The return of the age of shred.

[Larry Mal]

You all better start dusting off your pinch harmonics and get to sweep picking around the Assholian mode, because Gibson is refreshing the Kramer lineup.

Ya done been told, son.

[Telliot]

I guess I picked a good time to go full synthpop.

[parry]

I am meeeedley-meedley-wee-wee-wee-weeeeeeeee-eeeeeee-eeeeeee-weeeeee, ready!




Okay. No. I'm not.

[Danley]

They don’t really look different from the MusicYo/crap era instruments. Is the difference that Gibson will now try to actually *market* them? I’m unclear where these will be made, given the language alternates between some being US-made’ or ‘assembled.’

[Flurko]

I'm not against the return of shred guitars, as someone said in the Fender shred strat thread, Floyd style vibratos are funny and everyone should try one, and I like bright colors and flashy designs (which are cooler in my book than tacky abalone inlays and AAA++ figured woods). That being said, shred music is awful, I don't know anyone who likes it and I don't understand how it is still a thing in 2020.
So, I'm so-so on these ?

[RuffiansFC]

[leokula]

That being said, shred music is awful, I don't know anyone who likes it and I don't understand how it is still a thing in 2020.

People like different stuff.

I like what I see! The single pickup purple one with a strat trem is my fave! I would rock it.

[burpgun]

Bring back the U.S. made B.C. Richs. I've wanted a dual P Mockingbird bass forever.

[Arthon]

I'm not against the return of shred guitars, as someone said in the Fender shred strat thread, Floyd style vibratos are funny and everyone should try one, and I like bright colors and flashy designs (which are cooler in my book than tacky abalone inlays and AAA++ figured woods). That being said, shred music is awful, I don't know anyone who likes it and I don't understand how it is still a thing in 2020.
So, I'm so-so on these ?

+1

Same camp.. But I know some people, friends actually, who like shred

I like Nels Cline; does that mean I also like shred guitars??

[Tehz_]

I’m into the Baretta, provided they’re not two grand US.

[Danley]

I enjoy shred; at least in concept. But most shred music is *not* good or attached to otherwise competent songs. I have no impetus to listen to the same old blues-rock groove with corny vocals, or some spacy, new-age detritus. But if someone (ever) exhibits virtuosity on the instrument coupled with songs I like, I will be interested

[carron]

Never liked shred music, but I was recently curious about how a shred type guitar would feel. So I bought a Sterling (the cheap version of Music Man) AX4 for really cheap used, 120$ total, just for the experimentation, cleaned it up, set it up nicely. The guitar has a relatively flat neck radius, a floyd-type tremolo, locking nut and hot pickups. The guitar neck feels amazing with its asymmetric cross section profile, and the guitar seems to be much better quality than the price suggest, although its "printed" maple top is hilarious.

However I found that I do not get along with hot pickups, no dynamics left in them. It seems I have to go full tilt or nothing and I am not a fan of that. And the Floyd Rose is really not designed to be used subtly, which is how I like to use my tremolos. However it keeps in tune no matter what i do to it.

Not really sure what to do with this inexpensive Sterling guitar. If the neck did not feel this amazing, or if it was not as nicely resonant as it is, it would be sold for a small profit in a second. Should I do the ridiculous thing and change the pickups for a more vintagey type humbuckers?. In any case my conclusion is that I do not like shred guitar pickups or Floyds. Shred guitars are not my thing.

[Danley]

Sterlings are great. Honestly nothing feels better to me then a shred neck; so effortless to play a thin neck with large frets

Floyds are alright. Not cheap ones though.

[Lamar Fandango]

Wish Gibson would get crackin' on aluminum neck Kramer reissues.

[Embenny]

I mean, YouTube guitar/reviewer culture seems to be its own subculture with its own shred-based music, so this is less crazy than it probably looks. I mean, in some cases it has even coalesced into some sort of slime monster and crawled its way onto charts in the form of things like Dorje, which apparently topped the UK rock chart (which also surprised me, to find out that they still had things like a "rock chart" these days).

Anyway, the point is that musically torturous shred is alive and well and it makes sense to provide guitars to that market.