Butch Snyder
ObsoleteChickenPickingologist
This is the next Poll for your favorite Tele bridge pickup since I could only get 10 on the 1st one....
Favorite Tele Bridge Pickup Part II
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Re: Favorite Tele Bridge Pickup Part II
Well, looks like I'm the first one in on this poll, so it's Antiquity I by a landslide (that bar is HUGE). The Antiquity I flatpole has become my favorite Tele lead pickup. I have one in an alder/RW American Series Tele with the Ant. I matching rhythm pickup, and another in an ash/maple American Series Tele with a SM-3n mini-humbucker at the neck. The clean and OD tones of the Ant. I flatpole Tele lead are just so rich, juicy and amazing that it's a runaway winner. I'm torn between the STL-2 Hot Tele lead, JD, and Nocaster in the other poll (great trio of runners-up), but the Ant. I is tops in my Teles. The only exception is if I need higher output, in which case the STL-2 and JD move up the chain. In the right Tele, the Nocaster can be neck and neck with the Ant. I, but it's more of a hit or miss affair.
Well, looks like I'm the first one in on this poll, so it's Antiquity I by a landslide (that bar is HUGE). The Antiquity I flatpole has become my favorite Tele lead pickup. I have one in an alder/RW American Series Tele with the Ant. I matching rhythm pickup, and another in an ash/maple American Series Tele with a SM-3n mini-humbucker at the neck. The clean and OD tones of the Ant. I flatpole Tele lead are just so rich, juicy and amazing that it's a runaway winner. I'm torn between the STL-2 Hot Tele lead, JD, and Nocaster in the other poll (great trio of runners-up), but the Ant. I is tops in my Teles. The only exception is if I need higher output, in which case the STL-2 and JD move up the chain. In the right Tele, the Nocaster can be neck and neck with the Ant. I, but it's more of a hit or miss affair.
poopsmith921
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Re: Favorite Tele Bridge Pickup Part II
where's hot rails or lil 59?
where's hot rails or lil 59?
StrangeDay
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Re: Favorite Tele Bridge Pickup Part II
Who is really qualified to vote? I mean, who has really tried all of these and remembers clearly enough what they al sound like to be able to compare them in this poll??
I'm not trying to be an @ss, but there is no way that this poll cannot be biased unless you work with this material on a daily basis.
Who is really qualified to vote? I mean, who has really tried all of these and remembers clearly enough what they al sound like to be able to compare them in this poll??
I'm not trying to be an @ss, but there is no way that this poll cannot be biased unless you work with this material on a daily basis.
L
Lewguitar
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Re: Favorite Tele Bridge Pickup Part II
From this list, it's the Antiquity! My favorite Tele bridge pickups are:
Antiquity I
Jerry Donahue
Duncan CS alnico 2 Hot Tele Tapped
Fralin Blues Special
Between the Antiquity and Jerry Donahue I'd pick the Antiquity since it always sounds great no matter what Tele I put it in.
The Jerry Donahue almost always sounds great but since it's wound hotter than the Antiquity I, the JD is not quite as bright and sparkley.
The alnico 5 Fralin Blues Special lacks a little of the pronounced chewy mids of the other three but makes up for it with deeper bass and a smooth but more extended high end.
Lew
From this list, it's the Antiquity! My favorite Tele bridge pickups are:
Antiquity I
Jerry Donahue
Duncan CS alnico 2 Hot Tele Tapped
Fralin Blues Special
Between the Antiquity and Jerry Donahue I'd pick the Antiquity since it always sounds great no matter what Tele I put it in.
The Jerry Donahue almost always sounds great but since it's wound hotter than the Antiquity I, the JD is not quite as bright and sparkley.
The alnico 5 Fralin Blues Special lacks a little of the pronounced chewy mids of the other three but makes up for it with deeper bass and a smooth but more extended high end.
Lew
Butch Snyder
ObsoleteChickenPickingologist
Re: Favorite Tele Bridge Pickup Part II
I would use a Jerry Donahue model in my Tele for sure; but I need hum-canceling. I really wish it came in a noiseless model....
I would use a Jerry Donahue model in my Tele for sure; but I need hum-canceling. I really wish it came in a noiseless model....
XSSIVE
OCDologist
Re: Favorite Tele Bridge Pickup Part II
why??? if you want an amazing thick sound out of it, that's why...the tele shape feels great to me and your working with a string through with a comfy shaped bridge for palm muting (the modern ones that is) plus it a big old slab of wood not carved to heck like a strat which lets it have much more body and thickness to the sound with a hum sized pickup. plus i play high gain music all the time so a typical tele does me no good since they are twangy and thin (not a bad thing just not me) but i just love the shape and feel of them that's why i play them with hot rails. don't knock it 'til you've played it or heard it...it get's it's own sound thicker than a strat and less darkness than a les paul but with all the balls!!
-Mike
gripweed said:
why??? if you want an amazing thick sound out of it, that's why...the tele shape feels great to me and your working with a string through with a comfy shaped bridge for palm muting (the modern ones that is) plus it a big old slab of wood not carved to heck like a strat which lets it have much more body and thickness to the sound with a hum sized pickup. plus i play high gain music all the time so a typical tele does me no good since they are twangy and thin (not a bad thing just not me) but i just love the shape and feel of them that's why i play them with hot rails. don't knock it 'til you've played it or heard it...it get's it's own sound thicker than a strat and less darkness than a les paul but with all the balls!!
-Mike
