Advice please - Humbuckers for a Mahogany Tele with Maple neck

[sonicpete]

Im looking for advice I have a Mahogany Tele with a maple neck and rosewood board. That is inherently quite bright. I currently has Amber pickups 59 cross points that are their take on a PAF style pickup. I play rock and blues mostly, but like a warm clean tone. I have mostly played fairly low output pickups.
Im looking for a pickup that is slightly darker with less highs to balance the brightness of the maple neck with mahogany.
Any suggestions would be really helpful, Thanks

[jeremy]

Re: Advice please - Humbuckers for a Mahogany Tele with Maple neck

welcome to the forum. do you like the neck pup?

ive never heard those pups but the specs I found are 7.7k a2 neck and 8.6k a5 bridge

[sonicpete]

Re: Advice please - Humbuckers for a Mahogany Tele with Maple neck

Thanks for the reply. I do like the neck pickup. The bridge i found to be be quite bright. I have also found them both to be a little hotter than I'm used to

[GuitarDoc]

Re: Advice please - Humbuckers for a Mahogany Tele with Maple neck

A Custom Custom in the bridge would be warm and pretty clean for the higher output that it has.

For a more PAFish pup, the APH-2 should fit your bill.

[jeremy]

Re: Advice please - Humbuckers for a Mahogany Tele with Maple neck

id keep the neck pup for now and just look at the bridge pup. I would probably start with a magnet swap. how big and tight a bottom end do you want? how smooth do you want the high end? alnico 2 tends to have a soft high end, singing mids but not a lot of bottom. alnico 4 would flatten out the eq of what you have now, little less highs and lows.

[sonicpete]

Re: Advice please - Humbuckers for a Mahogany Tele with Maple neck

A smoother high end. Alnico 2 sounds like it would smooth the high end. I was looking at the Alnico pro 2 set

[SirJackdeFuzz]

Re: Advice please - Humbuckers for a Mahogany Tele with Maple neck

Im looking for advice I have a Mahogany Tele with a maple neck and rosewood board. That is inherently quite bright. I currently has Amber pickups 59 cross points that are their take on a PAF style pickup. I play rock and blues mostly, but like a warm clean tone. I have mostly played fairly low output pickups.
Im looking for a pickup that is slightly darker with less highs to balance the brightness of the maple neck with mahogany.
Any suggestions would be really helpful, Thanks

Welcome to the Duncan Forums !

Warm and clear (i.e. uncompressed) = Duncan's A2P's !!!

Love mine in my SG.

Warmed that thin slab a of guitar right up !

[sonicpete]

Re: Advice please - Humbuckers for a Mahogany Tele with Maple neck

Welcome to the Duncan Forums !

Warm and clear (i.e. uncompressed) = Duncan's A2P's !!!

Love mine in my SG.

Warmed that thin slab a of guitar right up !

Thanks for the advice. I really like Alnico 5 in strats but it's just sounds too bright in my tele. I have just ordered a a2p set

[SirJackdeFuzz]

Re: Advice please - Humbuckers for a Mahogany Tele with Maple neck

Thanks for the advice. I really like Alnico 5 in strats but it's just sounds too bright in my tele.

I have just ordered a a2p set

GOOD MAN !

[GuitarDoc]

Re: Advice please - Humbuckers for a Mahogany Tele with Maple neck

The A2Ps will probably be great. Did you get the original A2P or the Slash model?

After you get them installed and have had a chance to play them, write again and report on what you think about them.