In search of the best and simplest Tele tone.

[Nitro Express]

I got to play a GE Smith Telecaster at the Fur Peace Ranch. Great guitar. The bridge pickup is screwed into the wood so you get more sustain.

YouTube - The G.E. Smith Telecaster®

[Hardrock69]

Steven Seagal has one of the Iceman's Telecasters.

[jhale667]

Who knew?

Steven Seagal has one of the Iceman's Telecasters.

He's actually supposed to be a pretty decent guitarist, from what I hear...and a huge blues freak.

[Nitro Express]

Steven Seagal has one of the Iceman's Telecasters.

He's an asshole. He owned some land next to ours up in Ennis, Montana. The first thing he does is close all public access from his property which meant people didn't have access to the river anymore. In Montana there's an unwritten rule that you leave sportman's access open and the sportman closes the gates behind him. He also let the weeds grow to where they were sprouting up in neighbors pastors. He didn't pay his bills. He was obnoxious. He sold the property rumor being he had financial problems.

[GAR]

I got to play a GE Smith Telecaster at the Fur Peace Ranch.

Even when he's smiling, GE Smith looks like he's taking a shit.

Same as EVH. You shoulda smashed GE Smith over the head with a Telecaster and saved us all the discomfort of looking at him again.

[Hardrock69]

You shoulda smashed GE Smith over the head with a Telecaster and saved us all the discomfort of looking at him again.

Why waste a good Tele on a good player? Better to use one to smash your fucking face in so nobody has to hear the farting sounds coming out of your mouth!

[LEFTY is Gar's Bitch]

Why waste a good Tele on a good player? Better to use one to smash your fucking face in so nobody has to hear the farting sounds coming out of your mouth!

your a mean ugly man.dont you dare threaten gary or ill break my foot off in your ass tougf guy.

[rocknrolldork]

I have one of these. Run it through a clean power amp (I use a Carvin DCM 1000) and a good speaker cab and they sound wonderful.

That pedal looks pretty cool.

At higher volumes the Deville was closer to what I was looking for than the Mesa. The Mesa surprised me a bit though. I got a pretty good Champ-ish sound out of it. The Mesa sounded better with the MIJ Tele and the Deville LOVED the American Tele. I wish I had recording gear on my computer so I could post sound clips. Tonight I'm trying an old Bassman setup and JCM800/1936 cab for shits and giggles. Such a simple great guitar.

Anyone like the feel of the MIJ Tele necks? They seem to fit my hand a bit better than the American and MIM necks.

[kentuckyklira]

My favorite Tele tone is my 78 standard Tele through a Peavey Classic 20. Then again, I´ve never owned a Fender Twin so I can´t say how much I´d like that tone!

[Nitro Express]

I wish I still had my Classic 20. It was a great amp. With a Tube Screamer it got great overdrive and the clean tones were great.

[Nitro Express]

I don't own a Telecaster but if I play my Wolfgang through my Mig 50 with the volume pot turned down, it get's this cool Tele type raunch. Actually those pickups on that guitar are very versatile and they clean up nicely with the volume knob. Using the volume knob you can milk all sorts of tones out of that guitar.

[GAR]

I like the old Mig50 sounds, and I don't.

One thing it does well is go from clean to semi-clean, to a barely-Plexi tone but not quite. And things inbetween.

It's its' own thing, but I imagine it would do a tele very well.

[hideyoursheep]

...Straight through an old Princeton, no pedals. Can't get much more "Tele" than that.