Duffy
February 1st, 2010, 12:51 AM
Just received my new Fender Telecaster Special Edition from Fender; just got to the shop and I picked it up.
It is the solid mahogany body w mahogany set neck, black cherry flammed maple top FMT HH; with a Seymour Duncan Custom 5 in the bridge and a 59 in the neck, open coil.
Wow. That's all I can say. Paid 570 for it. Made in Indonesia at the Cort plant I believe: IC09 are the first four in the serial number.
I'm playing it thru my Crate V32 Palomino 212 clean and overdriven and it sounds great. Low action, no buzz, black nickel or chrome hardware, rosewood board, coils split on push pull tone knob.
Stunning guitar in looks, especially feel and playability, and of course the humbucker combination makes it a special sounding telecaster. Doesn't sound like a Les Paul but is smooth and sweet and full, and noiseless.
The push pull gives it a split coil sound but not exactly like a tele of course but useable and a very nice sounding single coil sound. Seymour Duncan seems to know how to make great pickups.
I might get SD Blackouts for my EMG LP copy when it comes in, at least the bridge blackout. Direct three prong plug up to the EMG harness and uses the same electronics and 25kOhm pots. Supposedly a very easy mod.
Anyway the Special Edition HH Seymour Duncan Fender Tele is an awesome guitar that has a sound of its own; a very pleasant sound I might add. Very nice guitar all around.
Build quality is impecable. Neck and action is heart warming. The bridge is good for palm mutes. It produces great harmonics. Great pickups if you like this sort of sound. It's something you have to like, I'm sure because tele purists will wonder WTF? So be it. Great tele for what it is and has a tone and sound way different than a typical tele or tele copy, of which I have a few.
It is a pleasure to play. Great, great bass notes and chords, great note articulation, thanks SD, chiming trebles, super lead tones, a volume control that you can roll off and it doesn't drop the volume until the end of the sweep, just cleans up the tone; this is really a nice high quality design feature and it doesn't degrade the tone as it cleans it up, you don't lose highs or lows.
The tone knob works incrementally thru the entire sweep of the pot; no staying the same five sevenths of the sweep and then a two seventh of the sweep ability to modify the tone. Tonal modification throughout the sweep of the knob at an even well controlled and distributed turn of the pot; a really nice feature if you have had the tone knobs that do nothing until you are at the almost end of the sweep and then are really hard to get a specific tone because they are all so compressed into one tiny arc of the sweep.
Beautiful abalone extra large round dot board markers centrally located and easy to see in dim light.
Stunning overall guitar in a special format that challenges all the other dual humbucker equiped teles out there go for the gold.
Of course, a raggedy old tele with only five strings, in the hands of the right player could turn this beauty rosy red with envy, as we all know; its the soul and the hands that make the music, not the fancy guitar. In any case this is one fancy guitar that plays well and makes great music, in my own small way.
Picture definitely to follow and I'm working on getting my recording rig set up. My Lexicon Omega auth code on the disk envelope and the manual were thrown away by my Ex wife after I moved in with my fiance. Will Lexicon send me new disks and drivers? Maybe GC has a record of my purchase still on file. Otherwise I will buy a new recording interface. Also completely lost my Sony Acid disk in the big throw away event. They threw out an authentic back East Indian arrow head hundreds or thousands of years old. Had Amish people throwing my stuff out. Nothing against them but you know for sure that they don't value things like we do, if you know what I mean. They don't believe in Earthly possessions that are not utilitarian and only authorize a few of them.
Well, my loss is my gain. Things can be regained sometimes, and my fiance is more stunning than a whole pile of my guitars and amps; but, of course, no substitute. She loves to hear me play and encourages me to upgrade my instruments and recording rig, etc. Bought me an awesome new Dell Studio seventeen inch really nice high power laptop that should come in handy with my recording rig.
It is the solid mahogany body w mahogany set neck, black cherry flammed maple top FMT HH; with a Seymour Duncan Custom 5 in the bridge and a 59 in the neck, open coil.
Wow. That's all I can say. Paid 570 for it. Made in Indonesia at the Cort plant I believe: IC09 are the first four in the serial number.
I'm playing it thru my Crate V32 Palomino 212 clean and overdriven and it sounds great. Low action, no buzz, black nickel or chrome hardware, rosewood board, coils split on push pull tone knob.
Stunning guitar in looks, especially feel and playability, and of course the humbucker combination makes it a special sounding telecaster. Doesn't sound like a Les Paul but is smooth and sweet and full, and noiseless.
The push pull gives it a split coil sound but not exactly like a tele of course but useable and a very nice sounding single coil sound. Seymour Duncan seems to know how to make great pickups.
I might get SD Blackouts for my EMG LP copy when it comes in, at least the bridge blackout. Direct three prong plug up to the EMG harness and uses the same electronics and 25kOhm pots. Supposedly a very easy mod.
Anyway the Special Edition HH Seymour Duncan Fender Tele is an awesome guitar that has a sound of its own; a very pleasant sound I might add. Very nice guitar all around.
Build quality is impecable. Neck and action is heart warming. The bridge is good for palm mutes. It produces great harmonics. Great pickups if you like this sort of sound. It's something you have to like, I'm sure because tele purists will wonder WTF? So be it. Great tele for what it is and has a tone and sound way different than a typical tele or tele copy, of which I have a few.
It is a pleasure to play. Great, great bass notes and chords, great note articulation, thanks SD, chiming trebles, super lead tones, a volume control that you can roll off and it doesn't drop the volume until the end of the sweep, just cleans up the tone; this is really a nice high quality design feature and it doesn't degrade the tone as it cleans it up, you don't lose highs or lows.
The tone knob works incrementally thru the entire sweep of the pot; no staying the same five sevenths of the sweep and then a two seventh of the sweep ability to modify the tone. Tonal modification throughout the sweep of the knob at an even well controlled and distributed turn of the pot; a really nice feature if you have had the tone knobs that do nothing until you are at the almost end of the sweep and then are really hard to get a specific tone because they are all so compressed into one tiny arc of the sweep.
Beautiful abalone extra large round dot board markers centrally located and easy to see in dim light.
Stunning overall guitar in a special format that challenges all the other dual humbucker equiped teles out there go for the gold.
Of course, a raggedy old tele with only five strings, in the hands of the right player could turn this beauty rosy red with envy, as we all know; its the soul and the hands that make the music, not the fancy guitar. In any case this is one fancy guitar that plays well and makes great music, in my own small way.
Picture definitely to follow and I'm working on getting my recording rig set up. My Lexicon Omega auth code on the disk envelope and the manual were thrown away by my Ex wife after I moved in with my fiance. Will Lexicon send me new disks and drivers? Maybe GC has a record of my purchase still on file. Otherwise I will buy a new recording interface. Also completely lost my Sony Acid disk in the big throw away event. They threw out an authentic back East Indian arrow head hundreds or thousands of years old. Had Amish people throwing my stuff out. Nothing against them but you know for sure that they don't value things like we do, if you know what I mean. They don't believe in Earthly possessions that are not utilitarian and only authorize a few of them.
Well, my loss is my gain. Things can be regained sometimes, and my fiance is more stunning than a whole pile of my guitars and amps; but, of course, no substitute. She loves to hear me play and encourages me to upgrade my instruments and recording rig, etc. Bought me an awesome new Dell Studio seventeen inch really nice high power laptop that should come in handy with my recording rig.