metal pickups for tele

[bendedavis]

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

[badgermark]

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.

[ailean]

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.

[badgermark]

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.

[TwilightOdyssey]

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

[Crazy_Joe]

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!

[badgermark]

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?

[TwilightOdyssey]

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.

[badgermark]

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.