Re: I MADE THE SWAP: What do you guys think?
I just love how engaged everybody is on this forum! Thank you for your input. But like Jeremy stated above; in my ears more treble is never an issue in a tele bridge. I didn't mean that the 59 lacked treble. I ment that the JD has an amont of dingly overtones that the 59 lacks. And the JD got these overtones even when riding low on the tone knob. So it's not really a more/less treble kind of thing. It has to do with singlecoil vs humbuckers and medium output vs high output. And probably a few other things. If I turn the tone full up on the 59 it gets sharp and shrill – ice pick style. But it does not gain those desired overtones and dingliness of the JD.
I love the telecaster and play it almost exclusively. But I come from Les Paul territory. And have been a LP player for about 20 years of my 35 years as a guitar player. 10 years wasted on a Strat I never really liked and since five years now I'm with the Telecasters. It was like coming home. But the thing for me with Telecasters are these two realisations:
1. You always have to ride the bridge pickup really low on the tone knob to get a guitar tone that fits my playing and ears.
2. You always have to ride the neck pickup all the way up on the tone knob to get a guitar tone that fits my playing and ears.
But there's only one tone knob! This makes switching pickups on the fly a real hassle.
So I do the Anti-Mud wiring on my telecasters. The neck pickup goes straight to jack from the volume. Full on treble tone always. And the bridge pickup get's the tone control all alone. Best hack on a tele I've found. Plus I have a treble bleed mod. So I don't loose the highs when rolling of the volume knob (I do that a lot).
I just love how engaged everybody is on this forum! Thank you for your input. But like Jeremy stated above; in my ears more treble is never an issue in a tele bridge. I didn't mean that the 59 lacked treble. I ment that the JD has an amont of dingly overtones that the 59 lacks. And the JD got these overtones even when riding low on the tone knob. So it's not really a more/less treble kind of thing. It has to do with singlecoil vs humbuckers and medium output vs high output. And probably a few other things. If I turn the tone full up on the 59 it gets sharp and shrill – ice pick style. But it does not gain those desired overtones and dingliness of the JD.
I love the telecaster and play it almost exclusively. But I come from Les Paul territory. And have been a LP player for about 20 years of my 35 years as a guitar player. 10 years wasted on a Strat I never really liked and since five years now I'm with the Telecasters. It was like coming home. But the thing for me with Telecasters are these two realisations:
1. You always have to ride the bridge pickup really low on the tone knob to get a guitar tone that fits my playing and ears.
2. You always have to ride the neck pickup all the way up on the tone knob to get a guitar tone that fits my playing and ears.
But there's only one tone knob! This makes switching pickups on the fly a real hassle.
So I do the Anti-Mud wiring on my telecasters. The neck pickup goes straight to jack from the volume. Full on treble tone always. And the bridge pickup get's the tone control all alone. Best hack on a tele I've found. Plus I have a treble bleed mod. So I don't loose the highs when rolling of the volume knob (I do that a lot).
