Lil 59 for Tele question....

[B Bent]

Can anyone give me any input on what a Lil 59 for Teles sound like when you split the coils? Is it really even worth doing? I have an American Nashville B Bender Tele and I have already installed the 59 and I have the parts to go ahead and wire it for coil taps. Would you do it? Also the pots I have are both 500k will this affect the tone much?

 

[Butch Snyder]

Re: Lil 59 for Tele question....

I'd like to know as well...

 

[Skarekrough]

Re: Lil 59 for Tele question....

Do it!

I have a furst-year Squier Telecaster with a Little 59' in the bridge and a Classic Stack in the neck. The Volume push/pull pot is wired to split the neck and the Tone push/pull pot is wired to split the bridge.

It's a really nice sound that comes out of it. As the Little 59' can be a tad bit "muscular" tonally the split really takes alot of that element out of it and makes it sound more vintage-styled. It really gives it that nice single-coil snap!

 

[B Bent]

Re: Lil 59 for Tele question....

Do it!

I . It really gives it that nice single-coil snap!

Without sounding too thin???? Any hope of getting a nice qwacking Tele sound??

 

[davguitar]

Re: Lil 59 for Tele question....

I've not used one of those on a Tele. If I tried it I'd be tempted to wire the coils for split single, series, and parallel coil wiring. The parallel coils will produce a brighter tone than series, but keep the coils humbucking. If I'm not mistaken, Duncan wires-up the Duckbuckers this way so they sound more like a traditional single coil.