Modern Guitars

The electric guitar is now the backbone of the music industry, but it wasn. t always that way. With the success of the Stratocaster in the late 50's and early 60's, the electric guitar was accepted as a powerful force in music. People wanted to have the same guitar as their hero, and most of their heroes used electric guitars. This caused a booming increase in the sale of electric guitars, and mainly Strats. The electric guitar was on its rise, and since then, it has become a mainstay is the music industry. Below is information about a few popular modern guitars.

The Paul Reed Smith (PRS) guitars were an attempt to combine the mellow tones of a Strat with the humbucking sound of the Les Paul. It resulted in a widely used electric guitar with high sales figures. It's Strat like sounds are almost like a real Strat, but not quite. The Les Paul tones are excellent, although, there are no dynamics in it's sound. Overall, the PRS is a well liked, high selling guitar.

G&L stands for George and Leo, because the company was teamed up between Leo Fender, and George Fullerton, two former Fender Execs. Their G&L guitars play very well, and are similar to the Fender models such as the Stratocaster and the Telecaster. Although, one of the main differences in the Fender and G&L models are that G&L's have ceramic magnets and adjustable pole pieces, as opposed to Alnico magnets and non-adjustable pole pieces. Some even believe that G&L's are an improvement upon the Fender guitars.

Gretch's forte is orchestra style archtop guitars, but many famous musicians use them, most notably Brian Setzer. Most Gretch guitars are hollow body archtops. The Gretch sound is one very unique to the electric guitar. Many players use these because they play well and have a very unique tonal range. Overall, Gretch offers a simple, yet very well playing and good sounding guitar.

Guild is a proud company whose finer steel-strings and archtops rank with the industry's best, and whose middle-level models pack exceptionally high value. Some of their guitars, though, are "clones" of other guitars, such as the Gibson SG, or the Gibson ES-335, but even as clones they are very high quality guitars. Even their more affordable models are outstanding. All in all, Guild makes an excellent guitar that many people like