I've always wished I had the talent to play a musical instrument, especially guitar.

I'm super envious of you guys/gals that can.

If a person were going to learn guitar, is it better to do that on an acoustic or is an electric guitar ok?

It feels like it, but it's not. Visitor Intelligence is how we refer to the tech, and if you google the term you'll see how big of an industry it is.

I have no idea what that is, but it looks awesome.

I'm still leaning toward getting a guitar for myself and trying to learn. I get a bunch of weeks off around the holidays, gotta do something besides play pinball...

If anyone can install it, you can. You are a good uncle!

Thanks for the explanation, I'm trying to soak up as much knowledge as I can about the whole thing.

My butthole has been puckered watching your pics, holy cow. Nice work man.

It's still super impressive and cool.

I didn't go for the American Stratocaster, but I did end up getting a guitar to learn on.

I found a really good deal on an Ibanez low end guitar. My wife got me it and Rocksmith for chritmas so I can maybe give learning guitar a go.

My wife also got me one of these for tuning! Looking forward to messing with it!

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I'm really excited.

Between Rocksmith and youtube, I'm hoping I can learn.

Nice!

I stopped by guitar center after my wife got me the guitar and picked up a Blackstar amp. The guy told me a ton about it and I read a bunch of reviews online while I was standing there, which I'm sure they love.

I got the ID:Core Stereo 10 amp. It's got that same emulated output for both the headphones and the usb recording output. I'm not sure if that's a standard feature on all amps, but a lot of the reviewers seemed to like both the features and the brand.

I'm about to hook everything up and give my first try at guitar a go.

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Awesome, that makes me feel a lot better about it.

I spent a few hours doing some of the many tutorials in Rocksmith last night, I had to stop when my fingers were hurting too bad. When I looked at the clock 3 hours had passed. Really enjoying it so far.

Barely. It took me two nights to get past the Full Bend practice session, and it made my fingers hurt so bad I had to try it dozens of times.

I'm really enjoying it though!!!

I'm still loving Rocksmith. The PC version can be augmented with CustomsForge: http://customsforge.com/

I had a lag issue with my projector I use in my garage, but I took care of it by switching to game mode. The PC seems fine.

I've used a y-splitter to connect both the rocksmith cable and my amp. I like the guitar sound better through the amp.

Looks super cool.

I'm still learning, working on memorizing chords and getting my fingers to the places they need to be in time for the notes.

Since guitars are much more affordable at my level than pinballs these days, I took a chance on buying a chinese knock-off of a higher end guitar as an experiment.

I only received it today, but so far I am pretty happy. I am still learning to play so I can't really give any kind of valid opinion on it other than it looks good and stays in tune.

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Thanks for the tip, I just googled floyd rose string change on your advice and found a ton of information!

There is no way they are real EMG pickups, and no 9v battery to be found.

On the plus side, I was able to restring it relatively easily and get it tuned back up. The strings that came on it were making my fingers black. Thanks for all the tips on the floyd rose. Luckily it came with exactly the strings I wanted to put on it, 9-42 as RotorDave suggested.

I paid $298 for the guitar from a seller on Aliexpress, but don't buy one because I did, this may be an absolutely crap guitar. I won't really know what someone familiar with guitars thinks of it for a couple of weeks, but I just got done playing a few songs after restringing it and I am enjoying it. I'm pretending I'm Angus of course.

I wanted to clean and oil the fretboard as well, so I used a similar trick to lock the bridge in place and then did all the strings at the same time.

Came out fine I think.

And it has that ugly red "supreme" logo right in the middle. Tacky.

I don't know a lot about guitars, so maybe they are removing it?

The articles I read about it said it came with the logo as a "feature".

"Supreme is well–known for its collaborations with other companies, and this guitar will include a Supreme–branded case, strap, and picks. It also sports the Supreme logo on the body between the front two pickups."

I'm not serious enough about music to care which guitar I buy aside from it looking like I want and staying in tune.