I love buying guitars and musicians gear when I can! It’s so much fun! I’m gonna try to do that more often but do I really need expensive music gear that would break the bank? No, not really. I don’t really need to buy expensive gear that would cost over a couple of thousand dollars ’cause I don’t really play music professionally. I’m not in the industry or anything like that so I don’t need expensive gear at all so for now, I just buy musicians gear that are around $300 – $500 price range, that’s good enough.

I do want to play hard rock & metal and trying to get all the sounds for it. I didn’t get my new Mitchell HD400 guitar yet but hopefully it gets dropped off tomorrow. I just want to have a good metal sound. I do love my Ibanez Hollow Body Art Core guitar but the thing is too damn big and kind of heavy. It’s another reason why I wanted a new solid body guitar… I needed a guitar that is light weight and smaller. The Mitchell guitar seems like the right fit.

There’s a myth going around out there that the more expensive guitars sound better and louder than the inexpensive ones but not always. There are expensive guitars out there that I’m sure sounds kind of crappy but the $300 – $500 guitars sound even better. You don’t need to be fancy to play rock n’ roll & metal. I want to play metal and learn to shred which is what I’ve been doing.

I don’t need expensive gear at all but don’t get me wrong, though, one day I will get a vintage guitar someday. My dream guitar is that I’ve always wanted a vintage Gibson Les Paul made from the 60’s or 70’s and someday I’ll get one of those just to have as part of a collection. I’m thinking about starting a guitar collection. Probably will. Already have started a guitar collection. So far I have 4 guitars and have a 5th one coming my way if that delivery van ever gets here. Hopefully tomorrow!

Kev

I just watched a video review of this guy talking about the Mitchell HD400 guitar. The guitar is perfect for playing metal and shredding which is what I wanted the guitar for. I’m planning on playing more metal and hard rock music so I needed a certain guitar that would have that sound. Looks like I picked a great guitar. The guitar sounds good from what I hear in this video so I can’t wait to get it. I didn’t get the guitar today but definitely tomorrow!

This is the kind of music that I want to play… metal and shred. Play similar music like all of my guitar heroes. The Mitchell HD400 looks like a badass guitar to me. I’ve been looking up instructional videos on whammy techniques and using the whammy seems pretty simple really.

Can’t wait to get the guitar tomorrow and I got the color red by the way.

Kev

Today I just put a guitar on order and it isn’t the Jackson JS32 Dinky that I was talking about. I ordered a different guitar instead which looks even better. Today,  I just ordered the Mitchell HD400:

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/guitars/mitchell-hd400-hard-rock-double-cutaway-electric-guitar#productDetail

The reason I ordered the Mitchell HD400 instead is that the Jackson JS32 looks like it ran out and more of those guitars won’t be available until May 12th. I didn’t want to wait that long so I ended up looking for a different guitar online and the Mitchell HD400 caught my eye.

The Mitchell guitar was priced at $399.99 but it was on sale for $279.99 so I ended up saying “yes” to that guitar and ended up getting that one instead. I should be able to get this guitar in a few days… probably either Wed. or Thursday, I would think. I might even get it tomorrow if I’m lucky enough ’cause sometimes guitar orders are pretty fast when you order them online.

Can’t wait to get this new guitar. I want an electric guitar with a whammy bar so I can learn how to do whammy tricks & stuff. Pretty soon,  I could play like Eddie Van Halen or Joe Satriani, haha.

When this guitar arrives here, I’ll post pics asap and maybe a video of me playing it some.

Kev

I just found out that I don’t really need to get a fuzz pedal ’cause I already have fuzz sound in one of my pedals that I have now. I already have fuzz on my Boss Distortion DS-1. The pedal came with a small instruction booklet and you can get various distortion sounds on this pedal whether from Hard Rock to British Punk to American Rock to Fuzz. I turned the knobs on the pedal to the fuzz sound and it sounded pretty cool. You can still get a good enough fuzz sound on this thing where you can sound like Nirvana or Hendrix. The fuzz sound on the DS-1 pedal sounds pretty badass.

I like the sound of fuzz when it comes to electric guitar ’cause it sounds really cool when you play lead guitar. Play lead guitar with fuzz gives you that 60’s and 70’s vibe which is the sound I’m looking for. I’ll still get the Fuzz Face pedal but I’ll get it sometime in the future. It’s cool that I just learned that I have fuzz ’cause it’s a cool sound.

So I’m gonna place that Jackson guitar and Delay pedal on order tomorrow and should get that stuff this week.

Kev