Meanwhile, the opposing camp has adherents in Lita Ford<\/a> and Whitesnake\u2019s Doug Aldrich, who said last year: \u201cYou can get a great sound out of any amp that works.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n And it\u2019s the second camp that former Black Crowes<\/a> guitarist Marc Ford<\/a> finds himself in, as he explains in the new issue of Guitarist<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019d buy the guitar. Shit, these days, half the time I\u2019m playing through a rented amp,\u201d he laughs. \u201cBut the guitar is so much more personal. You\u2019re physically touching the thing and, in a perfect world, it becomes a part of you to where you don\u2019t even think about it any more.<\/p>\n \u201cIt becomes just a way to get your insides out, since your fingerprints are literally on it. There\u2019s direct contact and that\u2019s gonna exchange your subtleties way more than an amplifier will, I think.\u201d<\/p>\n So there you have it, if you\u2019ve got some budget and you\u2019re deciding whether to spend more of it on your amp or guitar, you know which direction Marc Ford would steer you in\u2026<\/p>\n And if you do opt to zero in on the ideal guitar, Ford has a few buying tips to orient you in the right direction.<\/p>\n \u201cThe ultimate guitar tip for guitars \u2013 and really, any guitar, though it\u2019s more obvious on acoustic and maybe less so with electric \u2013 is that it\u2019s got to sound good when it\u2019s not plugged in,\u201d he says. \u201cThere has to be a tone that catches your ear. And it probably needs to be unique compared with other guitars.<\/p>\n \u201cObviously, feel is important. It\u2019s gotta feel good to you. But if it doesn\u2019t sound good when it\u2019s not plugged in, there\u2019s no way that you\u2019re ever gonna get it to sound good through the electronics.\u201d<\/p>\n Sam is the Associate News Editor for Guitar.com and MusicTech. Thoroughly immersed in music culture for the majority of his life, Sam has played guitar for 20 years, studied music technology and production at university, and also written for the likes of Guitar World, Total Guitar, Metal Hammer and MusicRadar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahhhh, the great guitar vs amp debate. Unless you\u2019re totally new to the guitar gear community, you\u2019ll be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1896,49,48,75,413,341],"class_list":["post-641608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-artist","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-gear","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Sam](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/30cfa9dfe2ef5f4704e63601a6ff380a89bf11635a6fb564f9b628f626434185.png\")
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