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Humbuckers for a Tele
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Tue Mar 27, 2012 9:17 pmby SRVLIVES
Any opinions on what Humbuckers I should install in my new Blacktop Tele ?? Id like to put a 5 position blade in it & coil tap 2 humbuckers. Need to cover everything from clean country to heavy metal !!
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Wed Mar 28, 2012 2:27 pmby GuitarMikeB
For a clean country sound, you'll do much better with the Standard Tele's single coil pickups. I never could understand putting humbuckers on a Tele (having owned a 72 standard since it was new!)
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Wed Mar 28, 2012 2:54 pmby jw123
My suggestion would be to get a different guitar, instead of changing the tele, or have a couple of guitars. But thats just me, I really dont like changing pickups.
Good Luck
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Wed Mar 28, 2012 7:28 pmby J-HALEY
I agree get a strat with HSS pickups. Nothing sounds like a Tele its almost sacrilige to mess with that guitar. A tele just kind of sounds like a BEAST when you distort them with a nice tube saturation and SO SWEET when played through a clean amp!
Its your guitar.
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Fri Mar 30, 2012 11:40 pmby Cajundaddy
Yep, a good Telecaster just has a great voice that stands out in a crowd. You can cover nearly anything on them but a second axe would give you more versatility and take you much deeper into the metal zone. (Gibson SG, Ibanez, Hamer, PRS etc)