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<blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 6378170" data-attributes="member: 8835"><p>I agree with Danny's assessment. A guitar with bad action, that's hard to play, is one that you won't pick up an practice with. Which in turn means you'll own a guitar, but won't play it. Thus wasting your money.</p><p></p><p>Now Danny's got a huge collection, I don't. And my recent robbery experience, had an interesting side effect. In May, my house got broken into for a smash and grab. They took my 2 best guitars, a Cort bass and an Ibanez RG470. Both were $350-400 guitars as purchased at Guitar Centaur. The Ibanez was used. These are not starter guitars, nor are they the bestest guitars (those kind can run $1k-2K).</p><p></p><p>The insurance company priced them, and valued them at more than I paid. Then the police found my guitars at a pawn shop and I got them back (didn't get the other stuff back).</p><p></p><p>The core lesson being, if you spend $300-500 on your guitar, it will hold its value. Less than that, it's a cheap guitar. More than that, and you've spent a crapton on something that may gather dust, rather than get played (which of course can be resold).</p><p></p><p>If you get an electric guitar, you'll need an Amp (not a big one), I prefer a distortion box of some kind. I started with a $40 pawn shop amp, then added a multi-FX pedal, then got a bigger amp and sold the smaller one.</p><p></p><p>You could get clever with a TonePort from Line6 which is an effect box you plug into your PC (which means you plug guitar into TonePort, TonePort into PC, and play/practice that way). Line6 has learning software to teach you songs that hook into it as well, so there's some extra benefits. Plus, this combination usually leads to playing with headphones, which means everybody wins <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Janx, post: 6378170, member: 8835"] I agree with Danny's assessment. A guitar with bad action, that's hard to play, is one that you won't pick up an practice with. Which in turn means you'll own a guitar, but won't play it. Thus wasting your money. Now Danny's got a huge collection, I don't. And my recent robbery experience, had an interesting side effect. In May, my house got broken into for a smash and grab. They took my 2 best guitars, a Cort bass and an Ibanez RG470. Both were $350-400 guitars as purchased at Guitar Centaur. The Ibanez was used. These are not starter guitars, nor are they the bestest guitars (those kind can run $1k-2K). The insurance company priced them, and valued them at more than I paid. Then the police found my guitars at a pawn shop and I got them back (didn't get the other stuff back). The core lesson being, if you spend $300-500 on your guitar, it will hold its value. Less than that, it's a cheap guitar. More than that, and you've spent a crapton on something that may gather dust, rather than get played (which of course can be resold). If you get an electric guitar, you'll need an Amp (not a big one), I prefer a distortion box of some kind. I started with a $40 pawn shop amp, then added a multi-FX pedal, then got a bigger amp and sold the smaller one. You could get clever with a TonePort from Line6 which is an effect box you plug into your PC (which means you plug guitar into TonePort, TonePort into PC, and play/practice that way). Line6 has learning software to teach you songs that hook into it as well, so there's some extra benefits. Plus, this combination usually leads to playing with headphones, which means everybody wins :) [/QUOTE]
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