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Preacher · November 28th, 2007, 03:31 PM

at my church we have two guitars, usually I play electric and the young man (who is better than me but less experienced) plays acoustic.
There is an occasion where he wil bust out his Oscar Schmidt Delta Blues guitar and play a chord or solo riff but it is one song usually, not the whole set. At that time I will play some fill stuff and pretty much take the backseat to him.

Last Sunday though was a whole other operation. See I just finished up my Tele (I usually play the Squier '51 or a LP as my main gitars) so I decide to bring it to play. Well the young man is also building a tele, and though mine was finished (other than headstock logo) his was not but was ready to play. Now we had a problem TWO telecasters playing at the same time that sound really really alike.
We played a couple of songs, then the worship leader had him switch to neck pup and me to the bridge, it worked a while but I finally went to the '51 and played in humbucker mode.
So I guess I would say, multiple eletrics are OK as long as they are different types of guitars with different pick up characteristics, when they are the same, you are in trouble.

November 28th, 2007, 03:31 PM	#16 (permalink)
Preacher Tele-Meister Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Oklahoma Age: 40 Posts: 248	at my church we have two guitars, usually I play electric and the young man (who is better than me but less experienced) plays acoustic. There is an occasion where he wil bust out his Oscar Schmidt Delta Blues guitar and play a chord or solo riff but it is one song usually, not the whole set. At that time I will play some fill stuff and pretty much take the backseat to him. Last Sunday though was a whole other operation. See I just finished up my Tele (I usually play the Squier '51 or a LP as my main gitars) so I decide to bring it to play. Well the young man is also building a tele, and though mine was finished (other than headstock logo) his was not but was ready to play. Now we had a problem TWO telecasters playing at the same time that sound really really alike. We played a couple of songs, then the worship leader had him switch to neck pup and me to the bridge, it worked a while but I finally went to the '51 and played in humbucker mode. So I guess I would say, multiple eletrics are OK as long as they are different types of guitars with different pick up characteristics, when they are the same, you are in trouble. __________________ So many guitars... so little time.