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I have the chance of buying a Godin LG sp90 or Artcore af75 for very similar £££s , and looking for advice as to the better buy . I,m mainly a strummer but can also play melody , most of the stuff is MoR , I play through a Cube 60. My current guitar is a Stagg 300 jazzer. 
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RE: Godin or Ibanez |
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Two very different guitars mate. Solid body vs semi-hollow. What are you gonna play? Anything heavy?
Me likes Godin so me no help. 
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I owned a Godin before (Freeway Classic) and currently own an Ibanez (Artcore AS93) and played an LG HMB, and the Ibanez is the better player. Through a Cube, you'll have nice tones too (I have a Cube 30 as well). I'd choose the Ibanez. 
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i just bought an LG SP90 and love it. Good cleans, grinding distortions. The Artcore will probably have better cleans, and inferior distortions. really depends on waht you want.
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Go for feel first, everything else 2nd.
I'm biased towards godin's - great instruments, great quality, and canadian!
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I think Godin's are you very good guitars but the ones I have owned have been hit or miss. Their quality control sucks. I have played some that are amazing and some that were just terrible. Frets not leveled, wired incorrectly. But I would take a good Godin over an Ibanez any day.
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i've owned two Godins. They were my first two. One was a Freeway Floyd, and the frets while finished better on the outside than a Gibson I had, were not level. The other was a LG Signature which had some other problems with sustaining notes. I took both to a luthier and it was "replace the bridge and nut on the LG, and hope it's not the body." The Freeway was that I wasn't ready for a FR, and I couldn't get a decent setup on it.
I'd go with the Artcore.
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I,m still waiting on delivery to try out the Artcore , shop should have it in the next wee k or two, have tried the Godin but will wait until I try the other.
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Gave up on the Ibanez and went for a Vintage vsa575 semi acoustic, much better than the others , I think.
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Please post pictures!
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