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Post subject: Pickup recommendations?
Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2017 2:22 pm
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Well, this is my first post here. I just bought a brand new MIM Telecaster, and I want to swap pickups for something hotter. I play mostly pop-punk/hardcore (Four Year Strong, The Story So Far, etc.) and I've had my eye on Bare Knuckle Piledrivers. My only other criteria is a true single coil, none of that mini humbucker nonsense. I have an HH Strat for a reason.


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Post subject: Re: Pickup recommendations?
Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2017 12:03 pm
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You might want to try these Fralins :

https://www.fralinpickups.com/product/h ... elecaster/

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Post subject: Re: Pickup recommendations?
Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2017 12:16 pm
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ryanfears wrote:
Well, this is my first post here. I just bought a brand new MIM Telecaster, and I want to swap pickups for something hotter. I play mostly pop-punk/hardcore (Four Year Strong, The Story So Far, etc.) and I've had my eye on Bare Knuckle Piledrivers. My only other criteria is a true single coil, none of that mini humbucker nonsense. I have an HH Strat for a reason.

I've tried a few Telecasters over the years and regardless of what I was playing(punk, hardcore, postpunk, no wave), no bridge pickup ever sounded better than my friend's dad's blackguard. I think you may want to checkout the Klein Broadcaster single coil since that's the only single coil I'm aware of that uses the traditional manufacturing method for the Alnico III pole pieces.
I've always found the Telecaster neck pickups fairly useless with the exception of real, rod magnet-based Wide Range Humbuckers. I believe Seymour Duncan, Curtis Novak, Creamery and Telenator all make authentic versions of this. For musical reference, this is kind of the defining sound of Death (the recently discovered Motown hardcore band).


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