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i love my tele, but i probably/definitely need to change the pickups to get a lot more oomph... whats good?

bedtime_ wrote:i love my tele, but i probably/definitely need to change the pickups to get a lot more oomph... whats good?

SD Hot Rails /thread

Had one in an esquire tele I built a while ago, sounded thicker and crunchier than my Gibson SG standard with Duncan Distortions. And you can get em used for $30-35 on eBay with ease.

If you indeed love your tele as is, you can change nothing and get a decent boost for more output.

If you love your tele, but are open to a minor change, go with a four-way-switch set up. The 4th position adds a humbucking combo of the two pickups - series? parallel? I forget - but it's significantly more output. If you're like me and pretty much live on the neck position anyway, this is like having an onboard, noisecancelling boost. Tonality will depend on your pickups, pots and caps choices, etc - but on mine, vs the standard neck position, it's both sharper AND gruntier, mean as all hell. Voiced exactly like a trad HB? No, of course not. But it more than gets the job done, I dig it, and it still gives me all the other tele sounds I've looking for.

doommeow wrote:If you indeed love your tele as is, you can change nothing and get a decent boost for more output.

10/10.

Ancient Astronaught wrote:

bedtime_ wrote:i love my tele, but i probably/definitely need to change the pickups to get a lot more oomph... whats good?

SD Hot Rails /thread

Had one in an esquire tele I built a while ago, sounded thicker and crunchier than my Gibson SG standard with Duncan Distortions. And you can get em used for $30-35 on eBay with ease.

I want to build an Esquire body for my Jazzmaster neck and was thinking of a Duncan Distortion in the bridge. Now this has me rethinking things.

conky wrote:

Ancient Astronaught wrote:

bedtime_ wrote:i love my tele, but i probably/definitely need to change the pickups to get a lot more oomph... whats good?

SD Hot Rails /thread

Had one in an esquire tele I built a while ago, sounded thicker and crunchier than my Gibson SG standard with Duncan Distortions. And you can get em used for $30-35 on eBay with ease.

I want to build an Esquire body for my Jazzmaster neck and was thinking of a Duncan Distortion in the bridge. Now this has me rethinking things.

A black Esquire with that neck and a hotrail would be all kinds of amazing.

http://bg-pups.com/teles/t90-bridge/

Try out one of these. I'm probably going to add one to my Strat eventually (S90 version obviously).

bareknuckle flat 50's bareknuckle flat 50's bareknuckle flat 50's

conky wrote:I want to build an Esquire body for my Jazzmaster neck and was thinking of a Duncan Distortion in the bridge. Now this has me rethinking things.

Dooooooooo iiiiiiittttt......

The DD and hot rails are very very close in terms of timbre; the DD has some more mid range crunch to it but has a little less low mids, the hot rails has more low mids and more of a higher end crunch to it. There's enough sonic difference to weigh the options, but not enough to make it an easy choice. For me I prefer the usual tele ashtray style bridge so the hot rails makes more sense.

I have a tele, but most of my single coil love is for my Burns Bison. Those trisonic pickups are wired sex.

Paging Christian... Christian to the "Tele/single coils" thread...

humbuggies do not belong in teles

unless we're talking a tele custom or tele deluxe, please dont make baby jesus cry

I'd leave it stock and use fuzzzzzzzz. If you're having hum issues with a high gain setup, a noiseless fake humbucker like a DiMarzio area is acceptable. For some reason, these sound a little tighter in the mids when distorted compared to a "real" tele pickups, but still sound like a Tele pickup for all but the most sensitive clean applications.

I used a stock Japanese tele pickup for a long time with a Russian Muff or a Rat. When I replaced the bridge pickup with a SD Little 59 humbucker, I lost interest. One of my two current guitars is a Strat with a DiMarzio Area 61 in the bridge pickup, and the bridge pickup attached to a tone control like on a Tele. Works great.

A dark boost is an amazing thing. I have an LPB-based boost with switchable input & output caps. When you get the setting right, you do not feel the need for humbuckers.

maggot wrote:I'd leave it stock and use fuzzzzzzzz.

This. I currently have only a stock standard strat and my tele, which is stock save for the wilkinson three barrel bridge. I strung it with 52-11, tuned to A#, and use a Black Forrest and Pharaoh Supreme. Heavy. As. Fuuuck.

CyaNitrate wrote:

maggot wrote:I'd leave it stock and use fuzzzzzzzz.

This. I currently have only a stock standard strat and my tele, which is stock save for the wilkinson three barrel bridge. I strung it with 52-11, tuned to A#, and use a Black Forrest and Pharaoh Supreme. Heavy. As. Fuuuck.

A# with .11s?? No buzzing or other issues due to the jangly loose strings?