I was a Strat guy through and through up till yesterday when I had to sell my most beloved #1 guitar that I could afford - a Fender Road Worn 60s Stratocaster prod 2009 that I bought in 2014 just so that I could put food on the table before I get my next paycheck. It was the one that made me able to get a job as a part-time session player at a local production studio back then, and appeared in most of the recordings that I played for. Now that it's in the hands of a new owner, I had to settle with a backup guitar that I bought a few months ago - a knock-off blonde telecaster with a glossy maple fretboard given the brand name SKÖN, a series of guitars that a local music shop in town brought out. To my surprise, the longing for the strat was not that long as I found the tele to be of better prospect in terms of tones. Like most people said, it really cuts through the mix. The ashtray bridge design really helps in getting the brawny steel tones compared to a strat. And I'm also surprised that I'm really loving the simplicity of it - just a two single-coil pickup with a three-way switch but able to deliver the necessary familiar tones you need in a song. The telecaster somehow seemed like a "forced" revelation for me.
That's a great story. Guitar came to me later in life (at 40) but I've been a violinist/violist all of my life. Having played acoustic instruments for 50 years now, things with dials, switches and God forbid, menus....., that stuff is lost on me. The less options, the better! I love Telecasters and their sheer ability to communicate. They are simple and intuitive. They speak and respond brilliantly, literally. It's incredible to me to think how right Leo Fender got it on the very first attempt. It's a huge accomplishment and he wasn't even a musician. I am sorry you lost your beloved Strat but I am happy you've found your true love.
@@jlunch we're on the same boat! I hate dealing with too many switches, menus, etc that takes a lot of my time before I could even play the thing. I'm not even 40 yet but I really prefer simplicity at this age 😄. Yeah it's amazing that Leo Fender who's not even a guitar player could come up with brilliant designs on both Teles and Strats from the get-go!
totally agree Joey, I was a Les Paul guy for majority of my life until I got a tele and was like wow this thing can do EVERYTHING!!! love your vids and style of playing man!!!!
Do not forget that the speaker used can be very important. Important to match good speaker with good amps. A brighter amp can be tamed with darker sounding speakers... 😊
But you can say that with literally ANY guitar. Some people play metal with a strat, blues with an ibanez, rock with P90s, and so on. Your only limitation is your imagination
You're missing the point. The clean tone is the starting point, that WHY people buy a tele. The question then is, 'but can it do X too'. That's what the video is addressing. The tele's clean tone is what people are after in the first place. But let's face the facts... you're never going to buy just one guitar LOL. They're addicting.
Yep. I realized quite early on that my buying different guitars for different genres of music was essentially cosmetic only. It’s still fun to guitar shop… but any one of them would get me there. Look up the videos of Joe Pass playing jazz on a Jaguar, or Julian Lage on a Tele.
Really inspiring tones. Just picked up a FCS 1951 Nocaster ( Journeyman Relic) and it's amazing in every way. Wasn't a Tele guy until I found this one.
I used to assume that the tele bridge pickup would be thinner and brighter than the Strat bridge. In my experience (playing 40 years) the tele bridge has more balls and is not as thin and bright as the Strat. I like Strats but prefer teles. The Strat layout is crowded and the middle pickup is in the way of my picking hand and I hit the pickup selector and volume button by accident frequently. I have to focus on my playing on a Strat more (which isn’t a bad thing) but everything on a tele works for me.
From the first few notes one can tell you play with feeling and all the tone is in your fingers. Better than all UA-camrs out there with 500K+ subs. And what can I say about the stank faces... quite entertaining! Subscribed.
Hi Joey, you heard it many times but your tone is awesome ! But they say « it is in your fingers » so yes your playing is great. Musicality, accuracy and in the pocket 👍 I watched your last video and the 3 advices to get your tone. Still working on it…as I cannot tweak my fingers or get new ones 😂 Keep rockin’ 🤘
Joey, you are such a TELE LOVER and expert, why don't you make a video trying to find a super awesome Tele Guitar from Fender and other brands that are a way are be closer to your Tele, not everyone can afford your Tele? that will be an amazing video!
