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Post subject: Anyone know the set up Status Quo use?
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2013 8:41 am
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Hi All,

Bit of a long story, so i will cut it down.
I decided to get back into music a few months back after a 15 year break..I purchased a Gibson SG special as my first guitar. It's a good guitar.. but even after a good set up, it still isn't quite right for the music I play which is mostly QUO type tunes. Detuned low E and A etc.. power cords etc. Im not sure i I made a mistake by getting the Gibson..
The Gibson seems to suffer a lot of fret buzz and I believe it has .10's strings on it so I seem to be having a few tuning issues with G,B,E strings also. I think these are being bent too easily whilst I'm bashing around on the lower strings. I initially thought it was the low cost (plastic) nut that was perhaps holding the strings, but i dont think that is the case.

Now.. I have a dilemma. Looking at what Rick Parfitt runs with, It seems a vintage Tele with some huge gauge strings on there and probably lots of other stuff....

I'm happy to buy a tele (in fact I love them.. just I couldn't afford one when i purchased the SG). so what should I be looking at? Is there any potential neck issues with detuning.. i also sometimes up-tune the low E to G..

Budget wise.. I have a max of UK1600 including any set up / amendments.

Any input from people with experience would be greatly appreciated.

P.s Some of the things i don't like about the SG Special just to help the selection of the tele..
1. The Weight.. it just feels too light..
2. When standing with the guitar, the neck is heavier than the body so it has a tendency to drop down to the floor.
3. It does seem extraordinarily easy to affect your pitch with the slightest neck movement


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Post subject: Re: Anyone know the set up Status Quo use?
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2013 12:10 pm
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First of all, Status Quo sounds like Status Quo because they are Status Quo...

But actually, those sounds have never been a result of a truckload of effects & other specialities. No big mods on the guitars, either - I understand that except for the real heavy strings the white Tele is close to the original.

Get a second hand cheap Tele. Set it up for the heaviest string set you can play, add a bit of boost and flang (separate or a multipedal) and play it through a good tube amp (Vox AC30, or AC15 if the money's tight are close to the original) and enjoy.
1600£ should be quite enough for the gear even if you keep the SG in case you someday discover AC/DC. :lol:

BTW, a good setup for that SG probably would take care of those buzzes...


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Post subject: Re: Anyone know the set up Status Quo use?
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2013 3:35 pm
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Why would anyone want to sound like Status Quo? :lol: :lol: :lol:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D4YYI8G5EM

BTW: That was third album I ever bought when it came out. :shock:

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Post subject: Re: Anyone know the set up Status Quo use?
Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2013 2:35 am
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that's what I was thinking! lol :lol:

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Post subject: Re: Anyone know the set up Status Quo use?
Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2013 4:45 am
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Fender did signature Telecasters for Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt, these models are no longer produced.

The Francis Rossi Telecaster came usually with three Lace Sensor pickups and his signature hole drilled into the body, though there were several incarnations of the guitar which appeared over the years.

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Later, Francis exchanged the neck pickup for a Seymour Duncan Hot Rails humbucker and the original Fender American hardtail bridge has been replaced with a G&L "Saddle Lock".


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Post subject: Re: Anyone know the set up Status Quo use?
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 8:15 am
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I know their guitars are strung with a 0.14 high E - I think the low E is something like a 0.60 or 62.

There's a fair bit about the rest of the set up here:

http://www.performing-musician.com/pm/a ... trtech.htm


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Post subject: Re: Anyone know the set up Status Quo use?
Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2014 4:25 am
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i know this is an old post but i,ve only just joined.
Rick Parfitt's tele is a 1964 , rosewood board, no skunk stripe, it has a badass, wraparound bridge, but through body strung, he uses 14-56 strings in standard concert tuning on his white tele,and plays with 1:0mm nylon picks from dunlop (reds) he only uses 14-60 on a status guitar for 4500 times. he has only recently change the bridge pup from the original 64 but i don't know what to?

Francis tele is a 1957 heavily modded with lace sensor pups and hotrails at the neck, he did have a g&l bridge bu has recently changed this for a gibson style tunamatic and stop tail piece, he has also had the neck re-fretted and an extra fret added at the end of the board again it is a maple cap , no skunk stripe. it was originally a sunburst tele which was painted bleck for about two hours then he decided he didn't like it so sanded it back and painted it with green furniture paint but never painted the back. the hole in the body was to put his lead through!

hope this helps even though its 12 months to late


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Post subject: Re: Anyone know the set up Status Quo use?
Posted: Sun Oct 13, 2019 3:53 pm
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OK I know this is old now but the pickups in Ricks main white black guard Telecaster were not standard they were Lindy Frlalin pickups. I do not know if the wiring was standard or if the capacitor or capacitors were changed for different value caps. To be honest I wouldn't pay too much attention to the guitars, as to my ears it doesn't really sound any different when Francis changed over to his standard two pickup Telecaster with the capo on, or even when Rick changed over to his Esquire, don't forget they used these guitars for different tuning and having a capo on, not to achieve a different sound.

I think the basis of their sound was that in between clean and natural overdriven valve sound created by having the guitar turned up full, for the best part. I can't see that you could get a proper Quo sound in your bedroom using a practice amp, without having a pre programmed patch in a modelling amp or pedal.

As for Quo effects Rick used a Roland GP8 for chorus and drive. Francis uses a Roland GP8 which he has various different drive patches for solos. As for amps they often used a wall of Vox AC30's daisy chained, you can see these if you watch the 1982 NEC concert and the End of the road concert, you can find them on YouTube. Today they use the white Marshall heads with 4 x 12 cabs which only have two speakers and two lights in each cab. They have an AC30 amp in a Marshall head unit with the AC30,s speakers at the back mic'd up.

I recently saw an interview with Francis who said in the early 70's they had a strict plug in and play policy in the studio, there was no overdubbing or studio effects. The earliest album I can recall that was recorded using Dolby was Rockin' all over the world. It was that raw dirty (not heavy) rock sound that attracted me to their music as a teenager in the early 70's.

Something that made my heart sink a bit but I guess it is the sign of the times, is on the Lick Library DVD when Rick is showing you around their equipment, it is pointed out they have an emulator which the sound engineer can choose to use to patch through to the audience or use a mixture of the emulated sound and stage sound, that doesn't really stick to the Quo principles that attracted me in the early 70's, but as I say, sign of the times.


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