Schecter and EMG’s are a good match, IMO. I’ve owned two Schecter guitars, one with EMG pickups and one with Seymour Duncan pickups. The SD sounded brutal and colored (was a 7 string), while the EMG was more clean and modern sounding. I prob would have kept the EMG because it was more versatile.
LTD and EMG is also a good match. Works well for rock and metal, but also usable for many other genres.
Man, I miss my guitars.
Edit: just remembered that I actually own a bass with EMG pickups
Pretty sure Mark from Khruangbin has been using the same guitar for recording/live performances for like 20 years. Not sure if it’s the only one he owns, but considering the pick he sometimes uses is the only pick he owns, it wouldn’t surprise me!
" If someone handed me their guitar I’d be like, ‘Wow, what a nice instrument,’ but I won’t sound very good on it
I’m used to mine. I’m not a guitar player – I play that guitar. I’ve been using that one thing for the whole time. I know exactly where certain notes are going to sing more than others."
Yeah, my cousin is the same. If his guitar were to be stolen, he’d be devastated (and not because of the actual worth of the guitar, but because what it’s worth to him). He plays nothing else (and he plays a lot), but even he has a few others in the basement…
For many of us, it’s a process to find one or a few instruments we really resonate with; and we might not be able (for whatever reason) to re-sell all of the others we have tried in the course of this process…
Yeah, I’d be hard pressed to believe that Mark really doesn’t own any others at all. And yes, I’m all about the quote above! Still have several but would rather have just one that was worthy of being the one.
To be fair I had 20 times less instruments for a very long time. I think I rotate between 2 main ones and own 4 or 5 for decades. Way back when it’s much harder to GAS than now.
When I started last year, I thought I would never need another bass, and having my Squier CV jazz bass would be enough. It didn’t last long before I got a second bass (about 6 months – which might be a record around here in this forum? Many people buy a lot more a lot faster).
At the moment I’m pretty satisfied with having only 2 bass guitars. I might get more in the future, but it won’t be any time soon, because of .
@fennario has a good point. I’m so used to my Squier, that it feels kind of ‘wrong’ or weird when I play with other basses. I especially like how comfortable that neck and the tall frets are. At the moment I play a lot more with my Danelectro Longhorn, because it sounds so amazing. But the neck is not as comfy as my Squier’s neck. But I love how light and beautiful the Longhorn is, how it resonates, how amazing it sounds.
I got to play with a Sire, which had a beautiful and shiny and nice roasted maple neck, but I didn’t like the pickup and I didn’t like the dots on the side of the neck (because they didn’t stand out and it slowed me down, trying to find the right frets). I also got to play with a 32” bass, I can’t remember the brand, but I didn’t notice much of a difference between playing a 34” or 32” scale bass.
The Longhorn is only 29.7”, so it is easier to reach everything without stretching much. I was actually concerned in the beginning, that maybe playing a short scale would mess up my technique playing a long scale, but fortunately it doesn’t. When the left hand knows one bass, it will not forget it after playing a short scale.
It’s a great bass but I didnt play it often enough and space on my rack is limited. I sold it to make room and to give the extra cash to be able to snag my Wattplower.
What happened was that I played a Reverend Wattplower. I had to leave without it the first time, within a week it was mine. As much as I liked that Kiloton, I’ve never regretted selling it on to get my Reverend.
GAS is real!
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