Noiseless Quarter Pounder for Tele

[zizyphus]

Hey team!

I'm a man who loves me some dirt, and don't play clean very often.

I've the various tele bridge pups I've tried, I've always loved the SD quarter pounder the best, but I just couldn't handle the noise that comes with it.

A friend of mini similarly loved the QP strat pup, but also had noise issues, and eventually ended up begging the SD custom shop to make a noiseless QP strat bridge, but they told him its just not doable for the QP pickups.

Does anyone know of tele bridge pup that can approximate that sound? It's fat and ballsy, and pushes the amp, but is still has the higher end sparkle that comes with a single-coil (which, for a tele, is not a characteristic I'm willing to sacrifice – I have LPs for traditional humbucker bridge tones).

Thanks in advance!__PRESENT

 

[Artie]

Just a thought . . . get the Quarter Pound neck pup, and leave both on. That will be noise-cancelling, and give you a bit more harmonic richness. You can always dial the neck pup height all the way down to minimize its influence, while maintaining noiselessness.

 

[beaubrummels]

Wire in a dummy coil maybe? Or get an Illytch pickguard?

 

[Mincer]

The closest I can think of is the BG1400, which is noise cancelling.

 

[alex1fly]

Lot of Tele talk recently, lol

Would Hot Stack fit the bill? It's got a bit of beef. Not sure how it compares A/B to Quarter Pound or BG1400. On my Tele w/ Hot Stack for delicious distortion I put a 6 db boost at 4 khz to get that radio ready crunch and pick attack.

 

[jeremy]

thats interesting. i had the cs make me a qp single coil p bass stack years ago.

anyway... i think a dummy coil or something along those lines is your best bet

 

[Mincer]

Lot of Tele talk recently, lol

Would Hot Stack fit the bill? It's got a bit of beef. Not sure how it compares A/B to Quarter Pound or BG1400. On my Tele w/ Hot Stack for delicious distortion I put a 6 db boost at 4 khz to get that radio ready crunch and pick attack.

The Hot Stack is hotter than the QP, and pretty much abandons the idea of being a Tele pickup....more like a regular high output single. No twang really there.

 

[ICTGoober]

Hot Chicken Tele...

 

[Artie]

FYI: Quarter Pound is the guitar pup. Quarter Pounder is the hamburger. Yummm. :fing2:

 

[zizyphus]

FYI: Quarter Pound is the guitar pup. Quarter Pounder is the hamburger. Yummm. :fing2:

never discuss gear on an empty stomach :lol:
__PRESENT

 

[Rex_Rocker]

I guess it depends on what style of music you're using the QP to play, but I had a QP in my Esquire, and I could get it to sound clean (I mean as far as noise) with Death Metal levels of gain when I used a Noise Gate. I didn't even have to set the gate to a different setting as when using humbuckers.

I know noise gates are not common practice in many genres of music, but I think it may be worth a try. Contemporary gates are pretty flexible on how you set them so that they don't eat up notes mid solo or whatever. Or you can always turn them off for certain parts.

I know gates are rarely ever really "transparent", especially as far as "feel", but adding a stacked coil or a dummy coil to a QP is surely going to change the sound of the pickup as well.

Just my suggestion.