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Post subject: Any Tele Modern Player Plus Pickup suggestions?
Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2012 8:39 am
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Just got this new mp plus tele, and its great. it has an HSS set of pickups, a coil tap, but none the less has the Tele "twang". great in so far as range plus tele feel, but the sound as another man his thread puts it "is a little thin".
Some new pickups are probably in order and wondered if i could get any ideas?

I think i want a bit more heat, dirt and growl. I play a lot of blues, classic hard rock, funk and metal. I have been playing for a long while but know shamefully little about my electronics. assistance?


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Post subject: Re: Any Tele Modern Player Plus Pickup suggestions?
Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2012 7:36 am
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Hi Jim, I'd suggest trying heavier strings first just to see if that gives you what you wer looking for.

I got a new Tele last year, a MIA it came with 9s on it, when those strings needed changing I put 10s on it, it seemed like a totally different guitar with the 10s on.

Try this, you may be pleasantly surprised.

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Post subject: Re: Any Tele Modern Player Plus Pickup suggestions?
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 7:59 am
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My playing partner bought one of these guitars right after he played mine. He replaced the humbucker with a Seymour-Duncan Pearly Gates - growl to the max!

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Post subject: Re: Any Tele Modern Player Plus Pickup suggestions?
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 10:10 am
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Thanks guys,
I switched out my bass strings for 10s already, but perhaps I should go up a gauge on all the strings. And guitarman, I think you got the right idea. I do like both the single coil pickups i have anyway so perhaps, only a new humbucker is in order.


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