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Purchasing cheap electric guitars is a great thing. Not only is it a good choice money wise, but there are ways to upgrade these electric guitars and make them sound like guitars costing thousands of dollars. It’s no secret that guitar players are doing this all over, especially when these cheap electric guitars, and cheap bass guitars are made and finished so well.
Your options after with these guitars are many. The best way to make a cheap electric guitar sound like a more expensive guitar is change the pick-ups and or the volume and tone controls with that from the model guitar it is copying. These basics hold true for bass guitars also. Changing out the gears and bridge are other ways to upgrade your guitar.
There are things to watch out for when changing anything on your guitar, one thing I would recommend is when you are changing out certain parts stay within the model guitar that you have. I read where someone put the neck of a telecaster on the body of a stratocaster. The results were a guitar that could be tuned properly.
As I’ve gotten older, I have gone through phases of infatuation with just about every genre of rock music. When I first started listening to music in my early teens, I listened to hard rock and heavy metal—the stereotypical style for the inevitable stages of adolescent angst. I then moved on to “more mellow” music: grunge. This led to a stint with classic rock, and, after going to college, I adapted a formulaic affinity for indie. With the exception of the heavy metal, I still listen to all of the genres periodically.
Watching my brother’s music tastes evolve has been quite amusing, as I’ve seen him go through an almost identical transformation. Recently he has branched out from heavy metal into grunge and the sounds of the custom electric guitars from the classic rock era. Although I dislike pigeonholing anyone, I am fairly confident that he will begin to appreciate the counterculture of indie music sometime soon.