What's up everybody. I'm looking to replace the pickups in my tele, it's one of the Chris Shiflett deluxes with the two standard sized humbuckers (not the wide range sized pickups), alder body, maple neck with a rosewood fingerboard. Right now it's got the stock pickups and pots (250k all around). I know that on his personal guitar he had a JB/59 setup so I imagine Fender tried to copy those with these import pickups. The neck is way too dark. It would be nice to be able to get that flutey neck sound kind of in that Slash ballpark or something like John Sykes on the self titled Whitesnake album, but not have a ton of mud with the volume knob on 10. Yes I know my AC15 is far from that tone lol.
I have 500k pots to swap in which might help the neck, but that ties into another issue. The bridge pickup even with the 250k pots is kind of thin and bright. 500k pots would probably make it worse. It's pretty hot. So I'm guessing that they got pretty close to a JB when they constructed it. I play through an AC15 and I think it's a little too much into my amp. I'd like something that's maybe a little hotter than vintage, with smoother top end and a little thicker overall, but keep the low end relatively tight. Basically a warmer bridge and a brighter neck than now. I've got a few ideas:
Neck:
Jazz: is it going to be clear, but too bright and thin?
59: is the low end going to be too much and sound just like the import pickup?
Alnico II Pro: probably get into that Slash territory, but too flubby?
Bridge:
59/custom hybrid: I've wanted to try one of these for a while and it would probably have cool harmonics, but would it be thick enough?
Custom Custom: Could be cool and thick, but maybe too loose in the low end or even too smooth in the top end
59: This is what I had planned on getting, but then I was thinking I might want a little bit more output
I'm not opposed to magnet swaps either I suppose.
I have 500k pots to swap in which might help the neck, but that ties into another issue. The bridge pickup even with the 250k pots is kind of thin and bright. 500k pots would probably make it worse. It's pretty hot. So I'm guessing that they got pretty close to a JB when they constructed it. I play through an AC15 and I think it's a little too much into my amp. I'd like something that's maybe a little hotter than vintage, with smoother top end and a little thicker overall, but keep the low end relatively tight. Basically a warmer bridge and a brighter neck than now. I've got a few ideas:
Neck:
Jazz: is it going to be clear, but too bright and thin?
59: is the low end going to be too much and sound just like the import pickup?
Alnico II Pro: probably get into that Slash territory, but too flubby?
Bridge:
59/custom hybrid: I've wanted to try one of these for a while and it would probably have cool harmonics, but would it be thick enough?
Custom Custom: Could be cool and thick, but maybe too loose in the low end or even too smooth in the top end
59: This is what I had planned on getting, but then I was thinking I might want a little bit more output
I'm not opposed to magnet swaps either I suppose.
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