Because as far as I know, the pickup slant varies a lot from brand to brand. And as far as ive checked, only a handful of pickup brands mass-produce pickups meant for extended range guitars. And they're not always cheap compared to perfectly straight pickups.
Model name: Ibanez GRG7221QA
I've heard how with proper care, you can make a guitar last 40-50 years, or even longer, and it'll still sound usable. Does anyone want to use the same guitar for that long if they're more of a casual player or only tour in smaller to mid popular bands?
A dozen examples I can list are:
I'm not just talking about academic talent and high level professionals, but also talent in sports, acting, music and stuff of that nature. Like I always hear about celebrities born in Canada later moving to the USA or somewhere in Europe for better infrastructure and opportunities. But I wish more of them would stay.
I have been into making video games for a long time, but for some reason never got started until now.
Fanned-fret guitars are overrated. I understand that they exist so that all strings gets optimal tension, and for certain players, that's beneficial. But I have yet to play a fanned-fret guitar (and bass, though that's not exactly relevant to the question) that at least to me, feels comfortable to play.
I only own a 4-string, I can't go down super far, but for those with 5-string basses, how low have you gone that still sounds audible?
Because I hear a lot of metal guitarists say that even if you go down or up only one or two semitones, you can experience problems with latency, artifacts, weird phasing effects etc, especially when playing dense chords, tremolo picking, or just super fast in general. But I genuinely want a way to be able to play at most 2-3 tunings on one guitar across several guitars because I wanna play in a wide range of guitar tunings (E Standard to A Standard) without actually having to own one guitar for each tuning. And if I went down that route, with the tunings I want to play, that would mean I'd need 14 guitars to cover each tuning I want. But I dont wanna buy that many guitars.
Even if I'm covering something by Rush, Dream Theater, Tool etc, I don't think I should be obligated to use a kit that I don't have to money to buy or the space to keep it in. If anything, if you're a really creative and talented drummer, you don't need a huge drum kit in order to play complex technical drum parts. Not my words, it's Mario Duplantier's.
And don't come up to me saying stuff like "wElL yoU cAN't pLay dEAthCORe iN e sTANdarD". Well, let me interest you in a song called Decimate The Weak by symphonic deathcore band Winds of Plague, especially the riff at the 00:50 mark. And that song was in E Standard.
You know what they say, if you can't make a riff sound heavy in E Standard, you can't make a riff sound heavy in Drop A or whatever.
I've tried considering a hybrid approach where my main job is something not very competitive and is very stable, while doing the stuff I personally find interesting on the side. But I can't even decide what would that main job be.