HELP: pickups for Tele

Crazy_Guitar

Crazy_Guitar

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Hey folks!

I really wish to replace the pickups from my "Tele" Yamaha Pacifica 102S (bubinga fretboard).
It's a fantastic guitar, extremely lightweight, but with a helluva punch! However, I find the stock pickups a bit muddy. Not so "Tele-ish".

I was thinking about the Bare Knuckle Brown Sugar set. Here:


According to the BKP website, they are indicated to rosewood boards. In the tone chart, you can see it stays on the treble side of the spectrum.

Anyone experienced with these pickups?


(I accept other suggestions...)
 
Re: HELP: pickups for Tele

Afraid I can´t comment from experience, but am also tempted to get a BKP for a tele (copy) bridge position. I was originally thinking of the flat '52 but will have to rethink that as I have decided to go with a different neck pickup which scuppers the original idea.
Sorry I can´t be more helpful.
 
Re: HELP: pickups for Tele

ive only had two teles in my lifetime so i'm no expert on the subtleties of the many types of tele sounds out there, one had fender 62 pups, then lace sensors then jow barden rail pups. The current one which i finished building last week has a jerry donhaue model in the bridge. It sounds gutsy and twangy at the same time. I can't imagine a better pickup than that.
 
Re: HELP: pickups for Tele

There are things that you just won't understand...

Tonight, from the minute I picked up my "Tele", plugged it in... I was absolutely SMASHED with its tone!!!
I mean... it had everything I wanted!

Guess I must practice. More. Owning a Telly is no easy task. :)
 
Re: HELP: pickups for Tele

My favorite tele has Alnico II Pro pickups. They sound great clean and are super for bluesy leads with a tube screamer with the gain on 5.
 
Re: HELP: pickups for Tele

The answer to every question that starts out "which pickups for tele?" is:

Just under ~7k unpotted neck humbucker with A2 or A3 (PGn and Seth Lover work fantastic too though)
Jerry Donahue Bridge

Although I have seen/heard of bare knuckle tele pickups (I even think it was a vintage voiced set haha) doing death metal. I dunno if the Jerry Donahue with A2 would do the percussive death metal stuff, but honestly I wouldn't be surprised if it could. Call me a fan.
 
Re: HELP: pickups for Tele

Howdy,

For Teles, I'm totally sold on DiMarzio's Twang Kings. Now if we're talking P-90s , go with Duncan's vintage Soapbars!
 
Re: HELP: pickups for Tele

The STR-1/STL-1 is vintage bright Tele twang. If you want something hotter, I love the Hot For Tele, very versatile and sweet voicing.

 
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