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Post by PistolPete on Feb 25, 2019 13:02:37 GMT
I'm just curious what everyone's thoughts are on Fender's new tele/acoustic hybrid?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2019 13:12:22 GMT
Just Horrid
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Post by curmudgeon on Feb 25, 2019 13:39:46 GMT
It's an electric guitar ... with a hole in it, and wires coming out, connecting to electronic boxes.
Not for me.
You know, you can get guitars that make a noise with no electrical stuff ... at all.
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Post by Wild Violet on Feb 25, 2019 15:42:41 GMT
It doesn't sound at all "acoustic" to me and I don't really understand what market they are going for with this one. I personally don't like either the look of it or the sound demonstrated in the video.
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Post by bleatoid on Feb 25, 2019 19:25:20 GMT
Well, I've never played one but I have to say I wouldn't want one hanging on my wall either.
It's just not right or appropriate or attractive.
Like a Rolls Royce radiator grille on a Reliant Robin.
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Post by andy3sheds on Feb 25, 2019 21:26:41 GMT
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Bit cruel on Reliants The trailer is not selling it to me either
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Post by jangarrack on Feb 25, 2019 21:47:47 GMT
For some reason the appearance of these guitars always remind me of that famous painting, The Scream.....but that's probably just me.
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Post by scorpiodog on Feb 26, 2019 11:04:47 GMT
I've always found Fender acoustics (with the exception of some of the 60's ones - Palomino, Sheandoah, Kingman) are always a bit one dimensional with a prominent fundamental and scant overtones. I see absolutely no reason why altering the shape to mirror an electric should change that. Having said that, I do like the appearance and use of the 6 in a line tuners. I have a 1982 Fender acoustic that I play sometimes if I want a narrow neck to practice unfamiliar fingerings. But I agree with curmudgeon. This is an electric guitar with pretensions. I don't like it.
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Post by ghnarumen on Feb 26, 2019 13:10:39 GMT
I'm just curious what everyone's thoughts are on Fender's new tele/acoustic hybrid? It’s always difficult to know what to think without having actually played it. It seems to me to be an expression of the same sort of idea as Taylor’s T5, using an acoustic guitar soundboard (sort of) and bridge rather than a hollowed out solid body. I seem to remember John Calkin described the idea quite some time ago (but I don’t see any on his web site jcalkinguitars.net/outlaw-lutherie.html). But for a chance of history, all semi-acoustics might have been made this way and we might be discussing new fangled inventions using a solid body which has been routed out and wondering if they are any good. I have to admit, Taylor’s concept looks better, to me; I don’t think it has found a lot of favour either.
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Post by colins on Feb 26, 2019 14:27:20 GMT
It's not really an acoustic anything, it's a hollow body electric guitar. As such it's OK, I can see where Fender are coming from though, they are trying to pinch a bit of Gibson's market for hollow body electrics, where they have the 335, 336, 339 type of guitar. Fender's mistake is to use 'acoustic' as part of the name. If you want to hear a truly great 'hollow body' electric guitar then come to Halifax Colin
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Post by PistolPete on Feb 27, 2019 11:01:15 GMT
It doesn't sound at all "acoustic" to me and I don't really understand what market they are going for with this one. I personally don't like either the look of it or the sound demonstrated in the video. To be fair - I'm not sure the official Fender video really does it justice. There are one or two other demo videos by other channels that do a much better job of showing off the 'acoustic' sounds. That doesn't stop it being ugly of course... You can hear some of the more 'natural' sounds in this one if you can bear to sit through the excess of inane chatter: It's not really an acoustic anything, it's a hollow body electric guitar. As such it's OK, I can see where Fender are coming from though, they are trying to pinch a bit of Gibson's market for hollow body electrics, where they have the 335, 336, 339 type of guitar. Fender's mistake is to use 'acoustic' as part of the name. If you want to hear a truly great 'hollow body' electric guitar then come to Halifax Colin I disagree - it's an instrument designed to give you a plugged-in electro-acoustic sound, without the 'inconvenience' of needing an actual real acoustic guitar attached to the pickup. It has a UST & a soundboard transducer & seems to 'model' various acoustic guitar types as well as having the magnetic bridge pickup. As someone else mentioned it's an attempt to get in on the territory of the Taylor T5, or maybe those weird Godin solid bodies with nylon strings. If you wanted a 335 with a Fender neck things like the Coronado & the Starcaster have been around since the seventies. They've never sold particularly well, although I would say they have a certain pawn-shop charm... I'm assuming the Acoustasonic is meant to appeal to all the Ed Sheeran disciples, or maybe to the gigging country musician who mostly strums acoustic parts, but has to take the odd solo. But one of the reasons I brought it up here was to see if everyone else had the same reaction as me ('Urgh!') or if I was missing something. My first thought on seeing it, & seeing the price was that if you split your money between a Mexican Tele & a £1000 electro-acoustic you'd have a much better solution to the same 'problem'.
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Post by jubbo on Feb 27, 2019 12:16:04 GMT
I tried one of these the other day.
They are well made and the sound through the amp is impressive it really does sound like an acoustic guitar and moving between the settings really does change the voice.
However, I would never buy one and I don’t know anyone that would. It doesn’t feel like an acoustic guitar and for me the sound + feeling is what I buy. I got bored really quickly. Which is the opposite to what happens when you pick up a new acoustic to try out and start to enjoy it.
So a well made gimmick guitar.
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Post by andyhowell on Feb 28, 2019 9:08:07 GMT
The Taylor T5 blew me away when I heard it for the first time. I think it might be the best amplified acoustic-kind guitar I’ve heard. I can see why this is doing well and not surprised that Fender want to explore the same market.
Like Paul I don’t really like it. But the T5 !!!!!
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Post by NikGnashers on Mar 2, 2019 6:48:53 GMT
It's a no from me, "ahmm oooot" !!
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Post by rob on Mar 8, 2019 7:52:30 GMT
A friend of mines purchased one of these and i had chance to play it for an hour or two, i'm usually quite easily pleased where guitars are concerned but even i have to say this one is dire. When he handed it to me he said it sounded better unplugged than when amped up, hes right the string balance was terrible with the high e string hardly being amplified at all unless you switched the magnetic pickup in, to be honest the neck played great but the general feel of the guitar was like a childs toy. Rob
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