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Post subject: New Telecaster sound
Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2010 8:00 pm
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Hey guys new to Telecasters, currently play prs. My question is can a tele deluxe handle sounds such as bb king, bon jovi and nickelback. Any thoughts would be helpful.

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Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2010 6:12 am
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Playing Nickelback on it would be disrespecting the Telecaster.

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Post subject: Re: New Telecaster sound
Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2010 10:44 am
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Hey guys new to Telecasters, currently play prs. My question is can a tele deluxe handle sounds such as bb king, bon jovi and nickelback. Any thoughts would be helpful.

Thanks, Rod


You are used to playing a humbucker guitar and you are asking about music mostly played with humbucker guitars. The Tele is a single coil guitar and while I disagree that it would be an insult to make the attempt I do tend to doubt the attempt would be successful.

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Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 7:16 am
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Ya, generally if you want to emulate the sounds of these artists, you would want to have a similar setup as they do...which I haven't seen them w/ Teles. PRS would put you closer to what you want I think. I wouldn't know. I play a Tele. :lol:


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Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 10:27 am
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You can play anything on a Tele, or any other guitar model for that matter. But will it sound exactly like the artist you are trying to emulate? Most certainly not. That depends a lot on amps, pedals, microphones... a long list. And I won't even mention the player himself (just mentioned :roll: ).


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Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 8:42 pm
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Unless you're playing a humbucker equipped Tele Deluxe you won't have much luck getting the sounds of the artists that you listed.Even if your Tele is the H.H. model Fender humbuckers sound pretty different from Gibson or PRS and you still would have a hard time chasing the tone you want.

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Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2010 3:14 pm
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I once heard "you can make a Tele play like an SG, but you can't make an SG sound like a Tele."

I believe it, disregarding some details.

I use my Tele for metal all of the time, and I know that it's a beast with distortion, you can play any kind of rock with it, BJ or Nickelback. I also like to play slow, easy blues with it, and it's great for it. I use the neck pickup and turn the tone knob down a bit, works like a charm.

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Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2010 12:29 pm
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Richie Sambora does use teles...he also has a double neck Tele...so for him..I would say you can get away with it.
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airbornestrat wrote:
Richie Sambora does use teles...he also has a double neck Tele...so for him..I would say you can get away with it.
ABS :D


The other night he had a doubleneck Tele/Esquire or Nocaster :

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