Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: Brow on July 01, 2006, 05:56:59 PM
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Hey guys.
I finally got a job, so I should be able to afford a new pickup soon for my cheapie Telecaster.
It's got a Poplar body with a maple neck and fingerboard (and a bright seafoam green finish too!)
I play mainly Indie Rock stuff in my band, but want something nice and versatile to cover all the bases.
I plan on replacing the bridge pickup, but ditching the neck pickup altogether and using the 3 way selector swicth to switch between 2 outputs of a tapped output pickup.
What would you guys recommend for this guitar?
Thanx
Craig
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Hi Craig, you know what I am gonna say right? I find the CB's versatile but with the classic Tele sound ( which we all love right?) and fantastic wehn you crank em up. Personally, I wouldn't ditch the neck pup but you have obviously thought about it.With the 4 way switch I think it makes a Tele about as versatile as a guitar can get- used it tonight at a gig and it was fantastica nd we were playing very loud in a beautiful country home in the open. I know Phil King has some Tele pups and maybe he can chip in.
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Thanx for your reply.
To be honest, I've never been much of a fan of Telecaster neck pickups. Wether the 1s i've used have been rubbish or not I dunno, but to me they always seem to sound muffled and not very clear (say compared to a strat neck pickup which I love).
I remember trying the Boss', Country Boys and 1 other set at Music Live last year but for the life of me I can't remember which I like and which I didn't! :roll:
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Hi Craig, great to hear you got a job, I am sure that must be a big relief. I agree with 38th about the neck pickup, you can get some very sweet tones out of it, and the 4 way switch is the icing on the tele cake (unless you want to go the whole hog and do the Jerry Donahue 5 way!).
I have listened to most of the Tele sets now, and I have the Brown Sugar bridge with a slowhand neck in my 57. This was my favourite for a maple neck tele. If you want to drive a bit more though, get the Piledriver bridge. It is still a recognisable tele sound but with more punch.
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Hi Phil.
Thanx for your post.
Yeah, i'm just thankful to be able to start saving up for stuff again :D Most people say that being on the dole is an easy life etc, but try saving up for new gear when you get £38 a week :roll: :lol:
As far as neck pickups go, another reason I didn't want to replace the neck pickup too is down to a cost issue. The guitar cost me £90 from my mates small guitar shop, and 2 pickups for it would cost about £40 than the guitar actually cost me! :lol:
Do you think a Brow Sugar with a tapped output would be a good idea and do what I want it to do?
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I was never a fan of Tele neck pickups until I got my Boss set.
If you must go the route of tapping the bridge pickup I would go for a Piledriver. The other tele pickups vary from 6.4k for the CB up to 8.2k for the Boss - if you start tapping these you are going to have a fairly low DC figure in the tapped position and I would suspect it would sound a little weak. With the Piledriver you could have it tapped from the normal 14.3k down to 7.6k if you are looking for a Brown Sugar sound.
Personally (and I'm sure many other Tele/BKP owners will agree) I think you don't need to tap BKP Tele pickups. Just by using the volume control you can go from crunch/distortion to twangy tele clean. And as 38thBeatle has said (many times :) ) a 4 position switch really makes the Tele very versatile.
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Wow, I'm the opposite to most of you - My Highway 1 Tele (to be getting BKPs at some stage, I'm sure) is almost never out of the neck position...
And as 38thBeatle has said (many times :) ) a 4 position switch really makes the Tele very versatile.
I think "many times" is a bit of an understatement, he says it so often it may as well be in his sig :lol:
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I am watching you all- me repetitive? never, me repetitive, never....and so on. Back to topic, sorry brow forgot to congratulate you on the job.I suppose getting a H/B for the neck is out of the question for the reasons you have alluded to-or a P90?
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An idea dawns thanks to Beatle - You could get a Piledriver in the bridge and summat like a Mule, Riff Raff or Mississippi Queen...maybe even a VHII for the neck position
That's gotta be quite versatile :drink:
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You said you liked the sound of strat neck pickups, why not add one of those then?
