I submitted a thread earlier to get...well... not very helpful advice. SO i would be thrilled if anyone could help me. With that said, i have a cheap ibenez i want to upgrade with 2 better single coil pickups and 1 humbucker. I love the band RADIOHEAD's sound so (and i know they use rickenbacken guitars) if there is any seymor duncan pickup that can produce such a sound as the pickupss installed in the rickenbeckens PLEEZ TELL ME.
I thought they used tele's, at least they did a while ago. One of them used Lace Sensors in his tele, a Blue in the neck, a Gold in the mid, and a Red/Blue Dually in the bridge should get you close to the "Pablo Honey" era tones.
as long as your pickups aren't too hot or sharp, most pickups will get in the radiohead ballpark - especially if you're not specifying a particular album!
It is a fender telecaster deluxe crafted in the 70`s(black)
Pu`s on this guitar would be seth lover designed humbuckers.(for fender inc.)
output on the bridge pu wold be about 16k.
We are talkin high output paf style humbuckers.
All three use Tele's every now and then, Johnny Greenwood seems to use his the most. He has two Red Lace Sensors wired together in a humbucker fashion in the bridge of his Tele (The heavy crunchy part in Creep is a good example of this guitar) I'm prety sure he uses a Blue Lace Sensor in the neck too.
As far as I know the others are just stock.
The only other electric I've seen the lead guitarist play is a Rick, it'd be tough to get rick sounds from a Ibanez, or anything other than a Rick really...
You definitely need something with some twang and janglin to it though. I'm not sure which bucker would d that, but any vintage strat pups shoulds get you in the ballpark for the neck/mid single coils
i think like maybe vintage rails or vintage ssl-1 for neck and mid, and like a paf style fo the bridge. like anything that is supposed to be vintage will work, and you probably want versatility, unless you have a specific tone you are going for. some ppl (jolly) reccommend the jazz in the bridge of a fat strat style guitar.
Ed plays alot of ricky. I'd say get a tight sound from the guitar, then mash it up with FX. The brutal and weird stuff is mostly very inventive FX stuff. Don't agonise about the axe/pickup. The Lace choice is probably due to long signal paths and noise problems attached (live) I'd venture to say that the studio might be a different story.
