A Tele for heavy metal?

[Sancho]

I have an American Standard Telecaster that is a great player, but traditional Tele tones don't do much for me.
Old school heavy metal (think Priest and Maiden, or Jake E Lee...) doesn't really demand much twang.

So, I'm thinking about fitting a set of humbuckers to it. The bridge pickup will be mounted in a metal bridge, so I suppose I'm looking for something not too trebly?

[Madsakre]

Its becoming a bad habit for me recently. But how about a Dimarzio Super distortion. Adrian smith uses them. I just fitted one in a 87 warlock, and im just stoked over how good it sounds.

[Loomer]

I find that the A-pig in my Tele offsets the brightness of the wood very nicely.

For that sort of metal though, you'd probably need some fairly scaled-down gain setting, lest it becomes too... Well...

War Pig-y  :lol:

[darkbluemurder]

Holydiver.

Cheers Stephan

[TheyCallMeVolume]

Yeah, I immediately thought HD too. That sure will thicken up and add low end to any guitar. In fact, I'd be kinda afraid it'll take too much of a Tele's character away and make it sound like any other guitar. Even with a heavy band like Slipknot, you can still easily tell that Jim Root is using a Tele, it adds a really cool dimension to their songs you wouldn't normally hear in that genre.

[FELINEGUITARS]

Painkillers! or rebel Yells!

[Telerocker]

I tend to say HD, but a RY would be a good choice too, if you work a bit with the toneknob.

[Sancho]

I'm not one to do much with the tone knob. Holydivers were in the back of my mind already.

The Super Distortion is a great pickup but I've got it in a couple of axes already, so I'm not too keen to put it in this one.

[Madsakre]

Hehe cool :P
How about a warpig? My friends ash tele is COMPLETE with it :)

[Slartibartfarst42]

Holydiver for me, without question.

[Sancho]

A set of zebra Holydivers would look pretty sweet in a natural ash Tele 8)

[Telerocker]

A set of zebra Holydivers would look pretty sweet in a natural ash Tele 8)

Absolutely  8)

[Mr. Air]

Holydiver sounds like a good match but maybe a set of Stockholms would work well too though they might be too modern voiced...

[DoomBuggi]

Holydiver or A5 Warpig.

[mismas1]

I just put a set of Aftermath in a blacktop strat, and holy cr@p it is metal as hell.  You might want to try a set of Aftermath.