your favorite guitar that doesnt cover but 1 or 2 bases, i.e. it doesnt do it all

[Angry Tele]

For me the Jaguar. It is meant for playing Surf music and thats it. Sure you can do some Luther Perkins boogie woogie and maybe even rock out ala Nels Cline but for the most part its a surf guitar.

 

[Grantus]

Didn't Kurt Cobain play a Jag?

[WithNoHands]

Haha, doesn't exist for me. Every guitar i get my hands on is going to play everything i want it to . I quite enjoy playing deathcore on a tele, and red hot chili peppers on something with EMGs.

[Alex_SF]

 

Didn't Kurt Cobain play a Jag?

 

 

A Jag with Super Distortions isn't the same thing at all. Get me in the right mood and I might even contend it's not a Jag anymore at that point.

[mrbrown49]

Haha, doesn't exist for me. Every guitar i get my hands on is going to play everything i want it to . I quite enjoy playing deathcore on a tele, and red hot chili peppers on something with EMGs.

 

I'm the same way. I can get a wide range of tones from anything if I'm clever about the way I dial in the amp, and the way I play the instrument. Simply attacking the strings differently and adjusting the tone knob covers a lot of ground.

[cratz2]

Honestly, I think most of the guitars I have cover most of the styles I play, as long as I'm plugged into the right amp and pedals.

 

Having said that, this one wouldn't be my first choice for a surf gig.

 

[honeyiscool]

What? Jags are wonderful for all kinds of indie rock and alt rock, thanks to the wonderful third bridge harmonics and the tremolo. It's definitely less a surf guitar and more an alt rock guitar by now.

 

Also it's an evil shoegaze machine.

[Elias Graves]

I love it when people take a nice jazz/pop guitar like a Les Paul and play rock n roll with it.

 

EG

[SaSa]

 

For me the Jaguar. It is meant for playing Surf music and thats it. Sure you can do some Luther Perkins boogie woogie and maybe even rock out ala Nels Cline but for the most part its a surf guitar.

 

 

At the risk of getting OT, I've always been a bit sceptical about the notion that the Jaguar was designed as a surf guitar. For one thing I think the Jaguar came out at just about the same time that surf music got big. Given that Fender would've presumably designed the thing at least some time earlier, I think the chronology may not work out.

 

When you look at the Jag, in the end it's just a Strat with a more ergonomic body shape, an updated tremolo, advanced switching, and a shorter scale - I'm not sure there's anything exclusively surf about any of that. In fact I wonder if the shorter scale on a top-of-the-line model hints at jazz, with all its awful chords. I think the Jag just happened to become the ubiquitous surf guitar - just like that one jazz guitar from Gibson emerged, after a completely unforeseeable chain of events, a cornerstone of hard rock.

[Willyguitar]

One thing you can nearly always be sure about on HCEG is that there will be a powerful inclination to disagree with the first post/poster.

[sleewell]

i have a strat with emgs and a strat with vintage noiseless.

one is not just for metal and the other one is not just for classic rock/blues.

i am more in the camp of saying that mostly any guitar can do mostly any music if your amp and pedals are dialed in correctly and you know what you are doing. i dont see the jag as just as surf guitar the same way i dont see a tele as just a country guitar. i wanna see someone do some funky porno stuff with a pointy "metal" guitar, that would be sweet.

[Elias Graves]

 

One thing you can nearly always be sure about on HCEG is that there will be a powerful inclination to disagree with the first post/poster.

 

 

Isn't that half the fun? :poke:

 

EG

[Willyguitar]

 

Isn't that half the fun? :poke: EG

 

 

It's a bit like the dog that always shags your leg. Every time you go around to his house, you can just tell he is going to do it.

[honeyiscool]

I'm just saying, the reason why Jags are popular today isn't because it's a surf guitar. It's popular because Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine, Nirvana, etc., those people got a hold of these guitars and made them rock.

[straycat113]

Easy for me an EBMM EVH/Axis, it does what it was intended for with no tone knob it is balls to the wall hard rock.

[csm]

Hah.

 

I use an early-'80s Ibanez Destroyer for open-tuned Delta-blues slide.

 

 

[Angry Tele]

short scale makes for quick attack, and the mute ive only seen used for chugga chugga surf rythm like so:

At the risk of getting OT, I've always been a bit sceptical about the notion that the Jaguar was designed as a surf guitar. For one thing I think the Jaguar came out at just about the same time that surf music got big. Given that Fender would've presumably designed the thing at least some time earlier, I think the chronology may not work out. When you look at the Jag, in the end it's just a Strat with a more ergonomic body shape, an updated tremolo, advanced switching, and a shorter scale - I'm not sure there's anything exclusively surf about any of that. In fact I wonder if the shorter scale on a top-of-the-line model hints at jazz, with all its awful chords. I think the Jag just happened to become the ubiquitous surf guitar - just like that one jazz guitar from Gibson emerged, after a completely unforeseeable chain of events, a cornerstone of hard rock.

 

[fiveoclockhero]

Even the simplest guitar can go through a variety of pedals or be used in conjunction with an amp's EQ parameters or onboard effects so I think any guitar, no matter how rudimentary, can get a huge range of tones. This is why I like simple guitars... I don't feel the need to alter the tone too much at the guitar stage. My Tele has not one but TWO pickups and that's way more than enough options.

[CompleteGuitard]

this guitar is awesome, but completely useless at 'subtle'



i've got other guitars for subtle, this will rock your face off

[cratz2]

I don't know man... when I bought the LTD above, it had an Duncan Invader installed and, while MUCH hotter than anything I usually go for, it was remarkably smooth for a bridge pickup... no honky flavor that I usually associate with a bridge humbucker played into a loud clean amp. I was VERY impressed to be honest... but it had to go. It was WAY to big and fat sounding and bottom heavy with gain compared to what I'm used to.

 

 

 

this guitar is awesome, but completely useless at 'subtle' i've got other guitars for subtle, this will rock your face off

[sneakerpimp]

not sure what i was thinking when i got this. looks badass but i think i'm finally over the whole metal/doom/thrash thing. it was supposed to be a replacement for my SG Junior P-90 and i ended up on the complete opposite end of the spectrum... shoulda stopped somewhere in the middle, like where i am now. EMGs sound way too compressed. i've learned to make different amp, dirt and eq settings do more of the work instead of getting a specialized axe.

[fiveoclockhero]

 

i've learned to make different amp, dirt and eq settings do more of the work instead of getting a specialized axe.

 

 

Exactly. You could make an Esquire sound like whatever you want if you're willing to work with it and manipulate the sound.

[sk8centilli]

One thing you can nearly always be sure about on HCEG is that there will be a powerful inclination to disagree with the first post/poster.

 

Yup. Had the OP said that his Jaguar was the most versatile guitar ever created it would have been knocked for being a one-trick surfin' pony.

 

[ashasha]

My strat. I know, I know. But everytime I play it I end up playing some kind of funk thing (which I am much better at listening to than playing). I dug the damn thing out tonight as a matter of fact, got it sounding amazing with a new blues overdriven patch I had just made and next thing I know I rolled the volume back and it's funk city.

[Spike Li]

Id say my Jim Root strat is my best sounding guitar. Sounds completely different from any other guitar ive played with EMGs, the 81 in the bridge is very fat like a Gibson 500t in an explorer but has an extra bite that makes it cut through. The 60 in the neck sounds surprisingly woody/acousticy, although the guitar naturally sounds like that anyway...