don't ask us. go out to guitar center or whatever store is near you and spend a few hours playing different guitars. guitar tone you can customize afterward, but every guitar has a different feel. it's important that you find the one that will feel best in your hands. it's very hard for us to tell you which one would be good. but overall any brand is fine, altough if i were you i would stay away from squier guitars.
To improve technique and of course trying to keep all as clean as possible. I know my own limits and speed limits and so on I never play anything I'm not capable of. That wouldn't make any sense. After three years of playing I tried to play everything as fast as possible and that sounded, I would say, like shit, and I didn't realize that if I'd play bit slower things than I was capable of playing then everything would sound much better.
--Aleksi Laiho - Advice to Play By
--Aleksi Laiho - Advice to Play By
