Any of you guys ever play a Thinline Tele?
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Any of you guys ever play a Thinline Tele?
Are these things feedback machines? I love the idea of a lightweight, hollow Tele...but not if its a noise maker. I like to play with a fairly aggressive tone, along the lines of jcm 800 amount of gain. BTW, I'm talking about the single coil, traditional bridge Thinline.
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Re: Any of you guys ever play a Thinline Tele?
Yeah, it will feedback quite a bit more than the solid body tele. You'd probably have to use something like a decimator to keep things under control. Or just embrace the feedback and go crazy with it.
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Re: Any of you guys ever play a Thinline Tele?
Is my ja90 considered a thinline? Semi hollow tele w p90s. Def not my most quiet guitar but its a rock n roll machine. Just crank it up and have fun.
Re: Any of you guys ever play a Thinline Tele?
guitarbilly74 wrote:Yeah, it will feedback quite a bit more than the solid body tele. You'd probably have to use something like a decimator to keep things under control. Or just embrace the feedback and go crazy with it.
I like some feedback...if its controllable.
i just gotta have something light and the only guitars I feel really comfortable with are Les Pauls and Teles. Those Thinlines are awfully light. Maybe I could make it work.
Re: Any of you guys ever play a Thinline Tele?
sleewell wrote:Is my ja90 considered a thinline? Semi hollow tele w p90s. Def not my most quiet guitar but its a rock n roll machine. Just crank it up and have fun.
I competely forgot about those p-90 Teles. Something like that might work for me.
Re: Any of you guys ever play a Thinline Tele?
If it feeds back roll the guitar volume off a little. Same volume, less compressed. I enjoyed the sound of mine but not how it felt - buy with care.
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Re: Any of you guys ever play a Thinline Tele?
my Midtown is constructed the same way as a Thinline Tele and I haven't had any feedback issues unless I was playing with lots of gain and even then it's pretty controllable.
Re: Any of you guys ever play a Thinline Tele?
Yeah from what I remember it was a good guitar for controlled feedback. Always nicer when the guitar body and strings feed back before the pickups do haha.
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Re: Any of you guys ever play a Thinline Tele?
I gigged with one and never had a problem


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