My go-to is a Mexi strat I just picked up (have been using a Squier special edition) and it plays great and cuts through the mix very well.I actually got to bust it out last night at my band practice (away from my church) and I realized how much I loved having the Bigsby on my guitar.
Ive had guitars with trems on them but I have never really enjoyed them. This on the other hand is pleasurable to use and adds a great dimension to the music that I was playing. I have been considering getting into a new, really high end guitar for the past little while and I think Ive decided that whatever I get it needs to have a Bigsby on it. Heres my dilemma. I am primarily a PRS player and absolutely love them but at the same time I really really dig on this Gretsch I just got. Best Guitars With Bigsby Pro Jet OrSo Im trying to decide whether I should just go with a nicer, higher quality pro jet or should I go for a Starla from PRS or is there something else out there that I dont know about that would be just as cool Let me know what you all think. My friend wanted to play a Duesenberg guitar that happened to have a Bigsby tremolo on it and it was a really nice guitar to play. We all played it and came away very impressed with both guitar and tremolo. Way too rich for me, but then again Im primarily an acoustic player. ![]() I have a strat but I dont even have the tremelo handle hooked up on it. Personally I dont know you would gain all that much upgrading to a higher quality pro jet that you couldnt do on your electrojet with just a few upgrades like TV Jones pickups and locking tuners, and maybe even a compton bridge. My personal approach is to let the style of music dictate which guitar I use. Gretsch - jazz, rockabilly, clean blues, nashville fingerstyle (Chet Atkins), older style country picking, 60s and 70s clean ballad or pop. Les Paul - Heavy rock, Metal, arena rock style ballads, hard blues, muscle shoals style country rock. Stratocaster - Modern rock, blues of any style, funk, R B, modern country, 50s rock and roll. PRS guitars tend to sit in the same sonic area as a Les Paul. So again, it all depends on the style of music you tend to play most often. Any of the guitars with the right configuration of hardware, amps, and pedals can suffice for most styles of music. But you cant get a PRS to sound like a Gretsch or a Strat no matter what you do. So he has a Squier Vintage Modified telecaster thats his go-to guitar. I have an Epiphone Les Paul Custom- tuxedo model, black with gold hardware and pearloid inlays, just a real sharp looking guitar. But in the church environment Im in, its a little too down -n- dirty. Our team is real mid-range heavy (to the point of muddy) so hte LP gets lost in the mix, especially clean.
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