Bridge Humbucker for Tele Bridge Position Tone

[Butch Snyder]

I'm looking into possibilities of replacing the bridge position humbucker on one of my guitars. What fullsize humbucker sounds closest to a Tele bridge pickup? I used to have an OLP EBMM Axis copy. I replaced the stock bridge pickup with a DiMarzio Fred and it did sound like a good Tele bridge position pickup, so I was thinking of starting with that one. Any other thoughts?

 

[chadd]

Something PAF-ish would be my suggestion. A lot of people describe the tone of a Burst as "tele on steroids" so going down the road of Seth's or something similar would be where I started.

 

[trevorus]

Coil splitting time. My PRS with Gibson Livebuckers split gets a spank and sparkle that reminds me of my tele quite nicely.

 

[Mincer]

Possibly a hotter humbucker wired in parallel could do it.

 

[Clint 55]

The JB sounds the most tele to me out of the Duncans. Split or partial split sounds even closer.

 

[Supernautilus]

I'm looking into possibilities of replacing the bridge position humbucker on one of my guitars. What fullsize humbucker sounds closest to a Tele bridge pickup? I used to have an OLP EBMM Axis copy. I replaced the stock bridge pickup with a DiMarzio Fred and it did sound like a good Tele bridge position pickup, so I was thinking of starting with that one. Any other thoughts?

Unless you’re specifically looking for a hum cancelling option, I’d like to suggest humbucker-sized single coils as an alternative. I have a modified Phat Cat in the bridge of a partscaster, which I love. But there are other manufacturers who make humbucker-sized single coil pickups as well. Some of them are even specifically designed to sound like a Fender single coil, like the Fralin Twangmaster.

I hope that helps.

 

[strat dude]

Humbucker from hell

 

[GuitarDoc]

Split StagMag.

 

[elelpe]

Unless you’re specifically looking for a hum cancelling option, I’d like to suggest humbucker-sized single coils as an alternative. I have a modified Phat Cat in the bridge of a partscaster, which I love. But there are other manufacturers who make humbucker-sized single coil pickups as well. Some of them are even specifically designed to sound like a Fender single coil, like the Fralin Twangmaster.

I hope that helps.

I have Phat Cat in an esquire style guitar. It's the neck version because I'm after brighter tone. That said Lollar has humbucker sized tele pickup set (Novel T).

 

[GuitarStv]

I can get decent tele-esq humbucker tones from a Seth Lover in the bridge.