Topic: Country Blues Sound

You don't need a special guitar, just a big tone and reverb. On my Behringer vamp I've found preset 17D perfect; American Blues amp with tremeloe and reverb. On my guitar the neck humbucker is turned full up but the tone is rolled way back to a dull jazzy mellowness.

Now play with a pick, chicken picking style, somehow it's not the same with finger tips. The pick gives you a thwak-click percussive style and the electronic tremeloe fuzzes things up. Hand over the bridge and mute them strings it's into delta blues territory...

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Re: Country Blues Sound

You can put a push/pull volume pot if your humbucker is a 4 wire (4 wires and 1 ground connection) and split it for a single coil twang sound.

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One word.  Telecaster.

Or, in three words.  Single coil pickup.

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Jerome, now you mentioned the TELECASTER I noticed that more and more people use this guitar?
I have a special Telecaster, California Beach, custom shop, a reissue of the 1952 model.
She's "pistache" green, and only available in limited quantities.
There was also 1 (maybe 2) stratocaster reissues. The colour is the same as the colours used in 1952, to colour a car.
This telecaster was ONLY for the European market (and will also be probably) an expensive guitar in 10 years. I admire the simplicity and the sound, but the neck is for me more difficult to play.
I am a huge PRS man, having 3 different models, talking of a PRS EG. you have one with 3 coils (Lindy Fralin) in domino shape, all single coils (s) to try to have a piece on the Stratocaster market. The 2nd: s-s-h(umbucker) and the 3th h-s-h, all original US guitars. It is really weird, I CAN'T FIND ANY OF THEM on eBay since months. Two of them were produced from 1990 to 1992, except for 1, 1994. The EG with dominoes sounds far better than a Stratocaster, but the problem was: who heard, or knew PRS in 1990? Now they produce again the s-s-s as a PRS SE.
A PRS can be used real good to create that sound.
What about the Epiphone Sheraton? A killer, and one of my best guitars.
Cytania, I know what you mean, but has Behringer also a kind of programmed effects? I am able to reproduce almost everything, using my Fender Cybertwin, an amazing pearl of an amp.
Line 6 amps are real good, it's 100% digital, and the cybertwin 130 watt is a combination of tubes and electronics, also considered as one of the best amps. This is far the most amazing amp, and the tubes make him still superior compared to other multifunctional amps.
I never heard about Brawley.

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The Tele was the original electric solid body design, and came out in the early 50s.   I've only owned one ('69 hollow body re-issue) and I loved the neck on it.  But anyway, it was the single coil that gave it that twang sound, and running that through a vintage tube will not only reproduce that sound, it will actually be that sound.

The only drawback to Teles for me is the buzz you get through them.

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This here little gizmo does wonders fer noise-gettin'-fid-of.

http://www.music123.com/Boss-NS-2-Noise … 5.Music123

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Telecaster's.. very tempting as there's so many good one's around and none of the rarity/price problems of Grestches. Keep me away from guitar shops...

Brawley was a short lived make but quality stuff. Big heavy strat shape guitar with a long wide neck, perfect for beginner fingers. Two big pairs of custom alnicos, no-nonsense old violin finish and a hardtail. Ticked all my boxes and still great fun.

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Lots of great info from ya'll.

I've got a Telecaster...bridge pickup with tone knob off...volume all the way and amp with heavy reverb, heavy bass and mid...just enough treble to give it some bite! Also works well with the Strat in bridge (single coil) position.

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