Electric Guitars for Under $500
Looking for that perfect guitar without breaking the bank? Check out these 5 great guitars for under $500.
Looking for that perfect guitar without breaking the bank? Check out these 5 great guitars for under $500.
Guitarists hate to change their strings, it’s just a fact. There’s a well-spoken myth that floats around the guitar world that players want to make it big so they can have fame and fortune. The truth is, we all want to make it big so we can afford to pay someone to change our strings for us on a regular basis. Imagine how cool it would be to be able to play on fresh strings all the time, without having to sit there are change them every 3 to 4 days when they begin to wear out.
With the economy taking a nosedive a few years back, it seems that two new paradigms have emerged in the guitar manufacturing sector. The first is that big companies such as Gibson and Fender lowered the prices of their products during the downturn, making their instruments more accessible to the average person, which many people took advantage of. But, there was also another more unexpected byproduct of the recession. People began looking for high-quality instruments that would give them the best bang for their buck.
As guitarists, we spend countless hours searching for the perfect tone. We go through dozens of guitars over the years, waiting for the perfect axe to fall into our hands. We bring together every possible combination of heads and cabinets, combos and all-in-ones, tubes and transistors, trying to find the exact combination to bring to live the sound that’s floating around in our heads.
We guitarists tend to fall into two camps: those of us, typically classical and folk players, who revere the history of the instrument and value heritage and legacy over innovation; and those of us, typically rock and jazz players, who applaud the pioneers and mad scientists whose breakthroughs changed the way we think about the instrument.
As Gretsch Musical Instruments approaches its 125th year in business, it is fitting that the man guiding the company’s future is Fred Gretsch. Since he was a boy, Fred has been enamored by the company’s traditions and the excitement that surrounds
It is not often that a refinement to a guitar accessory can be labeled as true innovation. Guitar picks have always differed in their material, shape and thickness.
We received word that Brandwolf, an Annapolis, Maryland, based firm owned by international marketing consultant, Peter Wolf, had entered into a partnership with the boutique amp company,
The opening day of Experience PRS 2010 included a media session, where Paul Reed Smith made some gracious introductory remarks, followed up by Jack Higgenbotham, President, PRS Guitars and well-known author, Tom Wheeler, who also served as the master of ceremonies for the session.
I own precisely 29 books. Not much of a library for someone writing a book review. The number, to a book, is 29 because I counted them this morning. Though an avid reader, three years ago I sold, gave away, or abandoned every book I owned that didn’t mean something significant to me. I wanted to travel light when I moved from California to Portugal.
