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85 bucks is what we bought a nice strat for from MF.  it was a musicians special.  When we got it it turned out to be an AXL.  plays good and sounds good. had set up and I added some new tuners.  the guitar normally goes for about 120 to 130 in town.

First act at one time did have some high end guitars,, but then they mass produced cheap stuff for mass sale at wall mart.  After 2 yrs of saturating the market with cheap instruments from guitars to bongos to drum sets,, everyone found out it was pretty poor stuff.  I feel sorry for the kids who lost all desire to play after getting this for christmas.  I really doubt that first act will fall into the must have cheap guitars in 30 yrs like a silvertone or dano or airline.

but have fun with it!  paint it up experment with it,, get started on it. and then upgrade.

Ill tell you  the 50 bucks for the set up will be well spent.   OH and from a post on here I am going to follow the advise and change out to the earthwood silk and steel strings for the 12.  Just got to get them, I just had new strings put on not too long ago with a set up on my 12, wish I had known about the earthwoods then.

As above, Jerome is a wealth of knowledge and is a MOD for the recording section.  As to myself,,, Ill tell you a quick rundown.  I too am on the very cheap side of the coin; however I did invest in a few nice but inexpensive goodies. I bought a Berhinger studio mic (around 30 bucks but very good!) and the cable, + a Berhinger 8 channel mixer,, (about 45 bucks) I could get away with a 4 channel but wanted 2 phantom pwr channels. And then the required RCA patches.  I run the mixer right into my sound card.  This leaves the option open to mix mic and guitar separately into one channel or just use the mic to do the guitar then record vox on a sep track.  I use Audacity. I also have Reaper,, but have not figured that one out yet. Jerome will tell you that reaper is the better,, I fully agree with him, I just can’t seem to master it.  So Im still hoping for enlightenment on it.  For now I use audacity.

Ok that was probably clear as mud, but good luck!

I am going to try thoes strings.  I think my Ovation could sound a bit nicer with them.

I concede,,, ya lost me on this one

As much as I respect Jarome and his excelent knowledge,, I have to say the oppisite here.  When I was learning on the acoustic,, I got bored and it was harder to get going on.  The day I got a electric,, I never put it down.  I was able to learn all my open chords faster with less finger pain, I was able to play root 5ths in a day.  When I got bored of open chords I could switch to the Dirty channel and bang out power chords all day just having fun.  After I got confident with that I found picking up the Acoustic wasmuch easier and I was able to get stuff going on it also.

Once again it boils down to the main answer on this page,, Try both and see what works for you   Just keep at it and it will not dissapoint.

you can buy a thing taht you put in your cig lighter/accessory port that has a 9V on it and it saves your codes

You need a pro,, find a good Luthier.   It beats shade=tree and you will know that the problem has been handled professionally.

Welcome Katie and Hashmat.  Dig long enough and you will find the treasure of this site :-)

I only have two forums that I have checked constantly since getting into them,, This one,, and my Bonnevilleamerica forum.  I actually find that once I have had a few discussions with a few ppl,, I do miss hearing what  they have going on.  I also know LIFE does get in the way,, a lot.  So be it music  or motorcycles, We stray away and when we come back its like just another day or two of being gone.
So even I f I have not talked with you b4, Welcome back.

or you anc always copy and paste to word and then make sure you have font size right and chord placement. or just ctl P and print it.