How to do country?

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Christobevii3

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If you were going to make country music, which guitars out of mine would you use for what.

Guitars:
Sheraton II with jazz/jb
Telecaster with regular fender pickups
Mockingbird with 490r 498t
Possible reverend p90 guitar

What for:
Lead
Rhythm
Other?

I'm having a hard time figuring out how to do country because well, i haven't been around it much. Which pickups would you use in the humbucker guitars too for their rolls? The rio grande pickups seemed interesting or seymour duncans?

Amp settings for my crate v3112T?

Thanks! :13:
 
Re: How to do country?

I'd have to hear them all, try them all, but I'd take a guess and say that the Telecaster is what I would use.
 
Re: How to do country?

First, take your Mockingbird and use it to bang out a couple of your front teeth.

Then take the knocked out teeth and superglue them to your tele pickguard to give the tone some extra bite (and to look snazzy). Add some glitter to your Tele, some gold piping, maybe some pieces of Paisley-stamped leather, a rear-view mirror, a gear shift, and maybe a beaver tail.

Remember, it ain't country if your Telecaster don't look like a still life of Dolly Pardon wrestling Liberace.

Now sell your Sheraton and use the $$$ to buy gold-plated Bigsbys for everything else. Even your amps. And your straps (which must be tooled cowhide and feature innumerable extraneous buckles and stuff). It ain't country unless your gee-tar strap has a Bigsby on it.

Pull out all your pickups and remove the low E and A pole pieces. You won't use them. You don't need them.

Now buy a graphic EQ and set the sliders like this:

| | | | o o
| | | o | |
| | o | | |
o o | | | |
low........hi

Turn it on any time you need your guitar to sound really nasally and twangy and tinny, like when you're playing rhythm, or lead, or touching the guitar, or looking at it.

Have fun, good luck, and remember to pack lots of bat repellent. Big, teased-out hair-sprayed bangs attract bats. You're going to attract big, teased-out hair-sprayed bangs, and well... it's not algebra here.
 
Re: How to do country?

sosomething said:
First, take your Mockingbird and use it to bang out a couple of your front teeth.

Then take the knocked out teeth and superglue them to your tele pickguard to give the tone some extra bite (and to look snazzy). Add some glitter to your Tele, some gold piping, maybe some pieces of Paisley-stamped leather, a rear-view mirror, a gear shift, and maybe a beaver tail.

Remember, it ain't country if your Telecaster don't look like a still life of Dolly Pardon wrestling Liberace.

Now sell your Sheraton and use the $$$ to buy gold-plated Bigsbys for everything else. Even your amps. And your straps (which must be tooled cowhide and feature innumerable extraneous buckles and stuff). It ain't country unless your gee-tar strap has a Bigsby on it.

Pull out all your pickups and remove the low E and A pole pieces. You won't use them. You don't need them.

Now buy a graphic EQ and set the sliders like this:

| | | | o o
| | | o | |
| | o | | |
o o | | | |
low........hi

Turn it on any time you need your guitar to sound really nasally and twangy and tinny, like when you're playing rhythm, or lead, or touching the guitar, or looking at it.

Have fun, good luck, and remember to pack lots of bat repellent. Big, teased-out hair-sprayed bangs attract bats. You're going to attract big, teased-out hair-sprayed bangs, and well... it's not algebra here.
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:laugh2: that is fukin prime:laugh2:


now do one for metal
 
Re: How to do country?

I think I could get a cool country sound out of all four of those guitars. At first, I was going to vote against the mockingbird, but I've heard those pikcups in a Les Paul and they're capable of a certain sort of twang in the middle position. As long as no one SAW the thing, I think I could make it pass for a countyr guitar.

The Tele and the Reverend would be the easiest to get traditional country sounds out of, though. Either of those plus decent versions of an old bassman, blackface deluxe or maybe an AC-30 (maybe not the most obvious choice, but I have proof that they'll do it) and I could definitely get my country on.
 
Re: How to do country?

For a counrty gig, I'd take the tele and the Sheraton.

I use my tele's, Sheraton, and Alleykat all the time and get great tones on all of them. On the Sheraton, if you're keeping the Jazz/JB, set them low for a bit more chime and a cleaner sound. The Mockingbird might work too, but I wouldn't use it for old-school country.

The Reverend would work beautifully too. P-90's are great for country. In fact, my Sheraton is set up with Phat Cats just for that reason.

As far as which to use for what, it all depends on my mood.
 
Re: How to do country?

sosomething said:
First, take your Mockingbird and use it to bang out a couple of your front teeth.

Then take the knocked out teeth and superglue them to your tele pickguard to give the tone some extra bite (and to look snazzy). Add some glitter to your Tele, some gold piping, maybe some pieces of Paisley-stamped leather, a rear-view mirror, a gear shift, and maybe a beaver tail.

Remember, it ain't country if your Telecaster don't look like a still life of Dolly Pardon wrestling Liberace.

Now sell your Sheraton and use the $$$ to buy gold-plated Bigsbys for everything else. Even your amps. And your straps (which must be tooled cowhide and feature innumerable extraneous buckles and stuff). It ain't country unless your gee-tar strap has a Bigsby on it.

Pull out all your pickups and remove the low E and A pole pieces. You won't use them. You don't need them.

Now buy a graphic EQ and set the sliders like this:

| | | | o o
| | | o | |
| | o | | |
o o | | | |
low........hi

Turn it on any time you need your guitar to sound really nasally and twangy and tinny, like when you're playing rhythm, or lead, or touching the guitar, or looking at it.

Have fun, good luck, and remember to pack lots of bat repellent. Big, teased-out hair-sprayed bangs attract bats. You're going to attract big, teased-out hair-sprayed bangs, and well... it's not algebra here.
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Best post. evar.
 
Re: How to do country?

Amp: safest bet is something from Fender or based on a similar design. If you're playing live, something that can get very loud without much breakup is a plus (but a little is a good thing).

EQ: Not quite as extreme as was suggested in the funny post above, but kinda like that. I'd say pull back on the highs a bit so things do get too ear piercing, but you'll definitely get maximum twang by cutting the low-mids entirely out (which often means cutting the bass entirely out on most amp controls). If you can keep some bass while cutting the low-mids, though, you end up with a cool sound. Strong high mids. Medium highs.

Reverb: Yes.
Delay: Yes, a single echo timed to hit shortly after the note.

Christobevii3 said:
What about amp eq and reverb use?
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Re: How to do country?

depends what you're doing...there are different styles ya know

Sheratons/335's/Byrdlands were THE guitars in the late 50s/early 60's in Nashville for the RCA/Bradley's Barn style ala Grady Martin/Hank Garland...

Teles were more Bakersfield/LA guys, Jimmy Bryant, Roy Nichols, Don Rich, Roy Latham...
 
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