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Flyingpig, the bass arrived today, thanks.
It's a nice little thing - the short scale makes it far easier to play than my Jazz bass, almost like a guitar. Tone is good, kind of twangy, kind of growly, zings when you use a pick. The action's too low cos it buzzes a bit, but it's really rather good. -
eightball, holy grail nano haz great spring reverb sound.
it's slightly odd in having only one knob though. no seperate level and mix controls the single knob seems to mix out wet signal rather than decreasing in reverb length as you turn it down. this results in a pretty small useable window. below 10 o clock on the dial it's barely audible and above 12 it's total surf-city crashing spring washout. at the top end of the dial the reverb is actually louder than the original signal making weird clangy echo cacophany. but in that gap between 10 and 12 it sounds really great. i think the controls are the same as the big holygrail and it's cheaper and smaller and tougher = win.
it's a one trick pony but the trick is a good one. i like mine and use it all the time.
oh and the hall and retch flerb retch settings are pretty much useless.
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Yes'm, what do you want to know?
Sorry, forgot about this burning question for a while: I want to know what the range of tone is like on them.
I've had various hollow bodied things (ES175, Sheraton, Dobro) and I always found that even with upgraded pickups (put a nice Seymour Duncan on the Sheraton for example) that the tone is either very limited or wildly out of control. Don't get me wrong, the 175 is one of my favourite guitars, but for touring its kind of useless unless every song is going to have the same guitar sound. Enter the Nashville?
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If you are after a wider range of tone, I wouldn't consider the Thinline over any of the ones you have tried. The problem, as with the others you have tried (excepting the Dobro) is that they have 2 of the same pickup. The tonal variation comes only from the pickups position. I know this is the case with most guitars, but you have tried those and didnt like them. Try something with two different pickups, like a Tele or the Tele Custom. The super sharp back p/up mixed with the fat warm front p/up. I know you are after a hollow, but the difference in tone between a tele and a tele thinline is really hard to pick up in a live situation, you might be able to appreciate it, but most audiences wont. If you put flats on a tele (D'addario chromes 11s) it sounds more like a hollow body than a thinline with rounds.
So I would suggest trying a 72 custom with flats. Or a 69 thinline (the mahogany one but with normal tele pickups rather than the fake wide rangers on an ash 72) -
Which 72 reissue? The big headstock deluxe (looks great but isn't a tele cos of the fake wide rangers in front and back) or the custom (small headstock fake wide range at front and tele rear).
I would say yes to the latter.
Both have maple boards so have sharp attack, which Im not a fan of but thats personal opinion. They play very similar as you would expect. But having both front and rear as wide rangers doesnt give a great amount of tones.
If you have some dollar, maybe look for a second hand custom and with the money you save, find a real fender wide ranger pickup. The difference was discussed earlier in this thread but was lost when somet went wrong with the site. -
Sorry, just re-read what you wrote, you did say Custom.....
Yes I think they are nice, for something with a maple board. Just play a few or try find a Japanese one with a few years to its name. You can find brand new ones that are resonant, but the 90s Jap ones do tend to have nicer timber. -
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These will be fine.
Ive done a lot of shelf fitting, including some big industrial sized metal ones in my kitchen. The plasterboard plugs I used were metal ones, but it looks like yours will do the same job.
The end result is very strong, in fact I would say it is as strong as the plasterboard itself. It wont come out without the wall tearing apart. And the guitar hook just 2-3 inches from the wall, with a relatively light object (a guitar) it will be nowhere near enough leverage.
I have stacks of plates on my kitchen ones, on deep shelves with lots of leverage. Very secure. Much more so than wall plugs in brick/plaster which pull out very easily.