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If you didn't own any equipment and could only spend $500, what would you buy? What about with $1000?

pod hd500 and squier classic vibes

$500 would not cut it for me, but I could do something with $1k

amp... Egnater Tweaker combo or possibly the Jet City 20w Head and 2x12 cab

pedals....Big Muff and some sort of an OD....maybe an OCD

Guitar.... buy a used Epi G400 and mod the shit out of it or a New Blacktop Jazzmaster

I assume you mean new/in store. not CL


If I only had 500 to spend I would wait until GC, MF, Sam Ash, et chas one of their 15-20% off your ticket sales.. and buy:

For home use....

Squier VM Jazzy 299
Mustang II amp (has tuner and effect to play with 199
gig bag/strap/etc 50
Total 465 with 15% off qpon...

If I was gigging..

Bullet Strat 119
Peavey Windsor Studio 20 watt 299
gig bag.etc 50
generic floor multi effects 99
Total 481 (with 15% off)

I go with the windsor and the bullet becuase both are decent starting points for modding down the road to your taste. That or go with a solid state like the mustang III for about the same price. Jet City combo as well but I think they went up to 399 after I picked up the one Al has now.

For 1K

home use
Yamaha acoustic 150
CV Strat (versatile) 350
m9 350
Blackstar ht1 250
gig bag/etc 75 (2 bags)
Total 999 with 15% off

Gigging
Bullet strat (backup) 119
CV Tele 350
Floor Pod 199
Gig Bag/etc 50
Jet City 1x12 combo 399
Total 950 with 15% off.

BUY USED

$500
Squier CV something
Peavey Classic
Boss OD3
Boss TU2
Dano French Toast

$1000
Squier CV something
Peavey Classic
Boss OD3
Boss TU2
Dano French Toast
COCAINE

If we are talking used


500...

bassman 10 350
used CV tele 150

nothign else needed...Fuck the gig bag, tune by ear, rock the fuck out.

1K
bassman 10 350
Used CV tele 150
powereed pedal board with a bunch of cool pedals 400

I'll do it based on £500:


Squier Jazzmaster - £254

Seems like it would be kind of like my favourite parts of my two main guitars (Squier Jagmaster and Fender Baja Telecaster):
- Offset body like the Jagmaster
- Colour scheme of the Tele
- 25.5 inch scale like the Tele
- Soapbar pickups would be somewhere between the two sounds
- Has a trem like the Jagmaster


Laney RB5 - £230

I know this is a bass amp, but I've played guitar through the one at my school many times and I prefer it to any of the budget guitar amps I've played through. Plus it's LOUD.


Behringer Super Fuzz - £17

It can do most of the dirt sounds I need - although perhaps not slightly as well as the pedals I currently use.

£501... shush, no-one will notice.

Burns Nu-Sonic or Cobra - £200
Bugera V22 valve amp - £226
EHX Holy Stain - £60

Rest is beer money.

£1000 is luxurious, I've never had anything like that to spend so I wouldn't know where to start.

CV tele - $250 used
Vox Pathfinder 15r - $80 used
Monser cables - $40 for all leads
Pitchblack - $70 used
DIY the rest

For a grand id do
AC15 - $400 used
CV tele - $250 used
M13 - $350 used

Retail prices are for suckers

Peavey Bandit - Used $100 bucks
Epiphone Dot - $150 (with pickup/hardware change)
Behringer/Dano Pedals - $70 (tuner, delay, eq, turd screamer, chorus)

This is my set up with how much I've spent on everything - $320 investment.

The gigging setup I've used for the past couple of years costs about £500.

Musima Elgita: £100 plus £120 replacement neck from Setchell Guitars
Pedals: £20 in parts for micro amp, harmonic percolator, schaller tremolo clones, Behringer verbzilla copy £40
Fender Musicmaster Bass amp £220

I'd happily gig an affinity series squier strat or tele (I only play the Musima because it looks gorgeous and has single coil pickups)- all you really need is a decent valve amp.

edits: can't spell

I'd just get a $500 guitar and then start saving up again for a good amp after that, as I'm cleverer.

paul_ wrote:I'd just get a $500 guitar and then start saving up again for a good amp after that, as I'm cleverer.

$500

used MIM tele body and neck off of ebay for around $150
GFS something or other neck pickup $20-30
volume and tone + output jack

used 80's fender amp $250

used big muff $40

pot

90 minute song about doing drugs.

All for gigging
for $500:

Guitar
CV Tele custom $300ish? used
Vox Pathfinder 15 $80ish used
black russian big muff $50 used
tuner pedal $50?
Buy cables and a strap and stuff with whatever's left (super cheap ones)

bass
goth thunderbird $150 used
Ampeg BA115 - $300 or less used
Tuner pedal $50ish
borrow everything else.

for $1000:

Guitar
Blacktop Jazzmaster
(I actually know very little about guitar amps) something older, maybe a nice peavey combo.
black russian muff
tuner pedal
saltbooster
hardcase/strap/cables/picks
(this one's a bit half assed)

bass
T-bird Pro VI - $400 used
Ampeg BA115 - $300 used
Tuner pedal - $50 used
Boss Bass overdrive - $75 used?
Boss Bass chorus - $75 used?
strap, cables, hard case - $100

Freddy V-C wrote: - Has a trem like the Jagmaster

noap

my current set up is pretty damned cheap as it is, and i quite like it.

schecter gitter (used): 230
peavey deuce amp (used): 200
behringer pedals, (reverb machine, delay,) (new): 60ish?
cherub tuner (new): 10

£228


£309

I'd go to asda and take folks trolleys back to earn the extra £37

I'd get a two knob custom fuzz from Death By Audio and wait for the rest, because thats teh only way to get good toans.

hotrodperlmutter wrote:

Freddy V-C wrote: - Has a trem like the Jagmaster

noap

I knew that, do not remember typing that part... lol.