Is this Tele Sound Natural or is he using effects?

[Woody Sound]

@ teagueAMX: I don't think anyone has yet mention strings. What gauge do you normally use? If you are used to 10's, bump up to 11's. You'll hear the difference.

[BigDaddyLoveHandles]

Listening to the original video, I think there is some compression going on, but it could just be an artefact of the recording process.

[garybaldy]

The youtuber says "both guitars were put through the same amp with the same settings, including the use of reverb".

[Cunamara]

...and a humbucker

In this case. But he sounded pretty much the same when he still had the original Telecaster pick up.

[AKA]

I’ve been impressed by the tone Cecil Alexander gets on Tele style guitars with a humbucker in the neck position.

And you may enjoy hearing Julian Lage’s take on his choice to play jazz on a Tele.

AKA

[teagueAMX]

Just to illustrate, perhaps, that you can get pretty good jazz tone from "anything," here is my 1964 Hagstrom I (yes, the solid-body wrapped in red vinyl wit the plastic "space ship" looking front panel) playing through "Tenderly." I should say this was a very spontaneous effort shortly after I got this guitar, and I hadn't really thought much about how I'd play it at that moment. I'd been working on the tune that week, though, so I had some ideas, but when i picked up the old Redhead, I wasn't sure what I'd do.

That .... is evident... but I hope the tone is illustrated well enough.

Thank you for that demonstration. Very good.

[teagueAMX]

Thank you all for responding to my post and the general discussion.

I've wanted to comment and thank each of you individually but we recently had a tragedy in my family that's taken center stage.

Again, thank you.

[ruger9]

I've wanted to comment and thank each of you individually but we recently had a tragedy in my that's taken center stage.
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God bless. We've had alot of that going on in recent years.