What is your most versatile guitar?

[Jethro Rocker]

What guitar or guitars are your most versatile? I have more than one when it comes down to it for different reasons.

Godin xTSA.

Taking the guitar synth capability out because you have to add one to the equation to make it work -
Has piezo acoustic pickup with built in preamp and 3 band EQ.
HSH setup with Coil tap on neck in position 2.
Non locking trem bridge that works extremely well and stays in tune.
At one point I had it set to a shim (has a cavity in body) so it was not floating. The trem was way too hard to push down but it did allow for detunung with a trem.

Also the non trem version.

Alex Lifeson Les Paul

Floyd Rose equipped Les Paul. Has series / parallel on each pickup so one can set the amp properly in parallel then give it some more goods by switching to series.
Has piezo acoustic pickup too. Only issue is it is very bass heavy, high strings aren't really loud enough but no setting for this. I will have to set tne clean channel accordingly to compensate.
Still, what a feature laden git.

The Mockingbird. Has a FR, 2 coil taps, a phase switch (which I never use cause I hate outta phase) and that 5 position switch. It changes different caps for different tones.
What I like doing with that is the setting beside "normal" has the least output so again set amp so it has ample crank in that position and switch to normal for more oomph in solos.

Perhaps a little goofy but the 1979 Les Paul Artist. Has Moog electronics, thus the goofy...
Even without that (compressor - works well, expander- meh and treble boost - too extreme.
It has active EQ. Bass and Treble boost/cut. Not a bad thing.
TP 6 fine tune bridge

 

[iblive]

Probably be either the G400 or Strat….. or both.

 

[DirtySteve]

My Traditional, but I don't have a lot of choices at the moment. I blame it on the Jim Wagner pickups, they're amazing.

 

[human123]

Between my LP, the SG and the Strat, I'd give the edge in versatility to my Strat, what with the whammy thing and the built in Sustainer.

 

[iblive]

My Traditional, but I don't have a lot of choices at the moment. I blame it on the Jim Wagner pickups, they're amazing.

I keep thinking I need a set of his pups.

 

[GrooVey]

I’d have to say it’s the Yamaha SA2200. Tone controls are push/push for coil split. Works very well.

 

[Headache]

All of my guitars have been chosen and set up to just do one thing. TeH BrOoTaLs!

I do have 2 guitars, however, with notable neck pickups: a Les Paul with a P90 neck and my Dean V Custom has an SD-59. Those could theoretically make some very nice "other" sounds that I don't ever make...so I guess one of those would be "most versatile?"

If I had my druthers.... All my guitars would only have a single volume and a bridge pup.

 

[Seamus OReally]

Not only the most versatile I own, but the most versatile guitar I’ve ever owned. The guitars natural resonance and sustain are remarkable, and with the EMG SPC you can add and subtract mid-range til your heart’s desire. Been through a lot of guitars, but I’ve kept this one for 30 years. From ear-shredding highs to fat lows, this one has played hard rock, blues, funk, ska, hip-hop, surf, jazz… every style my clients asked for.

 

[gball]

My Telecaster Deluxes are the most versatile, hands down. They sound amazing in all positions, in humbucker or single-coil or mixed. They do it all, unless you need to have a vibrato for something.

 

[frostyjr2]

Probably my .strandberg* Boden Metal 8.

Fishman Fluence pickups, 8 strings, 24 frets ...
pristene cleans to gritty high gain sounds, and it can even cover bass parts.

 

[Session 5]

My Custom T Legend. It can tackle everything.


And of course my Godin Progression Plus, with H.D.R its like having ten pickups.

 

[67plexi]

My 1992 Parker Fly Deluxe

 

[fitz]

For versatility, I'd say my old M.I.J. Hondo Pro II DC.
25.5 scale, Kahler Flyer, and onboard overdrive.
Plays and sounds way above its pay grade.

 

[Thatbastarddon]

Probably this one…


Dial the volumes back to 2, and it sounds like a classic P90, clean and full…wind them up to around 5-6, and they start to bark…
Open them up to 10, and they absolutely slay all comers.
A wiggle stick, witch hats, locking tuners…it’s a lean, mean, music machine. From jazzy, to the metalz…it has done everything I’ve asked, without fail.

 

[BFT Gibson]

Think i ordered a guitar yesterday cause of thread title ! Thanks Jethro for kicking me over the edge to click the button

 

[iblive]

Think i ordered a guitar yesterday cause of thread title ! Thanks Jethro for kicking me over the edge to click the button

We’re all here for each other. Was happy to see Jethro was able to trigger some GAS.

 

[Sapient]

I'd have to hand this to my PRS Vela..

 

[iblive]

Probably be either the G400 or Strat….. or both.

Tonight it was both. Ya know. Ya just can’t do Neil Young with single coils. So I started with the blue Strat and finished up with the red G400. Then went to bed.

 

[Col Mustard]

This instrument will play any style that I am capable of
understanding. She can growl, she can thump, she can give
that M-wah sound to a song. She's got an upper register
where she can get lyrical.
Those aren't frets, they are maple inlays.

AND ...as was said above this instrument
has done everything I ever asked her to do.
I named her Loretta after a song by Townes Van Zandt.
I built this one myself out of Warmoth parts, and did the finish with
tung oil. She is my dream bass, and sounds excellent through my
Roland Cube CB-60 XL. The Roiand has a preamp out, so I can plug
her into a larger sound system for larger venues, and she sounds
HUGE.

She's been my darlin' since 2009, and given no problems... none.

 

[dmatthews]

Great question!
Hmmm... I guess I'd say my 2012 P22 with rosewood neck...



Must say though, since I got a Kemper I find so much of the versatility I need inside that device. I get to choose the amp, and most importantly the speaker type on the fly.
That said I love fine tuning that with a choice of single coils, P90s, and humbucker guitars. Too much fun!