Three Seymour Duncan Pickups...Is this the most versatile guitar of all time?

[ErikH]

I like the way you think.

It certainly helps when the pickups work great when split (WLH neck and PB bridge). The PB is about to be swapped out for Custom Custom. I need my Les Paul and this Strat (the Tao Turquoise one) to be configured as close as possible. If I were to change the neck pickup, I'd probably put a A2P bridge model there.

 

[alex1fly]

Brent's guitar is heard on more recordings and #1 sellers than anything you own...that's for sure. Maybe heard on more hits than any guitar in history.

Not a clank to be heard:

Twins playing (nearly) twin Teles?

 

[Adieu]

OK. I'll tell Brent he's got it all wrong next time I see him. :wall:

I'm not sure he WAS aiming for all-genre versatility, whoever he is... OP talked versatility and this ain't it.

Might work fine for his thing, but doesn't look all that universal


PS sure is one hideous telly, though. Memorably so

 

[Lewguitar]

Not a lot of love for country music here. Listen to Brent and his Tele tear it up on this Alan Jackson tune. Great tone. Great playing. I'm a blues player mostly but truth be told until the Rolling Stones and the Beatles showed up around 1963 country music was what we listened to around my house.

 

[PFDarkside]

The interesting thing for me on his pickup choices is that he has a Vintage Stack bridge and a Hot Stack middle. It must be because he usually just rolls that middle in as opposed to going full bore.

It’s interesting how many players I enjoy are getting signature instruments the past few years. Then again, maybe that means I’m 40. Lol I’m sure the Clapton fans of the era were about my age when he got his signature Strat, then Martin.

 

[Lewguitar]

The interesting thing for me on his pickup choices is that he has a Vintage Stack bridge and a Hot Stack middle. It must be because he usually just rolls that middle in as opposed to going full bore.

It’s interesting how many players I enjoy are getting signature instruments the past few years. Then again, maybe that means I’m 40. Lol I’m sure the Clapton fans of the era were about my age when he got his signature Strat, then Martin.

Exactly. It's not connected to the selector switch. To use it he has to blend it in with the third knob.

You know that opening lick on that Alan Jackson tune I just posted has almost as many demos of how to play it on Youtube as Eruption.

Well...that's a bit of an exageration but it's a super cool lick.

And Brent's tone is so round!

He likes to record with amps. Doesn't like going direct.

 

[jeremy]

I'm not sure he WAS aiming for all-genre versatility, whoever he is... OP talked versatility and this ain't it.

Might work fine for his thing, but doesn't look all that universal


PS sure is one hideous telly, though. Memorably so

the tele was painted that way when he got it. as far as versatility, almost any rootsy music can be covered by this. not a metal or hard rock machine but damn near anything else

 

[beaubrummels]

Not a lot of love for country music here. Listen to Brent and his Tele tear it up on this Alan Jackson tune. Great tone. Great playing. I'm a blues player mostly but truth be told until the Rolling Stones and the Beatles showed up around 1963 country music was what we listened to around my house.

I like country and played it prefessionally for 10 years. It's not my #1 favorite, and if I didn't get work with it, I'd probably only tinker with a few famous licks and not play many songs. But I like to listen to it now and again just fine.

 

[allstarrme]

I really liked the signature PRS he had before this. It had the HSH setup similar to what the modern eagle V has, but maple bolt on neck and 25.25” scale. The 408/ Paul’s pickups are supposed to split really well for single coil sounds.

Those B benders always seem too complex for what they do. I would rather have the floating PRS trem that can make all the strings bend up or down.

 

[jeremy]

the prs is a cool guitar but the tele is the one he played on a 1000 hits

 

[Rex_Rocker]

Don't mean to say you can't play rock/metal on a tele, but that guitar would definitely not be most people's first choice for heavy music.

 

[JOLLY]

While I do love Brent Mason's guitar, tones, and playing, I'd say this is probably one of the most versatile guitars ever as far as tones go.

 

[idsnowdog]

Complexity doesn't equal versatility.

 

[Lewguitar]

While I do love Brent Mason's guitar, tones, and playing, I'd say this is probably one of the most versatile guitars ever as far as tones go.

Interesting concept but I didn't hear a single sound out of that guitar I actually liked! Did you?

And there's no B Bender either.

 

[beaubrummels]

Are we talking only versaility? Or versaility we like?

 

[Artie]

I've tried a lot of wiring schemes, and my personal favorite, (and I think versatile), is dual humbuckers and a Superswitch. Wired: (from top to bottom)

1. Neck
2. Neck screw w/bridge stud parallel (Strat quack)
3. Neck screw w/bridge stud series (Slutbucker)
4. Bridge parallel (Quasi-Tele twang)
5. Bridge

All are noiseless. All sound good, and are different. Works for me.

P.S. I do like the Brent Mason Tele. In fact, I've gathered up all the parts, and the Tele, to do it. I just need to muster up the time, inclination, and courage, to route out that middle pup cavity.

 

[Lewguitar]

P.S. I do like the Brent Mason Tele. In fact, I've gathered up all the parts, and the Tele, to do it. I just need to muster up the time, inclination, and courage, to route out that middle pup cavity.

I'm very intrigued. I've wanted a B-Bender ever since hearing Clarence White with the Byrds. using one on his Tele. Never owned a pedal steel but I love that sound.

 

[JOLLY]

If you want to hear some great guitar work using a B Bender, listen to some Diamond Rio. Jimmy Olander is the king of that!

 

[Artie]

I'm very intrigued. I've wanted a B-Bender ever since hearing Clarence White with the Byrds. using one on his Tele. Never owned a pedal steel but I love that sound.

Hey Lew. I'm not doing the B-bender. That's way beyond my skills. Besides, I don't really care about that particular function. It's the pups and controls that I'm doing.