That's really great if you understand music theory and of course if you know exactly what you are doing with the instrument. The only issue at least in my taste are the tunings. If you have only one guitar you have to change tunings for each genre/band whatever. You can certainly play for example any song at any tuning, a 7 string song (standard tuning) with a 6th sring guitar on Drop A# even at standard tuning but.. it's kinda going to sound thin. Different strings, different gauges, it matters.. As I mentioned is easy only for pretty experienced players to do so. Many amateur guitar players just follow tabs, so it's a no no for them.
Good video young man. A Telecaster is the best guitar that's why I own and play 3 plus a Roadcaster of which I built myself. All 4 have different pickup configurations but still sound like a Tele plus more.
Hello, as a Fender Professional Telecaster user, I have a question for you. How can you control single coil noise at high gains? Can you explain this in a video? Thanks in advance, cheers ❣
Kool I like the tele a lot, my fist album was Red Bone back in the early 70's they played with Fenders Tele and the Strat/bass and lead. Nice to find fellow lefties out there.
Have you tried Stratocasters? I have traditionally only played Strats but recently got a Fender Player II Telecaster HH and love it too (although I really do like the strat 'weight' and balance when playing live/standing up). Thanks!
I threw a Hot Rails in to the bridge of my '99 MIM standard Tele around 20 years ago. It has since had some resistors upgraded/wiring done to balance out the high output bridge and stock neck pickup. Indeed the middle position is where it's at for me 90+ percent of the time too...
I Am ok with my custom SG-Like Guitars for my music since i mostly play gloomy Doommetal stuff but i say a good SG or a good Custom Lespaul can play ANYTHING you want with it
I recommend all Billy Talent albums for a perfect Telecaster rock sound. Also listen to Axxis - Matters of survival album. Best Telecaster sound I ever heard in the whole album, especially the solos
Glassy Neck Pickup.... that's the Fender CS "Twisted Tele" Pickup in your guitar. Classic/Vintage Tele Neck pups don't sound like that... they're a bit "meh". Agree 100% everything you said. "Twisted Tele" Neck Pickup is probably the biggest single improvement to the Tele in the last 70 years.
Fellow Telecaster owner. Yeah, I would agree. But what about the hum on my Fender American Pro II Tele? Well, I'm not bothered by it, since owning noise gate, but it cuts off the sustain. Les Paul has more sustain, though. That's my cognitive dissonance, after I hear Telecasters are versatile. I guess I must have complexes.
I couldn't find anything mentioned or suggested about using the two little knobs on the guitar. Learn how to use them and broaden your horizons. They actually do stuff.
I don't know why so many guitarists seem to have an aversion to using the guitar's controls. They'd rather fork out for boost and EQ pedals, or even a whole new amp when often they could get the same result by just tweaking the volume and tone controls a little bit.
Hey Joey, do you know the pickup model in your 52 RI? I got a tele made by a local luthier here in Montreal and while it is amazing the pickups are a bit much on the brighter side! Keep them videos coming man!
I bought a prof tel II, combined it with a tonemaster twin reverb. In my eyes, clean really awesome…but a bit messy on a overdrive pedal like the boss ds1w (waza craft)…any thoughts on how to reach a richer heavier sound in overdrive, without buying a mesa boogie? 😅
Sounds like you don’t like the drive sound of fenders in general, in which case I’d get an "amp in a box" kind of pedal with its own character, so you can have the nice fender cleans and I.e. a Marshall sound through a pedal?
@@gaborhusson1921 no way for me to know, I don't know what sound you're after. Probably best to try a couple things, maybe order from Sweetwater and send everything back you didn't like ;)
Hay Joey with high gain how are you sounding so clean with single coils? I already knew the Tele gets those sounds but the problem is the buzz, noise and 60 cycle hum so like are you using a huge noise gate? Copper shielding? Your sound is so clean dude!!
I like Telecasters, but I hardly even have seen anybody playing Metal on a Telecaster. Not even any convincing Hard-Rock. If you tell the same about a Les Paul with PAF's, I agreed more. Also Tele pickups can sound verys different, you can get a completely muddy neck pickup sound or a good one, or a too thin, shrill bridge pickup sound or a nicely balanced one. Not to speak of the pickup noise and other arguments.
The last example wasn't really metal. Still more in line with rock. There's a reason guys who play metal use guitars with humbuckers. They just sound better with a high gain amp.
