New Pickups For Squier Tele?

[tce44]

Still undecided on new pickups for my project guitar, a Squier Tele.
Looking for a nice full clean sounding (not twangy) set,I mostly use the neck pickup.
Have these in the running from reading/listening to reviews,anyone experience these or have better reccomendation?
FRALIN Blues Special set
DIMARZIO Area T set (hot bridge)
FENDER Original Vintage set
FENDER Vintage Noiseless set
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Thanx for all the help :notworthy

 

[Benjy_26]

Re: New Pickups For Squier Tele?

Is your tele routed for a neck humbucker? If so, you may want to go with either a full size humbucker there or a firebird style mini if you want to get rid of some of the normal tele brightness. A fb mini will still have some twang to it if you play it right, but it is much smoother and fulller than a normal tele neck pickup.

As for the bridge, the STL-2 is a lot thicker than a normal tele bridge pickup, whith more mids and lows than normal. It sounds kind of soapbar-ish and is quite hot, but still has enough air and sparkle to sound good clean.

 

[Cobra1957]

Re: New Pickups For Squier Tele?

I have read somewhere that someone put a Strat pickup in the neck position and left the bridge alone. But I’m am a novice so what do I know...

 

[tce44]

Re: New Pickups For Squier Tele?

I wanna keep it single coil,humbuckers are kool though.
Was thinking of strat pickup for neck spot but worried it wont sound right,
anyone else do it? whats it sound like?

 

[Cobra1957]

Re: New Pickups For Squier Tele?

I wanna keep it single coil,humbuckers are kool though.
Was thinking of strat pickup for neck spot but worried it wont sound right,
anyone else do it? whats it sound like?

Yeah I’m interested in knowing myself. Anyone?

 

[tce44]

Re: New Pickups For Squier Tele?

I was just listening to sound clips on youtube of Dimarzio HS-4, 2 & 3 in single coil mode,they sound awesome,buttery,smooth,full!
But that was on strat,wonder how they would sound in Tele?
Anyone know if the strat SC pickup poles would lineup in neck spot on tele?
I would just get the pickguard from Warmoth for the cutout for them.
Thanx

 

[Mincer]

Re: New Pickups For Squier Tele?

A Strat pickup in a Tele neck is beautiful. I like the Five Two, but the Antiquity II is also a good choice.

 

[tce44]

Re: New Pickups For Squier Tele?

Kool,do the poles line up?

 

[superpete]

Re: New Pickups For Squier Tele?

The Dimarzio Twang King is my favorite tele neck pickup. It sounds a lot strattier than most tele neck pickups I've used.

 

[Mincer]

Re: New Pickups For Squier Tele?

Kool,do the poles line up?

This depends on the Tele, but every one I've tried did (a few Mexican and a few American models).

 

[Skater]

Re: New Pickups For Squier Tele?

Still undecided on new pickups for my project guitar, a Squier Tele.
Looking for a nice full clean sounding (not twangy) set,I mostly use the neck pickup.
Have these in the running from reading/listening to reviews,anyone experience these or have better reccomendation?
FRALIN Blues Special set
DIMARZIO Area T set (hot bridge)
FENDER Original Vintage set
FENDER Vintage Noiseless set
???????????
Thanx for all the help :notworthy

Ya know, I played a fender Baja Tele about 3 months ago, I didn't like the heavy gloss of the neck, but those pickups! �� i put a 59 or in a bridge of a Tele for my cousin a while back, really brought the guitar to life. Amp pending too

 

[beaubrummels]

New Pickups For Squier Tele?

Fenders Twisted Tele set is a hot warm humbuckery overwound bridge with a Strat sounding wind in the neck. Not too expensive and improves any Tele straight away.