Pickups for mahogany Tele???
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Jocelyn
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Re: Pickups for mahogany Tele???
This! +1 To This. What you state is science too.. And this is how I explain tone woods.
This! +1 To This. What you state is science too.. And this is how I explain tone woods.
Re: Pickups for mahogany Tele???
right... thats why my swamp ash tele and alder tele sound totally different.
right... thats why my swamp ash tele and alder tele sound totally different.
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Funkfingers
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Better still, try the -X version.
Fender has offered mahogany Teles before. Some had P90s, one model had Dyna-Sonics. This seems like a job for TV Jones…
…provided that the basic guitar is up to it.
Better still, try the -X version.
Fender has offered mahogany Teles before. Some had P90s, one model had Dyna-Sonics. This seems like a job for TV Jones…
…provided that the basic guitar is up to it.
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Arius
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I do not seek to be embraced by the regulars who would face ostracization by their peers should they publicly voice agreement with me. I seek to open the minds of those who have never questioned the ideas they've held so dear, these matters of blind, or deaf faith, as it were. Some will be regulars, most will be lurkers, but if you yourself are vulnerable or not, you must come to terms with the realization that souls will be won, occluding veils will be shed, and the old ways will perish with Pagan pantheons long past and mocked as if always ridiculous.
It is never too late to cast aside such trifles in favor of renewed focus on what truly counts in matters of life, and of tone. You will be welcomed and accepted among us in brotherly embrace, friend.
I do not seek to be embraced by the regulars who would face ostracization by their peers should they publicly voice agreement with me. I seek to open the minds of those who have never questioned the ideas they've held so dear, these matters of blind, or deaf faith, as it were. Some will be regulars, most will be lurkers, but if you yourself are vulnerable or not, you must come to terms with the realization that souls will be won, occluding veils will be shed, and the old ways will perish with Pagan pantheons long past and mocked as if always ridiculous.
It is never too late to cast aside such trifles in favor of renewed focus on what truly counts in matters of life, and of tone. You will be welcomed and accepted among us in brotherly embrace, friend.
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Arius
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A fallacy. I did not say that. I said pickups and electronics are the most important things determining the tone of a guitar. Scale length and location of pickup routes is also important. Tonewood, or material, rather, is among the least significant so as to be of no consequence whatsoever to any expert's ear when testing objectively.
I address such flawed anecdotal evidence in my signature and will allot such things no more of my time.
A fallacy. I did not say that. I said pickups and electronics are the most important things determining the tone of a guitar. Scale length and location of pickup routes is also important. Tonewood, or material, rather, is among the least significant so as to be of no consequence whatsoever to any expert's ear when testing objectively.
I address such flawed anecdotal evidence in my signature and will allot such things no more of my time.
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Funkfingers
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Re: Pickups for mahogany Tele???
We already have a Lt Kojak. You must be Stavros!
We already have a Lt Kojak. You must be Stavros!
papersoul
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Re: Pickups for mahogany Tele???
Totally depends on the guitar. I can hear little to no difference between my alder or mahogany PRS CE with the same pickups....but in many cases I will hear a huge difference between two LPs with the same pickups so it varies.
I thought of saving money and getting a different Tele but the thing I love about the Jim Root, is the 12" radius ebony fretboard.
Totally depends on the guitar. I can hear little to no difference between my alder or mahogany PRS CE with the same pickups....but in many cases I will hear a huge difference between two LPs with the same pickups so it varies.
I thought of saving money and getting a different Tele but the thing I love about the Jim Root, is the 12" radius ebony fretboard.
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Arius
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Two LPs with more differences than just wood. The strings and their age, the pots of different resistance (even if they are nominally sold as 250k or 500k the tolerance is lax), the caps of varying capacitance, the resistors of varying resistance, 50s wiring vs modern wiring, the pickups of the same type with divergent DC resistance and output...
Two LPs with more differences than just wood. The strings and their age, the pots of different resistance (even if they are nominally sold as 250k or 500k the tolerance is lax), the caps of varying capacitance, the resistors of varying resistance, 50s wiring vs modern wiring, the pickups of the same type with divergent DC resistance and output...
papersoul
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Better than what, the 81? How does it compare to passives, like the Duncan JB or Custom for example?
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Arius
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The 85 is far richer and less compressed than the 81, and less harsh. It still, however, sounds like an active. I would suggest it simply doesn't compare to passives. It is black and white for most people as to which type of pickup one prefers. Blackouts, however, are a little less polarizing and are more accessible to the passively minded than EMGs.
The 85 is far richer and less compressed than the 81, and less harsh. It still, however, sounds like an active. I would suggest it simply doesn't compare to passives. It is black and white for most people as to which type of pickup one prefers. Blackouts, however, are a little less polarizing and are more accessible to the passively minded than EMGs.
Dr. Vegetable
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Arius
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Or perhaps an intelligent, thoughtful reply from one of the stalwarts of Tonewoodism?
No?
...Commence childish name-calling, sarcasm and meme-posting, then.
Or perhaps an intelligent, thoughtful reply from one of the stalwarts of Tonewoodism?
No?
...Commence childish name-calling, sarcasm and meme-posting, then.
925SS
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Re: Pickups for mahogany Tele???
"He be messin wit pigmeat here, mfr be rejecen the cologna, directly into the duodinum of the unsuspectin bignum, now he gwana see if he immune to it by eatin a dab hissef"
"He be messin wit pigmeat here, mfr be rejecen the cologna, directly into the duodinum of the unsuspectin bignum, now he gwana see if he immune to it by eatin a dab hissef"
Lake Placid Blues
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Re: Pickups for mahogany Tele???
Those tiny differences on a scope can become big differences to the human brain connected to a good set of ears. Not only can human ears be an acutely sensitive instrument but sometimes its the subtle things that make or break the tone. And you can not seperate attack, sustain, and decay from tone, and woods certainly have more than a tiny affect on that.
Those tiny differences on a scope can become big differences to the human brain connected to a good set of ears. Not only can human ears be an acutely sensitive instrument but sometimes its the subtle things that make or break the tone. And you can not seperate attack, sustain, and decay from tone, and woods certainly have more than a tiny affect on that.
ItsaBass
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Arius, it's not about you being right or wrong. It's about you having an attitude, and your obvious trolling. While I think your underlying point is solid in some ways, it doesn't seem like making it is truly why you are here. IMO, you are overstating it zealously and condescendingly just to try to mess with people...all after just showing up. Nice introduction. You could be 100 percent right (though you definitely are not), and we'd still think you are being a jerk. No matter what kind of good or bad points you may have, at the very least, have the manners to start your own thread about it, instead of getting into a multi-page back and forth, spraying the Dreaded Diarrhea of Digression on the OP's thread..
Arius, it's not about you being right or wrong. It's about you having an attitude, and your obvious trolling. While I think your underlying point is solid in some ways, it doesn't seem like making it is truly why you are here. IMO, you are overstating it zealously and condescendingly just to try to mess with people...all after just showing up. Nice introduction. You could be 100 percent right (though you definitely are not), and we'd still think you are being a jerk. No matter what kind of good or bad points you may have, at the very least, have the manners to start your own thread about it, instead of getting into a multi-page back and forth, spraying the Dreaded Diarrhea of Digression on the OP's thread..
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