Anyone else experimented with this? I have an old Squier Tele that I can't bear to part with but that sits around doing nothing most of the time, so I figured I'd set it up for something completely different... so I had a go with Nashville tuning.
Its basically the high strings from a 12 string set, with the B and Top E strings left standard tuning. And its great fun - it sounds a bit like a 12 string without the grief and if you double track with a normal tuned guitar you can end up with a *HUGE* sounding track. Its been so much fun that the guitar has been subjected to even more modifying to make it sound right for me - this guitar has had more pickup changes than I've had hot dinners and so it went from this:
Which was a random Strat pickup in the neck and a Kent Armstrong Cool Rails bridge pickup (the only rails pickup I've ever truly liked - but only in gainy situations).
To this:
Now has a Seymour Duncan 59 neck pickup and a Fender Baja Broadcaster bridge pickup - *much* nicer for clean stuff, especially in the mid position. Although I'm thinking about swapping out the pot as its a 500K currently (for the old KA humbucker) as the bridge pickup sounds a little thin in the skin compared to my other Tele (fitted with a Seymour Duncan Broadcaster)... we'll see if I get around to it.
If you have an unloved guitar kicking around that doesn't do much, chuck a set of Nashville gauge on it (D'Addarrio do a set so you don't even need to buy them individually like you used to) and have some fun...
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It was quite pleasant:
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