What gear do I get?

[headtheball]

Don't buy a valve king. They're the most rattly/rumbly half constructed peavey I've seen in a very long time. The valve dynamic dial on the back does virtually nothing, the pots are cheap dirt, the speaker's woeful and it's not particularly loud or distinctive. It's a bit of a bodge to be honest. If I were you, I'd consider second hand above one. I'd consider an old valve radio over one.

[Crazy_Joe]

I hate Fender guitars, but i just stumbled apon this used one which was at my local guitar store which i think looks great.

Fender Showmaster QBT HH

http://www.machinehead.co.uk/images/used-jpg/0-guitars/fend_show_qbt-lg.jpg

Brown Transparent,
Basswood body, with Carved Quilt Bubinga Top
Maple set Neck, Modern “C” Shape, Rosewood Fingerboard, 24 Jumbo Frets
1 Seymour Duncan® ‘59 Reverse Polarity Humbucking Pickup (Neck),
1 Seymour Duncan® SHPGP-1B Pearly Gates Plus Humbucking Pickup (Bridge),
5-Position Blade, Special Switching, 2-Point Synchronized Tremolo
Cast/Sealed Locking Tuning Machineheads, Smoked Chrome Hardware,
inc hard case.

It's £399, what do you guys think? I like the look but i'm not sure if it will play well as i don't usually go for Fenders.

ALSO, when that guy said see if you can find an RG550, i just did, it's at a guitar store near me and it's used at £349
http://www.coda-music.com/Secondhand%20Guitars/rg550.jpg

There is also another RG which is the RG520 for £299 which has been refinished.
http://www.coda-music.com/Secondhand%20Guitars/rg520.jpg

[sambo]

looks cool but i dont know anything about them..

is that one of those Fenders Heavy Metal guitars or something?...

bloody machinehead...  

P.S you kinda contradicted yourself there- through-neck but set neck as well?  :?  :lol:

[Crazy_Joe]

lol yeah i just edited that as i realised it wasn't, but it looked like one on first impressions.

By the way i $%&#ing hate machinehead, they are a bunch of tw@ts, i prefer going to coda in stevenage because they are cool.

[sambo]

haha same with me... bar-stewards.... argh....

anyway yer i know i always get confused with necks that look like theyre thru-necks but theyre not...

[Crazy_Joe]

They don't like you touching the expensive stuff lol

[maliciousteve]

I play mostly metal, but i do like some clasic rock stuff at times, but mainly kind of melodic/death/prog/power/heavy metal, lots of metal basically, i was leaning towards the SG at the Ibanez RGT42, but is an SG good for metal, i know some bands use them but most go for the Ibanez and Jackson, but i guess its down to personal taste right.

I would look for a used Ibanez RG. They can be had very at a very cheap price if you look in the right places.

As for the amp. I actually thought the Peavey Valveking didn't sound too bad. It didn't sound fizzy and dull compared to other amps in it price range or other amps similar to it.

[fps_dean]

Now me, they give cramp. Feel good to start with then my hand starts to look like a claw so I don't find them giggable. Guess it's my technique (or lack of it) but I prefer a reasonable handful where I get to the end of a gig and only my fingers hurt!  The only way to find out what's right for you, as Twinfan says,  is to try them all. Then go with your gut feeling.

I have a similiar problem with the super thin RG necks.  I have a Jem and that is absolutely perfect (a tad fatter neck but not all that much fatter), but the RGs give me hand cramps rather badly.  Maybe it's my super-sized hands though.

[Crazy_Joe]

Major change of heart here, what i think i'm going to do now is save up and wait till next year perhaps, then buy a Gibson Explorer, then get some BK pickups and put em in there and it will sound amazing. So now my main focus is the amp which i will get sometime this year.