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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Humbucker for me
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05-04-2023 08:17 PM
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Genil is an under-the-radar great player to most of us. He posts a lot of really good stuff on YouTube including recently putting up an extensive interview with Mick Goodrick from 2009.
Genil Castro - YouTube
I found him maybe 15 years ago on YouTube when I was researching playing jazz on a Telecaster. A guy had turned up at a jazz workshop I was going to with his Tele, sounding wonderful; I think this was before I had ever heard of anybody else doing that. It wasn't quite the trend yet and there were only one or two Ed Bickert videos, but Genil turned up quite a bit.
So, a couple years later after my first post in the thread, I have two Telecasters. One of them has Bill-and-Becky Lawrence Micro Coils in it, which sound wonderful (with neodymium magnets), really outstanding pickups; the other is a semihollow Tele which has a Bill-and-Becky L280TN stacked neck pickup and a DiMarzio Area T bridge pick up (they're out of phase with each other, though, so the middle position is really quite muted). The Telecaster remains a great choice for playing jazz; to my ears, however, the single coils and stacked single coil footprint humbuckers sound better than the PAF style humbuckers. I have tried Seymour Duncans and Classic 57s in the semihollow Tele. The single coil footprint is just better to my ears.
The Micro Coils have excellent noise rejection for single coils and the L280 and Area Ts have no noise- that Tele is my quietest guitar!Last edited by Cunamara; 12-25-2023 at 12:55 PM.
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Originally Posted by gitman
I do this on my Teles with regular pickups; a 220k resistor tames the bridge pickup nicely and means I don't have to twiddle the tone knob so much when switching pickups. For example:
Tele 3 Way Wiring Diagram – Bill and Becky Wilde Pickups
How To Use Resistors In A Guitar & Cool Tricks | Fralin Pickups
I've never found the bridge pickup on a Tele useable, but this mod (Bill Lawrence's, without the treble bleed circuit on the volume pot) makes it so. Also, Lindy Fralin has a lot of good technical information on his web site.
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Originally Posted by Robertito
Last edited by Cunamara; 12-27-2023 at 05:11 PM.
KA PAF info please
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