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Post subject: Advice on New Pickups for Nashville tele
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 6:43 pm
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I recently purchased a nashville tele (alder body, maple neck) and was slightly disappointed by the stock pickups. Too much noise/hum and not able to cut through the mix. My gigs require me to play anything from smooth jazz and funk to modern high-gain rock (think foo fighters and switchfoot, not that new metal stuff) so i need a pickup that sounds equally well clean and distorted and everything in between. Any suggestions?


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Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 2:40 pm
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If you can afford them, Joe Bardens. I just made my own version of the Blackout Tele and used a set of lace Teles and a Lace middle strat. It sounds cool, but the lipstick is kinda dark and well, interesting, not what I expected.


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Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 5:47 pm
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I'm in the middle of building a not so nashville tele. I've got a collection od pickups I plan on trying. The first trial will be a usa tele bridge, a seymour lil 59 tele (stack) in the middle with a tex-mex strat in the neck. I have a vintage H/B to try in the neck. The midddle pup will be slanted to keep the string orientation of the bridge pup. I also plan on wiring the switch so that the bridge pup will be mixed with either the neck, middle, or alone. Don't worry I have a donor body and a couple of pickguards to play with. I will post the results when I'm done:idea:


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Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 6:34 pm
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Hmm, interesting, because the first pickup set i was thinking of using were the lace sets. I really like them in strats, but i've never heard a tele with laces in it. Alternately, i've also heard good things about the lil 59 stack and was thinking about putting that in the bridge position. My buddy is in the process of customizing his american strat by switching out the pickups so he let me have his middle-position SCN. I'm gonna use that one for sure. I don't want to sacrifice tele-twang for high output, though.


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Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 2:20 pm
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I went with a set of Texas Special Strat pickups in the neck & middle, staying with the Tex-Mex bridge pickup in the bridge position, since it
works well with the Texas Specials.

Since you're a jazz player, a popular configuration is to go with a humbucker in the neck slot, then just upgrade the middle slot to
something a little better than the stock unit. Similar configuration
to what many of the jazz players do with their Teles.

Log on to the TDPRI.com site of Tele-enthusiasts if you want more
opinions and experience on various jazz-voicings for Tele.

All-in-all, I think the stock bridge pickup is pretty good. I found more
issue with the first 2 slots.[/img]


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