Getting my guitar to be something it isn't: Revisited
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Getting my guitar to be something it isn't: Revisited
Since before the ... No, ok.
Since I've had it, I've been trying to get my tele to be everything it isn't. As it is, the only original bits are the switch, a tone pot, body wood + paint, neck, tuners, and ashtray bridge plate. Everything else has been diddled with.
I've gone for big fuckoff frets, an onboard boost, to and fro'd with mini HB's and stacked pickups, back to true single coil tele jobbies.
This time around, what I'm trying to do is find a tele shape, look, and style neck pickup that sounds like a strat neck pickup.
Why? It's about the only sound I don't have. The Dave murray homebuilt gets close, but a parallel humbucker is still a bit fat, I find. Great for lots of things, except the thin, glassy, bell like, buzzword-y strat neck pickup sound I'm trying to get.
TL;DR: Want a neck pickup that looks, fits, and smells like a tele pickup but sounds like a strat neck pickup.
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Since I've had it, I've been trying to get my tele to be everything it isn't. As it is, the only original bits are the switch, a tone pot, body wood + paint, neck, tuners, and ashtray bridge plate. Everything else has been diddled with.
I've gone for big fuckoff frets, an onboard boost, to and fro'd with mini HB's and stacked pickups, back to true single coil tele jobbies.
This time around, what I'm trying to do is find a tele shape, look, and style neck pickup that sounds like a strat neck pickup.
Why? It's about the only sound I don't have. The Dave murray homebuilt gets close, but a parallel humbucker is still a bit fat, I find. Great for lots of things, except the thin, glassy, bell like, buzzword-y strat neck pickup sound I'm trying to get.
TL;DR: Want a neck pickup that looks, fits, and smells like a tele pickup but sounds like a strat neck pickup.
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werdna wrote:Well at least I can still make toast in the bath without anyone telling me it's unsafe.
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Re: Getting my guitar to be something it isn't: Revisited
aquila rossa is that you and your les paul/SG .....
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Re: Getting my guitar to be something it isn't: Revisited
oh buy a musicman and put a 59 in the neck
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Re: Getting my guitar to be something it isn't: Revisited
Fender Twisted Tele neck pickup.
Or this Lollar.
http://www.lollarguitars.com/mm5/mercha ... er-pickups
These are the ones I know of.
Or this Lollar.
http://www.lollarguitars.com/mm5/mercha ... er-pickups
These are the ones I know of.
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Re: Getting my guitar to be something it isn't: Revisited
Yep, twisted tele.
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Re: Getting my guitar to be something it isn't: Revisited
No and no. Did not like the duncan '59. Prefer DiMarzio HBs, but I figure I'm going to be getting some random brand or an ash handwound for this particular situation.
You reckon?PB wrote:Yep, twisted tele.
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Re: Getting my guitar to be something it isn't: Revisited
Actually the lollar looks cool with the ground wire. Often wondered about 4way switching.
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Re: Getting my guitar to be something it isn't: Revisited
just get a real strat
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Re: Getting my guitar to be something it isn't: Revisited
Ok then, I'll send you the bill.
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I do. They sound very strat-esque.Single coil wrote:No and no. Did not like the duncan '59. Prefer DiMarzio HBs, but I figure I'm going to be getting some random brand or an ash handwound for this particular situation.
You reckon?PB wrote:Yep, twisted tele.
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no worries...Single coil wrote:Ok then, I'll send you the bill.
can't promise I will pay the bill but hey i'm sure tracking down mr a non a mouse won't be to hard for them
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Re: Getting my guitar to be something it isn't: Revisited
Twisted tele it is.
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Thread closed, everyone out!
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Re: Getting my guitar to be something it isn't: Revisited
Right on, then ya won't be getting tainted wif everyone calling ya a poofta for playin a tele.willow13 wrote:just get a real strat
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Re: Getting my guitar to be something it isn't: Revisited
This. My tele came with the broadcaster bridge/twisted tele neck combo and it sounds very stratty.Polar Bear wrote:I do. They sound very strat-esque.Single coil wrote:No and no. Did not like the duncan '59. Prefer DiMarzio HBs, but I figure I'm going to be getting some random brand or an ash handwound for this particular situation.
You reckon?PB wrote:Yep, twisted tele.
Another option is the Dimarzio Area T neck.
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