VellaJ
Greetings to the people! I was just curious... at some point in my life I can see myself purchasing a Fender Tele, partly because I love Fenders, and partly because I dig the sound that the Teles produce for certain genres.
My question is, what is the difference, if any, in the sound produced by the semi-solid Teles as apposed to the solid? Usually the SS idea is for warmth of an acoustic but no feedback. Is this so with the SS Tele? It just seems to have such a small body, unlike the Gibson ES-335, so does the whole theory still apply?
MikeM
Personally...
Chambered and weight relieved don't sound much different to a regular solid body. Only bonus being the weight relief and sometimes a tad more resonant (But who can tell anyway :\ good wood is good wood).
Semi hollow body with tone block usually sounds a bit more lower middy to me, with a slightly different attack. The size of the wings play a big part in terms of resonant freq.
Long story short, play both, see which YOU prefer.
nicovlogg
Get a full hollowbody. Hold next to amp. Feedback into eternity. Die happy. ?
AlanRatcliffe
Lots of small cavities (a la weight relief or the Warmoth-style hollows) tend to make the guitar a little more resonant across all the frequencies inherent in the body wood and also lowers the resonant frequency of the body as a whole (much like a lightweight piece of wood makes for a warmer guitar). Large (especially contiguous) cavities add their own resonance to the mix, much like an acoustic. The larger the cavities, the lower the resonant frequency.
But if you're talking about the Thinline Tele, there are other factors that contribute to it being a fatter, warmer guitar than other Teles. They are mahogany bodied for one thing. Also the later models with the (real) wide-range humbuckers were warmer again (although bright by normal humbucker standards). The modern Thinlines with the new "Wide Range" humbuckers are warmer sounding yet, as the pickups are normal humbuckers under the covers.
The Wide range Thinlines are quite unique and great guitars when you find a good one (they suffered from the same QC issues that most of the '70s Fenders did).
