https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/13184331/Like_A_Limestone_Cowboy.mp3

Left-side guitar is the Epi hollowbody. Compressor on the bass is the DBX 163X hardware unit. Drums are Joe Barresi's Evil Drums.

Right-side guitar is my black Strat. Bass is J with EMGs --> Sansamp. The DBX was used on input for the guitars with the compression turned off- I just liked the way they sounded passing through the thing vs. straight into the interface. As it's 3 AM, the guitars are DIed with Guitar Rig 5. Hiwatt for the hollowbody, Orange for the Strat.

Everything has Waves Tape and NLS on it. The guitars have Decapitator and a bit of EQ on them, and are being sent to an impulse 'verb for the room. The bass ain't got shit but the compressor.

Bass sounds good that way.

How would you compare the sound of the Epi to your other guitars? What does it do/not do vs. the tele and strat you would normally use?

Been generally thinking about hollower guitars of late. I was going to do a thinline-style tele, but have since heard that they mostly just sound like regular teles but weigh less. So thinking of something more hollow than that instead.

What are your new git's vibes?

Well, for one, it has humbuckers, which the other pieces sitting next to me do not. (Though the silverburst Tele bridge sounds more like a 'bucker than anything else, 'cept it hums. Granted that is an odd pickup, whatever teh eff it is.) Second, it is hollow. Third, it looks awesome, but so do the others. Fourth, it does not say "Fender" on the headstock. Fifth, it makes me sound like Malcolm Young.

In all seriousness, it's a nice playing and well-built guitar with a bigass toan, thick, dark and deep, very full sounding- I've recieved comments and compliments, and it is a better sounding and playing example of the model- that is a departure from my usual bright Fender thing. It's not a Les Paul; it's more middy and... Open; airy, without the low end of a giant solid slab. A certain Mr. newholland tells me swap out the electronics and a good one is indistinguishable from a 335- and I believe him, too. It sounds quite good unplugged, which is always a good sign. There's a thing to the low mids that I like. It does not have the tonal deadness of supposedly nicer inexpensive pieces with thick poly finishes.

A solo clip with Dearest Stephanie would probably be a better example. But I had to get the song idea down.

Re: the bass- not bad for an un-EQed DI, I think. Fuckin 'commit going in if you can. I have a decent, if not high end, signal chain in my living room. Sansamp --> DBX comp --> Focusrite, and I am not about to waste it.

Bass indeed mean as shit. Dig this tune.