ash telecaster and bridge humbucker to tail it down

[gogothegogo]

Hi

I'm new to this forum...it is wery good place for information about guitar tone, I love it.

I have custom telecaster (not fender) with ash body and rosewood fingerboard.

i have fender vintage tremolo and humbucker in bridge and single coil in neck, so It is really a batard of telecaster and fat strat.


right now i have dimarzios (FRED and VV) and my tone is too shrill, to bright and too punchy.

my amp is 74' bassman 100.


so I'am going to buy duncans, and I will definitely go for alnico 2 pro for neck, but I don't know about the bridge.


I'm thinking of seth lover, alnico2 pro h, and phat cat...maybe even perly gates.


what do you think?
I have nightmares from shrill trebly sound my FRED gives me on my tick ash body wich is extremely ressonant(VV is actualy quite good and will keep it so I can change alnico 2 pro and VV If I feel to it)


btw.
sound I'm looking for is nice warm bluesy tone wich I will use together with my drive pedals to get hopefully great alter/rock tone I have in my head.

 

[Butch Snyder]

Re: ash telecaster and bridge humbucker to tail it down

Hi and welcome to the forum!!

You're right about the Fred being a little shrill. I have one in a basswood bofy guitar and it really twangs. I can see how an ash body would give it more thinness. Personally, all your choices are good. My personal choice for you would be either an Alnico 2 Pro or Pearly Gates.

 

[dani]

Re: ash telecaster and bridge humbucker to tail it down

may i ask what value pots are you using? you can use lower value pots with higher value caps to tone the treble down a bit. if that doesn't work, its time for a duncan.

 

[gogothegogo]

Re: ash telecaster and bridge humbucker to tail it down

well...I'm going to use no tone pots, only 2 volume pots, and was thinking of standard (500kohm and 250kohm).

I'm definitely replacing FRED...I'm not happy niether with treblyness nither harmonic responce.
when I bought it i was in different kind of music, and It was ok then.



Do you think not using tone pots will give me difficulties with Duncans?

 

[hamerfan]

Re: ash telecaster and bridge humbucker to tail it down

No problem without tone pots, but with 250k volume and a tonepot you can bring a trebley pup really down.
My choice would be a Duncan Custom Custom or a DiMarzio VV Hot PAF - i have both of them. They are both warm, but thicker and have more beef than a seth or a Alnico pro 2.

 

[gogothegogo]

Re: ash telecaster and bridge humbucker to tail it down

thanx for suggestion, but I would like vintage output, and I don't know how CC would go together with alnico pro single coil in neck.
there probably would be too much volume difference.


I think I decided to go with alnico 2 pro humbucker with nickel cover.



so what do you think.
with alnico2 pro humbucker in bridge and alnico 2 pro single coil in the neck how will balance of output volume be? if I'm using standard pot values for single coil and humbucker? (250, 500khom)