i've got a telecaster

JordanD · Post by **JordanD** » Thu Feb 27, 2014 12:17 pm

My Baja has arrived! Now I just need work to be over to I can go play it.

Progrockabuse · Post by **Progrockabuse** » Thu Feb 27, 2014 12:20 pm

Pull sickie and plug in, bridge and neck and a slightly breaking up amp and smile.

JordanD · Post by **JordanD** » Thu Feb 27, 2014 12:39 pm

I would love to but already being at work, and my boss noticing my good mood, I don't think it'll play out well. When I get home it's going straight into my Greta.

gusman2x · Post by **gusman2x** » Thu Feb 27, 2014 12:59 pm

JordanD wrote:I would love to but already being at work, and my boss noticing my good mood, I don't think it'll play out well. When I get home it's going straight into my Greta.

Has it been delivered to your work? If so, plug straight into your monitor, and melt your co workers faces with some fizzy/tinny office blooz!

And gratz.

JordanD · Post by **JordanD** » Thu Feb 27, 2014 1:11 pm

Yeah man, it's sat next to me lookin all pretty and shit.

Progrockabuse · Post by **Progrockabuse** » Thu Feb 27, 2014 1:21 pm

Do an keef and hit boss with tele. The guitar will be fine, him not so much

JordanD · Post by **JordanD** » Thu Feb 27, 2014 1:30 pm

Hahaha, my boss is lovely, he's not a corporate robot and takes a genuine interest in us! In other news I just do an small play at lunch, tuned it up to pitch. It's lovely as far as first impressions go.

BearBoy · Post by **BearBoy** » Thu Feb 27, 2014 1:42 pm

Get a friend to set off fire alarm.

One of the benefits of working from home a lot is that you can stay in to receive new stuff and then spend all day playing with it. When you ought to be working. Double win.

brainfur · Post by **brainfur** » Thu Feb 27, 2014 2:14 pm

JordanD wrote:My Baja has arrived! Now I just need work to be over to I can go play it.

CONGRATULATION!!!

brainfur · Post by **brainfur** » Thu Feb 27, 2014 2:14 pm

Out for Delivery arrrrgh i cant believe i came to work today

HNB · Post by **HNB** » Thu Feb 27, 2014 3:28 pm

Personal Day

JordanD · Post by **JordanD** » Thu Feb 27, 2014 5:02 pm

Does anyone know what the fuck that S1 switch on the Baja does? On mine it seems to affect sound in three positions :

Neck+bridge parallel
Neck+Bridge series
Neck only

Based on the videos I've seen, I would only expect it to affect the series/parallel options.

Edit : the following is from the Fender website :

"Engaging the S-1 switch on this particular Telecaster introduces out-of-phase circuitry to blade switch positions two and four only, with positions one and three remaining unaffected"

brainfur · Post by **brainfur** » Thu Feb 27, 2014 5:05 pm

s1 seems like voodoo i have no idea what its for

Freddy V-C · Post by **Freddy V-C** » Fri Feb 28, 2014 12:23 am

It just reverses the phase of one of the pickups, so if you have both pickups switched on you get quacky out of phase sounds. If you're only using one pickup it does nothing.

theshadowofseattle · Post by **theshadowofseattle** » Fri Feb 28, 2014 3:16 am

Swaps the lead and ground of the pickups

singlepup · Post by **singlepup** » Fri Feb 28, 2014 5:32 am

Oh I didn't mention the dream I had in which I got a mint green (or surf green? dream color is weird) TELECASTER.

This Telecaster had HUGE knobs, like the size of dials on a dishwasher. And they went up to 12. When you pushed past 11, the tone got real beefy.

I asked someone about dat beef tone and was told there were mini-buckers underneath the guard that only activate when you crank those huge knobs.

Dreams are fucked up.

Beau · Post by **Beau** » Fri Feb 28, 2014 5:49 am

You are s'posed to seek the Carnivorous Teleraptor in the lands of Dun'duin.

JordanD · Post by **JordanD** » Fri Feb 28, 2014 10:32 am

Freddy V-C wrote:It just reverses the phase of one of the pickups, so if you have both pickups switched on you get quacky out of phase sounds. If you're only using one pickup it does nothing.

I thought so. It definitely does something on mind with just the neck pickup on. I'll probably never use the out of phase, just more of an observation.

Post by **Mike** » Fri Feb 28, 2014 10:54 am

I miss my Baja Telecaster sometimes - it was a really great solid guitar.

Progrockabuse · Post by **Progrockabuse** » Fri Feb 28, 2014 2:13 pm

Mike wrote:I miss my Baja Telecaster sometimes - it was a really great solid guitar.

If this Bristol trek that me Fran and nickd are thinking about, I'll bring it down to see its old master.