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new neck humbucker for my tele custom...considering P-rails?
Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 10:02 pm
by mikeyhegs
I have a telecaster custom RI that i simply adore...however the previous owner swapped out the fender neck humbucker for a DiMarzio PAF-style humbucker. I'm considering getting a seymour duncan P-Rails pickup so I can nail down some different tones...basically the PAF is a little on the muddy side. I have an american tele pickup in the bridge. I'm looking for a humbucker with better definition/clarity. That, or I'm going straight-up P90 with it. If I got a fender-size humbucker i'd have to replace the pickguard (not the end of the world but I don't want to if I don't have to). I'm looking for suggestions or advice from anyone whose had experience with P-Rails or with tele customs. kthxybye.
Re: new neck humbucker for my tele custom...considering P-ra
Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 10:17 pm
by The4455
You could buy a Fender style humbucker from GFS
http://store.guitarfetish.com/Vintage-Split-Humbucker-Classic-Fender-Style_c_175.htmlIt also comes in Gold, Bartolini makes guitar pickups that are ( in your situation) worth considering. I'd also check out Hanson pickups, probably the best I've ever tried, also pretty expensive.
Re: new neck humbucker for my tele custom...considering P-ra
Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 10:44 pm
by cheesecats
Re: new neck humbucker for my tele custom...considering P-ra
Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 1:21 am
by mauerkraut
buy the p rail because ive been fascinated with hearing it/about it
Re: new neck humbucker for my tele custom...considering P-ra
Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 1:25 am
by mauerkraut
buy the p rail because ive been fascinated with hearing it/about it
post audio or
Re: new neck humbucker for my tele custom...considering P-ra
Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 9:55 am
by mikeyhegs
The gfs pickups are intriguing for the price. I'll have to poke around their website when I'm not at work so I don't get accused of looking at fetish websites :X
whatever I go with I'll get some audio together, although I use the guitar more for weird noisescapes and drones and never really learned how to play proper guitar blah blah blah I'm a drummer. ::hides::
Re: new neck humbucker for my tele custom...considering P-ra
Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 4:34 pm
by Officer Bukowski
Does it have 250k pots? It might be the pots not the pickups.
Unfortunately you have to compromise.
Re: new neck humbucker for my tele custom...considering P-ra
Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2011 11:49 pm
by mikeyhegs
Officer Bukowski wrote:Does it have 250k pots? It might be the pots not the pickups.
Unfortunately you have to compromise.
The pots are stock 250k's. Would I be changing out the tone or volume or both? Would I need to change the other pups' pots as well? Kinda don't want to mess with the bridge pickup sound I have goin...
Re: new neck humbucker for my tele custom...considering P-ra
Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2011 10:06 am
by askthedust
Get the Lollar clone of the original Fender Wide Range (that was cunife).
I was lucky enough to grab a couple of original wide ranges for my Tele Deluxe reissue : it's night and day, you really see what they were meaning when they come up with this design : fat, humbucker like tele tone. So I wouldn't trust anything else than original ones or Lollar clones.
