A Good Telecaster vs Stratocaster video

I will always prefer Teles.
I usually play one with a neck HB. But I picked up my regular Am Standard recently and fell in love with it all over again.
A bridge Tele pickup sounds soooo much better than a Strat. Also, I play a lot of bent double stops, which go out of tune with a trem.
That said, I am jonesing to get a traditional Strat back in the lineup. Sometimes you just need those sounds that only a Strat can get.
 
I prefer the ergonomics, and the neck and mid/neck positions of the Strat, but mine have always been hardtail. I have sold every trem guitar I've owned (I also sold every Tele I ever owned), though the trem was never the reason I moved them.

Every now and then, I think of building my own Strat, but I can't make up my mind between trem or hardtail. Then I also debate just dropping a Tele bridge PU in.
 
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Love 'em both, but for me the nod toes to the tele. A tele with a four-way switch is the Swiss army knife of guitars, because the series setting for both pickups is a better analog of an HB pickup than splitting an HB is to a single coil. That said, my happy place on the tele tends to be the regular (i.e. parallel) middle position. The middle positions on a strat are sort of 'specialty' voices, whereas the middle positions on a tele with a four-way are almost universally useful.
 
bsman said:
Love 'em both, but for me the nod toes to the tele. A tele with a four-way switch is the Swiss army knife of guitars, because the series setting for both pickups is a better analog of an HB pickup than splitting an HB is to a single coil. That said, my happy place on the tele tends to be the regular (i.e. parallel) middle position. The middle positions on a strat are sort of 'specialty' voices, whereas the middle positions on a tele with a four-way are almost universally useful.
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That said, I don't care about universality. I just like how my tele sounds with a 4 way switch.
 
Funny, I watched that video two nights ago. I have no idea how Jay manages to keep hitting his funny bone on his tele. I even tried holding my tele at different angles yesterday trying to imagine how I could hit it, couldn't do it. It seems like such a bizarre 'problem'.
 
While we're watching videos of tele and strats with Mick from 'That Pedal Show', here's a good one I watched last night:



I really like the way they're using a tele, a strat, and Fender amps for music not usually associated with Fenders. I also enjoyed them breaking down their process for interweaving and playing harmonically together.
 
Motorik said:
Funny, I watched that video two nights ago. I have no idea how Jay manages to keep hitting his funny bone on his tele. I even tried holding my tele at different angles yesterday trying to imagine how I could hit it, couldn't do it. It seems like such a bizarre 'problem'.
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I've been playing teles for decades and have never had that happen.
 
The funny bone thing seems impossible. Maybe winding up and taking a whack at the strings the follow through might get your elbow close. :shrug:
 
micwalt said:
I will always prefer Teles.
I usually play one with a neck HB. But I picked up my regular Am Standard recently and fell in love with it all over again.
A bridge Tele pickup sounds soooo much better than a Strat. Also, I play a lot of bent double stops, which go out of tune with a trem.
That said, I am jonesing to get a traditional Strat back in the lineup. Sometimes you just need those sounds that only a Strat can get.
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So what you're saying is... you like single cut guitars with a humbucker in the neck and a hard tail. :helper:
 
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