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Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: bendedavis on October 04, 2007, 01:58:30 AM

Title: metal pickups for tele
Post by: bendedavis on October 04, 2007, 01:58:30 AM

Does BKP makes any direct replacement tele bridge pickups that are hum cancelling and geared towards a heavier sound?

Title: metal pickups for tele
Post by: badgermark on October 04, 2007, 08:30:59 AM

I have a Piledriver set in my Telecaster, they being the hottest tele pickup Tim makes. Not quite metal though.

Best way to describe the sound is that it still sounds like a tele, but a bit beefed up and with less treble.

And I don't think any BKP single coils are made to be hum-cancelling. Ask Tim for more specific advice though.

Title: metal pickups for tele
Post by: ailean on October 04, 2007, 09:20:43 AM

I guess you could have one pickup reverse wound, that will give you hum cancelling when they are played together. But as far as I'm aware you can't hum cancel when playing a single, single coil.

My wife put Piledrivers in her Tele and they sound pretty good and I guess they'd make a good complement to a metal sound, but I think you need humbuckers for true metal. Just my opinion though. And of course your choice of amp has a big impact.

Title: metal pickups for tele
Post by: badgermark on October 04, 2007, 10:41:05 AM

Could also do the 4 position switch trick. Wire the middle position to be series not parallel, gives a nice meaty humbucker sound.

Failing that, I know a lot of tele playing metallers using a stacked single coil in the bridge, something BKP don't offer.

Title: metal pickups for tele
Post by: TwilightOdyssey on October 04, 2007, 02:11:36 PM

Best thing to do is put a humbucker in your tele if you want it to do metal, like so:

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v723/TwilightOdyssey/Criss.jpg)

Title: metal pickups for tele
Post by: Crazy_Joe on October 04, 2007, 02:55:19 PM

I was once thinking of this, so i asked if Tim could make me a tele pickup like a single coil sized humbucker thing (like hot rails, without the rails lol), he said he could probs wind a really hot tele pickup which would give a good metal sound, so my advice is speak to Tim!

Title: metal pickups for tele
Post by: badgermark on October 04, 2007, 03:08:14 PM

Speak nicely to Tim, I bet a Sinner-spec tele pickup would literally melt faces. Raiders of the Lost Ark style.

Out of curiosity, how much does Tim charge for these custom winds? Is it much more than stock pups?

Title: metal pickups for tele
Post by: TwilightOdyssey on October 04, 2007, 03:36:03 PM

Quote from: badgermark

Speak nicely to Tim, I bet a Sinner-spec tele pickup would literally melt faces. Raiders of the Lost Ark style.

I would think that in a tele body, a sinner-esque tele pickup would be a bad choice, very boom & sizzle, as it were.

Title: metal pickups for tele
Post by: badgermark on October 04, 2007, 03:53:37 PM

Both have roughly the same DC values (15k for the sinner and ~14k for the PD), that's all I got really, I don't know much else about the intricacies of pickup manufacture.

Seriously the piledriver is as close as you will get, and it still wont be as effective as a good humbucker.