Semi-hollow Owners!

theshadowofseattle · Post by **theshadowofseattle** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 7:34 pm

Mike wrote:Nah I wouldn't say so. I owned a Semi Hollow Riviera and that squealed a bunch.

I use the same kind of Riviera that Mike had as my main guitar, but I never have squeally feedback. Just the predictable/controllable rumbly stuff you'd get with any guitar.

cobascis · Post by **cobascis** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 8:15 pm

I had an epi dot, that got lovely feedkback when pushed, but had no real troubles

stewart · Post by **stewart** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 12:01 am

my coronado feeds back quite a bit if you leave your hands off the strings, but it's a slow building growl, none of your squealy nonsense. and it certainly doesn't screech with distortion or anything. quite a pleasing sound.

Dogma Hollow · Post by **Dogma Hollow** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 5:10 am

Well, that was a good trip. I haven't shopped for a guitar in a while, so I went through a bunch of them before I picked up the Gretsch:

Two Gibson SG models: one was utter shite, dull and dry sounding, the other was alright if I was a hamhanded meathead who didn't care about having more than the one tone it produced. NEXT!

Two PRS SE models: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! Firewood.

A Fender Standard Tele: Nice guitar, but I've never been a single coil guy, and I don't think I ever will be.

A Fender Thinline Tele: Pretty nice, had a full tone to it like you'd expect for a semi-hollow, just didn't feel quite right.

A Fender '72 Deluxe: Very nice, and my 2nd fave of the night.

Gretsch Electromatic Pro Jet: Love this guitar. Absolutely love it. Great tone, very articulate, full souding, smooth action, neck felt great. And that's despite the fact that some fucktard had yanked on the Bigsby so hard that one of the mounting screws was halfway pulled out of the body. I'm sure I could easily have bought it for $100 less than they wanted, but I'm not going to pay money to fix a brand new guitar.

So it's off to find a scrupulous seller on ebay.

Ty · Post by Ty » Wed Feb 18, 2009 5:46 am

I like those Grestch hope you find one soon.
(also for sublimedo)

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aen · Post by **aen** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 5:57 am

Mike wrote:Seymour Duncan Invader.

I dunno man, that always sounded like a sex toy to me.

Sublimedo · Post by **Sublimedo** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 8:29 am

silly_rabbit_band wrote:I like those Grestch hope you find one soon.
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Sublimedo wrote:One day I wanna get a crappy acoustic and slap a dimebucker by the bridge. Think it'll get noisy?

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WILLDEW.

Post by **Mike** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 8:44 am

theshadowofseattle wrote:
Mike wrote:Nah I wouldn't say so. I owned a Semi Hollow Riviera and that squealed a bunch.
I use the same kind of Riviera that Mike had as my main guitar, but I never have squeally feedback. Just the predictable/controllable rumbly stuff you'd get with any guitar.

Yeah, but mine was Sunburst.

msteuk · Post by **msteuk** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 9:46 am

Never had feedback problems with my Sheraton.

Post by **Mike** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 9:54 am

Is it Sunburst?

msteuk · Post by **msteuk** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 10:07 am

no, natural

Dogma Hollow · Post by **Dogma Hollow** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 4:07 pm

silly_rabbit_band wrote:I like those Grestch hope you find one soon.
(also for sublimedo)
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Sublimedo wrote:One day I wanna get a crappy acoustic and slap a dimebucker by the bridge. Think it'll get noisy?

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When my tax return gets here, it will be mine. I didn't think I was going to get anything this year, but it'll be enough to buy this. Woo hoo!

Dogma Hollow · Post by **Dogma Hollow** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 7:21 am

Ok, fuck, I couldn't wait. At the price I found it for, I didn't want to pass it up.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 0380744450

It's mine!

Now comes the agony of waiting for it to get here.

Ty · Post by Ty » Thu Feb 19, 2009 8:02 am

Wow, 349, good deal man.

theshadowofseattle · Post by **theshadowofseattle** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 3:53 pm

Mike wrote:
theshadowofseattle wrote:
Mike wrote:Nah I wouldn't say so. I owned a Semi Hollow Riviera and that squealed a bunch.
I use the same kind of Riviera that Mike had as my main guitar, but I never have squeally feedback. Just the predictable/controllable rumbly stuff you'd get with any guitar.
Yeah, but mine was Sunburst.

Oh true. My gothy black one is too broody and introspective to squeal.

Post by **Mike** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 3:59 pm

Mine was like a stupid Labrador puppy snapping at my heels.

theshadowofseattle · Post by **theshadowofseattle** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 4:00 pm

Also, all of the amps I use are pretty dark. Bassman and the Valvetronix set to emulate a bassman...

dezb1 · Post by **dezb1** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 10:46 pm

I have a sunburst Riviera like Mike, stick it through a big muff and itâ€™ll feedback forever (but I like that wall of sound/feedback sort of thing)

JJLipton · Post by **JJLipton** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 12:56 am

My epiphone supernova handles distortion/fuzz pretty well without too much feedback, although i did replace the pickups on it.

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 1:22 am

If it has a center block, it's not going to do squeally hollowbody feedback. The pickups are mounted in solid wood vs suspended from a thin carvetop that's under constant vibration. There can be some feedback from the top still vibrating, but since it doesn't have as much room to move as a real hollowbody, it isn't as big an issue.

Some of Epiphone's 90s buckers were some kinda supershit though. The bridge one in my G-400 squealed like hell until it eventually melted, being just polepieces, copper wire and wax between the baseplate and cover (it had bobbins made of see-thru wax). They must've been comissioned by the government to make Reagan look good.