Does anyone use some budget IEMs that they like or recommend to people? Starting to look into this and there are so many options out there! I'm not in a band or anything so this would mainly be for playing by myself at home. Let me know your suggestions or thoughts if you don't think IEMs are the way to go!

I've been using Elixirs for a while now. 10-56. I like them better than the Ernie Ball. Since I use a telecaster, I was actually thinking of going up a gage.

one huge challenge for me was making clean chord changes while staying in time. Specifically with some barre chords. Playing a song, you might hit trouble spots where you don't get to the next shape fast enough, so you drop the rhythm for a moment while resetting the fingering. I

I’m looking for opinions for my grandson’s birthday present this year. He wants pedals. I’m trying to find the right pedals for a 12 year old? Do I go with some individual pedals or a single multi-effects pedal?? If I choose one or the other, which ones should I choose for him?? Opinions please!!!

I was using a Squire telecaster for about 2 years. That was the sound I needed playing in a multi genre band. For the money, the guitar was okay. About 3 or 4 months ago I bought a real fender Stratocaster with a maple neck and Seymour Duncan pickups. Not a common guitar, but it does give you the ability to go from a clean to a dirty sound. This model actually has locking tuners. Extremely easy to change strings, no revolutions necessary. Playing regular 3-hour gigs, I rarely have to retune. The squire on the other hand, I needed to check constantly. It was probably the inexpensive tuning machines on it.