Gibson or Fender

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You guys all rock!!

Unitas and BA Ferguson guitars (Designed & Made in USA).

Different tools for different jobs.

That said, ESP makes some really nice guitars for the price, or at any price, really.

Fender live, Gibson in studio

Jackson for noodling

neither - see Joey at Fodera, Brooklyn

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As a bass player...

Fender.

Gibson makes awesome Guitars, but they suck at making Basses, 3xcept for the Thunderbird.

I've owned and played a Fender Jazz Bass.
I've owned at least two PJ style basses, a Peavey and a Yamaha.
I currently own and play on an Ibanez SR250.

My current amp is an Ampeg, though I really want a Gallien Kruger.

I use a Markbass Compressore, a TC Electronics Corona Chorus, and a Boss DD3 digital delay and power these off a Voodoo Labs PP2+.

1967 Gibson ES-175D here, wish my playing could do it justice

My buddies fender custom shops/usa guitars are some of the sweetest and easiest playing guitars I ever played. My gibson sucks major balls and wont stay in tune plus sounds like shit. The only thing I like about my SG is the feel of the neck.

Why not both?

My main electric is a Fender strat, fitted with vintage-sounding noise cancelling pickups from Mojotone. Super sweet guitar, and the pickups are a main part of it. Really pleasing tone, and NO HUM!

My main acoustic is a Gibson SJ-200 "Super Jumbo". Really expensive guitar, but totally worth it! This is a true "no eq guitar", you just point a mic in its general direction and it sounds unbelievably good.

Am I deviant if I say PRS?

BOTH are unique in what they give players as far as

tone quality. I've had guitarist and bassist play

with them and they have all sounded great...

I have an SG, but I like my JazzMaster the best.

GK is an outstanding bass amp

specially with small cone cabs

I have 2 Les Paul Customs, one 59' Black Beauty with 3 pickups and bixby, and the other is a 82' White Beauty. Both with gold trim. Best investment I have ever made (except for my wife!). I have always loved playing my LPs

Parts-caster Strat or Tele
Warmoth neck with ss-frets.

Typically? My Gretsch through my Fender Vaporizer.

However, in the spirit of the question - when playing my Gibson, it's usually my SG into the Peavey EFX212. I like this SG because it has coil splitting, meaning I can get that Fender single coil sound the odd time I want it without actually having to pick up a Fender.

Yeah, I'm a Gibson guy.



In all honesty I have nothing against Fenders, they just aren't my thing, and I'm perfectly happy with Fender amps, although I really want a Vox to pair with the Gretsch - just a bit more versatility than the Vaporizer, and a LOT more clean headroom.

Jumbos are amazingly good - even the Epiphone SJs are incredibly well-rounded. I have a late 50's J50 (last year of the slope shoulder) and it's beautiful, but a bit thin in the mids - my Epi Dove has a slightly better overall sound, although the J50 for fingerpad picking is great.

I have a Les Paul / Melody Maker, I picked it up because the price was good and those soapbar P90's have a really interesting sound for certain applications. I do like the SG better, though.

If you ever find a Woodsong, F series (I have the F400) they're hidden gems you wouldn't believe - comparable to a J45 but at less than a 3rd of the price. Found mine in a pawn shop, and it's my go-to acoustic.

I once owned a Gibson Les Paul classic. Sold it to pay rent though.

Esp for hard rock/metal but Les Paul or Strat will work for damned near any style!

Flying V or Strat...

Neither...mine is a Prestige Heritage QM TR
Made in Canada using Canadain Maple for the face, ebony for the fretboard, Seymour Duncan pickups, and gold plated accouterments.

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Vintage strats, teles, les pauls are fun.

Gibson hollow bodies are great. Blah, blah.

You want a guitar...buy a Paul Reed Smith.

Then learn hiw to play.

Not gonna lie

That looks...delicious lol

That’s pretty!

Jackson.

Any guitar is great in the right hands! Why by a fanboy of just one?

A few really interesting guitars/basses they play here.

I've played both brands for 25 years. Both are very overpriced. Gibson in general seems to rely a lot more on better looking, quality woods and a more labor intensive building process that makes a lot of Fender guitars seem like something a high schooler would make in shop class. Not trying to demean Fender, I've gigged their guitars and basses for decades. Each has it's own sound, though in the electrified music era the pickups and amp are what you hear 99% of the time. The amplifier became an instrument itself in the 60's when it became commonplace to intentionally overdrive them for a different sound. In that situation a guitar made of plywood will sound about the same as a $10K customshop Gibson.