![]() ![]() ![]() Please visit my web site and Soundcloud page and listen to the music posted there. It was rich and beefy, without even a hint of Nashville twang. My wife told me she thought it sounded better than my Millennium.ĭuring my gigging years, I got a lot of complements on my tone. My former green steel wasn't bright and trebly, and didn't have much twang, but it had a beautiful deep rich warm midrange tone. The trick to making an MSA sound good is not to try to duplicate the Emmons or Sho Bud sound, but to tweak the amp to accentuate it's natural characteristics. If you want a steel that sounds like an Emmons or 'Bud, than that's what you should get. If you want guitar that sounds like a tele, you need to get a tele. The Gibson will never sound like a Fender and vice versa. Getting back to MSA, if I may make an analogy, an Emmons or a Sho Bud can be compared to a Tele or Strat, while an MSA is more like a big Gibson hollow body. I've been told that it was probably assembled by CBS employees from parts made by Leo Fender, and the maple neck with the cap was only made during the last 2 or 3 years Fender owned the company, and dropped when CBS took over. I had bought another tele the previous day, but when i played this one, I felt it was vastly superior to the other one, and grabbed it, and sold the first one. Chris, I have one of those maple cap tele's. ![]()
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