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Hey guys.
Thanx for the new replies.
I have considered a P90 in the neck of a Tele before, but I can't see it happening with this guitar. Maybe the Gordon Smith Tele I plan on getting in the future :wink:
Alot of my decision to only have a bridge pickup comes down to the fact that with such a cheap guitar (£90) I really can't bring myself to spend £130 on pickups for it! I'd sooner use that money and put it towards Apaches for the BrowCaster or Mules for my Gibby LP :)
At the minute I'm seriously considering speaking to Tim about a Piledriver with a tap on it to take it down to round about Boss output level :)
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Congrats on getting a job Craig! :D
Mr38th's suggestion sounds very nice!
I had a go on a Boss set at the LGS and they were great.
I'm thinking of getting a Tele at some point and seem sold on the idea of a MQ in the neck.
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Congrats on getting a job Craig! :D
Mr38th's suggestion sounds very nice!
I had a go on a Boss set at the LGS and they were great.
I'm thinking of getting a Tele at some point and seem sold on the idea of a MQ in the neck.
Cheers mate :D
It's nothing exciting, just working in an office of Morgan EST that do roadworks and electrical fitting etc. I spend most of my day photocopying and colouring in building plans :lol:
I know I played a Boss set at Music Live last year, but I can't remember what I thought!? :roll:
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Congrats on getting a job Craig! :D
Mr38th's suggestion sounds very nice!
I had a go on a Boss set at the LGS and they were great.
I'm thinking of getting a Tele at some point and seem sold on the idea of a MQ in the neck.
Cheers mate :D
It's nothing exciting, just working in an office of Morgan EST that do roadworks and electrical fitting etc. I spend most of my day photocopying and colouring in building plans :lol:
I know I played a Boss set at Music Live last year, but I can't remember what I thought!? :roll:
Craig, it's a new start and like you say it will get you some new gear so can't be bad eh!
When I played the Boss set I can remember looking at Phil King and saying 'Woah! :lol:
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Craig, it's a new start and like you say it will get you some new gear so can't be bad eh!
When I played the Boss set I can remember looking at Phil King and saying 'Woah! :lol:
Yeah, it's better than being on the Dole, I've never been so bored in my whole life!
When someone has a reaction like that to a pickup, you know it's a quality item :lol:
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Craig, it's a new start and like you say it will get you some new gear so can't be bad eh!
When I played the Boss set I can remember looking at Phil King and saying 'Woah! :lol:
Yeah, it's better than being on the Dole, I've never been so bored in my whole life!
When someone has a reaction like that to a pickup, you know it's a quality item :lol:
That's the spirit Craig! You can always find something else if it's not your thing.
I reacted like that to all of them come to think of it lol!
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That's the spirit Craig! You can always find something else if it's not your thing.
I reacted like that to all of them come to think of it lol!
Yeah, I was the same when I put the ITs in the neck and middle of my Fender Strat. They kicked the ass of the Duncan Antiquities I had in there before :)
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I gave Tim a call yesterday to ask his advice on a Tele bridge pickup and he said a Piledriver bridge with 500k volume and tone pots would work great in this Tele.
So I s'ppose that's that then :lol:
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I've heard Phil saying how nice and versatile they are. All in the volume pot as it says on the description. It does get you thinking. I'm definitely up for hearing your opinions on them if you go for that pup!! Can't remember, might of been Phil again saying there like a lap steel pickup. Woah! 8)
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I've heard Phil saying how nice and versatile they are. All in the volume pot as it says on the description. It does get you thinking. I'm definitely up for hearing your opinions on them if you go for that pup!! Can't remember, might of been Phil again saying there like a lap steel pickup. Woah! 8)
Cheers mate :)
I'll be sure to post my opinion of it when I finally geta round to ordering it :)
Tim mentioned something on the phone to me about Fender using Lap Steel pickups on their 1st Teles etc and they were high output.