SS Tele Pickup Recommendations for Chime

[treyhaislip]

Looking for a SS Tele pickup set that will be chimey clean tones. I typically gravitate to a Broadcaster style in the bridge but looking for set where both the neck and bridge pair well for cleans (not muddy in the neck.)

Project body is a roasted pine body with a nitro finish paired with a 1 piece roasted maple neck.

Don’t mind about the brand but would prefer the traditional Tele look.

 

[idsnowdog]

GFS has a lipstick tele bridge and strat sized lipsticks for the neck position. A strat sized tele pickguard is easy to find and a lipstick tube in the neck looks nearly identical to a traditional tele neck pickup. I always thought they would work well for a 12 string tele.

 

[Mincer]

So many Tele neck pickups have a similar thing about them. The Custom Shop makes a neck pickup for chimey tones, but it is comes with a Custom Shop price. The Hot Chicken set is a stack set but the neck has more chime than most Tele neck pickups.

 

[freefrog]

No advice for the bridge pickup since it has to be a Broadcaster style coil but for the neck one, I'd consider a Fender Twisted Tele model: classic look but taller coil than usual, making it closer to a mid scooped Strat pickup. Good for chime in mid position IME, even with a stronger bridge unit. YMMV.

 

[elelpe]

+1 for Twisted Tele. Or my personal favorite, Wilde Keystone.

 

[marcello252]

No advice for the bridge pickup since it has to be a Broadcaster style coil but for the neck one, I'd consider a Fender Twisted Tele model: classic look but taller coil than usual, making it closer to a mid scooped Strat pickup. Good for chime in mid position IME, even with a stronger bridge unit. YMMV.

I had one on my tele baja, it does exactly that (and it's incidentally the reason why I didn't like it, but it's just my taste)

 

[Artie]

File this under me "dreamin' out loud", since I've never tried them, but the YT vids of the Brad Paisley Le Brea set sound amazing.

 

[jeremy]

never seen that video before. guitar sounds great, and brad is a hell of a player

 

[treyhaislip]

No advice for the bridge pickup since it has to be a Broadcaster style coil but for the neck one, I'd consider a Fender Twisted Tele model: classic look but taller coil than usual, making it closer to a mid scooped Strat pickup. Good for chime in mid position IME, even with a stronger bridge unit. YMMV.

To be fair, doesn’t have to be a Broadcaster—that’s just what I gravitate to.

I played a Fender American Vintage II 1977 Custom Tele and absolutely loved the bridge pickup (did not care for the neck.) Can’t seem to find much detail on it nor do I see Fender offering it on their website.

 

[freefrog]

To be fair, doesn’t have to be a Broadcaster—that’s just what I gravitate to.

I played a Fender American Vintage II 1977 Custom Tele and absolutely loved the bridge pickup (did not care for the neck.) Can’t seem to find much detail on it nor do I see Fender offering it on their website.

I've no info at all about this model but if it's the Custom Tele with a Wide Range HB in neck position, the bridge PU might be the same than in my offset "Magnificent Seven" Tele: flat poled, 7.65k only but a big 3.9H of inductance, in the Broadcaster range.

In my guitar, it was supposed to be a component of the Twisted Tele set but apparently, this set has gone through various iterations, including in some cases a way hotter an darker sounding bridge unit. The current "Custom Shop Twisted Tele" set appears to differ again: the bridge PU has now radiused poles and measures 10.16 / 2.84H... :-/

 

[treyhaislip]

I've no info at all about this model but if it's the Custom Tele with a Wide Range HB in neck position, the bridge PU might be the same than in my offset "Magnificent Seven" Tele: flat poled, 7.65k only but a big 3.9H of inductance, in the Broadcaster range.

In my guitar, it was supposed to be a component of the Twisted Tele set but apparently, this set has gone through various iterations, including in some cases a way hotter a darker sounding bridge unit. The current "Custom Shop Twisted Tele" set appears to differ again: the bridge PU has now radiused poles and measures 10.16 / 2.84H... :-/

That’s the one—Tele single coil bridge paired with a Wide Range HB in the neck.

I’ve never liked how the Wide Range sound/feel personally…but that bridge pickup is exactly what I’m wanting! I can’t find it for sale individually, only see it as the combo on eBay for more than I want to pay for just the bridge pickup.

 

[Chistopher]

Bootstrap Pretzel set if you can wait a few weeks. $40 for a US made set. $50 if you want em custom.