Antimud tele neck wiring mod

[robo]

I have always thought the pickup config on telecasters is a bit wierd. To get a good sound on the neck pickup you need the tone pot full open. To get a good bridge sound, you need the tone pot really backed off. This causes conflict when y0ou switch pickups in the middle of songs, as I tend to do. If you play the neck with a good sound, the bridge will pierce your ears with ice-picky highs when you flick the switch, and the other way around. So changing pickups becomes a hassle.

I thought about this and came up with this, tried it out and use it on my teles ever since. It's a simple bypass mod that puts the tone pot out of the neck pickup circut. So I have a neck with full on tone, even clerarer than the traditional mod because there's a little treble leakage even with a tone pot full up. With this mod the tonepot is not present in the neck position. And in the bridge positition I get a dedicated tone pot for the bridge only.

A lot of explanation, but it's a really easy mod. You just cut the wire that goes from the tone pot to the volume pot. And solder it back so it goes from the tone pot to the lug for bridge lead input on the toggle switch. That's it!

 

[robo]

Re: Antimud tele neck wiring mod

If you wanna hear what it sounds like, I suggest a listen to this little comparsion vid I made few weeks ago. Different pickups but both wired with the antimud wiring.

 

[eclecticsynergy]

Re: Antimud tele neck wiring mod

Great simple mod, especially appropriate to traditional Tele neck pickups that tend to be a bit subdued in the highs. Good thinking, but to be fair you're not the first to think of it - Tele players have been doing that for years. It's too sensible never to have been discovered before.

Worth spreading the word a little wider though.

There also are options using a cap (or a cap/resistor, courtesy of our own member Artietoo) that can help taper off the extreme low end of pickups which are a little too boomy for their users. Threads - and diagrams - can be found by searching for Artietoo de-mud mod.

 

[robo]

Re: Antimud tele neck wiring mod

Great simple mod, especially appropriate to traditional Tele neck pickups that tend to be a bit subdued in the highs. Good thinking, but to be fair you're not the first to think of it - Tele players have been doing that for years. It's too sensible never to have been discovered before.

Worth spreading the word a little wider though.

There also are options using a cap (or a cap/resistor, courtesy of our own member Artietoo) that can help taper off the extreme low end of pickups which are a little too boomy for their users. Threads - and diagrams - can be found by searching for Artietoo de-mud mod.

Yes of course, tele guitars has been around since early fifties and people have been tinkering with them ever since. So nothing is never "new". I have not seen this mod before, and really like it. So I just made a schematic of it if anybody else would like a little help. But as I wrote, the antimud is a really easy mod. Great results though!