High output bridge tele pickup for SH configuration

[Peter Krasov]

Hi,

Looking for your experience with high output tele bridge pickups

Please help me to choose the bridge pickup for Tele (Pickup Picker does not help due to my specific setup).

I have a tele with SH configuration, the neck humbucker is DiMarzio DActivator Neck Model: https://www.dimarzio.com/pickups/high-power/d-activator-neck.

And the goal is to pick a good bridge pair for it. I am choosing between Quarter Pound, Hot Rails and Little 59. Personally, I tend towards Quarter Pound, because I prefer true single coils, but I'm not sure, whether it is powerful enough to work with D'Activator.

What would you choose?

 

[BluesIsBlood12]

Re: High output bridge tele pickup for SH configuration

I just put in a QP last week, and it's a big, thick tone. Playing at home I wasn't sure about it b/c it's pretty mid-heavy, but at rehearsal it blended well with the band. I don't know anything about the DActivator, but the QP seems to be a fair amount hotter than my bridge humbuckers, which are all PAF style.

 

[Peter Krasov]

Re: High output bridge tele pickup for SH configuration

DActivator is way hotter than PAF pickups. It's a high output neck pickup with modern voicing.

 

[Juanhanglo]

Re: High output bridge tele pickup for SH configuration

You're gonna need a super distortion s or some other high output single sized humbucker to match up with that monster.

 

[jeremy]

Re: High output bridge tele pickup for SH configuration

if you need highout put then look at the hot rails