I'm not partial to Gibson because I know I'm paying an inflated price due to the product name and their quality generally ranges anywhere from 'ok' to horrible. If I'm in the market for a quality, made in the USA, electric guitar, Carvin gets my money every time.
I guess for me it's a value issue.
At this point in my playing life, I can make pretty much any guitar sound like I want it to because the tone is ultimatly in the fingers, both on the strings and the knobs of the guitar and amp. I own guitars that cost $1000 or more but I gig every weeek w/one that I bagged in a pawn shop for $50 and then spent $85 on used pickups and new tuners. My currently weekly gig has me handing my guitar to total strangers to play and I'm not going to do that w/my nice guitars, so I put together a used 'beater' to fit the bill. That guitar plays and sounds so well I could have sold it to a guy last week if I wanted to, he was that impressed with it.
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