uxter
04-18-2007, 02:51 PM
Hi I hope this wont sound like an essay ..but
right the guitar that got me into the whole TA love affair was an all alder hollow classic with an HSS configuration, rw fingerboard, switcheroo, vintage trem havent got the serial anymore but it was an 03. It was pretty damn close to perfection except for the colour which was a trans red to black burst. But the shop sold it before I sold most of mine to get, rather annoying! so I then bought a drop top below!
The guitar I bought was 05-25-00N, which was great for the funkier stratty sounds but the neck p/up was far too toppy, it didnt have that classic neck tone, the Hendrixy solo stuff, so it went back, and to anyone in the UK I can heartily reccommend Coda music in Stevenage, great service and very understanding on my change of heart!
So the guitar I want to cover sonically is most of the Strat sounds, which are the clean stuff, the funky stuff and I love the Hendrix/SRV tones as well, I am pretty heavy handed at times so hitting the strings hard isnt a prob. The other stuff I like is prog from Rush through Kansas, Genesis, Marillion as well as indie stuff. So a good range of lead tones, not just bridge, is needed.
It must have the quack sounds as well.
Heres where it gets "INDIVIDUAL"
I love Strats BUT I love the look of Teles, I also dont use a trem too much but when I do I like to really use it!
So I am looking at a hollow classic T, with a Floyd
so how does a floyd affect the tone compared to a TA vintage trem?
how does the Tele body affect the tone?
now pickup wise I was thinking 2 M's and a full size humbucker in the bridge, BUT some say I wont get the full quack with the M's and I do want those classic thin Strat sounds as well, so should it be the same setup as the Classic I tried, which I am sure was two sa's and an H2+, Tom suggested the following when I mailed him, but that was before reading about the M's!, H1-, SA1, and H2+, this was on a all swamp ash hollow classic, I since have tried a solid swamp ash classic and wasnt smitten, so maybe alder is the way forward to me, or alder back swamp ash top, I love a harmonically alive guitar.
Obviously I am going to try as many as I can, but most places seem to have drop tops ot T's, one thing that struck me about the first one was its resonance, it just sang, acoustically, I played it first time without even plugging it in!
Sooooo, just a few things to think of, also do you fit tremsetters? as I am not a great fan of the Floating trm gurgle which I have experienced with all floyd equiped guitars when they are set the way I like them, I have a Yamaha with a floyd and the tremsetter has cured the gurgle.
Oh yeah colour wise it gonna be desert sunset, with chrome hardwar and a pearl pickguard, so at least I know that much!
I did play this one, 04-20-06a and if it had had another pickup it may well be here with me now, oh well.
So if your still with me, well thanks, any thoughts will be greatly appreciated.
Cheers
Alan
right the guitar that got me into the whole TA love affair was an all alder hollow classic with an HSS configuration, rw fingerboard, switcheroo, vintage trem havent got the serial anymore but it was an 03. It was pretty damn close to perfection except for the colour which was a trans red to black burst. But the shop sold it before I sold most of mine to get, rather annoying! so I then bought a drop top below!
The guitar I bought was 05-25-00N, which was great for the funkier stratty sounds but the neck p/up was far too toppy, it didnt have that classic neck tone, the Hendrixy solo stuff, so it went back, and to anyone in the UK I can heartily reccommend Coda music in Stevenage, great service and very understanding on my change of heart!
So the guitar I want to cover sonically is most of the Strat sounds, which are the clean stuff, the funky stuff and I love the Hendrix/SRV tones as well, I am pretty heavy handed at times so hitting the strings hard isnt a prob. The other stuff I like is prog from Rush through Kansas, Genesis, Marillion as well as indie stuff. So a good range of lead tones, not just bridge, is needed.
It must have the quack sounds as well.
Heres where it gets "INDIVIDUAL"
I love Strats BUT I love the look of Teles, I also dont use a trem too much but when I do I like to really use it!
So I am looking at a hollow classic T, with a Floyd
so how does a floyd affect the tone compared to a TA vintage trem?
how does the Tele body affect the tone?
now pickup wise I was thinking 2 M's and a full size humbucker in the bridge, BUT some say I wont get the full quack with the M's and I do want those classic thin Strat sounds as well, so should it be the same setup as the Classic I tried, which I am sure was two sa's and an H2+, Tom suggested the following when I mailed him, but that was before reading about the M's!, H1-, SA1, and H2+, this was on a all swamp ash hollow classic, I since have tried a solid swamp ash classic and wasnt smitten, so maybe alder is the way forward to me, or alder back swamp ash top, I love a harmonically alive guitar.
Obviously I am going to try as many as I can, but most places seem to have drop tops ot T's, one thing that struck me about the first one was its resonance, it just sang, acoustically, I played it first time without even plugging it in!
Sooooo, just a few things to think of, also do you fit tremsetters? as I am not a great fan of the Floating trm gurgle which I have experienced with all floyd equiped guitars when they are set the way I like them, I have a Yamaha with a floyd and the tremsetter has cured the gurgle.
Oh yeah colour wise it gonna be desert sunset, with chrome hardwar and a pearl pickguard, so at least I know that much!
I did play this one, 04-20-06a and if it had had another pickup it may well be here with me now, oh well.
So if your still with me, well thanks, any thoughts will be greatly appreciated.
Cheers
Alan