I'm glad you're not one of these Tele players who only plays chords. You know, when they play a few chords in a song and then the Tele becomes basically a prop, or a piece of scenery and isnt taking a prominent place in the song. You play the hell out of it and that's refreshing.
But... You can get 99.9% of any tone/sound from ANY guitar because of the pedals/modelling/amps. it's just the playability of the instrument that's different. And by the way, you're playing the guitar the wrong way round.
Again seriously good playing... Tele is the best universal guitar, but it lacks serious tremolo to be considered as a metal machine.. so nono for a metal dude. Keep up the good work.
1. level of playing are amazing. 2. Have own tele, but for metal riffs tele is a bad idea)) Yes, you can play lead in every genre but quality metal riffs tele cannot produce
Plot twist: It’s the only guitar he could find lefty
lol
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Love the way your setup sits in the mix so well. Cuts through with clarity, and never overpowering or harsh.
I was a Strat guy through and through up till yesterday when I had to sell my most beloved #1 guitar that I could afford - a Fender Road Worn 60s Stratocaster prod 2009 that I bought in 2014 just so that I could put food on the table before I get my next paycheck.
It was the one that made me able to get a job as a part-time session player at a local production studio back then, and appeared in most of the recordings that I played for.
Now that it's in the hands of a new owner, I had to settle with a backup guitar that I bought a few months ago - a knock-off blonde telecaster with a glossy maple fretboard given the brand name SKÖN, a series of guitars that a local music shop in town brought out.
To my surprise, the longing for the strat was not that long as I found the tele to be of better prospect in terms of tones. Like most people said, it really cuts through the mix.
The ashtray bridge design really helps in getting the brawny steel tones compared to a strat. And I'm also surprised that I'm really loving the simplicity of it - just a two single-coil pickup with a three-way switch but able to deliver the necessary familiar tones you need in a song.
The telecaster somehow seemed like a "forced" revelation for me.
That's a great story. Guitar came to me later in life (at 40) but I've been a violinist/violist all of my life. Having played acoustic instruments for 50 years now, things with dials, switches and God forbid, menus....., that stuff is lost on me. The less options, the better! I love Telecasters and their sheer ability to communicate. They are simple and intuitive. They speak and respond brilliantly, literally. It's incredible to me to think how right Leo Fender got it on the very first attempt. It's a huge accomplishment and he wasn't even a musician.
I am sorry you lost your beloved Strat but I am happy you've found your true love.
@@jlunch we're on the same boat! I hate dealing with too many switches, menus, etc that takes a lot of my time before I could even play the thing. I'm not even 40 yet but I really prefer simplicity at this age 😄.
Yeah it's amazing that Leo Fender who's not even a guitar player could come up with brilliant designs on both Teles and Strats from the get-go!
That metal riff and solo were absolutely insane, bro
Joey, the "feeling" you put on your solos is... dammn awesome, something that most modern guitarrist lack
totally agree Joey, I was a Les Paul guy for majority of my life until I got a tele and was like wow this thing can do EVERYTHING!!! love your vids and style of playing man!!!!
try telling this to the many les paul users world wide..not to mention the strat club
This dude has S-tier level guitar "O" faces when playing !
only other place these faces would be acceptable is on a porn shoot
Do not forget that the speaker used can be very important. Important to match good speaker with good amps. A brighter amp can be tamed with darker sounding speakers... 😊
But you can say that with literally ANY guitar. Some people play metal with a strat, blues with an ibanez, rock with P90s, and so on. Your only limitation is your imagination
Thank you! Agree 100%
Facts. And throw that in with nostalgia, biases and attachment issues
You're missing the point. The clean tone is the starting point, that WHY people buy a tele. The question then is, 'but can it do X too'. That's what the video is addressing. The tele's clean tone is what people are after in the first place. But let's face the facts... you're never going to buy just one guitar LOL. They're addicting.
It’s all about the amp
Yep. I realized quite early on that my buying different guitars for different genres of music was essentially cosmetic only. It’s still fun to guitar shop… but any one of them would get me there.
Look up the videos of Joe Pass playing jazz on a Jaguar, or Julian Lage on a Tele.
