Re: jazz on tele's etc.

["Kris Hartung" <khartung@q.com>]

Good point on the flatwounds.  My observation is that you can take any 
guitar, and I mean any guitar, that has a neck pickup, put flatwounds on 
it, 
and plug into any amp that allows you to pump up the lows and roll off the 
highs, and you can get at least 50% to that "jazz guitar" tone.  I don't 
care if it is a Gibson Flying V....humbucker neck acticatd... into a amp 
with bass on 5, mid on 4, and treble on 2....I can play a jazz gig and 
sound 
halfway decent.  I may look ridiculous, however :)

Hmmmm, maybe I should have a custom hollow body archop Flying V made.  Hah 
hah.

Kris

----- Original Message ----- 
> It's interesting how certain elements work together on specific  guitar 
> models. A Tele can be a great jazz guitar with the treble  rolled off, a 
> humbucker or P90 in the neck position certainly helps,  but heavy 
>strings 
> even more so. Put some 12 or 13 flatwounds on a  standard Strat and off 
> you go!
>
> I got that from a studio player friend of mine who is constantly  
>changing 
> instrument's setups, putting nylon strings on older  Martin's, thin 
> strings on a jazz box, heavy gauge stuff on a Strat  just to see what he 
> comes up with. Quite a bit of setup work there  (also some cheaper 
>guitars 
> might start to go south under 13's these  days), but probably more 
> rewarding that trying out your 12th variant  of a modded Tubescreamer 
> clone.
>
> On the other hand my luthier once as an experiment (no extra holes 
> drilled) put a Tele bridge on my 1960 Gibson Melody Maker (the single  
>cut 
> LP shaped variant with P90's added) - and that small mahagony  
>swampthing 
> suddenly started to put out some serious twang, amazing  difference. Too 
> much twang for me, we put the Pigtail one-piece- bridge back on...
>
> Best, Andreas
>
>