tele tone

[crash-hat]

does anyone know what s.d. pickup might achieve the guitar tone from incubus' "crow left of the murder"? also, i will be trying to put it in a telecaster neck position. thanks for any help.

 

[Benjy_26]

Re: tele tone

I'm not familiar with that particular song, but most of their stuff sounds like lower output humbuckers to me. If you have enough space under the pickguard, I would go with a Pearly Gates (it's what I use when my band covers Incubus tunes), the APH, Jazz, or Seth Lover.

BTW, what do you have in your tele's bridge position.

 

[crash-hat]

Re: tele tone

i'm pretty sure they are both samarian cobalt noisless (american deluxe stock pair). from the few photos i've seen, the guy from inc is using something like a jazzmaster, but i'm not sure. you may be right about the low output humbucker if it's a p-90 or similar. i'll have to dig deeper...

 

[the guy who invented fire]

Re: tele tone

i'm pretty sure they are both samarian cobalt noisless (american deluxe stock pair). from the few photos i've seen, the guy from inc is using something like a jazzmaster, but i'm not sure. you may be right about the low output humbucker if it's a p-90 or similar. i'll have to dig deeper...

Mike uses PRS's and several vintage Jazzmasters...I hate to be the guy that has the bad news, nothing will sound like a Jazzmaster excetp a Jazzmaster, and trying it on a Tele is about as far in the other direction as you can go...Jazzmasters have a very smooth tone that is very plunky with almost no cut or sustain, Telecasters are very bright, and have an edgy quality that you won't find with in 200 yards of a Jazzmaster...now if you were feeling real brave you could open up the neck spon on the Tele and drop in one Jazzmaster pickup and get in the ballpark...

 

[the guy who invented fire]

Re: tele tone

ph yeah, BTW...no matter how much a Jazzmaster pup looks like a P-90 they sound NOTHING alike!

 

[crash-hat]

Re: tele tone

gotcha. i'm sure his amps have something to do with it. i saw them in providence, and he had four different amps all wired up. an orange, a marshall, too much for me to recognize. it must be the jazzmaster that made those tones because they're like nothing else i've ever heard.
btw, i'm always feelin brave! i don't think i'll be doing any routing on the tele body, but just to get close might be nice. maybe the sd jazz in the neck...

 

[the guy who invented fire]

Re: tele tone

gotcha. i'm sure his amps have something to do with it. i saw them in providence, and he had four different amps all wired up. an orange, a marshall, too much for me to recognize. it must be the jazzmaster that made those tones because they're like nothing else i've ever heard.
btw, i'm always feelin brave! i don't think i'll be doing any routing on the tele body, but just to get close might be nice. maybe the sd jazz in the neck...

no bucker is gonna have a sound like that...it will have to be a single coil, and the less aggressive the better

 

[mcvw]

Re: tele tone

Hi,

Would you say that the Squier Telecaster Custom II (fitted with duncan designed P90's) be in a similar ball-park to the Jazzmaster?

I bought one about a month ago - and I think it sounds fantastic. It's much nicer (clearer, not as muddled) than my Epiphone Les Paul ('96 Ltd Edition model).

I tried a Jap' re-issue Jazzmaster whilst choosing the tele' and I didn't think much of it at all. Is there a big difference between the Jap re-issue and the US Jazzmasters?

Thanks,


Mike

 

[poopsmith921]

Re: tele tone

He used a telecaster with two singles when they played on jimmy kimmel sometime this past summer. Im not a huge incubus fan, so i dont know what song it was