Really inspiring tones. Just picked up a FCS 1951 Nocaster ( Journeyman Relic) and it's amazing in every way. Wasn't a Tele guy until I found this one.
Nice sound man . Well balanced , with guitar being voiced . With that I heard Rock , Rock , then hard Rock .
Fantastic playing and tone - impressive!
I used to assume that the tele bridge pickup would be thinner and brighter than the Strat bridge. In my experience (playing 40 years) the tele bridge has more balls and is not as thin and bright as the Strat. I like Strats but prefer teles. The Strat layout is crowded and the middle pickup is in the way of my picking hand and I hit the pickup selector and volume button by accident frequently. I have to focus on my playing on a Strat more (which isn’t a bad thing) but everything on a tele works for me.
Agreed. Not that it matters it's not a war out there tele vs Strat but I'm definitely more into teles
From the first few notes one can tell you play with feeling and all the tone is in your fingers. Better than all UA-camrs out there with 500K+ subs. And what can I say about the stank faces... quite entertaining! Subscribed.
I listened to about 10 seconds of you playing and subscribed! Absolutely awesome playing and tone. Love it. I need a tele in my life!
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Hi Joey, you heard it many times but your tone is awesome ! But they say « it is in your fingers » so yes your playing is great. Musicality, accuracy and in the pocket 👍 I watched your last video and the 3 advices to get your tone. Still working on it…as I cannot tweak my fingers or get new ones 😂 Keep rockin’ 🤘
Joey, you are such a TELE LOVER and expert, why don't you make a video trying to find a super awesome Tele Guitar from Fender and other brands that are a way are be closer to your Tele, not everyone can afford your Tele? that will be an amazing video!
You found the right one mate. That's the one.
You give great examples of differing genres, but it's all rock to me.
That's really great if you understand music theory and of course if you know exactly what you are doing with the instrument.
The only issue at least in my taste are the tunings. If you have only one guitar you have to change tunings for each genre/band whatever.
You can certainly play for example any song at any tuning, a 7 string song (standard tuning) with a 6th sring guitar on Drop A# even at standard tuning but.. it's kinda going to sound thin. Different strings, different gauges, it matters.. As I mentioned is easy only for pretty experienced players to do so. Many amateur guitar players just follow tabs, so it's a no no for them.
Good video young man. A Telecaster is the best guitar that's why I own and play 3 plus a Roadcaster of which I built myself. All 4 have different pickup configurations but still sound like a Tele plus more.
Mines a 1986 Kramer Stagemaster Custom. Does it all! ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Hello, as a Fender Professional Telecaster user, I have a question for you. How can you control single coil noise at high gains? Can you explain this in a video? Thanks in advance, cheers ❣
If you play single coils regularly, you just ignore it... Or turn the volume down between songs.
Kool I like the tele a lot, my fist album was Red Bone back in the early 70's they played with Fenders Tele and the Strat/bass and lead. Nice to find fellow lefties out there.
Love your "Rock" riff. Epic my brotha!
I truly believe you make the most beautiful music in the entire world, you are incredible
Absolutely brilliant my brother! I totally appreciate what you have shared.
Love,
Bash K
Best licks every time and best tone every time
Have you tried Stratocasters? I have traditionally only played Strats but recently got a Fender Player II Telecaster HH and love it too (although I really do like the strat 'weight' and balance when playing live/standing up). Thanks!
Just subscribed
PS: the middle position is the best on a Telecaster
I threw a Hot Rails in to the bridge of my '99 MIM standard Tele around 20 years ago. It has since had some resistors upgraded/wiring done to balance out the high output bridge and stock neck pickup. Indeed the middle position is where it's at for me 90+ percent of the time too...
@@jesseregenauer630 the middle is the best on Telecaster
Can play anything on it
Finally! A true telecaster tone test without a freaking humbucker installed 😂
We all know the amp/mic does all the heavy lifting (or even sims now days)
I Am ok with my custom SG-Like Guitars for my music
since i mostly play gloomy Doommetal stuff
but i say a good SG or a good Custom Lespaul can play ANYTHING you want with it
Pickups are also important, wich do you suggest for indie and post rock music?
What interphase/processor ? I want that same tone as yours
But can it also do surf rock?
