Axe

Fancy learning the guitar so got my folks to get me one for Christmas.

It’s a Squier Bullet Strat (Squier is Fenders budget brand), guitar snobs would laugh at it but heck, Guitars are so expensive, the cheapest actual Fender Strat is about 400 quid. If you’re only beginning to learn it and don’t even know if anything will come of it you really don’t want to shell that much out.

I’m using my mac as my amp, already got lots of nice guitar amp modeling plug in so all I needed was an adapter. Got the M-Audio Jamlab, I trust M-Audio, they always have good driver support and all that and the Jamlab is their cheapest box with a 1/4″ jack input. For some reason it has what I presume to be a crappy soundcard built in but you can safely ignore it. For some reason you don’t seem to be able to get USB guitar inputs that don’t have a soundcard in there, bit annoying that you’re paying for that element when you don’t need it but hey ho.

Anypoop, playing it is so much fun! I’ve already learnt quite a few chords and it’s going better than I expected considering my itty bitty fingers.