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Admittedly, my Short T has a little more compression and more bloom and blossom than a standard tele, but I feel like it still cuts through perfectly. Also, one of the upsides to a tele is that it has a fast attack and a somewhat one-dimensional appeal that helps it to cut through the mix. My short T has a bit of that but you lose some of the nasal honkyness that occasionally rubs me wrong with a standard tele. To me, a tele has a snarl in the upper mids and a bit of rasp to its voice.
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This guitar is fatter than your standard tele. If you are curious about what a Short T does, here are my thoughts:įor starters, mine is a hollow ash, black with scraped binding and body contours, maple neck +.50 oversized, M in the bridge and an Anderson something or other single in the neck, 3-way switch, no push-pull or hidden switches.
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In the last year, I’ve done tone workshops, an instructional video on tone, a year-long CD vanity project, and hundreds of gigs and it seems that my sweet little Black Short T keeps surprising me at every turn of the road. LOTS of guitars have come and gone in the last 10 years and lots of guitars have come and gone in the last 12 months. I own a Custom Shop Fender strat and have had 2 others in my house this year. I’ve had 4 James Tylers pass through my house in the last year. 4 of those I spec’d myself, others were used or retail stock. I’ve owned 7 Andersons in the last 10 years (I think) and have borrowed another half dozen maybe. “Short T” is basically a Telecaster-style guitar but instead of being standard scale length (25.5″ from the nut to the saddles) it’s short-scale (24.75″ from nut to saddles) which lowers the string tension, makes the whole thing a little easier to play- more slinky, and adds some sonic girth to everything that comes out of the guitar. But I’ve had my Tom Anderson Guitarworks Short T for about a year now and can honestly say that it’s the best guitar I’ve ever owned. Actually, it’s been a little over a year now.