{"id":1896,"date":"2016-11-03T10:24:30","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T10:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ashleyjsaunders.com\/wp-blog\/?p=1896"},"modified":"2022-06-20T21:11:50","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T21:11:50","slug":"best-overall-electric-guitar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ashleyjsaunders.com\/blog\/best-overall-electric-guitar\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Best Overall Electric Guitar?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The best overall electric guitar isn&#8217;t the most expensive, or the coolest, it might not even play the easiest. The best guitar is the one which keeps you playing, inspired and time flies when you&#8217;re with her. You see, it&#8217;s subjective &#8211; it different for all players.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Gretsch Duo Jet<\/h2>\n<p>For me, the best overall electric guitar isn&#8217;t one, it&#8217;s having the right guitar for the situation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I love to play my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000GAP1R6\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=jamesamsongro-20&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=B000GAP1R6&amp;linkId=a8ca752728c75831d324ff00f7aba6d9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gretsch Duo Jet<\/a> &#8211; it has a ton of personality, yet can mix well into the background when needed. The lower output pickups sound full, without being bright or cutting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The three position tone switch creates very different tones and you can pretty much do a gig with the pickup selector in the middle and then just move the tone switch for brighter or darker guitar sounds.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Bigsby, to me, is the cherry on top and makes the guitar even more versatile.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Gretsch works for most situations, a Telecaster, however, provides a nice overlap while being having more spank for funky guitar sounds.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Telecaster<\/h2>\n<p>The Tele to me is another great all-rounder, jazz somewhat excluded. And to think the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0064RCBB4\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=jamesamsongro-20&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=B0064RCBB4&amp;linkId=077b03e9725e5d94e6e852da5443e313\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Telecaster<\/a> is the first guitar ever made! Man, they got it right the first time!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On the front pickup, it can sound pretty, almost jazzy &#8211; especially when you move the picking hand closer to the neck and pick lighter.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the middle, it has that out of phase funk sound &#8211; useful for a range of styles.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The bridge pickup is, of course, is known as the hot licks country sound. It&#8217;s also, an iconic classic rock sound when you add some distortion to it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Best Overall Electric Guitar<\/h2>\n<p>Of course, I could talk about the other guitars I have, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B005PUAEP6\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=jamesamsongro-20&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=B005PUAEP6&amp;linkId=77ad7b08ffc504ee925d1b944db0b9c7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Les Paul Goldtop<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashleyjsaunders.com\/blog\/the-peavey-rockingham-story\/\">Peavey Rockingham<\/a>, and many others that I have or have owned over the years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But again, there&#8217;s no one perfect guitar which can cover every style known to man.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There is, however, a better way to define the best overall electric guitar in the world. If you can&#8217;t put it down, you&#8217;ve got a great guitar right there, which could be the best guitar for you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashleyjsaunders.com\/blog\/best-overall-electric-guitar\/\" class=\"excerpt\">The best guitar isn&#8217;t the most expensive, or the coolest, it might not even play the easiest. The best overall electric guitar is a unique to you!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[397],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guitar-gear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashleyjsaunders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashleyjsaunders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashleyjsaunders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashleyjsaunders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashleyjsaunders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashleyjsaunders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashleyjsaunders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashleyjsaunders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashleyjsaunders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashleyjsaunders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}