What is the best guitar type in your opinion?

[IntenseJim]

I've had all different kinds - but SSs the most. Probably because you needed that Floyd in the '80s. Not sure it's the best type, but most common for what I do.

Even with a regular tremelo, the SSH or HSH pup configuration is so versatile and wonderful sounding.

 

[killertone]

Hard to play Ratt or Dokken on a LP so RT will go Superstrat for sure.

LPCs for me though all the way!

 

[DeezDemos]

Les Paul!

+1

But every time I have one of my Lesters with me? Feels like home

Yep!

The only time I hate LP's are when I see the dudes that have them slung up really high like a bra. Makes me wanna scream out, "YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG"!!!

 

[sandman]

Standard Stratocaster with a great bridge pickup.

 

[Bob Savage]

No idea.

 

[racerevlon]

Telecaster... The most-recorded guitar of all-time. I once heard a fellow player state, "Give me a Telecaster, a good overdrive (like an SD-1), and an AC-30, and I can play any gig." Then he started playing... I believe him.

I have two custom hand-built Telecasters and they're the finest guitars I own.

 

[thiswaythatway]

For flat out hard rock and or metal you simply won't beat a good sounding Les Paul. But for an overall versatile guitar I'd take a HSS superstrat that can split the bridge bucker.

 

[yngzaklynch]

For flat out hard rock and or metal you simply won't beat a good sounding Les Paul. But for an overall versatile guitar I'd take a HSS superstrat that can split the bridge bucker.

Thats kinda how I am. I think for comfort and multiple tones a Strat or super strat is tough to top. But yeah a good LP in a hard rock context will be the thickest tone.

 

[D-Rock]

PRS gets my vote since it's the only guitar that I have heard convincingly play Les Paul and Strat tones. I was shocked actually.
Full force, weighty LP chug & crunch with the bridge pickup, and jangly, chimey bell like Stat flavour with the neck pickup.

 

[RG955TT]

Suhr HSH Super Strats w/Floyds, coil taps on position 2 and 4 (changes humbuckers to single coils for strat quack). I can play almost anything on these guitars and it sounds authentic.

 

[Reiep]

If I would have answered yesterday I would have said LP, rocking my ESP Eclipse for the last 6 years. However this morning I dusted off my 9 yo Ibanez RG 370 DX, my first axe, and it was like this old training pants you keep in your cupboard, forgot it, but once you put it on, it's the best ever. I'm quite confuse and gasing for a super strat now.

 

[Steinmetzify]

I like big lush tones, and to me I need mahogany bodies and maple tops and guitars that are comfortable to play....sitting and standing. For those, LPs and ML/Stealths get my vote, and the MLs are metal as fuck.

 

[stephen sawall]

The Strat I have I bought in 1978 .... a 1969. It now has a EMG-DG20 David Gilmour. I have not owned a super strat (Hamer Californian Custom / Seymour Duncan Screamin Demon) since 1997. I use my Les Paul / JB bridge - at least 90% of the time. I got rid of most of my other electrics because I did not use them. The only one I ever think about is my Explorer.

 

[ConcreteVampire]

None...

The best for me is for what I'm Playing. It's a tool.

My "Collection" is one of each Type that I think a simple git toolbox should have.

Gibson- SG
Gibson-Les Paul
Fender-Strat's (one Low output, another high)
Fender- Telecaster
My mutt BC Rich. "Kinda" a Super strat. Locking trem, neck thru, etc...

I can cop the recorded tones of the music I like grabbing any of these. (Blues, blues rock, old hard rock)

I do feel I'm missing a semi hollow vibe, I will pick up one of those Gibson Midtown P-90's for Christmas...

 

[Ventura]

Les Paul!

+1

But every time I have one of my Lesters with me? Feels like home

Yep!

The only time I hate LP's are when I see the dudes that have them slung up really high like a bra. Makes me wanna scream out, "YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG"!!!

 

[Ventura]

I like neck thru! My ESP Fr-7 is amazing. Always in tune.

FWIW, seems all my ESPs stay in tune - for, like, RIDICULOUSLY long periods of time and non-use.

 

[rlord1974]

Standard Stratocaster with a great bridge pickup.

That's where I'm at as well. However, I also need good neck and middle pickups.

 

[Stramm8]

I've been a floyded super strat/evh type guitar guy since I started playing 25 years ago and the floyd does indeed feel right as far as my right hand goes. I drop it every now and then for goofs but I think it really is a good platform for heavy palm-muted riffing as well. That said, I have been digging the hell out of my SG lately. There really is nothing like a fixed bridge in my opinion in terms play-ability and note stability. That and an SG/LP/V etc. is just so rock and roll. They are hard to beat from that perspective.

 

[Tone Zone]

For me, definitely super strats....followed by my Gibson LP R8 (or similar set neck guitar). Not really into other "traditional" type guitars and I loathe neck-thrus.

 

[rockify]

PRS all the way here.
Does the strat thing and LP thing in one useable body
They stay in tune and are easy to play