Funniest guitar misconception you've heard? - Page 6

Kensei · 06-08-2012, 04:43 AM

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Originally Posted by dem00n

"EMG's sound good"

Biggest ****ing joke ever.
Period.

That not liking something makes it bad.

That music is not subjective

That one person's opinion is fact

That Slashtone is the pinnacle of guitar achievement

That BC Rich's all suck

That shredding/metal guitar takes less ability/talent than blues or Jazz

That shredding/metal guitar takes more ability/talent than blues or Jazz

EooN_PL · 06-08-2012, 04:51 AM

My very own misconception:

All guitars are string-through like strats and teles.

Oh boy, how disapointed I was when I got my Epiphone Les Paul Junior...

The Refugee · 06-08-2012, 01:56 PM

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Originally Posted by EooN_PL

My very own misconception:

All guitars are string-through like strats and teles.

Oh boy, how disapointed I was when I got my Epiphone Les Paul Junior...

I wish I could've seen your reaction...

"WTF IS THIS THING?!"

EooN_PL · 06-08-2012, 02:14 PM

Yeah

I almost called the shop that I bought it from to tell them something's not right...
Good old times

Thumpalumpacus · 06-08-2012, 02:35 PM

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Originally Posted by EooN_PL

My very own misconception:

All guitars are string-through like strats and teles.

Oh boy, how disapointed I was when I got my Epiphone Les Paul Junior...

Hahah, I was exactly the opposite. I wanted a Les Paul because a couple of my faves played 'em ... but I could only afford a Strat copy. I was dumbfounded to learn that the strings went straight through the body.

CannonsAhoy · 06-08-2012, 02:41 PM

My friend brought his electric to school for our school band's gig. During recess he took it from the case to noodle around (of course he didn't have an amp with him there). Then somebody came and said "turn the volume up."

Mitzu · 06-08-2012, 02:47 PM

I thought that all pedals could go "up and down" like a wahwah, and I didn't know that you can just switch on and off ODs and all the others.

upl8tr · 06-08-2012, 02:55 PM

You do know that changing pickups is the most common guitar modification... Right?

S_I_N_13 · 06-09-2012, 10:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Thumpalumpacus

What's yours bound with, barbed-wire?!

No, I have rusty razor blades

kboman · 06-10-2012, 05:59 AM

That playing guitar means playing blues music.

(constantly being reinforced by guitar players playing guitar)

renzo_lao · 06-10-2012, 06:51 AM

Someone once told me that it didn't matter if he got a rosewood or maple board cause according to him, "Maple ages and darkens to Rosewood".

Arthur · 06-10-2012, 10:04 AM

I've got one, not really a misconception but funny nonetheless. At a music store.
"Is it really worth paying the $160 to get my guitar setup, I mean it only cost $200" Sales guy- "Personally I would do it" "Nah, I think I'll just get the new strings put on for $60 instead"

Zack · 06-11-2012, 07:59 AM

eddy van halen is the best guitarist in the world

PNB92 · 06-11-2012, 01:13 PM

Vintage guitars are all incredible, sound better and play better than new guitars, and are truly worth paying upwards of $20 000 for. They built guitars to such a high standard back then that not a single one was ever produced that wasn't perfect.

JimmyPage968 · 06-11-2012, 11:41 PM

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Originally Posted by northernguitarguy

LPs are for rhythm, Strats are for leads

Then, Custom 24s are for both lead and rhythm!

ed1996 · 06-11-2012, 11:54 PM

Teles are for rhythm.

old mark · 06-12-2012, 12:07 AM

When I got my first electric bass, a used Danelectro Longhorn in 1963, my dad said, "Well, plug it in..."

Had to tell him I needed an amp...

mark

Phoenix59 · 06-12-2012, 12:12 AM

Teles is fer Country muzik.

River · 06-12-2012, 12:24 AM

Pretty much anything Nico has to say about anything.

nicolasrivera · 06-12-2012, 12:27 AM

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Originally Posted by River

Pretty much anything Nico has to say about anything.

Didn't you spend a whole week trying to find a simple little string buzz...

martin H · 06-12-2012, 10:57 AM

Generally heard in music stores -

"This 100 Watt amp will be twice as loud as that 50 Watt you have now ..."

jwk0522 · 06-12-2012, 01:50 PM

I've ran into a lot of people who see that I have an electric guitar and ask if I can play an acoustic, almost as if they think that they're different instruments

Freddy G · 06-12-2012, 02:06 PM

I think the best one I have ever heard was from a guitar player (not naming names) from a very well known American rock band. He put a small ding in the finish of his guitar and was very concerned about getting it fixed ASAP before the tone leaked out.

I'm not kidding

Phil-E the G-Shizzle · 06-12-2012, 03:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Freddy G

I think the best one I have ever heard was from a guitar player (not naming names) from a very well known American rock band. He put a small ding in the finish of his guitar and was very concerned about getting it fixed ASAP before the tone leaked out.

I'm not kidding

You only have to worry about dents leaking tone if the pickgaurd is off, when it is on it keeps any tone form leaking but then it limits the tone distribution. When it is off the tone distribution is unlimited and you sound much better, but you need to worry about dents.

zontar · 06-13-2012, 12:24 AM

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Originally Posted by jwk0522

I've ran into a lot of people who see that I have an electric guitar and ask if I can play an acoustic, almost as if they think that they're different instruments

I've heard people list all sorts of instruments they can play--as opposed to listing different styles.

There are some significant differences in playing some different types of guitars, and the techniques and music that is normally played on them, but at the end of the day, they're still guitars.

PNB92 · 06-13-2012, 01:14 AM

taking the backplate off of a strat makes it sound better.

I honestly don't hear it. I can hear the difference in a bunch of weird crap like gold plated vs nickle input jacks, even sometimes things like stripping the paint from inside cavities, but i can't for the life of me hear the difference between backplate on, and backplate off.

BornToLooze · 06-13-2012, 02:02 AM

From a guy at guitar center.....JCM 800s aren't loud, turn it up as loud as you want.

Thank god I was the only customer in there at the time

Thumpalumpacus · 06-13-2012, 02:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jwk0522

I've ran into a lot of people who see that I have an electric guitar and ask if I can play an acoustic, almost as if they think that they're different instruments

I got this the other way around a lot in high school during my senior year, when I would take my 12-string to school three or so days a week: "Do you play electric?"

formula73 · 06-13-2012, 03:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kensei

That not liking something makes it bad.

That music is not subjective

That one person's opinion is fact

That Slashtone is the pinnacle of guitar achievement

That BC Rich's all suck

That shredding/metal guitar takes less ability/talent than blues or Jazz

That shredding/metal guitar takes more ability/talent than blues or Jazz

This. Objectively, there's value to SOMEBODY in just about every piece of equipment, cheap or expensive, active or passive, thus, nothing really sucks.

This gets me every time: quantifying tone.

"You get more tone from 500ks"
"Floyds are a tone sucker"
"Fatter necks give more tone"

etc., etc.

Stuff changes the tone, i.e., the complexities and character of the guitar, but it doesn't add or subtract it. You can't put more of it in there, ffs.

My favorite:

"EMGs make everything sound the same"

That's crap. I'll take the Pepsi Challenge with any of my EMG equipped guitars and tell you what sounds different about each one. I bet most of the people that spew that garbage have never even tried. Negative Nancys, I say.

Iceman0124 · 06-13-2012, 04:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Thumpalumpacus

Another one I heard recently that cracked me up: P-90s aren't single-coils.

I hear that all the time....it doesnt help when GC had that special runn with "tapped P-90s and called them splits....

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