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Question:I have a 150 dollar guitar (cheap piece of crap). I've had the guitar for about half a year. All I want is to shred like crazy on it. I've been thinking of spending more than a thousand bucks on a good guitar that might sound better but I don't know jack about guitars so I don't know if I should. Would a 700 to 1000 dollar guitar make a big difference or would it sound the same as my $150 Fender?? I have a cheap amp. What it come down to is should I buy expensive gear to be able to shread like slayer and metallica? The gear I curreantly have sounds kind of shitty. I have a death metal pedal by Digitech, Slash signiture wah pedal, and a cheap amp and a cheap fender guitar ($150).
PLEASE PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I have a 150 dollar guitar (cheap piece of crap). I've had the guitar for about half a year. All I want is to shred like crazy on it. I've been thinking of spending more than a thousand bucks on a good guitar that might sound better but I don't know jack about guitars so I don't know if I should. Would a 700 to 1000 dollar guitar make a big difference or would it sound the same as my $150 Fender?? I have a cheap amp. What it come down to is should I buy expensive gear to be able to shread like slayer and metallica? The gear I curreantly have sounds kind of shitty. I have a death metal pedal by Digitech, Slash signiture wah pedal, and a cheap amp and a cheap fender guitar ($150).
PLEASE PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!

if you cant tell the difference you are not even ready for a new guitar. You may think that you are ready for a 700-1000 dollar guitar...but your not. You said, "All I want is to shred like crazy on it." You know Paul McCarthy did not ever play on an expensive guitar until his late years in The Beatles. The guitar will only make the sound you produce better, not make you sound good. You cant pick up a guitar that more expensive and expect to rock. If you go buy this guitar in two more years you will ask, '' Whats better $10,000 or 14,999:" Learn to rock on ****, dont sound like **** on a rocking guitar! ;)

Yes, all things being equal, a better guitar AND a better amp will make you sound better. For solidbody electric guitars, a better instrument means improved quality better sounding pickups and internal electronics, better tuning machines that will actually stay in tune better, probably a better made, faster neck, all that good stuff. And the same goes double for the better amp as well.

Look, the only way you'll know for sure if a more expensive guitar and amp rig will give you the sound you want and be worth the money is to go to a good music store that carries a bunch of different brands in different price ranges and spend a few hours trying out guitars and amps and see. If after trying out guitars, you can't tell the difference in sound or playability between the guitars in the store and the one you have now, then save your money and don't buy a new guitar. Same with amps -- try a bunch of them out and compare them to the one you have now -- if you can't tell the difference in sound or features or playability between the ones in the store and the one you have, you don't need a new amp.

But if your currrent guitar and amp is really crap, then I bet you WILL notice.

Try out a bunch of different guitars using the same one amp for each one so you know that the differences in sound that you're hearing are differences in the guitars not the amp. Then when you have a guitar picked out, try playing it through a bunch of diffferent amps to see which of those sounds best with that guitar.

Two parts of sounding like band X. Get the right guitar *for you* and getting the right amp.

You need the right neck to fit your hands - when your hands fit the neck you play better. The right amp puts you into the right sonic territory....

Get your distortion from a good amp (tube, preferably). Save up for it - it'll be worth it. You don't need a big stack - a smaller tube combo can sound just as good.

Saul