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mich78 « Simple with a real personality »
Published on 01/02/12 at 06:56
Value For Money :
Excellent
Everything has been said about the characteristics.
Mine has been modified at time of purchase to my request:
The particularity of being Teles (among others) to have a bridge pickup really acute and too garish for my taste, I did replace it with a micro "home" in DAMICO (78). It is a kind of hotrail (double simple format). He brings a little more mids and abduction (a little, but not completely) the side screaming. It was positioned too close the strings, to avoid excessive output level difference between the two microphones.
Mine is blonde with a black plate.
UTILIZATION
The guitar is a relative comfort (Tele in general): not so slight than that, well, it's still not a Les Paul and less comfortable than a Start.
It's been five years since I, and I got used to it completely.
The profile of the handle suits me perfectly. Matter of taste.
It takes very good agreement.
SOUNDS
The strings pass through the body, it sounds good, and maple fingerboard gives frank and precise intonation.
It should be aa nearly all styles of music I play: blues, rock, hard (thanks to the bridge pickup I change), reggae, funk.
IT CAN BE USED I in a Fender Frontman 212. A transistor amp with a reverb that I like, an equalization effective enough to find great clean sounds, and crunches.
I use the bridge pickup especially in crunch / saturated and it does wonders in solos, chorus, or rhythmic saturated and sometimes plain good for rhythmic sharp.
The intermediate position is that I use most. The sound is sublime in clear or slight crunch to blues, funk, rhythm and pop / folk ... Round, Bril, very clear and not tinny. Since I have the scratch, I play much more often in the clear.
The bass is also great. I hesitated to change it when I purchase for a warmer, more sal Texas style, but ultimately I like the clean side round and clear. In crunch is not bad either.
The downside is when you want to tackle the big sounds, big saturations: I do not think that this is the true regitre her, despite the change of a microphone.
So a versatile guitar, but limited to the big rock (trash etc ...)
I recently tried the whole time with a BOSS MT2, and AC seemed pretty conclusive.
To see.
OVERALL OPINION
I mostly use my telecaster for 5 years.
I spend my first guitar elec (a pale copy of srtat), I played for 10 years on a Godin G2000, which I still have. Godin is made in the United States. Start with a kind of microphones HSS and Floyd. It is a little more versatile, lighter, more comfortable, the neck is thinner, faster and lower frets. However, the rosewood fingerboard gives notes less free and less precise, and most importantly, it has far less personality than the Telecaster. The only sound is the highest level in the saturated and the micro center. And by the way: the Floyd, I'm sick (it was basically the reason for purchasing the Tele)
At the time of purchase, the criteria were: no floyd, some flexibility, although at the time I was quite axis on the blues. I tried a srtat Mex, an Epiphone semi-hollow style Shareton and ... I flashed on the Telecaster.
Later, as the Telcaster fishing in the big rock, I thought a Epiphone Les Paul style will do. So I acquired a LP-100, I keep a year. For sound ok (quoique. ..). I do not like the tune-o-matic, the location of the pickup selector (on this point I think definitvement FENDER am) ... short, I tried the adventure Les Paul, and ... not (or will be necessary when the means ...)
I'm still looking for a big rock sounds to my Tele (Fender Marauder just be a PRS, an Ibanez, or may well be another Tele HH but ...), but I think it will always be the guitar that I ' use most of the time.
I love the look (the form in general, bird eye maple handle, chrome buttons ...), its simplicity, and his personality (audible and visual).
Some problems with the jack that loosen (nothing serious) if it works nickel.
I think the value for money is good (it will be seen and old).
I definitely do it again this choice.
Mine has been modified at time of purchase to my request:
The particularity of being Teles (among others) to have a bridge pickup really acute and too garish for my taste, I did replace it with a micro "home" in DAMICO (78). It is a kind of hotrail (double simple format). He brings a little more mids and abduction (a little, but not completely) the side screaming. It was positioned too close the strings, to avoid excessive output level difference between the two microphones.
Mine is blonde with a black plate.
UTILIZATION
The guitar is a relative comfort (Tele in general): not so slight than that, well, it's still not a Les Paul and less comfortable than a Start.
It's been five years since I, and I got used to it completely.
The profile of the handle suits me perfectly. Matter of taste.
It takes very good agreement.
SOUNDS
The strings pass through the body, it sounds good, and maple fingerboard gives frank and precise intonation.
It should be aa nearly all styles of music I play: blues, rock, hard (thanks to the bridge pickup I change), reggae, funk.
IT CAN BE USED I in a Fender Frontman 212. A transistor amp with a reverb that I like, an equalization effective enough to find great clean sounds, and crunches.
I use the bridge pickup especially in crunch / saturated and it does wonders in solos, chorus, or rhythmic saturated and sometimes plain good for rhythmic sharp.
The intermediate position is that I use most. The sound is sublime in clear or slight crunch to blues, funk, rhythm and pop / folk ... Round, Bril, very clear and not tinny. Since I have the scratch, I play much more often in the clear.
The bass is also great. I hesitated to change it when I purchase for a warmer, more sal Texas style, but ultimately I like the clean side round and clear. In crunch is not bad either.
The downside is when you want to tackle the big sounds, big saturations: I do not think that this is the true regitre her, despite the change of a microphone.
So a versatile guitar, but limited to the big rock (trash etc ...)
I recently tried the whole time with a BOSS MT2, and AC seemed pretty conclusive.
To see.
OVERALL OPINION
I mostly use my telecaster for 5 years.
I spend my first guitar elec (a pale copy of srtat), I played for 10 years on a Godin G2000, which I still have. Godin is made in the United States. Start with a kind of microphones HSS and Floyd. It is a little more versatile, lighter, more comfortable, the neck is thinner, faster and lower frets. However, the rosewood fingerboard gives notes less free and less precise, and most importantly, it has far less personality than the Telecaster. The only sound is the highest level in the saturated and the micro center. And by the way: the Floyd, I'm sick (it was basically the reason for purchasing the Tele)
At the time of purchase, the criteria were: no floyd, some flexibility, although at the time I was quite axis on the blues. I tried a srtat Mex, an Epiphone semi-hollow style Shareton and ... I flashed on the Telecaster.
Later, as the Telcaster fishing in the big rock, I thought a Epiphone Les Paul style will do. So I acquired a LP-100, I keep a year. For sound ok (quoique. ..). I do not like the tune-o-matic, the location of the pickup selector (on this point I think definitvement FENDER am) ... short, I tried the adventure Les Paul, and ... not (or will be necessary when the means ...)
I'm still looking for a big rock sounds to my Tele (Fender Marauder just be a PRS, an Ibanez, or may well be another Tele HH but ...), but I think it will always be the guitar that I ' use most of the time.
I love the look (the form in general, bird eye maple handle, chrome buttons ...), its simplicity, and his personality (audible and visual).
Some problems with the jack that loosen (nothing serious) if it works nickel.
I think the value for money is good (it will be seen and old).
I definitely do it again this choice.