Ever hear of the band Pelican? Your metal tone (great tone!):sounds a lot like theirs (B standard on an SG)
Bro you're one of the greatest guitarists I've ever seen! How come you aren't famous? Bro you're >GREAT!
Ótimo vídeo!!!
Muito bom!
I recommend all Billy Talent albums for a perfect Telecaster rock sound. Also listen to Axxis - Matters of survival album. Best Telecaster sound I ever heard in the whole album, especially the solos
Glassy Neck Pickup.... that's the Fender CS "Twisted Tele" Pickup in your guitar. Classic/Vintage Tele Neck pups don't sound like that... they're a bit "meh". Agree 100% everything you said. "Twisted Tele" Neck Pickup is probably the biggest single improvement to the Tele in the last 70 years.
The metal clip sounds like the band big wreck ;)awesome tone
Not really metal
is there a volume control for the guitar faces?
that second sound is one ive been trying to get forever omg
Grandmaster!
what amp sim are you using?
Tabs for that metal riff?
Left-handed guitar, computer mouse on the right. This is suspicious.
Haha! I’m just used to it that way! 😂
Confirm. I am left handed Guitarist too, but mouse holding in my right hand ...
I'm a lefty who learn to play right handed. Anything is possible. 😅
If you were my high school guitar teacher the school curriculum might allow us to write music reviews on rock concerts as well 🤭
Blastphemy Joey! Im somewhere around 17 guitars at the moment and still not sure if thats the right number lol. Great content as usual Joey! 🤘
your tele is so beautiful
Fellow Telecaster owner. Yeah, I would agree. But what about the hum on my Fender American Pro II Tele?
Well, I'm not bothered by it, since owning noise gate, but it cuts off the sustain.
Les Paul has more sustain, though.
That's my cognitive dissonance, after I hear Telecasters are versatile. I guess I must have complexes.
haha, no! all very relatable. The hum is a thing, but a noise get and a "set and forget" setting is all we need to solve that. :)
@@joeyjooones I play metal with a Tele and I always think I'm the weird one.
@@olganesterowicz2112dude I’ve already played about an hour’s worth of Metallica since getting my first Telecaster about a week ago.
I have changed the neck with a baritone one and "she" is perfect for Progressive Metal
Funny, I have a Carbon X.
It's a 90's made Brazilian pedal.
Your tele tone is amazing. If I could get my Tele to sound like that I wouldn't need another guitar.
Thank you, but I’m sure you could get there - it’s not rocket science! 🙏🏻
@@joeyjooones But it is, rock science!
Just use compression, and push the mids on your amp.
It's actually super easy to get humbucker style tones out of a tele
Tele pickups have a characteristic midrange bark. You want to let this come all the way through your amp, so crank that mid dial! 😎
What's the first song he played
Hey! What is the first clip you play at 0’20? Thanks!
Awesome video!! New subscriber!!
Is that a different tuning on the first rock clip?
I couldn't find anything mentioned or suggested about using the two little knobs on the guitar. Learn how to use them and broaden your horizons. They actually do stuff.
I don't know why so many guitarists seem to have an aversion to using the guitar's controls.
They'd rather fork out for boost and EQ pedals, or even a whole new amp when often they could get the same result by just tweaking the volume and tone controls a little bit.
Great video man! Danke Schon! However, can you tell me the perfect telecaster formula? Like ash body, ash tray bridge, pickup? etc.... Bitte, Danke!
Hey Joey, do you know the pickup model in your 52 RI? I got a tele made by a local luthier here in Montreal and while it is amazing the pickups are a bit much on the brighter side! Keep them videos coming man!
Heard a lot of rock…. Still waiting for blues and definitely waiting for the metal.
For the record, he isn’t wrong it’s a great guitar for all just didn’t play all
The best amp for a tele is a vox ac15 with a greenback
Do you have the ‘51 series Fender vintage pick ups?
same but need an additional one with a floyd.
I bought a prof tel II, combined it with a tonemaster twin reverb. In my eyes, clean really awesome…but a bit messy on a overdrive pedal like the boss ds1w (waza craft)…any thoughts on how to reach a richer heavier sound in overdrive, without buying a mesa boogie? 😅
Sounds like you don’t like the drive sound of fenders in general, in which case I’d get an "amp in a box" kind of pedal with its own character, so you can have the nice fender cleans and I.e. a Marshall sound through a pedal?
