how do YOU use your TELE!

[benbenben]

Re: how do YOU use your TELE!

Ahh thanks guys.
Okay, for all those blues and rock players out there slinging a telecaster.

How do you use it. In terms of how you use ur pickups. for what parts.
How do you ride your tone knob. All that stuff. It would be helpful.
The antiquities are sounding great! i love em!

 

[Frankly]

Re: how do YOU use your TELE!

I tend to have the tone all the way up except when on the bridge pickup. I'll play lead and rhythm in all three positions. Rolling the tone off on the bridge really fattens it up without taking much bite away...turn it back up and it can make a statement.

Turning the volume knob down just a tiny bit can also add a nice dimension to things, esp on the bridge pickup.

If you listen to old Mike Bloomfield you can really hear what happens when you switch to the bridge pickup with malice aforethought.

 

[Fender_Punk]

Re: how do YOU use your TELE!

I usually use the bridge, which I use for most punk (including my stuff) and all the ska I play. I also use the middle position, mostly for if I'm playing Nirvana, and if I want to kick out some blues on my Tele, I flip to the neck. On the bridge I use to go all over the place with the tone, going beneath the bypass for a P-90 sounds, which my Strat now takes care (thanks to mods). On the bridge I have it anywhere between the bypass and cranked, depending on what I'm playing (Ska it's usually all the was up). usually half way between the bypass and full treble. I like my Tele bright and twangy, and the TBX delivers that well without turning the guitar into an icepick. I really like the TBX cranked in the middle as you still get quite a bit of treble but much fuller sound.

 

[benbenben]

Re: how do YOU use your TELE!

Umm whats a TBX nder:

 

[Fender_Punk]

Re: how do YOU use your TELE!

Umm whats a TBX nder:

TBX is a stacked tone pot designed by Fender. It features both a resistor and a capacitor. In the middle (decent?) the tone pot is bypassed giving only the pup's tone. Rollingdown from the decent will add bass (as the cap is being used). Rolling up will add treble (as the resistor is being used). It's a pretty sick tone pot. IMO Fender should make it standard on all their guitars. I have them on my Strat and Tele and I've heard them used with P-90s (phat cats to be exact) on an Artcore semi-hollow my friend owned, and on a bucker equipped guitar. They're fairly cheap, $20-$25 CDN, and definately worth the price, easy to install too. Guitar Electronics has a wiring diagram for one in a Strat, and if you can put them in a Strat you can put them in a Tele.

 

[benbenben]

Re: how do YOU use your TELE!

Alright, I see riding the tone knob on the bridge pickup is pretty popular. How abt the neck and middle settings?

 

[MikeS]

Re: how do YOU use your TELE!

I see, I'm just loking for one that will fit a Tele's output jack but wont prevent the Planet waves cable from going all the way in.

You can reuse the same jack with a plate (either square or football style). Make sure it’s large enough to cover the 7/8” hole that the input cup sits in. I've got an L shaped end to a PW cable like that and the L end doesn't fit a standard tele or an electrosocket.

As far as how I use my pickups and knobs... on the 50s RI I'll often use the bridge pickup (full) for rhythms and some leads in high gain applications. Volume and tone are usually dimed in those cases. For moderate gain I'll use any of the 8 combinations depending on how I feel the passage needs to be played. It's hard to say that there's a rule of thumb. For clean applications I dig the middle position with the neck full and bridge tapped with the volume control around 8-9 and the tone control backed down to 5-6.

 

[guitarded]

Re: how do YOU use your TELE!

I use mine for Classic Rock. I've got a Dimarzio Chopper-T on the Lead and Dimarzio Virtual-T on the Neck. I really enjoy this guitar because it is a very comfortable playing guitar. I find it is easier to transition to from my Les Pauls which I use most often, then Strats which have a totally different feel on the body. It is really my GOTO guitar for Fender sounds. It sounded good with stock pickups which I still have in a box somewhere, but the Dimarzio's have really made it into a "can do it all" instrument.

The Tele is a very verstile guitar. You can use it for all kinds of music. It has a wide range of adjustment that you really have to experience it yourself. It even sounds different if you hook it up to different amps. Mine is the American Deluxe Tele with the Samarium Cobalt Noiseless pickups and the S-1 switch. I can actually get the sound of a LP if I roll back the tone just right. I know a lot of the LP lovers will argue about this but I have a LP myself and I cannot tell the difference. The Tele rocks.