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Perhaps my ears simply are not trained well enough to pick up on subtle differences? I enjoy going to my local music store and plugging in different instruments to the same amp with the same settings and seeing if one really stands out. Aside from how the neck feels, the weight, etc., very rarely do any stand out as just exceptionally better than the others. Ocassionally you see a dud that just seems to sound dead for the most part. But usually, the differences in tone can be accounted for by tweaking the amp setting a bit. One is a little brighter, one is a little darker, one resonates slightly better (good for some music), some resonate a little less (better for some types of music). When you add in the ability to change pickups or even the neck, the differences really are fairly small. I tend to feel and hear much more difference when I start doing this with hollow and semi-hollow guitars.
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Yup. Kind of as I posted before. There are a ton of "Fender Telecasters" that don't make the cut for one reason or another. It's at the point where you have to talk in terms of a "Tele family", and a "strat family"of tones. And somewhere in that continuum is the tele sound you hear in your head. You just have to find it. Short of custom shop guitars, I lean towards AVRIs. '52s for Teles and 62 strats from the early 2000s.
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I think it all comes down to experience. If you're not a Scotch drinker, for example, you're not going to tell much difference between Cutty Sark (Squier) and a fifteen-year-old Macallan (Fender), except for the price.
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The only thing that might put me off thereafter is a Telecaster with a bridge pickup that's hotter than most. (Having to constantly dial back the treble to accommodate my tastes). |
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But like Scotch the law of diminishing returns kicks in at a certain price and thats esp true with Scotch since you’ll piss it all out.
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