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AndyR

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Re: Tele pickups experts...Highway One needs a new bridge pup!
« Reply #15 on: March 21, 2009, 01:05:02 PM »
From my experience, I think a tele-bleed cap is a very personal choice depending on what you want from the guitar and what you're trying to achieve...

Personally I'm with PhilKing over them - I don't want them anywhere near my guitars :lol:

But Tellboy is right - if there's one there (and it seems most teles have them nowadays - certainly the Mexican and Japanese Fenders I've bought) then it's very easy to disconnect it for a bit to see whether you like it there or not...
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Re: Tele pickups experts...Highway One needs a new bridge pup!
« Reply #16 on: March 21, 2009, 02:21:39 PM »
Quote from: AndyR on March 21, 2009, 01:05:02 PM
But Tellboy is right - if there's one there (and it seems most teles have them nowadays - certainly the Mexican and Japanese Fenders I've bought) then it's very easy to disconnect it for a bit to see whether you like it there or not...

Although the "modern" US ones don't, interestingly enough.   I think the American Vintage reissues do, but I'm not sure.
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Re: Tele pickups experts...Highway One needs a new bridge pup!
« Reply #17 on: March 28, 2009, 02:28:16 PM »
Got the Piledriver today and installed it :) Main issue was that it was out of phase with the neck pickup (Fender), so I just swapped out the ground/hot wire on the neck pickup.

Only issue is, the 4 way I got (oak grimssomething, US one apparently) isn't quite working on the series position, I need to wiggle it a bit. I'll try and improve that.

Anyway the pickup sounds great! Indeed very thick, very loud. I dig.
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Re: Tele pickups experts...Highway One needs a new bridge pup!
« Reply #18 on: March 28, 2009, 02:39:14 PM »
Quote from: Pierre on March 28, 2009, 02:28:16 PM
Got the Piledriver today and installed it :) Main issue was that it was out of phase with the neck pickup (Fender), so I just swapped out the ground/hot wire on the neck pickup.

Has the neck pickup got a separate ground wire for the chrome cover?  If not, the cover's now "hot" and it'll probably buzz if you touch it.
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Re: Tele pickups experts...Highway One needs a new bridge pup!
« Reply #19 on: March 28, 2009, 02:47:46 PM »
It does, but I'd already separated it when I installed the 4 way switch. There is no issue with ground/hot. It's just that PD is way hot and my neck pickup is a bit underpowered compared to it, which is normaly.


I have my strings pretty high too, so whenever I fret notes, they get to normal height. So I need to set my pickups for normal height (fretted), or else my fretted notes hit them. So my open strings are way, way further from the pickup, which kinda sucks :(
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Re: Tele pickups experts...Highway One needs a new bridge pup!
« Reply #20 on: March 28, 2009, 02:53:26 PM »
Quote from: Pierre on March 28, 2009, 02:47:46 PM
It does, but I'd already separated it when I installed the 4 way switch.

Cool, I thought you probably had it sorted since you have the 4-way.  But thought I'd mention it, just in case.  :)
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Re: Tele pickups experts...Highway One needs a new bridge pup!
« Reply #21 on: March 29, 2009, 01:14:52 PM »
That's most alright :) It actually took me ages to do so. I had done everything right but I still didn't get the series wiring so I kept on trying to see whether I'd shorted my cover or something... (well, shorted something else to the cover) and it was in fact the switch that's a little faulty  :lol: I hadn't seen that coming...

Anyway the PD is NICE! It doesn't feel so high output... just much beefier. I get a much fuller sound and I can pile up the gain for some decent metal sounds. Nothing to do with the output (I only play low output pickups now, except maybe the Crawler) but it's that fullness in the mids and bass...nice!
The series wiring now is also absolutely CRUSHING. Some very, very nice tones out of it.

I only got to try it for about 5 minutes though... so there will be more...
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