Bright/mid heavy tele pickups?

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Bright/mid heavy tele pickups?

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What's the brightest and/or most mid rangey tele bridge pickup you can think of? I use a Quarter Pounder currently and the mid scoop kills me in a band mix. I think I want something medium-hot in terms of output that cuts through a mix well. This is going in a bass vi and I play hardcore and ambient/psychedelic stuff. I'm getting a tv jones powertron for the neck position.
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The lower the output, the brighter the pickup will sound.
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BoatRich wrote:I think I want something medium-hot in terms of output that cuts through a mix well.
I think that's how they describe the texas special teles but really, any tele bridge pickup with standard/slightly hot voicing should cut through a mix just fine. Other things to try are 500k/1m pots, eq pedal.
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I don't have a tele, but you need Dimarzio Tone Zone. I have the humbucker and it is exactly that, and Fuzzhugger Tom has the single coil in his guitars and swears by it, which leads me to believe that the tele model can't be anything other than awesome as well.
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I have a lace sensor blue in mine, which I had my guitar tech bud improvise/drill to cram it in. (this is my ILF stickered Tele, so I didn't give a fuck as long as he made it fit.) It has decent output, similar to a lower gain humbucker, and it has solid mids. I've never had a problem getting a blue lace sensor in the bridge to cut through. It also plays extremely well with any dirt or other effects.
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Re: Bright/mid heavy tele pickups?

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IF the Tele Texas specials are anything like the strat ones, they're borderline obnoxiously bright.
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