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Single coil for me. They have a wider frequency response (both high and low), respond more dynamically to my right hand, and don't have any phase-related issues since they only sense the string in a single location.
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01-06-2013 02:10 PM
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Have you played a Tele JA-90? It's a thinline with a set neck and P90's with two volume and 2 tone pots for nice tone blending.
Originally Posted by Jazz_175
Last edited by GNAPPI; 01-07-2013 at 02:51 AM.
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Single, Humbuckers...it doesn't matter. The amp makes a big difference too, as well as your technique.
The whole jazz tone stuff is silly. G.Benson has a different tone than Metheny, Scofield doesn't sound like Charlie Christian or Wes. Some cats prefer a fat tone, other a bright and acoustic tone.
Get yourself a cheap EQ pedal like the danelectro and experiment, best investment you'll make.
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Personally, I like the single coil neck pickup in my Tele. I added a Dimarzio Tone Zone T splittable humbucker at the bridge to warm it up and often play with the pickup selector in the center position.
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My Warmoth Tele has Lollars and an unfinished canary neck with 1.75" nut. I like the singles because they keep the Tele vibe intact, and they get any tone you could want from mud to twang.
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Which Lollar PUs did you put in?
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No one mentioned Joe Bardin Pick ups? Dead quiet and designed for teles. Longest I owned a guitar was a tele equiped with Bardin's about 7 years. and yep I can't remember if it is Bardin or Barden.
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The Vintage T Series. Other than the unique neck, I was going for a very traditional Tele setup. Originally Posted by Jazz_175
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an interesting video by soundpure :
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Yup, it's not rocket science at all. That's why the "best" Telecaster for jazz is just... A Telecaster.
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I bought a Suhr Tele with a humbucker in the neck and I am enjoying it.
Nice dark sounds, gritty sounds and plenty of brightness too.
I am used to a single coil in the neck tele and was wondering which is more versatile for a wide variety of music.
...or is it apples and oranges?
Am I right that Ed Bickert didn’t get a humbucker until many years into his career and even then it was only for noise reduction and string balance? He sure got a dark enough sound before the change.
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I think the neck is fair game on a tele. I've actually fancied going 'bucker in mine to get rid of noise, but I like my tone now and don't want to risk it. But I've owned a tele with a neck bucker, and would again.
Just don't dare call it a tele with a humbucker in the bridge
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I've got a Tele with a Dimarzio stacked Tele humbucker. Whazzat, the Area T? Been long enough I don't remember. But standard Tele shape, dead silent lack of noise, great tone for jazz.
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Devil, you...that's the one I've thought about.
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Have you considered contacting Suhr's support to see if a Tele neck pickup would fit in the humbucker rout without further routing the body? Might just require a new pickguard.
Beautiful guitar, I've been close to pulling the trigger on a Suhr Classic T for a long time.
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It wI'll no prob, as long as you screw pickup to pickguard.
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Dimarzio Area T's in mine.
Kinda like them.
All that tele tone, especially in the neck position, without the noise.
YMMV
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I actually went through four different telecaster single coil neck pick ups. Seymour Duncan Alnico II Pro. Lollar special T. DiM Area T and Fender Texas special. The Area was just a little thinner sounding than the others. Otherwise the other three were all in the same ballpark. I just couldn't get one that was fat enough but I didn't want to go Full hum bucker in the neck. Finally settled on the Lollar just because it was rwrp to the bridge pickup AND went with a four-way switch so that I could get both neck and bridge in both series and parallel. When the budget allows I still have not ruled out Seymour Duncan quarter pounder.
Word of warning about the area pickup: It's a bit taller than the standard telecaster pick up and it's a bit of a tighter fit
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I have an Area T in the neck of my "rock Tele" and like it. It sounds pretty much like a Tele single coil sans the noise. It handles distortion really well. It is a rather bright and clear pickup. If I'd go humbucker with a Tele, I think I would opt for a full sized one.
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When I do find a Tele I can get on with, I'll be putting either a Lollar P-90 or a Duncan mini in the neck spot. And I doubt I'll be using the bridge p'up much at all.
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I've got the Quarter Pound in my Strat-ish guitar; but it is ~25 years old. I don't know how that compares to the current ones or to the Tele version but it is a big, fat sounding single coil.
Or step on up to a Charlie Christian style pickup from Vintage Vibe, Lollar, etc. Ginormously fat.
My archtop and one Tele have the Vintage Vibe CC pickup in a humbucker form factor; my Strat has the 1/4 LBer; my other Tele has the Area T. My only electric guitar with a neck humbucker is my GB10, and it sounds sort of partway between a humbucker and a CC (and is a ridiculously hot and fat sounding pickup). I think there is a trend there- I like big fat sounding single coils.
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Yup, humbucker sized Charlie Christian pickup in the neck position is PHAT.
The 4 way switch with this set up works really well. I'm able to dial in the low frequencies in parallel by moving the neck pickup up and down on the height screws.
Oh, BTW, neck humbuckers MUST have a pickup ring on a tele....
Wrong
Right.
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I've heard enough examples of people getting a great tone from a standard tele neck by now that I'm convinced the pickup is not holding me back.
On the practical side, dealing with hum can be a big annoyance, especially for solo playing.
I think the best solution is to have a tele and something else with HBs.
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Try a Hum Debugger for the noise problem. Pat Metheny uses one with his new Slaman guitar with CC pickup and doesn't think it changes the tone. As I understand it, it samples the AC noise and then flips it out of phase, cancelling it out of the signal; it has a specific power supply you have to use and might have to be plugged into the same power circuit as the amp.
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A buddy hooked me up with a Bartolini PBF pup for this tele. I love it. Great with flats.
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