#Guitar for rock and metal

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rugged lintel
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hey which guitar would you guys suggest for shredding and playing fast stuff basically a guitar based for rock and metal

sick wave
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#guitar-and-music message

swift nebula
rugged lintel
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k ty

swift nebula
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Also what’s your budget

rugged lintel
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prob something with a radius of under 7.25

rugged lintel
swift nebula
rugged lintel
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no like a less round one

swift nebula
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The bigger the flatter

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A 20” radius is near flat

rugged lintel
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im fine with any shape except the very round ones

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currently using a sg

swift nebula
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I mean if you want something with compound 12-16” 16” for the upper frets for leads

rugged lintel
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so which ones would you suggest

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i was thinking of a suhr guitar

swift nebula
rugged lintel
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also i need like something with small frets till the 12th fret then slightly bigger frets from 12 -22 or more

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i struggle playing fast stuff cuz frets too big and after 12 my fingers dont fit on a fret

swift nebula
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Uuum i don’t think that’s gonna happen really

rugged lintel
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alr then do u know of any companies or brands that make custom guitars

swift nebula
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I mean you can get a custom shop

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From like most brands

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If you have the money

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Several thousand

pearl pilot
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You definitely will be able to play past the 12th

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My fingers don’t fit the same

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They don’t have to perfectly fit

sick wave
rugged lintel
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i use a gibson sh

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sg

sick wave
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ok. you can play that music on that guitar. what are you wanting to change about that guitar?

rugged lintel
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i feel the neck is too thick and its hard to play fast on it

sick wave
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ok. i suggest getting around some other instruments. you'l find, you can play fast on any guitar, if you can play fast

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within reason, you wont need a "fast guitar"

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if one can play fast? one can play fast on a gibson SG

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you may look for a local guitar player with that experience that plays fast, and let them play fast on your guitar so you can see that happen

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they may have preferences, like a thinner neck, etc.. and you can communicate about that

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but, that guitar is capable

rugged lintel
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no its not that my hands are way too small

sick wave
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sure

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and its just not a hand-size problem, either

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but yeah. just get around some guitars and find out

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you wont need a "custom guitar" to get a smaller/thinner neck

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you will find, the small/thinner neck wont automatically play faster

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but find out. play some guitars and see what you prefer

rugged lintel
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eh i dont want a custom guitar only because of the shape

sick wave
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im encouraging you to see what you would need a custom guitar for

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by all means? get a $4k ibanez RG style guitar or whatever else you read about with a thin neck that folks play fast on

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but i would suggest just experiencing some more necks. so you can see how they feel and see that its maybe not automatically faster like that

rugged lintel
sick wave
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check out really all guitars..

rugged lintel
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sure

pearl pilot
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Check out the petrucci signatures

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Are seven strings in the question at all

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@rugged lintel

rugged lintel
pearl pilot
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Ok

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What’s the budget

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Max you can go

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You were talking custom so I imagine it’s high

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This is a 16 inch neck radius

swift nebula
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Or get the music man

pearl pilot
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Kiesel too? I

rare niche
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like on an intonation level

swift nebula
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Fr

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That’s what I said but “custom guitar????”

rare niche
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u just need stretchy hands to play the big frets, and to play with your fingertips to get the small ones

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if your hands arent stretchy or precise jjust practice until they are

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it happens eventually

patent girder
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charvel DK24 god_gasm

rare niche
swift nebula
pearl pilot
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Bro I’m not sure customs the right way for you

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How long have you been playing for

rare niche
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MIM charvels feel like 2000 dollar guitars

patent girder
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i just discovered it makes good classic rock sounds that i didnt know it could make

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it was just my loud guitar before

rare niche
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i think the bridge humbucker is a bit too high output for my taste but i really like it otherwise

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yeah its great for everything tbh

patent girder
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with the HSS the 5 way switch splits it to the top coil + neck

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it sounds a lot better than i thought tbh

rare niche
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the single coils on those hss models are really niced

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also i like how on the dk22 its a stacked humbucker

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the bridge pup i mean

patent girder
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yea hot rails

rare niche
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i almost got one of the goldtop ones tbh

patent girder
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if you can get a DK24 used it's one of the best value guitars you can find, brand new it's still great value as well @rugged lintel

rare niche
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imo its straight up the best value until you get to the 2000 mark

pearl pilot
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How long they’ve been playing I mean

swift nebula
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If you want good upperfret get a V and good radius Jackson V

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mild phoenix
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just by virtue of how frets must be

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its math, you can't change math