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Post subject: Japanese Fender Tele pickups
Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2013 5:09 pm
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Hey guys!
someone local to me is selling some pretty cheap pickups that he says are from a japanese fender telecaster from roughly 85-86. I'm looking at upgrading my pups and pots in my squier affinity tele for something bright with a lot of bite to make some crunchy, jangly, punky hardcore/jazz noises with. good buy?

any feedback/opinions/tonal descriptions from people who have/know anything about these pups would be greatly appreciated!

i play a mix of jazz, punk, hardcore, post-rock, indie, ambient and mathcore. but for this guitar, the harsh hardcore jazz-punk type stuff is priority

THANKS!

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Post subject: Re: Japanese Fender Tele pickups
Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2013 8:48 pm
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Offuco Acus wrote:
Hey guys!
someone local to me is selling some pretty cheap pickups that he says are from a japanese fender telecaster from roughly 85-86. I'm looking at upgrading my pups and pots in my squier affinity tele for something bright with a lot of bite to make some crunchy, jangly, punky hardcore/jazz noises with. good buy?

any feedback/opinions/tonal descriptions from people who have/know anything about these pups would be greatly appreciated!

I play a mix of jazz, punk, hardcore, post-rock, indie, ambient and mathcore. but for this guitar, the harsh hardcore jazz-punk type stuff is priority

THANKS!


I'm a big fan of Andy Summers and his Telecaster. The pickup configuration he used with his old Telecaster is a Humbucker in the neck and a '60s style Tele pickup in the bridge. I created my own version of this Telecaster (profile photo) and use a SD Jazz Humbucker that has been coil tapped (neck), a Fender Broadcaster pickup in the bridge, a 5 way switch, an Afterburner pre-amp, and a mid-range scoop knob for more jazzy sounds.

I use delay, chorus, phase shirting, overdrive and compression for my effects. I can get some really nice jazz, punk, indie and ambient tones with all of this.

I hope this helps. Let me know if you have any questions.


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Post subject: Re: Japanese Fender Tele pickups
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2013 6:19 am
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I recently bought a second hand Japanese Telecaster Custom 62 reissue from 2006. It came with a scratchy tone pot so i decided to upgrade both the tone pot and volume to 500k pots. After doing this, the stock Japanese pickups have become really shrill and I need to dial back the tone 95% to get it to where my ears can take it.

In all Teles I've owned in the past, I've always had the tone up at 100% as this is the sound I like but I cannot achieve this now. I'll be looking to change out the pickups as soon as I can to either a set of Texas Specials or the Broadcaster pickups. I can't use the Tele in my band until I do this.

I think the pickups would have been OK had I not upgraded the pots.

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Post subject: Re: Japanese Fender Tele pickups
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2013 7:00 am
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I have an early 80s 62 custom. I don't have much to compare to, but I can tell you the pickups are lightyears ahead of the bridge pup in my mim 72 custom. The pickups will no doubt be better than the Squier ones, whether they give you the sound you want I don't know.


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Post subject: Re: Japanese Fender Tele pickups
Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2013 5:27 pm
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Hi, that shrillness is pretty much what im after! really biting crunchy single coil destruction!
Thanks!

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Post subject: Re: Japanese Fender Tele pickups
Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2013 5:28 pm
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moochy13 wrote:
I have an early 80s 62 custom. I don't have much to compare to, but I can tell you the pickups are lightyears ahead of the bridge pup in my mim 72 custom. The pickups will no doubt be better than the Squier ones, whether they give you the sound you want I don't know.



Thats pretty helpful, thanks!

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Post subject: Re: Japanese Fender Tele pickups
Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2013 5:36 am
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I've got a MIJ 1987 '62 RI, replaced the stock pickups with Seymour Duncans after having it a few months. I found the originals were unspectacular, lacked output and didn't really have any outstanding Telecaster tone to them. Seymour Duncans were a huge improvement although I keep meaning to fit Bare Knuckles in there.

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Post subject: Re: Japanese Fender Tele pickups
Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2013 9:05 am
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GilgaFrank wrote:
I've got a MIJ 1987 '62 RI, replaced the stock pickups with Seymour Duncans after having it a few months. I found the originals were unspectacular, lacked output and didn't really have any outstanding Telecaster tone to them. Seymour Duncans were a huge improvement although I keep meaning to fit Bare Knuckles in there.



interesting... if money was no object i think i would most probably go for some bare knuckle brown sugar pickups. but these japanese pickups... were talking £15 - £20 haha

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