Cut through the mix

[Telerocker]

My coverband has a hornsection and keyboardplayer (stacked stuff, you know those guys, lots of sounds, lots of mids, high, center and low). The perfect tool to cut trough is a telecaster. I use the toneknob to make it round or to bite if  neccessary. My experience is that a telecaster fits a lot of amps very well.

[GuitarIv]

There were quite a lot of gigs were I noticed that guitarists with Telecasters cut through pretty well, any explanations for that?

[itamar101]

There were quite a lot of gigs were I noticed that guitarists with Telecasters cut through pretty well, any explanations for that?

Telecasters (the bridge pickups, especially) have lots and lots of bite naturally. Lots of treble and upper mids.

[TheyCallMeVolume]

There were quite a lot of gigs were I noticed that guitarists with Telecasters cut through pretty well, any explanations for that?

Telecasters (the bridge pickups, especially) have lots and lots of bite naturally. Lots of treble and upper mids.

+1

[Ian Price]

There were quite a lot of gigs were I noticed that guitarists with Telecasters cut through pretty well, any explanations for that?

Telecasters (the bridge pickups, especially) have lots and lots of bite naturally. Lots of treble and upper mids.

+1

I remember the first recording I did with my (old) band. Played on its own the Tele was incredibly trebly - slice your head off trebly.

When mixed with the rest of the band it sound really really great - almost good enough to eat.

[TheyCallMeVolume]

Yeah there are some guitars, and amps for that matter, that sound great by themselves, but when playing in a band get drowned out, and some that sound harsh by themselves but great in a mix. Just depends on if you play on your own or in a band.

[Ian Price]

I play mainly on my own mostly. It sounds incredibly bad. Need a loud band to drown me out.

[Telerocker]

The trick with a tele is to use the tonekob effectively. Mine can sound quite full and ballsy - toneknob half back - on the drivechannel on my Orange Rockerverb. 

[The Sorbz]

I used a Tele with alnico EMGs in my last cover band, into a Marshall JVM. The other guitar player used a LP Standard into a Marshall Vintage Modern (Yuchi!)  and he used to tell me to turn the treble down all the time but he was a newbie and he could only hear me through the monitor his side as we were loud as ......!  I used to get the sound engineer to muffle me a lot in that monitor.  We sounded great together out front though.

[GuitarIv]

Well reading all this, I'm pretty happy I'm building myself a Warmoth Tele :D