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Originally posted by Mincer View PostGet your PAF sound with the neck pickup. Use a 59 or Seth Lover.
Is a Tele neck not a thing? I can believe that...junky little silver single pickup that it is. I see a LOT of PAF necks in Tele's. Did it myself....Originally posted by Bad City
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Originally posted by Aceman View Post
An intriguing thought.
Is a Tele neck not a thing? I can believe that...junky little silver single pickup that it is. I see a LOT of PAF necks in Tele's. Did it myself....Administrator of the SDUGF
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Originally posted by Mincer View PostYeah, a split Hot Rail isn't that great. It works really well in parallel, though.
One of my main stage guitars is a "Tele specs" solid body with a Hot Rails bridge and a Cool Rails (bridge) in neck position + one volume, one tone and two series/parallel switches.
it goes from strong enough HB sounds to (noiseless) Fender alike clean tones in parallel. It's logical since the inductance in parallel mode drops precisely to Tele SC values: 3H for the bridge PU, 1.8H for the neck one (and around 12H / 6H in series). That's actually the reason why I've mounted these PU's in this guitar.
It would NOT work in split mode, where the inductance would just be halved while the humbucking capability would be disabled - and the narrow magnetic windows of a single blade would just shape the sound in an unpleasing way.
Obviously, parallel mode doesn't sound exactly like the SC's in my real American Tele. But it's really "close enough" and nobody has never complained about my tone as being bad or fake among my bandmates or the (often crowded) audience. It's quite the contrary in fact: a pro guitarist among my friends periodically asks me if I would mount the same Pu's in his American Tele Elite.
Don't know what Aceman will chose : it's his own quest with his own criteria and I wish him a good luck in it. But generally speaking, I just wanted to testify that parallel mode is interesting with properly selected rails pickups while the split mode is not IME.
YMMV.
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Originally posted by freefrog View Post
+1.
One of my main stage guitars is a "Tele specs" solid body with a Hot Rails bridge and a Cool Rails (bridge) in neck position + one volume, one tone and two series/parallel switches.
it goes from strong enough HB sounds to (noiseless) Fender alike clean tones in parallel. It's logical since the inductance in parallel mode drops precisely to Tele SC values: 3H for the bridge PU, 1.8H for the neck one (and around 12H / 6H in series). That's actually the reason why I've mounted these PU's in this guitar.
It would NOT work in split mode, where the inductance would just be halved while the humbucking capability would be disabled - and the narrow magnetic windows of a single blade would just shape the sound in an unpleasing way.
Obviously, parallel mode doesn't sound exactly like the SC's in my real American Tele. But it's really "close enough" and nobody has never complained about my tone as being bad or fake among my bandmates or the (often crowded) audience. It's quite the contrary in fact: a pro guitarist among my friends periodically asks me if I would mount the same Pu's in his American Tele Elite.
Don't know what Aceman will chose : it's his own quest with his own criteria and I wish him a good luck in it. But generally speaking, I just wanted to testify that parallel mode is interesting with properly selected rails pickups while the split mode is not IME.
YMMV.Originally posted by crusty philtrumAnyone who *sings* at me through their teeth deserves to have a bus drive through their face
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Originally posted by alex1fly View Post
Thanks for the write-up. It's always nice to hear suggestions that have been tested with audiences and other musicians. Do both pickups cop a believeable Fender-ey tone in parallel, or mostly just the bridge?Duncan user since the 80's...
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