[kj] Advice on picking up guitar

[S. Man]

Brendan wrote:


> Any feedback appreciated.


Pun intended?

I'd go for electric.  Easier on the fingers and you can get sort of 
acoustic-ish sounds out of an electric but not necessarily vice versa. 
I'd also recommend getting some sort of little electronic box that has a 
bunch of distortion and other effects thru which you can listen to 
yourself with headphones.  Some of the digital effects boxes ...ala 
something along the lines of a Line 6 POD http://line6.com/podxt/ can 
sound pretty amazing.  I think Geordie uses/has used that green delay 
unit of theirs. There are some that you can patch in an external source 
so that you can play along and try to learn songs.  Nobody wants to hear 
you playing through a real amp when you are starting out but one of 
these boxes can put serious sound pressure out through headphones so you 
can deafen yourself to your heart's content.

Don't buy a cheap piece of crap but cheap and inexpensive are two 
different things.  I'd say buy something that is used that you can 
easily resell after a bit once you get a feel for what characteristics 
you like/dislike about guitars.  You won't really know what you really 
want until you handle and fool around with them for a bit.