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What to Buy

A few recommendations, the result of decades of experience with guitars and guitar gear. Make sure you know what you want to buy as you'll be spending quite some time using it in your music career (or past time).

Guitars

Taylor - classic acoustic sound, almost always the guitars are comfortable. You may listen to Taylor acoustics in hundreds of hits from all the periods.
Gibson ES 175 - the classic jazz electric guitar, there's no classic jazz guitarist that hasn't played it.
Ovation Balladeer - very comfortable, well built, resistant and reliable. The plastic back gives it a better balance. The main Al di Meola guitar.
Parker Fly Mojo - hi-tech axe, it includes a lot of newies like a special vibrato bar in 3 positions and a one piece neck and body. Very comfortable to play.
Takamine Jasmine - much alike the Ovation guitars but with a wooden back , it's the first choice for most of guitarists.
Music Man John Petrucci - very comfortable, great balance, ballsy sound, especially built for Petrucci.
Gibson Les Paul - classic electric guitar, almost all the legendary guitarists played it. Long sustain, ballsy overdriven sound.
Variax Acoustic 700 - a lot of acoustic sounds in a single instrument: Martin, Gibson, Selmer-Maccaferri, Dobro, sitar, banjo, mandolin, etc.
Gibson ES 335 - semi-hollow, the first choice for blues and soft jazz players like B. B. King and Larry Carlton.
Variax 600 - it looks like a Strat but it includes 25 guitar sounds: Telecaster, Strat, Les Paul, Gretsh, Rickenbaecker, Gibson S and ES, acoustic guitars, Danelectro, Dobro. A special mention for its playability.

Amps, Effects and Software

Marshall M4 Mini Full Stack - portable Marshall sound, it emulates the well-known MS4.
Pod XT Live - lots of amps and effects, most of them sounding great, it may also be programmed through a computer.
Line 6 Spider II -affordable little stack, 4 amp models, all the basic amp effects.
Sonar 5 - digital workstation, it has everything you need from recording or composing to mixing and mastering. Very easy to use, it comes with synths and studio effects.
Tech 21 Trademark - very flexible tone builder, it emulates the SansAmp pedal.
Cubase SX3 - another digital workstation, it includes virtual instruments and superior audio editing.
Boss Guitar Effects Processor - advanced COSM modeling engine , 30 amp models, you may use the legendary Boss sounds or easily create of your own.
Amplitube - virtual effects and amps. Convincing sound, easy to use.
DigiTech RP50 Modeling Processor - amp, cabinet and pick-up modeling plus a lot of effects.
Guitar Rig - the most popular guitar amps and effects, it comes with its own pedal or you can use any MIDI controller you like.
Zoom Pedalboard - effects, modeling system, a drum machine and sampler
Band in a Box - the perfect tool for "play along with a band" practicing: learn to play chords, melodies and improvise in real time.

 

 

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