty, it also looks nasty". I was gutted. Though I've since read that Billy Corgan is a fan of them.
Originally posted by amity75
When I went to get my first electric I could only find 6 lefthanders in the whole of Glasgow. Though nowadays Sound Control claim to stock left handed versions of every guitar they have in the shop. Debatable though.
Forgive me if this is a "noob" question, but couldn't you just take a right-handed guitar and put the strings on backwards?
i should have posted my tone question of here...
anyway
I've got a Squire Standard left-handed strat run through a Boss DS-1 Distortion, a Danelectro PB & J Delay, and a Digitech X-Series Digital Mutlivoice Chorus, played through a 15-watt Crate GFX-15 amp.
What i would like tho is a Fender Tube amp, preferabelly a bassman or a twin reverb and a Japanese Reissue of a left-handed '69 Fender Mustang routed with two SG-style humbuckers and a Jaguar style dual-circuit for lots of switching options.
oh, and a ring modulator pedal would be damn sweet too.
I'm a spoiled rich kid so I have a 70's Reissue Fender Strat, a 2004 Gibson SG Standard in Heritage Cherry and a Schecter C-1 with a Floyd Rose Tremolo... and I JUST bought two new guitars.. the first; a Gibson Les Paul Custom in Alpine White... and the second; a Gibson Jimmy Page Custom Authentic Les Paul (which I don't plan on playing)... I have a Krank Krankenstein half-stack (EFFIN' AMAZING! - R.I.P. Dimebag) and a Marshall JCM800 head with a simple Mesa Boogie 4x12 Cab... as of effects... I have a Zakk Wylde Crybaby Wah, an EVH Phase 90... Digitech Jimi Hendrix Experience Pedal, a Dunlop Rotovibe, an MXR Stereo Chorus and an MXR Dimebag Distortion Pedal. GHS Zakk Wylde boomers are killer strings... but don't put them on a Floyd Rose Tremolo!
Darth Jello - why do you hate Gibson Les Pauls?
cause they're uncomfortable and i only like the rythem pickup. Basically i like small left-handed guitars that are specifically built with small hands in mind, have a good surf sound, and have lots of switching options.
My question is why anyone would use a floyd rose bridge? Who wants to spend an average of 45 minutes changing a string and using like, 2 different allan keys to do it?
Originally posted by Darth RevanAha! Good question! It's to do with the "cutaways". Al strat is OK to turn upside down but you couldn't do it with a tele or a les paul because you couldn't reach the high frets. And lefties shouldn't be restricted in their choice of guitars.
Forgive me if this is a "noob" question, but couldn't you just take a right-handed guitar and put the strings on backwards?
i play on a Peavey electric guitar (name-peavey rocker) but i have been playing guitar total for about 4 years and i nowm, theres still things that i would like to learn. sometimes i go through spurts when i dont really want to play and other times i want to play like no other. and right now i have been playing my freinds electric J.Reynolds. he left it at my house lol.
Originally posted by amity75
Aha! Good question! It's to do with the "cutaways". Al strat is OK to turn upside down but you couldn't do it with a tele or a les paul because you couldn't reach the high frets. And lefties shouldn't be restricted in their choice of guitars.
plus you have to reverse the bridge to get the correct intonation out of strings.
probably the two easiest guitars to flip and play perfectly are the Gibson SG and the Danelectro DC-12
Originally posted by amity75
Aha! Good question! It's to do with the "cutaways". Al strat is OK to turn upside down but you couldn't do it with a tele or a les paul because you couldn't reach the high frets. And lefties shouldn't be restricted in their choice of guitars.
turning over a right handed guitar also presents another problem
the bridge on most guitars has an angled bar that maintains string tension for correct tuning
by turning over a right hander in essentially flips the bar so that its angled the other way and thus the guitar goes out of tune more easily
you can get adaptors for some guitars to change it though
you can see what i mean on this pic