Caevan O’Shite

As others have noted above, this is VERY 'AC/DC' sounding, and a Gibson-y dual humbucker guitar with a Marshall-style amp or modeler/IR or a Marshall-voiced Overdrive pedal will get you there, and then some. The speaker-cab should be a closed-back 4x12 or 2x12 type (though a closed-back 1x12 will do), or IR's of those if going modeler/IR. It really sounds like a closed-back cab to me. Lots of mid, moderate lows, and slightly dark highs. Don't overdo gain/distortion. Picking dynamics need to be able to come through. Working on your playing to get that tone and attitude is just as important here as the guitar and pickups and everything. No reverb or echo, unless it's VERY little of it and VERY subtle. What's heard in the recording is room/mic sound where it was recorded. I don't think ANY pedals were used there. Moving where the pick hits the string, just a little up or down the length of the string, along with adjusting the angle of the pick and/or letting a little of the thumb or finger that's holding the pick touch the string just a little, can create harmonic-overtones and create what you're perceiving as "modulation" there. Fast picking with a medium of thin pick on light gauge strings (probably 9's) adds to that; lighter strings will sort of wiggle and 'yelp' that way. (Personally, I prefer heavier strings, but light strings do things that heavier strings won't, and vice verse... ) A subtle amount of harmonic-feedback from playing the guitar fairly close to the amp and speaker can also add to that, though I'm not so sure that this is happening there. What gear do you have already to work with, onion? What guitar(s), amp(s), pedals, etc.?

That's actually not a stain at all, but just Roasted Swamp Ash, which is made darker by the *roasting process; ANY finish or oil added makes such roasted woods even darker. This has Clear coats topped with a transparent Vintage Tint. *(Torrefaction, in a vacuum kiln, to remove moisture, sap, and impurities.) As for electronics, that's all already covered. Pickups are a Lindy Fralin Blues Special Tele set, Hybrid Stagger. I have two different sets of Volume and Tone pots to choose from, a LOT of tone-caps of different values and types, and that Free-Way 3-Way/6-Position Switch that adds Parallel/Out-of-Phase, Series/Out-of-Phase, and Series/In-Phase to the usual three with a sideways click. Rutters Cup concave output-socket that looks vintage, is secured by screws, and allows me to use my favorite right-angle plug cable. Some of my favorite straps and StrapLoks, check. I love EMG's! And I really LOVE the SPC, as well! I just wanted to go passive and vintage-y with this axe, and also have the controls all appear stock and vintage/traditional/standard. The wiring, pots, and- most especially- the tone-capacitor value will allow me to get a perceived 'mid-boost' when the amp or modeler/IR is cranked, and the guitar's volume-control is full-up and the tone-control is rolled back juuust a smidge. Then when the volume-knob is rolled-back to clean-up and the tone-knob is maxed, it'll sound clearer and brighter and ever so slightly 'scooped' (but only because the higher treble is restored on top of the mids). Pedals that I've chosen dovetail magnificently with this dynamic and midrange-content approach. This tone-cap value and wiring-scheme is not quite as pronounced or complex as everything that the SPC does, but it's pretty cool none the less. I'm probably going with a " '50s Les Paul wiring" adapted for a Tele, or possibly " '60s Tele wiring". The actual wiring difference is VERY simple, so I'll easily try both, as well as comparing all those caps... I'll use some mini alligator-clips and long lead wires to quick-change and compare. I will go with the 'reverse' control-plate arrangement, Volume - Tone - Switch front to back. I just might go with a push/pull tone-pot later on, if I decide to be able to switch between two very different vale capacitors on the tone-control.

Will check in later, hafta get around for work...

I know, right?! I told Warmoth what I wanted, and they delivered. One-Piece Roasted Swamp Ash body with Vintage Tint; and a One-Piece Roasted Quartersawn Maple neck, with a " '59 Roundback" ('59 Les Paul patterned) profile, 10" - 16" Compound Radius and Stainless Steel frets. The pickguard's lacquered Bakelite. I do appreciate your wanting to help. I have one, it or glasses, etc. no longer helps that much, deteriorating retinas, rods and cones, the last time I was in a Doctor's office concerning it my vision wasn't nearly so bad yet but before I was out of the room, let alone the premises, a call from the Doctor to the DMV had my Driver's License already suspended. I also used to be an exceptionally excellent Mil-Spec Solderer, if I say so, myself. Please take no offense, I really don't want to discuss that (my vision deterioration) here. Thank you for caring.

It's turned into a LO0O0O0O0NG Time since I first posted here about my Tele build project, dubbed the Fiender Telebastard. Most of the way through the necessary parts and tools purchases, I unexpectedly found myself out of a job, followed by additional financial surprises- going abruptly from being able to spend like that proverbial Sailor, to having to put that guitar-build on hold. That hold-time in turn grew longer and longer... Now- further updating you all with the following being like ripping off a Band-Aid for me- AND I REQUEST THAT IT ABSOLUTELY NOT BE A TOPIC OF ANY DISCUSSION HERE, I DON'T want to talk or read about it here, PLEASE DON'T EVEN OFFER ANY WELL-MEANT "I'M SORRY ABOUT THAT" POSTS... My vision is failing, it got bad and then worse and then rapidly much worse. There's pretty much nothing to be done for it. Please, let's NOT discuss any of THAT here. Thank you. Don't feel sorry for me at all, either, I had exceptionally superior vision for more than half a Century, that's how I see it (pun intended); I get frustrated, but I don't feel sorry for myself. Of COURSE, I'll be GLAD to talk guitar stuff and related whatsuch! 🙂 It's simply that it'll be difficult or even impossible for me to do some tasks in continuing and completing the Telebastard project, and it makes no sense for me to buy some tools that I thought I'd continue to use after this, but now won't. I WILL continue and I WILL complete it, it'll just require my having someone else do certain things, particularly soldering up the many tiny connections on the fancy 3-Way/6-Position selector-switch, filing on the nut-slots, etc., fine work that takes a sharp eye like I used to have. I'm gonna have a Hell of a fantastic guitar! Yay! It'll just take a few different detours than I expected, that's all.

Nice! I bet I'd enjoy that axe, myself. Well done, Sir!

W O W . WHAT a milestone. What sad news, even though he certainly had a very long, very good run, and then some, part of history with a bunch of other seminal, very influential luminaries. Hats-off. Only Jaimoe is left.

I know, right? Definitely more for a studio that has a steady list of paying clients...

I know, right?! I went through that years ago with m y DigiTech GNX4, and that even had a very large, thoroughly detailed, in-depth manual; I never did get its Looper and PC software to work...

Indeed. 👍

You are not wrong, Sir. The biggest (and perhaps only) positive point that I can think of re: Behringer is that their generally low prices often put equipment in the hands of players who might otherwise have greater difficulty affording similar gear from other makers. There are also plenty of negative points.

Once it 'clicks' for her, I predict that she will REALLY, REALLY ENJOY it! Playing with a full band, particularly with a drummer, is such a pure pleasure... !! You'll get the hang of it. Maybe you could make good use of some of those as a duet with the two of you, or a three-piece bit adding the bassist now and then, here and there between songs or sets? And as a back-up for unforeseen situations that might pop up at a gig? I'd imagine that you've got most or all of what you (really, necessarily) need already... ?

I look forward to Winston Psmith's replies here, when he can get another laptop and get online again!

Glad to hear it! Breakaleg! If you can ever get any video, it'd be great to hear the band!