electric guitars

[opoknock]

which electric guitar offers the best versatility of sound?

[Mortartube]

I don't think that anyone can sensibly answer this. I depends what job you want it to do, for instance if you want to play jazz many favour a hollow body arch top guitar for the sound it produces, similarly the Fender telecaster/stratocaster have a distinct type of sound favoured by mild Rock types.

Much is down to personal preference and as electric guitars are rarely played as a clean sound (i.e they have effects added), that complicates things further.

There are now electric guitars that have synthesier units built in so that you can produce a myriad of sounds,

If you just want an electric guitar to learn a variety of styles on I would suggest something like a Squire Styratocaster, which is cheaper than the Fender version but still very good.

[Dr Wu]

Mortartube's answer is pretty spot-on.

Some guitars however have 2 single coil pick-ups as well as a humbucker. This would in theory give you a fairly wide range of sounds. Have a look on Ebay at some of the sub �200 Yamaha 6 strings.

[mattie]

If you are looking for a beginner guitar the Yamaha Pacifica 012 �99 from www.gear4music.com. this has one humbucker and two single coil pickups.

Or a Les Paul type such as gear4music's own LP guitar - �89.95 for that ACDC sound

I have one of this and it is an excellent guitar for the money, apart from the company name on the head, it looks exactly like a genuine Les Paul.