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Post subject: Little 59 for Tele, does it ruin the tele vibe?
Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 7:15 am
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What are your thoughts on Seymour Duncan's Little 59 for tele?


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Post subject: Little 59...
Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 3:05 pm
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Man, if only pickups weren't such a pain to install and try out. In my experience, the Little 59 is way too heavy on the midrange and sounds just plain bad for clean tones. It's better overdriven, but still kinda sounds like you've got a wah pedal turned on - that midrange is really weird. However, I've used it on recordings and it kinda worked somehow. The pickup isn't worthless, it just wasn't a sound I was personally happy with unless I mixed it with the stock neck pickup, which produced a really nice (but totally un-tele) 60s sound.
However...I just recently yanked out the little 59 and replaced it with a GFS Liverpool. This, in my opinion, produces a much truer Telecaster sound while capitalizing on everything that's good about humbuckers (low noise, strong presence). But again, it's all relative. I want my Tele to twang but also sound nice when overdriven, and the GFS made me happy in that respect. The Little 59, however, sucked out all the twang.


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