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StrEagle

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Location: Balkans

Posted: Sat, 16th Mar 2013 23:01 Post subject: Planning on buying a guitar

A mate of mine is selling a Behringer iAxe 393 for around 100$. It comes with a USB jack, and I think of buying it for the sole purpose of plugging it in the pc and playing Rocksmith on it. Checked some reviews on the guitar and they say it's not great, but the USB is cool and it's a cheap beginners guitar. Any thoughts?

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and yes, mine is only average

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tw1st

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Location: New Jersey

Posted: Sun, 17th Mar 2013 00:13 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

For beginners yeah sure, if you really get serious about playing you can always get a nicer guitar. I'm a big fan of ibanez and schecter guitar, been using them exclusively for almost 15 years. You can look into those, they are priced moderately. \| BenQ XL2420T 24" 120Hz \| Ducky Shine III 9008 White LED - Brown MX \| Logitech G9x \| \| Corsair Carbide 400R \| Asus Sabertooth z77 \| i7 3770K @ 4.3Ghz - 1.200v \| CM Hyper 212 Evo - Push/Pull \| \| SLI eVGA 4GB GTX980 ACX SC \| Vengeance 16GB RAM 1600 DDR3 \| AX850w PSU \| Samsung 840Pro 128GB SSD \| WD Black 1TB HD \|

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Kurosaki

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Location: germany

Posted: Sun, 17th Mar 2013 00:28 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

I still have my Ibanez, but I don't know how to play xD. Bought it because I wanted to learn it, but I didn't find any time for that / I was too lazy.

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BloodySpy

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Posted: Sun, 17th Mar 2013 13:11 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

Buy a used Fender Strat - those built in Mexico. They are not that expensive, and the build quality is way above Behringer, Epiphone, low and most medium-tier Ibanez. It's a good thing to start learning with a good guitar, you won't have to put up with bad frets, abnormaly fast detuning, shitty frame build, crappy electronics, string buzz in various places, shitty sustain, bad wood quality, etc.

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inz

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Posted: Sun, 17th Mar 2013 14:10 Post subject:

BloodySpy wrote:

It's a good thing to start learning with a good guitar

Word, shoddy quality can put you off of playing altogether - if at all possible, steer clear of the bottom-tier 'beginner' guitars. You don't have to drop a grand on your first guitar of course, but at least get a decent one.

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