Can a hollow body rock?

[TCW]

I was thinking of replacing my Carvin DC127 with a hollow body. I already have a nice strat and wanted a little variety for my recordings. The only problem is I'm afraid I'll be losing the heavy overdriven tones that the Carvin provides (not metal). Can I still get that power chord umph from a hollow body?

BTW, thinking of an Ibanez Artstar w/ Super 58 PU's.

 

[Old Ghost]

Re: Can a hollow body rock?

Tom Morello rocks with an Ibanez Hollow Body, Warren Haynes Rocks with a Gibson 335 and Aerosmith with a variety of hollow bodied Gretch's, Gibson, etc. It really depends on the Amp and pickups you're using.

 

[TCW]

Re: Can a hollow body rock?

The only amp I have is a nicely modified Peavey Classic 30 (Reverend All-tone speaker, JJ tubes). Used for recording.

 

[Guitar Toad]

Re: Can a hollow body rock?

Have you ever heard of Ted Nugent? Does Ted rock or what! A hollow body will get 'er done.

 

[JOLLY]

Re: Can a hollow body rock?

Have you ever heard of Ted Nugent? Does Ted rock or what! A hollow body will get 'er done.

lol...as soon as I saw the title of this thread, the first thing that popped in my head was Ted Nugent.

 

[Bludave]

Re: Can a hollow body rock?

Robin Ford plays mostly with a 335. If you really want to see how a 335 can Rock, rent the video Woodstock, check out Alvin Lee and ten years after. That should answer your question

 

[BillG3]

Re: Can a hollow body rock?

lol...as soon as I saw the title of this thread, the first thing that popped in my head was Ted Nugent.

Me, too!

 

[Hellion]

Re: Can a hollow body rock?

Billy Duffy of the Cult recorded the majority of the "Love" and "Electric" albums with a couple of Gretsch White Falcons.

 

[Luke Duke]

Re: Can a hollow body rock?

Well I'll be the stickler for clarification here. A 335, Artcore, etc. are all SEMI-hollow bodied guitars. They have a maple or other wood core (plank) runnin down the middle of the body. This is useful in quelling feedback while increasing sustain and providing other solid body attributes. Due to the internal plank these guitars can use a tune-o-matic, or even a string through bridge.

Gibson is now making the 135 series guitars that are semi-hollows, but do not have the plank running the entire length of the guitar. This cuts down on its ability to quell feedback and sustain obviously.

The majority of Gretches are going to be fully hollow guitars, the Gibson Byrdland, L series and 330 are all I can think of off the top of my head.

I can get some very VERY chunky and rockin sounds of my 330 that said it has feedback problems with high volume. Learning to control your feedback is an art in and of itself, but if you can use it in an artistic way it makes it that much better.

Luke

 

[Quencho092]

Re: Can a hollow body rock?

yeah, that's true many people have lost the ability to use the volume and tone knobs and their hands to control excessive feedback these days. Many times during jams it drives me insane when somebody else left feedback sustaining without muting the strings or downing their volume.

 

[drew_half_empty]

Re: Can a hollow body rock?

ok lets see, full hollowbodies

hm, the dynasonic 6120's will have about as much output as a LP, but sound more single coil-y

gibson es 295 has p-90's...enough said

any gretsch with filtertrons, well, tv jones makes power'trons, which'll retain the tone but make the output like a LP, its wound with gibson PAF wire

i believe samick makes some HH hollowbodies for pretty cheap, take your pick of humbuckers on those

guild/dearmond made several, x-155, x-160, they'd all work good. Medium output single coils

but if you do REALLY hi-gain, a semi-hollow would prolly suit you better, full hollows don't feed back much in the mid position, especially with humbuckers (and mini humbuckers) but like a 335 doesn't feedback much more than a solid body

 

[MikeRocker]

Re: Can a hollow body rock?

I present to you The Man: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...ref=sr_1_1/104-3521012-7867935?v=glance&s=dvd
Brian Setzer can certainly rock a 6120! As did Eddie Cochran:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...ref=sr_1_1/104-3521012-7867935?v=glance&s=dvd

 

[FretFire]

Re: Can a hollow body rock?

Wasn't "Cliffs of Dover" recorded on a ES-335?

 

[nuntius]

Re: Can a hollow body rock?

Don't poison the well use 335's?

I'm sure theres some heavyish kinda band that uses 335s + Telecasters, and get decent heavy tones.

 

[A Skater]

Re: Can a hollow body rock?

Does this semi hollow rock? Of coarse it does!

 

[FretFire]

Re: Can a hollow body rock?

*shudders*

 

[JOLLY]

Re: Can a hollow body rock?

The guitar player for Nickleback (insert jokes here) uses Gibson ES-135 LE's live and they play with some pretty high gain. I've got one of those as well and enjoy rocking out on it too.

 

[Mincer]

Re: Can a hollow body rock?

Steve Howe uses an ES-175 full hollowbody...and certainly rocks.

 

[Old Ghost]

Re: Can a hollow body rock?

Have you ever heard of Ted Nugent? Does Ted rock or what! A hollow body will get 'er done.

How the heck could i ever forgot about the motor city madman :smack: ! Sorry, i had brain fart there o

 

[XSSIVE]

Re: Can a hollow body rock?

funny you posted this...i was thinking of getting one of the ibanez artcore semi-hollow guitars and i play mostly punk and metal...i doubt i'd use it for metal but i know it can do punk very well with the right pickups in it. so i wouldn't worry about throwing some gain at a semi-hollow guitar, as others said look at all the famous guys who do it. plus you gett a nice full low end out of a semi-hollow which should sound great with a bunch of gain!

-Mike