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Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: sethh on January 24, 2009, 01:09:43 AM

Title: HELP! what BKP pickups for a Fender American Telecaster (Natural Maple)?
Post by: sethh on January 24, 2009, 01:09:43 AM

please help :)

i've been wanting a telecaster for many many years now (love those necks with a satin finish on the standards!) and decided this is the time...

requests:
1) a single coil bridge pickup that's capable of humbucker-like modern rock sounds while having great clarity / articulation and punch, and hopefully not mega-noisy! (a'la the Foo Fighters / Underoath / Saosin guitar tone)
2) a neck with fat singing bell-like cleans! (a'la if the BKP Cold Sweat neck model + Seymour Duncan SH2N Jazz had a baby; Incubus / Dredge / Mute Math guitar tone)

guitar specifications:
(http://www.fender.com/products//search.php?partno=0110502721 (http://www.fender.com/products//search.php?partno=0110502721))
* American Standard Telecaster®
* Ash Body; Natural Urethane Finish
* Maple Neck (Modern “C” Shape)
* Gloss Headstock Face with Satin Urethane Finish on Back of Neck
* Maple Fingerboard (p/n 011-0502), 9.5” Radius (241 mm)
* 22 Medium Jumbo Frets
* Pickups    2 American Tele® Single-Coil Pickups (Neck & Bridge)
* Controls    Master Volume, Master Delta Tone™
* “Delta Tone” system includes high output bridge pickup and special No-Load tone control)
* American Tele Bridge with New American Standard Bent Steel Saddles and Stamped Brass Plate
* Fender® Deluxe Staggered Cast/Sealed Tuning Machines
* Scale Length    25.5” (648 mm)
* Width at Nut    1.685” (42.8 mm)
* All New Five-Screw Mounted Brass Bridge Plate for Sonic Stability, Loaded with Improved Bent Steel Saddles with Elongated String Slots, for Increased Resonance and Sustain, Thinner Undercoat Finish for Improved Body Resonance
* Tinted Maple Fingerboard Neck: Satin Finish on Back, Gloss Finish on Front
* 4-Bolt Neck Attachment with Micro-Tilt™ Adjustment, Bi-Flex Truss Rod System, Rolled Fretboard Edges, Staggered Tuning Keys, H/S/H Pickup Routing
* Rolled Fingerboard Edges
* Sharper ‘52 Style Body Radius

picture:
http://www.fender.com/products/prod_images/guitars/0110502721_xl.jpg (http://www.fender.com/products/prod_images/guitars/0110502721_xl.jpg)

thanks!

Title: Re: HELP! what BKP pickups for a Fender American Telecaster (Natural Maple)?
Post by: Philly Q on January 24, 2009, 10:15:45 AM

Do you already own the Tele?  If not, I'd buy it then live with the standard pickups for a while to decide what you do and don't like about them.

I don't know about pickup recommendations, but the neck humbucker will need to be pretty low-output so as not to drown out the bridge single-coil.