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?!

my mates got an epiphne casino and its amazing its really good with distortion and the bigsby allows for great controlled feedback ,also the guy from the sonics used a epiphone riviera

and let us not for get the awsome big gibson hollow bodys of the 50's like chuck berrys and scotty mores one with p-90s

I used a Cort Jim Triggs II (with TV Jones Classic pickups) for years and loved it.  I'm too cheap right now for the fret job it needs and just got a Reverend Pete Anderson (p-90's).  Awesome guitar with grit when the bass roll-off knob is turned up.  Highly recommended!!  Strangely, the Cort had awesome useable feedback whereas my Reverend's feedback is high-pitched, shrill and unmusical.  A very versatile guitar, though.

http://www.wildwoodguitars.com/electrics/reverend/12305/12305.php

Hey!

Check out Peerless guitars. They are Korean Gretsch,Gibson and Epiphone copies, and are really well made, some say they are better than modern Gretches.

I've got the Gigmaster SC, which is a copy of Gibson es295, and it looks fantastic, with a Gold finish and P90's.It also sounds great for Garage and Punk, and it costs around 700 euros with a hard case.

 I love hollowbodys for multiple reasons. I own a right handed flipped to a lefty 67 gibson es-330 and a lefty Korean casino. for at home and rehearsal I put miles on my casino, and for recording and shows I use my gibson. one they are extremely versatile guitars, also i love p90 pickups, and fully hollowbodys and i can imagine semi hollow body's are extremely light. one you've played enough with your amp settings you can really get tricky with controlled feedback. the end!

 

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Hollow body's are great with distortion, but you have to manage the feedback. the easiest way is to buy synthetic (no Moisture) foam squares from the make up aisle. It must be synthetic, cotton holds moisture and will mess with the guitar. Stuff the squares into the f-holes carefully till the guitar is half full, several bags. What this does is cut down on the sound waves bouncing around inside the guitar but still maintaining the killer vintage tone. We have an early 70's era Silvertone hollow body and this worked great. Some vintage guitars have microphonic pickups (they work like a mike) which cause feed back. A good guitar repair guy will know how to dip them in wax to stop this.

I got my hollow body !!!I luv it!! still trying to get it to work the way I want with the Peavy but the sound and feel  are great!! it's a vintage 60's Japanese possibly Tiesco?  you can see pic on my page.  ThaNX for all the tips now point me in the direction of some tunes on these things!!

If you're after a hollow body....I'd look into buying the vintage japanese range...there's a heap of quirky ES335 copies out there that sound just as good and depending on your taste....even better.

My favorite guitar is my H75 Harmony ('64?). I bought it about 5 years ago for $400 with a small crack. That does effect the tone at all though. It sounds so dam 60's I luv it! Sounds good with fuzz too. One thing that helped was grounding the pickups! I don't play too much feedback anymore but it can do it. Kind of like the Outsiders CQ feedback not like that blue cheer if that what your going fo.

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.

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?

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?

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?

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.

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?

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?

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.

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?

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.

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.

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?