Anyone hate tele bridge as much as me?

Re: Anyone hate tele bridge as much as me?

I love the sound of a classic Tele bridge pickup. As others have said you have to work the knobs. The Tele is a brilliant simple design - everything has a purpose, even the tone control!

Here's one of my favourite Tele masters, the wonderful late Mick Green. It's a Tele Custom, neck humbucker but this is all on the classic bridge pickup. Check out those smashed chords at 1:54. Rock 'n' Roll....

 
Re: Anyone hate tele bridge as much as me?

chris_tw21 said:
Billy gibbons has a tele with a custom shop little pearly gates pickup and I would say that like him I like tele's but don't like the tele bridge.The pickup isn't slanted so it is a fat tele.
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I saw it, but it has a lefty tele bridge, so the bass side is nearer the bridge saddles
 
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I have a mid 90s MIJ tele and I don't like tele bridge pickup, that's a fact.

I tried original fender, SD vintage, SD broadcaster, GFS fat boy none worked for me, too much twang, even with tone control dimed.

I currently have a GFS classic II that is beautiful but I'm thinking about putting my old JBJ but with uoa5, dont' know, I still have to decide.

I have to say I don't like the neck stock either, it's too muffled, I took out the cover to make it work the way I want.

I'm definitely not a tele guy, sorry.
 
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Yeah, if he'd said he hated tele neck pickups he'd have a lot more agreement.
 
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RockStarNick said:
What style of music do you like? What amp are you playing it through?

A Tele bridge pickup won't cut it for chugga chugga metal.
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TheProphet said:
Disagree. Teles are fantastic.
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I argree with TheProphet. IMHO tele bridge is awesome for metal. Lots of clarity, chug, (to piss people off: djent :D ), grind... And it's absolutely the tightest pup on the whole planet :D
 
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chris_tw21 said:
I disagree I saw him playing his les paul with pearly gates through a blackstar combo and it sounded great.His custom tele in the pic was made to sound like his les paul,here's how.The lil pearly gates pickup isn't slanted and it has a 24.6 scale neck which sounds hoopy/vintage,because it has more mids and less highs.Just like his les paul the scale and pickups are the same.Thats why they sound the same.
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Disagree all you want but Billy's guitar tech and the gear in his guitar rig say otherwise...
 
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So many of the greatest recordings were done with the players tweaking their tone control to get the right driven tones. Woman tone, Duanes' tones, Wes' tones...they all use the tone control to mold the sound and texture.

I don't know what planet one must come from to believe they're somehow LOSING proverbial tone awesomeness by rolling a tone knob down. Your amp has EQ and controls too, tweak them so you can use your tone to boost or cut highs. People gotta grow out of feeling like they're missing out when they're not dimed on everything, there are other good tones to be had using controls.

Tele is so versatile because there is a surplus of great frequencies and you can actually mold it, as opposed to a guitar that can only sound 'full' when dimed out. I'd take a bright axe with bright pickups, good pots and caps over a muddy guitar that only cuts well when dimed out.
 
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I could NEVER hate the tele bridge pup after JP did "whole lotta love" solo with it!:friday:
 
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Vince Gill, Brad Paisley, Jerry Donahue, Brent Mason, Buck Owens, Don Rich, Merle Haggard, Steve Cropper, James Burton, Muddy Waters, Albert Collins, Clarence White....um yeah, I guess Telecasters really suck.

:smash:

Bill
 
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Jimmy Page had a tele in the yard birds and early led zeppelin days also,I know about the history of guitars.I also know that you have to fatten things up and the tele bridge won't cut it for me.I saw zakk wylde on youtube and he was talking about his les paul going through side by side signature marshall heads to fatten things up and les pauls are very fat.
 
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Basically, why I love the JB. The JB gives me some tele type twang and cut in a humbucking design. The JB is the only humbucker out there that can give the tele bridge pickup type flavor in a full bodied high output design. One of the JB's tonal secrets IMHO.

I've always been a tele player at heart even though I only got my first tele a few years back.

People that hate tele bridge pups also usually hate the JB too... the "cut" can be unsettling and hard to manage.
 
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Coma said:
What if you don't like twang?
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Then don't play it all twangy-like. It is not like they are inherently "twangy." They have just been stereotyped as having a "country sound" due to the fact that many country players have used them. The twang has more to do with style and amp settings than the pickup itself. Too many people listen with their eyes and fashion sense more than they do with their ears. Teles are not just "country guitars" or "twang machines." They are very versatile pickups. It is up to the player to learn how to make use of that versatility to get what he/she wants.
 
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ItsaBass said:
Then don't play it all twangy-like. It is not like they are inherently "twangy." They have just been stereotyped as having a "country sound" due to the fact that many country players have used them. The twang has more to do with style and amp settings than the pickup itself. Too many people listen with their eyes and fashion sense more than they do with their ears. Teles are not just "country guitars" or "twang machines." They are very versatile pickups. It is up to the player to learn how to make use of that versatility to get what he/she wants.
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Thanks. If I'd seen this post earlier, that's pretty much exactly what I would have tried to say.

When I said they were the most versatile pickups, I didn't mean that they can do anything you want as long as you like twangy. In fact, I spent a while here complaining that my Tele bridge wasn't twangy enough. I remedied that simply by changing my technique slightly; now if I want twang I attack the strings more firmly and pick a lot closer to the bridge than I normally would. If I don't want twangy then I pick a little softer and closer to the neck. When I'm playing like that, it could be kinda hard to pick it out as a Tele. All that 'twang' just translates into clarity and cut.
 
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Boogie Bill said:
Vince Gill, Brad Paisley, Jerry Donahue, Brent Mason, Buck Owens, Don Rich, Merle Haggard, Steve Cropper, James Burton, Muddy Waters, Albert Collins, Clarence White....um yeah, I guess Telecasters really suck.

:smash:

Bill
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Best country guitar ever IMHO. it was like tele's were made just for that tone.:14:
 
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Kam said:
Thanks. If I'd seen this post earlier, that's pretty much exactly what I would have tried to say.

When I said they were the most versatile pickups, I didn't mean that they can do anything you want as long as you like twangy. In fact, I spent a while here complaining that my Tele bridge wasn't twangy enough. I remedied that simply by changing my technique slightly; now if I want twang I attack the strings more firmly and pick a lot closer to the bridge than I normally would. If I don't want twangy then I pick a little softer and closer to the neck. When I'm playing like that, it could be kinda hard to pick it out as a Tele. All that 'twang' just translates into clarity and cut.
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My main guitar by choice is an Esquire, so I guess I am the wrong guy to ask this question of. There isn't much it cannot do. Smooth humbucker tones are better with humbuckers, but it can do smooth OK.
 
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Re: Anyone hate tele bridge as much as me?

Not me! I play Teles with the volume and tone knobs on full a through Fender reverb combos with the "bright" switch on. It's all about twang with the Tele bridge pickup (and pick harmonics, too!). Maybe the OP just isn't a Tele player.
 
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