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Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: everyemptyvein on June 10, 2015, 01:48:17 AM

Title: Neck pickup for my ES-335 Dot
Post by: everyemptyvein on June 10, 2015, 01:48:17 AM

First off thanks for the recommendations on my Les Paul.

I also have an Epiphone ES-335 Dot Studio with a Gibson Dirty Fingers in the Bridge (not changing that). The guitar is all Maple. Does anyone have any recommendations for a neck pickup? I want a neck pickup that sounds kind of like a Tele but more full and a lot of output so I don't have to boost it for solos.

Title: Re: Neck pickup for my ES-335 Dot
Post by: PhilKing on June 14, 2015, 01:28:29 PM

I was going to say get a Mule, but getting a tele sound from it is a tough call!  You could always make it parallel wired, which would give you a thinner sound, but then have a switch to go back to series for solos.  Using a push/pull pot would save putting an extra switch on the guitar.

Title: Re: Neck pickup for my ES-335 Dot
Post by: Chris Rowberry on June 15, 2015, 08:36:51 PM

One option would be to get a Riff Raff neck. With its low output but alnico 5 magnet it will drive the top end nicely. I use the Riff Raff bridge for a tele-like tone myself.

Title: Re: Neck pickup for my ES-335 Dot
Post by: littleredguitars2 on July 03, 2015, 02:39:16 AM

you could always check out this product that allows the use of an actual tele neck pickup to mount a gibson style rout.

http://www.guitarfetish.com/Humbucker-Rout-adapter-ring-Fits-Tele-Neck-Pickup-THREE-COLORS_p_4351.html

they do a bridge version too. and that goes for both strat pickups and tele pickups.

Title: Re: Neck pickup for my ES-335 Dot
Post by: darkbluemurder on July 03, 2015, 08:31:10 AM

Even a low output humbucker will have much more output than a Tele neck pickup.

I had good results with Firebird or mini humbuckers for a bright clear tone with more output than a Tele neck.

Cheers Stephan

Title: Re: Neck pickup for my ES-335 Dot
Post by: Telerocker on July 04, 2015, 12:37:05 AM

RiffRaff-neck or a humbuckersized p90 like the Bluenote-neckpickup.