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Post subject: Convince me please
Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 2:37 pm
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I'd really like a Tele nowadays, but um..I can't find my dream guitar "tele plus", which tele sounds similar to that?
I want a smooth clean sound meanwhile I can easily turn the turbo on.
anyone has any idea I will thank you and your tele.


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Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 4:00 pm
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I dunno. Deluxe strats/tele's seem to be tough to beat. I went to a guitar shop recently and played all sorts of nice guitars, but none were as comfortable to me as my deluxe tele.

They're purty, too!


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Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 5:23 pm
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It sounds to me like you're describing the tone of a '52 Hot Rod RI Tele. I have one and couldn't be happier. Because of the Seymour Duncan SM-3 in the neck position, it that can easily switch to "turbo mode" in the neck and middle position and still produce the calrity and twang in the bridge position. If you're up to the challenge, then you might want to do this yourself with a MIM Standard. It's not only fun but will save you some cash for your next bout with GAS. I did this as well and love that guitar as much as my Hot Rod.


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Post subject: Dream Tele
Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 6:52 pm
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I bought a mexi tele deluxe and changed out the pickups with a custom shop 54' nocaster set. Depending on the amp you're using and how you have it set this is awesome. I use a hotrod with a pedal for distortion. Pedal off, super clean high, pedal on nice gain. Overall, not bad.


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Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 10:16 pm
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Put a hot Tele bridge single coil in there like a Seymour Duncan 1/4 LB with a PAF-type humbucker in the neck (Duncan Jazz or '59 or even their duncan designed versions) or a P-90 neck pickup (Phat Cat, GFS Dream 90, Mean 90 are all humbucker sized P-90s). Wiring up a 4-way switch and/or a series/split or series/parallel switch/push-pull for the 'bucker would further expand the tonal possibilities.

I got the stock bridge pickup in my mexican Fender Tele, I like it, but I put a humbucker in the neck and it's an awesome set-up. My other Tele has a Phat Cat in a HB-sized Tele bridge and the stock neck single coil from my Fender and that is even heavier and ballsier. I wouldn't mind a '72 Tele thinline RI with Phat Cats in it down the road.


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Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 2:53 pm
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Sounds like the Mikbar Keef is your answer or maybe a Jim Adkins JA-90 Telecaster® Thinline, Jim Root Telecaster or J5 Triple Tele® Deluxe

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Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2009 11:09 am
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firstly, thank you gentlemen but it seems there are so many options.

OK let me put more detail about the sound.

I want the clean sound in "nude" played by jonny in radiohead. and the turbo like it is in the song "Creep" also performed by radiohead. all i know is that Jonny uses a Tele plus, but is there another tele can produce a sound like that?

THANKS!!


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Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2009 2:49 pm
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I know you want to do more than just play "Creep" but that particular song has a HUGE change in tones between the verses and the choruses. I don't think you're going to get that much variety from pickup volume changes alone, even with a good tube amp.

Consider an overdrive, distortion, or fuzz pedal to get that dirty sound. Or if you have an amp with two channels, use the clean channel for the verses and the "turbo" channel for the choruses of "Creep".


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