You may not thank me for this, as their YouTube channel is a rabbit hole of epic proportions, but here’s Mick and Dan from “That Pedal Show” on delays - https://youtu.be/rI1rFe6osYA?si=hy0gGrw0bE9HNNBq
For what it’s worth, I have a really old Digitech RP50 which has some version of most of the common effects.
Most of the presets are not very useful, but with a look at the manual one can create a patch which incorporates just the effects you want with a minute or two of tweaking.
Not professional quality, but good enough for practicing or jamming.
And when recording, one can use it to provide an approximate inspiring sound in the phones while recording a clean version for later re-amping.
There are probably more recent pedals that might serve the same purpose?
It’s hard to imagine covering Radiohead or Bill Frisell without delay pedals.
New member of my collection. I went for the $299 plek setup. The less expensive Fenders often need fret leveling to play well.
I’d have to drive out of state to find a store with plek machine. Hoping Sweetwater has someone experienced doing setups.
Fixed bridge. Coil tapping option, Seymour Duncan humbuckers
I also ordered the Walrus Reverb. The basic $100 pedal. They sell more expensive models.
These custom Teles must be popular. Sweetwater has 5 in inventory. I got the lightest 5lb 11 oz in Amber.
https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/TeleHHFMIAMB--fender-special-edition-custom-telecaster-fmt-hh-amber-with-indian-laurel-fingerboard
Sweetwater does do good setups, but they take themselves a bit too seriously for my tastes. They wanted to charge me for strings for a setup, which is ridiculous - I’m paying good money for a setup, so of course you have to have new strings for the tech to do a good job. Upcharging me for a set of strings is nuts. I had to electronically insist to my sales guy to knock that off. Crazypants.
I’ve heard mixed ratings on that Tele, but I admit I’ve never held one. Complaints were the Duncans weren’t all that great* and the guitar was a bit “dead”, no “pop” compared to a regular Mexi Tele, like it was mostly about the finish/looks. I’d be very! interested in your experience with it. Sweetwater in my experience has a very very good return policy if you and your new girl just aren’t making magic.
*Duncan in past years has had a terrible track record with OEM pickups. Anything labeled “Designed by Duncan” in, say, an Epiphone was guaranteed to suck. Maybe that’s gotten better, no idea. Let us know how the tone is please.
Dropping a half step, whole step, two steps, this is independent of the reference pitch standard.
The roots actually go back a long ways, centuries even, to “concert pitch”, an agreed upon convention for various national symphony orchestras on the Continent, versus the Royal Philharmonic, and probably the Russians too.
Over a period of several decades, the reference pitch standard at 68°F. amongst various orchestras kept creeping higher and higher, from somewhere around 415hz maybe all the way to around 450hz. The tendency or perception was that a higher pitch sounded “brighter” by comparison, and thus more pleasing to the ear. String players though, started to complain that the higher tension, which is considerable, that results on the neck would damage their instruments.
Sometime around World War II some sort of international group of professional layabouts who gets to determine such things, apparently decided upon, and everyone eventually agreed to a compromise of 440hz; which as everyone could naturally expect, has been described (by some) as a “Nazi plot”. It just makes sense if you think about it.
Missed the edit:
I had an Epi Dot with “Duncan Designed” pups in it that was dull and uninteresting until I put a straight-from-Duncan PAF in the bridge, then it became the brightest killer “Classic Rock” tone guitar I’ve ever handled. Think Cream or 2112 or Zep “Dancing Days” tone. I’d still have it if the neck wasn’t so chunky it just hurt to play for very long.
OTOH, changing pups in your new Tele isn’t a big deal, so maybe it’ll be great. But it kills the return policy. 
I researched the Fender custom FMT. This review helped my decision. Daves World of Fun Stuff does guitar setups and repair. He did a setup on a FMT last year. The frets weren’t level and he filed them and did a setup. That’s why I paid for a Plek setup.
Dave’s
The weight difference is why I didn’t buy a Les Paul. I don’t want 8lbs hanging off my neck. Too old for that. The FMT is roughly 6lbs. Sweetwater weighs all their electric guitars.
It will be a couple weeks before it comes in. The plek work has to wait its turn on the machine.
Yeah, I’ve owned an LP and it was awesome to play but just too much of a piece of lumber. Terrible ergonomics. I don’t really play out so it didn’t trouble my back much, but even sitting at home it’d slip off my lap so easily that I’d have to play it with a strap even sitting down. And the angle of the headstock meant major nut issues. “Twang” noise and congrats: you’re out of tune. I lubed and filed the hell out of that nut and it was never quite great. Amazing instrument but just such a pain in the ass. Fender has it right with the super flat design: no neck angle, no headstock angle. That fixes up all the issues. Guitars are not violins, hello Gibson.
