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Looking for a new guitar

Postby sylnau » Sun Jan 15, 2017 10:38 am

As you all probably know I’m looking for a new guitar. My Telecaster is for sale locally.

The Tele sound too thine for me… I want something warmer, with rounder bass, piano like clean tone with a great sustain. I don’t want humbucker. I prefer a 25.5’’ scale and a fat neck. I don’t want to pay more than 2500 CND (1900 USD). I though maybe a Fano JM6 Standard with P90.

Anything else I should look for? (available in Canada)

I went to some local store yesterday... and Nothing really excited me.
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Re: Looking for a new guitar

Postby popvulture » Sun Jan 15, 2017 11:23 am

I think you should maybe consider something with filtertrons or maybe gold foils. P90s are also a great option, but I'd say that most of em are a lot closer to humbuckers than single coils in terms of output. That could be fine, but just depends on what you want!

To my ears, trons and gold foils have a little more roundness to their tone than the typical Fender sound, but opposite to what I said about P90s, they lean generally more towards the brightness of single coils. Maybe just for comparison's sake, see if you can find a Fender Cabronita and compare it to your tele? Then of course there's the general loveliness of a Duo-Jet :)
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Re: Looking for a new guitar

Postby DRodriguez » Sun Jan 15, 2017 11:39 am

I know you didn't want a humbucker, but have you considered an alumitone? It's the only humbucker I've ever really loved the sound of. Very natural and warm sounding. Lots of low end to it.
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Re: Looking for a new guitar

Postby sylnau » Sun Jan 15, 2017 11:41 am

popvulture wrote:I think you should maybe consider something with filtertrons or maybe gold foils. P90s are also a great option, but I'd say that most of em are a lot closer to humbuckers than single coils in terms of output. That could be fine, but just depends on what you want!

To my ears, trons and gold foils have a little more roundness to their tone than the typical Fender sound, but opposite to what I said about P90s, they lean generally more towards the brightness of single coils. Maybe just for comparison's sake, see if you can find a Fender Cabronita and compare it to your tele? Then of course there's the general loveliness of a Duo-Jet :)


Filtertrons are probably too brite for me.

DRodriguez wrote:I know you didn't want a humbucker, but have you considered an alumitone? It's the only humbucker I've ever really loved the sound of. Very natural and warm sounding. Lots of low end to it.


I love humbucker for cleans (they sound full)... but horrible with fuzz (especially with oscillation).
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Re: Looking for a new guitar

Postby sylnau » Sun Jan 15, 2017 1:54 pm

The new guitar will be my only electric guitar, so it has to be versatile. I can't own many guitars, So I'd like to have a good one.
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Re: Looking for a new guitar

Postby popvulture » Sun Jan 15, 2017 7:57 pm

I really liked the Lollar low-wind Imperials when I tried them recently on a Fano. Fantastic clarity for humbuckers.
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Re: Looking for a new guitar

Postby popvulture » Sun Jan 15, 2017 8:12 pm

Also you should really give Trons a shot... they're really not too bright, certainly not as much as a Strat, Tele or JM :idk:
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Re: Looking for a new guitar

Postby sylnau » Sun Jan 15, 2017 8:12 pm

And the Fano P90 on the JM6 Standard?



Seems great.
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Re: Looking for a new guitar

Postby tremolo3 » Mon Jan 16, 2017 8:07 pm

AVRI Jazzmaster?

I know you only want to have 1 but for $1900 I'd get 2 solid guitars.
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Re: Looking for a new guitar

Postby sylnau » Mon Jan 16, 2017 8:30 pm

To my experience, Jazzmaster are as trebelly as a telecaster. Not really for me.
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Re: Looking for a new guitar

Postby tremolo3 » Mon Jan 16, 2017 8:47 pm

sylnau wrote:To my experience, Jazzmaster are as trebelly as a telecaster. Not really for me.


Mmmmmmm, that is something a really old man playing baritones and Gibson guitars on their entire life would say.

"True" Jazzmasters with Jazzmaster pickups are exactly what you described :?: , except the great sustain, which can be improved by shimming the neck and having a well maintained nut, bridge and vibrato system, but don't expect Gibson type of sustain hehe.

warmer, with rounder bass, piano like clean tone with a great sustain. 25.5’’ scale and a fat neck.
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Re: Looking for a new guitar

Postby sylnau » Mon Jan 16, 2017 9:07 pm

I never played a JM that was warm... and most of the JM that I played had a slim neck.
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Re: Looking for a new guitar

Postby popvulture » Tue Jan 17, 2017 12:04 am

My JM sounds rad but it's pretty damn bright, I'd almost say more than a tele. The tone knob lives about halfway down :idk:
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Re: Looking for a new guitar

Postby waltdogg » Tue Jan 17, 2017 12:07 am

popvulture wrote:My JM sounds rad but it's pretty damn bright, I'd almost say more than a tele. The tone knob lives about halfway down :idk:

setup a jazzmaster today then played my tele tonight, the jazzmaster was brighter for sure. both were squiers.
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Re: Looking for a new guitar

Postby popvulture » Tue Jan 17, 2017 12:25 am

Yeah I think Jazzmasters (specifically trad-style ones with the single coils) have wonderful pickups, very unique. They don't sound like strats or teles to me, but they do sound waaaaay bright, and can be totally ice-picky in a heartbeat. Mine's an AVRI and I love it, but it definitely requires a little taming.

JMs with P90s in em, though—another story.
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