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Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: TJguitar on July 17, 2010, 03:14:16 AM

Title: Boss vs Blackguard vs brown sugar
Post by: TJguitar on July 17, 2010, 03:14:16 AM

So i think my nashville deluxe tele needs a new set of pups. I'm already 100% on getting a yardbird for the neck (because for the tones i want there it sounds perfect) but can't decide on a bridge pickup. I've ruled out the piledriver as too compressed and metal sounding, and the country boy and yardbird as too weak for some of the heavier stuff i do. So which pickup out of the ones listed in the title do you think could take me from good tele twang and jangle to hard rock (nothing heavier than queens of the stone age) most convincingly?

thanks guys =)

Title: Re: Boss vs Blackguard vs brown sugar
Post by: gwEm on July 17, 2010, 09:19:55 AM

as much as i like the boss, its more of an 80s hard rock sort of tone. so lets discount that too, leaving the brown sugar and blackguard...

both pickups are excellent, and will do what you want. the brown sugar has a bit more push in the mids, and the blackguard is a bit drier - more traditional tele.

you probably want the blackguard i reckon.