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John E · October 17th, 2003, 01:21 PM

I love the way when I'm playing at a good volume at a gig, I can get this "Whomp" of air blasting out of the f-hole at certain times... it really feels like the guitar is letting out a huge breath of air... now it never does that when I'm unplugged... seeing as how my thinline reacts that way when plugged in I've got to assume it has some effect on the tone of the instrument when playing live... I love Thinlines. I'll take a Thinline any day over a solidbody. Maybe it's just psychological, but even when I pick up a thinline in a music store, they always have more of an airy, woody quality to the tone even when plugged in. I have a buddy who is a virtuoso violin player... he came with me to a local GC one time just to kill a little time. I played like 5 different tele's, among them a Muddy, a 52ri, MIM 50's and a couple of thinlines. he was well away from me and could not see whether it was a solidbody or thinline, he always came up to me when I had the thinlines plugged in and said "I like that one, it has a woody quality." That was enough confirmation for me...

October 17th, 2003, 01:21 PM	#17 (permalink)
John E Tele-Afflicted Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Connecticut Posts: 1,396	Thinlines are it for me... I love the way when I'm playing at a good volume at a gig, I can get this "Whomp" of air blasting out of the f-hole at certain times... it really feels like the guitar is letting out a huge breath of air... now it never does that when I'm unplugged... seeing as how my thinline reacts that way when plugged in I've got to assume it has some effect on the tone of the instrument when playing live... I love Thinlines. I'll take a Thinline any day over a solidbody. Maybe it's just psychological, but even when I pick up a thinline in a music store, they always have more of an airy, woody quality to the tone even when plugged in. I have a buddy who is a virtuoso violin player... he came with me to a local GC one time just to kill a little time. I played like 5 different tele's, among them a Muddy, a 52ri, MIM 50's and a couple of thinlines. he was well away from me and could not see whether it was a solidbody or thinline, he always came up to me when I had the thinlines plugged in and said "I like that one, it has a woody quality." That was enough confirmation for me...