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Post subject: Version 2 Telecaster Plus Mini Switch
Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 9:49 pm
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I just purchased a Telecaster Plus, version 2 (3 gold lace sensor version.) It sounds great, but I was wondering what the mini switch was used for? I read somewhere that it made the five way selector switch work like a strat? I can't seem to hear a difference between the two settings.


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Post subject: Re: Version 2 Telecaster Plus Mini Switch
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 4:48 am
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The 2-way toggle activates the bridge pickup, allowing up to seven colorful tonal combinations, i.e. positions 4 and 5 from the 5-way switch enable all the three pickups together.

This Nashville pickup configuration was also available on the American Deluxe Telecaster until circa 1999.

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Post subject: Re: Version 2 Telecaster Plus Mini Switch
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 9:27 pm
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Great, thanks so much for the information! So, when the mini switch is toggled towards the volume knob, the bridge pickup is active no matter what position the 5 way selector is at?


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Post subject: Re: Version 2 Telecaster Plus Mini Switch
Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2012 1:58 am
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I suggest you to ask John C and Xhefri for more details.


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Post subject: Re: Version 2 Telecaster Plus Mini Switch
Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2012 8:40 am
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I think that the mini toggle on these only works in positions 5 (neck pickup) and 4 (neck and middle pickup) - so in position 5 you get neck and bridge pickups and in position 4 you get all 3 pickups.

The reason I say "I think" is that although a relative of mine had one of these Tele Plus v2s I never got to play it before he offed it to pay for other recreational activities :( . And while I have played the 1998-99 American Deluxes I rarely played one plugged in and just don't remember how it worked.


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