anybody play a hollow body electric

[Petulant Child]

I want to trade in my broken electric for a new one and really liked this 60's off brand hollow body.  It sounds good and I love the way it looks.  I am used to playing with distortion but would like to experiment with new sounds and also play at home unplugged..any thoughts as to your experience with a hollow body guitar would be great! does anyone play one with distortion?!

[Mardy Pune]

Hollow bodies are great for feedback or bad for feedback depending on which way you look at it. Personally I love the feedback you can get out of a hollow body. What sort of pedal/amp setup are you going to use with it?

[Giannis KRI]

Hollow bodied guitars are awesome.I have one,check my profile.These things about not being good with distortion is lies.Check Ted Nugent.Unplugged though doesn't work too well.I mean there is no big difference with the electric guitar unlugged.They look great,they sound great and they feel great.You can go try one if you are not sure.I recommend you take her.

[buy my carpet]

I have an EKO from the end of the 60's and think it's the ultimate rock'n'roll hard on!
Sounds like a frying pan and can't be tuned but it's great on distortion and fuzz! Feedback can be the only problem and before you gig with one you need to check your configuration on a high volume.

[Petulant Child]

I have a rat pedal and a peavy trans tube amp thats about 9 years old

Mardy Pune said:

Hollow bodies are great for feedback or bad for feedback depending on which way you look at it. Personally I love the feedback you can get out of a hollow body. What sort of pedal/amp setup are you going to use with it?

[John Spokus]

I have a '71 Harmony Meteor which sounds great overdriven. Really nice, controlled feedback with this one. It was really quite a find. I bought it back in '95 when I was trying to break into vintage guitar dealing along with my bandmate. Problem was, everything we were buying, we liked so much, we didn't want to turn around and sell any of it. I only paid $175 for it. At first I didn't like it much, and even after my friend did a bunch of work to it, it wouldn't stay in tune very well. It wasn't until I really decided one day that I was going to try playing it again, and often, that either one of two things happened, I developed a "touch" on this guitar, or it just needed to be played in order to be right. Either way it sounds awesome now, like a cross between an ES-335 and a Gretsch. Somebody mentioned Nugent; I guess you could also say it's a little like one of his Byrdlands, being that the neck is short and it's a thinline hollowbody. I played a cover of "Baby Please Don't Go" in one band with it, and the tone was strikingly similar to his . I play it through a '65 Fender Deluxe Reverb re-issue with an Ibanez Tubescreamer. I also have a Vox Distortion Booster which I used for leads.

[Mardy Pune]

Rats are cool pedals. I reckon you'll be fine. You'll learn how to control the feedback by setting the gain levels on the rat and amp and work where you can stand to be able to control the feedback; proximity to yer amp will have a big bearing on the amount of feedback you'll get and how you can control it.


Petulant Child said:

I have a rat pedal and a peavy trans tube amp thats about 9 years old

Mardy Pune said:

Hollow bodies are great for feedback or bad for feedback depending on which way you look at it. Personally I love the feedback you can get out of a hollow body. What sort of pedal/amp setup are you going to use with it?

[Petulant Child]

so it will always feed back with the pedal plugged in and its just a matter of tweeking it so that i like it?

Mardy Pune said:

Rats are cool pedals. I reckon you'll be fine. You'll learn how to control the feedback by setting the gain levels on the rat and amp and work where you can stand to be able to control the feedback; proximity to yer amp will have a big bearing on the amount of feedback you'll get and how you can control it.


Petulant Child said:

I have a rat pedal and a peavy trans tube amp thats about 9 years old

Mardy Pune said:

Hollow bodies are great for feedback or bad for feedback depending on which way you look at it. Personally I love the feedback you can get out of a hollow body. What sort of pedal/amp setup are you going to use with it?

[DammitDave]

I have a knockoff of a Gibson 137 (anyone ever heard of a Crestline?) that I've been using with the natural crunch of a new Vox combo (VOX AC30VR it's a 30W 2x12 transistor with a tube to warm it up). I have a HiWatt that I use on special occasions. The sound is god-like in perfection.

[Mardy Pune]

You'll be able to tweak it so can control when the feedback kicks in or not. If you want it to feedback the whole time you'll be able to set it to do that to if you want.


Petulant Child said:

so it will always feed back with the pedal plugged in and its just a matter of tweeking it so that i like it?

Mardy Pune said:

Rats are cool pedals. I reckon you'll be fine. You'll learn how to control the feedback by setting the gain levels on the rat and amp and work where you can stand to be able to control the feedback; proximity to yer amp will have a big bearing on the amount of feedback you'll get and how you can control it.


Petulant Child said:

I have a rat pedal and a peavy trans tube amp thats about 9 years old

Mardy Pune said:

Hollow bodies are great for feedback or bad for feedback depending on which way you look at it. Personally I love the feedback you can get out of a hollow body. What sort of pedal/amp setup are you going to use with it?

[Petulant Child]

great I have never really played with feedback before!! I hope this guitar is still there when I go to get it!! thanx for the help!

Mardy Pune said:

You'll be able to tweak it so can control when the feedback kicks in or not. If you want it to feedback the whole time you'll be able to set it to do that to if you want.


Petulant Child said:

so it will always feed back with the pedal plugged in and its just a matter of tweeking it so that i like it?

Mardy Pune said:

Rats are cool pedals. I reckon you'll be fine. You'll learn how to control the feedback by setting the gain levels on the rat and amp and work where you can stand to be able to control the feedback; proximity to yer amp will have a big bearing on the amount of feedback you'll get and how you can control it.


Petulant Child said:

I have a rat pedal and a peavy trans tube amp thats about 9 years old

Mardy Pune said:

Hollow bodies are great for feedback or bad for feedback depending on which way you look at it. Personally I love the feedback you can get out of a hollow body. What sort of pedal/amp setup are you going to use with it?

[Mardy Pune]

Sweet as bro. Have fun!


Petulant Child said:

great I have never really played with feedback before!! I hope this guitar is still there when I go to get it!! thanx for the help!

Mardy Pune said:

You'll be able to tweak it so can control when the feedback kicks in or not. If you want it to feedback the whole time you'll be able to set it to do that to if you want.


Petulant Child said:

so it will always feed back with the pedal plugged in and its just a matter of tweeking it so that i like it?

Mardy Pune said:

Rats are cool pedals. I reckon you'll be fine. You'll learn how to control the feedback by setting the gain levels on the rat and amp and work where you can stand to be able to control the feedback; proximity to yer amp will have a big bearing on the amount of feedback you'll get and how you can control it.


Petulant Child said:

I have a rat pedal and a peavy trans tube amp thats about 9 years old

Mardy Pune said:

Hollow bodies are great for feedback or bad for feedback depending on which way you look at it. Personally I love the feedback you can get out of a hollow body. What sort of pedal/amp setup are you going to use with it?

[John White]

If you don't want to spend a lot of money, check out the Peavey JF-1. Some people have a problem with Peavey but I found their products to be built very well. I picked up the guitar last year for about $200.00 and I haven't had one problem. They get great reviews and look really good.