A few questions about guitars...

[Cyclonus]

There was this Fender with Traditional or Classic or some such shit writen on it in a pawnbroker and it looked banged up... all for AU$185... cheap, I could probably find one cheaper, but eh, it was a Fender, and they made the first electric guitar or something... and it had a whammy bar and I always wanted one of them... had a nice bit of rust in a little sliding thing...

Hows that sound for AU$185? Personally I'd say poo, but I have a bit of money and I want a cheap guitar with a whammy bar... or tremmelo... or vibrato or whatever... (note my ignorance, well, at least I'm not a try-hard....)

Also, I have a cheap ass Peavy 50 watt Bass Amp... whats plugging an electric into a bass amp sound like? Probably not in the same range and all... but I just can't be fucked buying an amp for an electric...

And remember, I only want a guitar to mess around on, so please nobody should tell me to go buy a Jackson or an Ibanez or some such guitar because I will do that when (if) I find some talent... heh...

Thanks for help in advance...

 

[xenophobe]

If you only want it to mess around it should be fine.... but don't expect to use the tremolo bar and have it stay in tune...

I play some of my guitars through one of my bass practice amps, and it works just fine... throw the a MT-2 Metal Zone in the signal path, and it's great and chunky.

It's okay to play a guitar through a bass amp, but not really the other way around... Kinda really depends on what the particular amp is, but that's a good general rule of thumb.

If you're mostly into death and metal, you might want to consider a different guitar, if it's only got single coils, it won't do distorted very well, and it will be noisy and feed back if you have too much gain going on.