View Poll Results: What pickup would you prefer on a "jazz" Tele?
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Single coil
79 56.03% -
Humbuckering
48 34.04% -
Other (please explain)
14 9.93%
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Originally Posted by PatrickWD
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02-22-2021 02:06 PM
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A real good
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Of course diversify your teles. Don't put humbuckers on all of your teles. Put single coils on some of them, and humbuckers on others.
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Originally Posted by Tal_175
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If you get a 21 fret neck, there is actually room to put an extra single coil pickup flush to the neck.
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Talk about Tele sacrilege, two neck pickups and no bridge pickup.
One of them PAF.
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A Telly needs everything but a Humbucker. Wait...to me no guitar needs a Humbucker
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Originally Posted by BigDaddyLoveHandles
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Originally Posted by ThatRhythmMan
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It's a truism that everyone's tastes are different. This thread certainly proves it !
And, for the record, I voted:
I've owned multiple guitars with P90s and Fender single coils, but I've never heard anything that can touch a good humbucker. IMO, sonically, they are the creme de la creme of pickups and, in addition, noiseless. What's not to like? Right now I have one electric left with single coils , that I keep just to say that I have a P90 guitar, but if I had to sell one, that would be the one.
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Originally Posted by darkwaters
Personally the only Humbucker I‘m able to play is a good Filtertron, but nothing beats the sonic integrity of a good Singlecoil. To my ears and my playing.
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Originally Posted by marcwhy
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Originally Posted by curbucci
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Originally Posted by Cunamara
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Originally Posted by DRS
I wanted a bit more drive than the traditional Tele neck pup
The Seth Lover was a bit to dark and fat.
The CC was a bitter fatter than the SD Tele but didn't do it for me.
The SD Minucker was the best of all worlds. Power and clarity. No hum.
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Originally Posted by DRS
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Originally Posted by DRS
Wouldn't you want something less scooped and more mid-range heavy in the neck?
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Great looking tele. I am trying to live with my single coil in the neck, as I do like the clarity, but I had a SD minibucker in the neck of an old tele I previously sold and I loved it
Originally Posted by DRS
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Originally Posted by Lobomov
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I‘ve done a hot rod wiring on the Neckpickup of my Thinline, bypassing the tonecontrol. Sounds fantastic. A lot more transparency, overtones to die for and the pickup reproduces the tiniest nuances.
You need a very dynamic right hand to tame this raw beast. But the tone is worth it.
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I've been away but you still draw me back!
Teles and neck pickups is a subject that will run and run and......
So I voted 'other'.
Let me explain, single coil pickup with a 4 way switch. Choice of series or parallel for both pickups, so in essence traditional or faux humbucker twin pickup selection.
So the question is, what single coil?
For me its a Vintage Vibe CC Rider in a humbucker size. Larger coil area and AlNiCo II magnets, nice.
So that would be that until I tried a G&L Tribute ASAT Bluesboy with a rather nice AlNiCo V and that awe inspiring tele sized MFD bridge pickup. I love that humbucker but the bridge was quite microphonic.
So what to do....
Dipped in wax.
Better.
But the pots were 250k which is too dark for the humbucker.
So what to do.....
Split pots, 250k and 500k in one, two pots and seperate caps and treble bleed caps and it is hitting far above its weight.
Telecasters, the modders delight.
Every guitar player must have one, its the law, didn't you know?
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Originally Posted by dlew919
He has tons of great material out there.
Thanks for sharing this!
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Originally Posted by Lobomov
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Originally Posted by Stefan Eff
250K No Load Solid Shaft Potentiometer | Fender Parts
When the volume pot is at maximum, I prefer the tone with the tone pot in the circuit (not bypassed). Based on a bit of googling, I think that’s because a Fender pickup without the 250K ohm load across is has a resonance peak centered around 4000 Hz. The 250K pot flattens that peak.
But I usually play with the volume pot rolled back a bit, and operating that way I don’t hear so much of a difference between the no-load tone pot engaged vs. disengaged. Telecaster pickups were designed to have some resistance across them, and I feel that’s how they sound best, but the no-load pot does no harm and it does give you the option of a little more treble.Last edited by KirkP; 03-02-2021 at 02:18 PM.
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I would want a Firebird neck pickup for jazz. It’s brighter than a normal humbucker and gives more clarity from string to string.
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