IMHO the Wilde/Bill and Becky Lawrence L280 noiseless pick ups are the best drop-in replacements for the sake of fat tone and clarity.
The Dimarzio Area T pickups are a close second. They might get you closer to the classic Ed Bickert pre-PAF tone, if that's what you're looking for, than the Wildes. Having used both extensively, I prefer the Wilde pickups.
Both of those have a bit of humbucker compression; if you really like the true single coil sound, the Wilde Microcoil pickups for the Telecaster are outstanding. While they are a true single coil, they pick up less noise due to the smaller coil not offering as much antenna. There are two versions, one with I presume a ceramic bar magnet and one with alnico polepiece magnets; I prefer the sound of the ceramics (the alnicos are a little too Stratty for my tastes).
In my case, I have found that I like adding a resistor in parallel between the hot output of the bridge pickup and ground to sweeten/round off the highs just a little bit and make it less spiky. There are wiring diagrams on the Wilde website and also Lindy Fralin's website has a very nice page on this. Basically, this makes the bridge pickup think it is seeing a lower resistance pot, say 100K, while the neck pick up thinks it's seeing 250K. Folks who belong to the icepick school of Telecaster bridge pickups would probably hate it.
Thought I would share. Aerodyne Telecaster. Stock pickup replaced with CC in P-90 case and upgraded bridge pickup. Both by Pete Biloft at Vintage Vibe pickups.
I’ve gotten inspiration for this by listening to Jim Hall’s minimalist comping. I think it was for Sonny Rollins, with no piano. He would use 2 notes to comp, hinting at chords, and it wasn’t only...
If there is a difference in tone between one fingerboard and another I think it must from differences in density/mass, they way it couples with the fret, and resonant properties. A sliver of inlay...
I imagine there’s different gigs in different locales. The “Italy” reply reminded me of one. Some years before corona, I was regularly in Malaysia for work. At times there’d be a fusion group playing...
I’m an admitted Benedetto fanboy since first seeing and hearing his instruments in the mid-‘90’s. I purchased a Fratello model in 2000, and it and my late 50’s ES 175 were my main squeezes for many...
and by the away in the left hand a few bars later it is the same move as in the left hand in 8th bar, only now it is C to F# (but also G-G-F#)
but right hand is different.
So it makes right...
Yeah it was less, this is what Freddie Green played. And more, you don’t have to guess what chords will work there are charts to standards that are busier than realbook changes.
[QUOTE=DanielleOM;1339008]I went with the Reverend Pete Anderson Eastsider T guitar. I just liked the specs better than what I was seeing on the Fender Models. Fender makes so many models at...
Yes, that’s what I thought - if I was doing something like this in my pedestrian baby’s first baroque harmony sort of way, I’d have out the B in the previous bar. Oh, Dm to Dm6 becomes the iv6/5 (or...
Which tune is that ?
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