Hey Tele guys...

[JB_From_Hell]

... who like to use lots of gain Which pups do you recommend for an alder MIM tele with an all maple neck?

From the clips, I like the QP lead a lot. I know the Hot Rails is the obvious choice, but I'd like to stick with single coil tone.

 

[the guy who invented fire]

Re: Hey Tele guys...

I do use a good bit of gain with my Tele, but I have a feeling you want even more! If you want a true Single coil AND lots of output a QP is the way to go!

... who like to use lots of gain Which pups do you recommend for an alder MIM tele with an all maple neck?

From the clips, I like the QP lead a lot. I know the Hot Rails is the obvious choice, but I'd like to stick with single coil tone.

 

[JB_From_Hell]

Re: Hey Tele guys...

I do use a good bit of gain with my Tele, but I have a feeling you want even more!

Yeah, I'm talking Metallica, Carcass, Machine Head... that amount of gain

 

[JB_From_Hell]

Re: Hey Tele guys...

And what for the neck?

 

[the guy who invented fire]

Re: Hey Tele guys...

Thats pretty heavy stuff to tackle with single coils!

a single coil sized bucker might be better for that, but if you want to give it a shot with singles, DO IT!!!

As for the neck I would go with a QP as well, if you're going with another single coil.

 

[brisk]

Re: Hey Tele guys...

I use tele hotrails and love it!

 

[JB_From_Hell]

Re: Hey Tele guys...

I use tele hotrails and love it!

I've never used a Hot Rails. Do they sound like a 'bucker, or is there still some single coil-ness to it?

 

[the guy who invented fire]

Re: Hey Tele guys...

I've never used a Hot Rails. Do they sound like a 'bucker, or is there still some single coil-ness to it?

With a Tele hot rail you will loose ALL single coil like tone!

Mike uses Hot rails in all his Tele and could tell you more and better than me, but I imagine that they are thicker that mosr Les Pauls!

 

[JB_From_Hell]

Re: Hey Tele guys...

...but I imagine that they are thicker that mosr Les Pauls!

Hmmm... perhaps I shouldn't rule the HR out, then

 

[XSSIVE]

Re: Hey Tele guys...

the people who have used my teles (all 3 have hot rails) have felt the same as i do. they sound just as fat as a les paul but with a top end that an all mahogany LP could only dream about lol. i love tele hotrails. they will do metal NO problem and clean up fairly well too. oh i have one (tele HR) that i can sell with the other tele stuff you may be buying from me if you want it. i have nearly a whole tele, just a few odds and ends you would need to pick up to finish it off.

-Mike

 

[pinto79]

Re: Hey Tele guys...

+1 on the HotRails.

I have one in a mim Tele, alder body, maple neck.

It screams. Tons of bottom and sweet singing highs, oodles of power and none of that annoying single coilness!

 

[Kac]

Re: Hey Tele guys...

I've heard good things about the Quater Pounders... if you want to retain some single coil sound go for 'em, the hot rails are an obvious choice if the single coil tone isn't as important to ya.

Rock On Bro!

 

[Luke Duke]

Re: Hey Tele guys...

I use Quarter Pounds, but I'm thinking I'm about to go back to vintage style pups. They handle gain VERY well. The low end is large and there is enough high end to cut through. I love the bridge for grinding out rythym, or soloing. The neck has a stinging tone to it. Very specific.

Luke

 

[St_Genesius]

Re: Hey Tele guys...

The lead pickup in my Tex-Mex Tele Special is overwound and designed to accomplish something quite akin to a QP or a P90. It cleans up better than most P90s I've worked with, bringing out some true Tele spank when you want it, and sounds really good under gain. I've been thinking of selling it, though, just in favor of trying something different, something lower output and chimier.

 

[DeadSkinSlayer3]

Re: Hey Tele guys...

Have you been listening to Wintersun lately?

 

[JB_From_Hell]

Re: Hey Tele guys...

Have you been listening to Wintersun lately?

Believe it or not, no. I've always wanted a Tele, and figured I might as well do it now

 

[Lewguitar]

Re: Hey Tele guys...

When I want gain I just plug my Teles into my Boss DS-1 or Duncan Pickup Booster. I can make them sound as gainy and heavy as I need to and can mimic Jimmy Page's "Tele that sounds like a Les Paul" tone just using vintage output pickups and the DS-1. I have Fralin Blues Specials in #1, Duncan Antiquitys in #2 and the Duncan Jerry Donahue pickup in #3. Lew

 

[brisk]

Re: Hey Tele guys...

I've never used a Hot Rails. Do they sound like a 'bucker, or is there still some single coil-ness to it?

Hotrail ain't no sissy single coil. You need big balls to handle it.

 

[Stevo]

Re: Hey Tele guys...

It sounds like you may want the hot rails with a parallel/series switch.

In my opinion, the hot rails is one of the better sounding pickups when wired parallel, for a single coil type of tone. When in series, you get the fatter bucker tone.