@@joeyjooones could the ‘mesa throttle box’ do the job in your opinion?
@@gaborhusson1921 no way for me to know, I don't know what sound you're after. Probably best to try a couple things, maybe order from Sweetwater and send everything back you didn't like ;)
Tonemaster is a solid state. Keep in mind you won’t get those luscious tube tones. Sell it get a Deville or as you said a Mesa rectifier
Maybe the Boss Katana 3 can give you better luck without having to drop the kind of money those Mesas go for?
Can u pls list out of all the equipment’s required other than the guitar
Nice videos and better playing . You rock . Could you please let me know the part number for the Broadcaster Pickup . It’s blurry on the video
If James McAvoy played guitar. Awesome playing man.
Joey do you have a tab for that blues solo? My favorite track of yours
Cool :) Which fretwires are on your tele?
Now THAT is a guitar face!
Did you keep the same pickups that came with the guitar when you bought it ?
What's your signal chain for the tones?
I was a strat and les paul guy but if I have to choose one thats the tele.
Hay Joey with high gain how are you sounding so clean with single coils? I already knew the Tele gets those sounds but the problem is the buzz, noise and 60 cycle hum so like are you using a huge noise gate? Copper shielding? Your sound is so clean dude!!
I use the standard Kemper Noise Gate for some of these!
@@joeyjooones ok awesome thank you. You sound awesome man !!
You can play anything with a tele
The similarities are too close. Are you the guy from the Kill Tony episode?
What a fantastic video have a wonderful day Joey also Saturday is my friends birthday ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
Always a Tele…. My very 1st guitar! 72! …..sadly I wish I still had it…. So I got another one!
I like Telecasters, but I hardly even have seen anybody playing Metal on a Telecaster. Not even any convincing Hard-Rock. If you tell the same about a Les Paul with PAF's, I agreed more.
Also Tele pickups can sound verys different, you can get a completely muddy neck pickup sound or a good one, or a too thin, shrill bridge pickup sound or a nicely balanced one. Not to speak of the pickup noise and other arguments.
I play metal on a Tele.
@@olganesterowicz2112 With vintage single coils or with humbuckers or anything else?
@@HEZ63 With V-mod II pickups.
@@HEZ63I play metal on a standard Telecaster. What matters more is what your signal chain is and how you’ve dialed your amp.
Get a set of Joe Bardens. Problem solved! Danny Gatton used them. Good enough for me!
Great tone and playing Joey!
Well done!! Telecasters rule!!
Bro you have great vibrato
you want me to to play meshuggah on this thing?
The last example wasn't really metal. Still more in line with rock. There's a reason guys who play metal use guitars with humbuckers. They just sound better with a high gain amp.
I'm glad you're not one of these Tele players who only plays chords. You know, when they play a few chords in a song and then the Tele becomes basically a prop, or a piece of scenery and isnt taking a prominent place in the song. You play the hell out of it and that's refreshing.
Love telecasters, but no. Any extreme metal types are not gonna allow a stock Albert Lee chicken-picker axe
Really sweet tone and licks! But that wasn't exactly what I'd call metal🤷♂️
1 guitar I agree but I do it all on a 335.
But... You can get 99.9% of any tone/sound from ANY guitar because of the pedals/modelling/amps. it's just the playability of the instrument that's different. And by the way, you're playing the guitar the wrong way round.
Again seriously good playing... Tele is the best universal guitar, but it lacks serious tremolo to be considered as a metal machine.. so nono for a metal dude. Keep up the good work.
That was not METAL. Metal! Maybe.. Definitely not METAL. 😀. Love your passion I just subscribed. You’re great!
I'm an Ibanez guy myself but GEE WIZ..... That Tele had you making faces like your soul was ejaculating..!! NO DIDDY
1. level of playing are amazing.
2. Have own tele, but for metal riffs tele is a bad idea))
Yes, you can play lead in every genre but quality metal riffs tele cannot produce
Nahhhh its semihollow body will rule every guitar. To be precise 335 series
Some hardcore face movements.. 😂 teles rule.
But… will it chug?🤔 😅
Only one way to find out!