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1. electric hollowbody w/ amp
2. electric solidbody w/ amp
3. acoustic w/ steel strings
4. acustic w/ nylon strings
Which one? I want to pick up some extra gigs doing this. Maybe for wedding, parties, restaurant background music, etc. I'm learning some chord melody stuff and love it. Currently I have teles (one with a humbucker in the neck) and a sf Fender deluxe reverb. Also have some acoustics. Just wondering what folks who already perform these type of gigs use. THANKS!Last edited by squeally dan; 08-03-2009 at 02:32 PM.
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08-03-2009 02:30 PM
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My number one pick is a classical guitar mic'd.
2nd pick is an acoustic steel string guitar mic'd (2nd not because of tone, but because I find them a bit harder to play when I'm fingerpicking).
Those are my favorite clean guitar tones, there is so much character to those tones. I run them through two small powered PA speakers with a little reverb (12" woofer and a tweeter).Last edited by fep; 08-03-2009 at 02:36 PM.
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Mr Beaumont does his gigs on a tele I believe. Don't let him hear anybody dis'n a tele
I use an archtop and a classical w/cutaway and p/up. I've divided the tunes I know into two groups. Pick (including hybrid) and fingerstyle and that's how I choose.
It breaksdown into most Jobim and latin tunes are fingerpicked (except Triste) so they all get the classical treatment.
However I also do some ballads like Naima and Prelude to a Kiss on Classical. (As well as a bunch of other tunes that I think sit well on a classical like Con Alma, Lucky Southern, Nardis, How My Heart Sings, Lullaby of Byrdland....)
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I use my Roland Cube 80x
and my Gibson ES-335
and sometimes even my Epiphone Les Paul
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I answered this question on TGP, but I use a semihollow (Forshage Ergo) and hollowbody (ES175) thru a JazzKat for solo work.
Last edited by derek; 08-04-2009 at 11:12 AM.
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Typically all my straight ahead stuff is on a '56 Gibson ES 225 with a Roland Cube. The amp I need to upgrade, probably sometime this fall. I like Solid State amps with the 225 more the Tube and prefer tube on my 335 then solid.
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I use my classical guitar miked into a small PA.I also use my PRS Hollowbody 2 with a Vox AC-30 (the Marshall remake) or a Boogie Mark-4. I prefer the Vox for anything clean, it's got some kind of magic.
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I do fingerstyle chord-melody with a custom Ibanez AF 100 through the amazing 9 pound wonder ZT " lunchbox " amp. This puppy pumps out an incredible 200 PkWatts which I found can play over the 16 piece swing band I sometimes jam with in town. The Ibanez is a tone monster for the CM style jazz numbers....
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P.S. on the above....my regular weekend gigs are at a local restaurant playing solo.......and need NOwhere near 200 watts, of course.
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Hofner Very Thin Classic(flatwound) my Hofner handles all my needs for jazz ,Bossa finger style ECT... Amp Polytone Mini Brute IV .Semihollow body /with amp.
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ha ha! thanks john i was out of town, and i didn't see this until today...
Originally Posted by JohnW400
Mr Beaumont does his gigs on a tele I believe. Don't let him hear anybody dis'n a tele
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being among the most vocal of the solidbody camp here, i definitely use a tele, with a polytone...but i dunno, i just pickedup a zt lunchbox...might try a gig with that next week...we'll see, i'm still fiddling, but so far i'm very impressed.
my last choice for a solo jazz gig would be a steel string acoustic like a drednaught. all bass and highs, no warm mellow mids, and too much squeak on those strings, (IMHO, that squeak is unavoidable as a flattop acoustic just doesn't sound good with flatwounds...)
so do i think you should use a tele? no, not unless you have one you love. you just have to have a guitar that allows you to get the tone you like and that you enjoy playing...it could be a tele, a les paul, a ibanez artcore, a big ol hollowbody gibson, a jackson with sharp points, flaming skull graphics and all black hardware, whatever (although you might get some looks at the pasta house with that last one)
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In defense of that beautiful wood sound without much midrange and some squeak I present my first witness: Originally Posted by mr. beaumont
And now I rest my case.Last edited by fep; 08-03-2009 at 07:42 PM.
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yeah fep, that was great playing. but there's tones i like a lot better...after all, i said it would be MY last choice...just an opinion.
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If I use one of my teles should I put on some flatwounds and maybe go up a gauge?
Also, I love playing this stuff on my Taylor steel string, but I do get a ton of string noise.
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If I use one of my teles should I put on some flatwounds and maybe go up a gauge?
Also, I love playing this stuff on my Taylor steel string, but I do get a ton of string noise.
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If you like the sound of it on a steel string, but can't handle the string noise, put on a set of Elixir Nanowen, either 80/20 or PB. Some people hate them, but I love them, no finger noise, and a nice slick feel when changing positions (which I really like). Originally Posted by squeally dan
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The only gigs I ever did were solos and I used many different guitars. I was known as Jeff Himan and his Vintage Guitars. I used a 43 Emperor, several Strats, a Tele, a 39 L5P, 36 Epi Deluxe, Vestax D'Angelicos, a Rickenbacker John Kay, a Les Paul Custom, and ES 335, an ES 150, a Gretsch Synchromatic 100, an ES 335, an ES 175CC and a D'Angelico Excel. I used a Fender Vibrolux Reverb. I didn't own all these instruments at the same time. I used to be a guitar collector and bought and sold al the time. Never really made much at it but it sure was a lot of fun being able to play some great vintage instruments.
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Not done any true solo gigs as such, but done solo sections in a duo gig with tenor sax. Used my Vestax-era D'Angelico NYL-5 for most songs and a Yamaha Silent Guitar with nylon strings for the Latin stuff. Played with fingers and barely used a pick. New Yorker into a little Washburn amp (Mad Dog, designed for metal, gives a beautiful sound with and archtop) and the Yamaha straight into the PA.
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I'm going to hopefully get to try out some hollow bodies today. Until I get one, I'm going to try some flatwounds on my tele. Any particular brand I should try first? I have 10's on my tele, can I go up to 112's without having to adjust anything else?
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You might want to try out Thomastik-Infield: Thomastik-Infeld Electric Guitar Strings
Their Swing Flat Wounds come in 0.010, 0.011, 0.012 and 0.013's and their George Benson's (my favourite TI's) come in 0.012 and 0.014. I go for the 14's only because they don't make a 15 ;-)
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what kind of tele? one of the fatter necked vintage styled ones, probably nothing more than a little intonation adjust. on a more modern, thinner necked tele, it might move a little and require a truss rod adjustment. no big deal, give the strings a day to settle in and the neck to move, and remember a 1/4 turn is a lot. Originally Posted by squeally dan
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Its a 78 tele. I put a humbucker in the neck seveal years ago. I'm thinking of putting the original 3 saddle bridge back on. A tech talked me in to putting a six saddle bridge on. Originally Posted by mr. beaumont
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