Looking for 2nd guitar ideas

Hi all,
I'm a newbie and currently I play a 99$ squite strat. I'm looking for a 2nd guitar (something a bit better) and I noticed this guitar: Peavey AT-200.
Anyone has any input about that guitar? I like the auto tuning for that guitar but I wonder how it plays and do any of you have experience with it ?
If not - what guitar would you get if you were me ?

Thanks,
Eran.

Welcome to guitar tricks
I have a Fender Squier and it sound fine..
If it's not had intonation set up it will sound bad.. It also depend on amp setting and quality of the amp...
I also have an Ibanez starter guitar that sounds fine.. Pick-ups are a bit too hot for me, but I've adjust them a bit.. I use both weekly while my Tele and Alvarez acoustic stay cased up..
MIM Fender are in that price range as well as Epiphone.. It is really how a guitar feels to you.. So get out and try some...
I picked up my Squier at a yard sale and the Ibanez I traded a junk motorcycle..
When you get a new guitar, save your old Squier for experimentation.. an back up..
Just my 2Cent worth.. Good luck

Originally Posted by: eransh10Hi all,
I'm a newbie and currently I play a 99$ squite strat. I'm looking for a 2nd guitar (something a bit better) and I noticed this guitar: Peavey AT-200.
Anyone has any input about that guitar? I like the auto tuning for that guitar but I wonder how it plays and do any of you have experience with it ?
If not - what guitar would you get if you were me ?

Thanks,
Eran.

Hey Eran,

Here's my $0.02. If you want to stay in the Strat family, I believe you will be hard pressed to find a better value than a Fender Std. Strat MiM. Here's what I am currently doing.

After watching these three videos, Squier vs Fender,
Fender made in Mexico vs made in American made Stratocaster and then finally Mods anyone can do to their Fender Strat * by Phillip "The Guitar Professor" McKnight* you will understand to a very high level the entire Strat market.

My nearly mint MiM Strat, is receiving locking tuners, an input jack upgrade, a bone nut upgrade, locking strap buttons, and a set of Custom Shop '69 pickups. Just to make the package complete, lets throw in $70 for for the new style bridge found on the $1500 and up Deluxes. For $378 for the guitar, plus about $308 in parts, I am now in at about $686 and I have an axe that is not only virtually indistinguishable from the $1500+ Deluxe in both look feel and performance, but I also have THE consummate full time gigging Strat at better than a two for one price.

Finally. Regarding that "lowly" Squire currently residing in your hot little hand. If you have paid the $50 or so plus strings for a professional setup of the guitar, the following scene could just as easily happen to you at the next "Youtube Orphan Guitars for Orphans Telethon":

Me: Mr. Knopfler sir, I have some good news and some bad news sir.

Knof: Right! Let´s have it.

Me: Sir, your Diamond Encrusted One Of a Kind Custom Shop Super Strat has been detained by Customs. Something about unregistered South African blood diamonds. Extra bloody. I don't know what that means but it sounds pretty bad.

Knof: Bloody hell! What's the good news?

Me: Sir, your pedals all made it through OK. They are all on stage, setup and ready to go. sir, I hooked my own Squier up for you.

Knof: Squier??? Are you frickin' kidding me??

Me: Sir. I am NOT kidding. Stiff upper lip and all that sir. I need you to get out there right now and burn the house down! Give her a try sir she handles pretty nicely. The orphans are counting on it!



Knof: Not as good as my guitar. But that was pretty damn good!



It COULD happen to you 8-^) How much do you want to spend? And do you like the Strat? Has it been setup by a good guitar tech?

* I just coined that name "The Guitar Professor" a la Chris Berman 8-)

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Originally Posted by: eransh10Hi all,
I'm a newbie and currently I play a 99$ squite strat. I'm looking for a 2nd guitar (something a bit better) and I noticed this guitar: Peavey AT-200.
Anyone has any input about that guitar? I like the auto tuning for that guitar but I wonder how it plays and do any of you have experience with it ?
If not - what guitar would you get if you were me ?

Thanks,
Eran.

Do you have a budget?

I found the peavey at-200 on reverb for $200.
I put new tuners on it and it's an awesome guitar. I love it's sound and the auto tuning. Plays very well and very similar to my strat.
I looked around for a guitar and tried several les Paul style guitars but I couldn't justify spending 600$ on them, especially due to the fact that I didn't like their sound.
Anyway-I'm very happy with my new guitar and I'm sure it will be fine for the time being.
Eran.

eransh10- Quote
I looked around for a guitar and tried several les Paul style guitars but I couldnt justify spending 600$ on them, especially due to the fact that I didnt like their sound.


What? One of the most iconic guitars in so many genre of music? Wow, the ear is really a fickle thing. One thing I might mention and not to be obnoxious or controversial, is that an instrument only sounds as good as the tone you set up. Every guitar has its own characteristics. I enjoy many different characteristics of a multitude of different guitars. Some characteristics are significant. Lets take the example of a Stratocaster and an SG. While you could get a Stratocaster to mimic the tone of an SG, I dont believe it is possible the other way around. Same goes with the Telecaster, there is no equal. Then there are the hollowbodys, choose your favorite or many, they are like acoustics with many flavors. And then the Les Paul with tons of mimics. Again choose your price range and flavor. But the characteristics are all unique to the Les Paul. And yes, worth mentioning is PRS, the over-achieving SG which rivals Stratocaster. All of these lines of instruments have unique tone qualities and can sound either good or bad if not properly set-up. With the same cognition, strings placed over a bucket could sound awesome in the hands of the right musician.

All of the opinions expressed are my own, and do not reflect the opinion of GuitarTricks or its membership.

Even on a strict budget, I would have gotten a semi-hollow or a Les Paul style guitar to balance out my Squire Strat. Something like an Epi Les Paul Special II, or for semi-hollow a Casino or Riviera? But that's just me ;)

Peavey make great amps, but i don't like theese guitars. Maybe because for this ugly axe[br]https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/PwrSlide[br]I know it's lap steel, but it's ugly as hell. For similiar price I would choose this yamaha[br]https://musicsquare.co.uk/137948_Yamaha-Pacifica-311H-Yellow-Natural-Satin.html

eransh, if you have a budget that would help us determine, but having said that, I can give you my real world example. I actually bought that Keith Urban Night Star solid body electric, and it came with an excellent LOW action already. I didnt even have to have it set up. Right now I use Dadarrio 10 46 strings on it and it plays great. A great purchase for 200 only. In addition, I recently bought a Yamaha FGX 800 C acoustic electric that is great around a campfire with no electric and with an amp hooked up it works great. I also have Dadario 10 47 phosphor bronze strings on it. Both great guitars for beginner. Hope this helps. My humble opinion is that you can play that Strat you have now and if the action is good, and you learn on it, then move up to a Fender Standard Strat, or a Gibson Les Paul.