And yeah - Sweetwater is so great about listing every guitar weight, and photographing most guitars. So awesome.
Let us know how it goes!!
But… the candy!
I don’t know. Smarties and Tootsie Rolls aren’t really my thing. Maybe if they threw in Twizzlers and Dots I might get another guitar. 
Whatever “everyone” agreed back then, if this guy is not full of shit
https://web.archive.org/web/20200220132515/http://members.aon.at/fnistl/index.html
then not even a majority of orchestras tune that low, especially in Europe (though, according to Wikipedia, the Berliner Philharmoniker is down to 443 from their previous 445 
If the instrument is not built for it, those really high pitches will be a PITA, though it may be less of an issue for guitars compared to e.g. brass.
Okay, taking a second look at your link, the pups are an SH-1 and a Pearly, a great combo. Although the part number of the Pearly doesn’t match Duncan’s part number and it’s labeled a “Pearly+” which makes me awful suspicious. But on Fender’s site it looks authentic, so maybe just a mistake on Sweetwater’s site. Rock on.
If I ask real nice does someone want to buy me these Fishman for Christmas? 
I won’t even consider changing pickups for awhile. I like to play a new guitar for a year or so without mods.
But these are pretty nice. 
I’ve never cottoned to active electronics. I refuse to unplug my guitar when I set it on the stand. Maybe lately the electronics can sleep and it’s all rechargeable. Like a phone or any other modern device. Not that I’ve heard about. “Range anxiety” in a guitar is just unforgivable.
An Active guitar should “sleep” when not in use and not kill it’s battery. An Active guitar should have some feature like modern phones have where they can charge sitting on a stand. Otherwise they’re an abomination.
I mean, there’s a reason to play a Telecaster: keep it simple, stupid. Hardtail, plank. Simple. Maybe makers can make Active that simple. Not holding my breath.
/rant
Heh. Maybe not the first laugh of the day, but that deserves a good chuckle!
I’ve been mulling over one of the Epi LP (either the Special or the Junior…whichever has the tone and volume for each pickup, so four pots on the top)…but I think I’m better off gradually working my way up to a nicer (Squier) Tele.
I didn’t find my Squier Tele…uh…whatever the cheapest model is that used to be called the “Bullet” (can’t remember what the newest iteration is called…“Sonic”? maybe?)…needed fret leveling (from Sweetwater)…but I did have to file the fret ends down a bit. Intonation was fine out of the box. I don’t think the truss rod needs adjusting. Looks level to me, plus it came with a set of 9s…took a bit of getting used to after my usual Thomastik-Infeld 14 flatwounds, but it reminds me high school rock and roll days.
I don’t know if the nut would take much thicker strings, but I admit it is kind of fun to bend a bit, you know, doing more blues or Keef stuff just for nostalgia. Can’t do too much of that with a 0.021 wound G string!
Walrus delay looks good. I guess I’ve only seen their more expensive models.
Yeah, I’m not so about the multi effect units…I’m just a wannabe jazz player, working on mastering the fretboard, in every way possible, and voicing chords on the fly while being able to add an upper extension when and where I choose, knowing exactly which note and where I can add it.
For which, between the cheap Ibanez archtop and the Tele, that about covers my needs.
The LP body is a tad uncomfortably small for me. I only play sitting down, and I know Pat Martino started on a Les Paul and played one well into his professional career, but he was a pretty slight fellow, in terms of build.
I can do better with a second Tele, maybe without that aggressively thick poly finish, perhaps some more interesting pickups, or just a nylon-string acoustic for…stuff…or just a Squier P-bass for fooling around with.
At least a guitar or bass has only a few strings to tune, and if you’re concerned about string tension there is a wide range of gauges available.
But I don’t envy a concert hall piano tuner who has to repeatedly prepare for visiting orchestras who tune to different standards. Or do professional orchestras ship their own pianos? I wouldn’t think something like a concert-grade piano would travel very well?
I guess it would make for job security if they’re any good!
On the subject of getting a new guitar & with the holiday season coming up (hint to wife!), does anyone have any experience with the Yamaha Variax range?
Mind you, I’m not sure they are still making them… I’m pretty sure the older Line 6 Tyler versions have been discontinued?
It seems rather a shame if the Variax idea has died: I did hear some good reviews, though I’m not sure how unbiased they really were. And one does have to worry about support with a product that’s no longer current, particularly something rather specialized like this…?