Members Faber Posted October 30, 2011 Members Share Posted October 30, 2011 I think I found it in my tele I've never been after a super distorted, smooth sound - the kind of sound I've been looking for in a bridge humbucker have been brash, cutting, not terribly distorted but biting. Something along some of Jimi Page's sounds on HTWWW or Clapton with the Bluesbreakers. Those sounds came from Gibsons, so I figured that was what I had to get. I've had several gibson style instruments over the years and never found quite what I was looking for. sure some of them sounded great, but they were always a bit compressed feeling, and a bit smooth and while I'm sure it's down to operator error I often found the bass a bit hard to control. Lately I've been playing my tele almost exclusively and I'll be damned if it isn't all there - bite but with girth, just the right kind of rudeness with gain while retaining definition, brash but open. Sometimes, hindsight make me feel utterly clueless Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Geeter Posted October 30, 2011 Members Share Posted October 30, 2011 Telecasters are great. For me it's the p90, but we all have different muses. Glad you found yours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members =JL= Posted October 30, 2011 Members Share Posted October 30, 2011 Sometimes it depends on your own personal pick attack.The way I play makes it easier for me to get say, an Angus Young tone out P90s than out of H/Bs.Authentic gear isn't always the answer.Unless I'm playing metal, H/Bs always turn to mud for me. It's not the pickups' fault, it's just how I hit the strings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members vintage clubber Posted October 30, 2011 Members Share Posted October 30, 2011 tele's with rw/rp pickups and 4 way switching are the hook! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members billybilly Posted October 30, 2011 Members Share Posted October 30, 2011 Glad to hear you found your sound, it's not an easy thing to do. I am thinking about a set neck tele for my next project. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members smorgdonkey Posted October 30, 2011 Members Share Posted October 30, 2011 I think I found it in my tele Yes, Teles can do some awesome things. The sound that Bruce Springsteen is winding out on his lead spot while playing with the Wallflowers on MTV '97 awards show...at 2:30 and again to close at 3:55 is nice...it has that bit of abrasiveness. Incidentally, I saw the Wallflowers live once and they had about 10 times the energy in that video as they did live...it seriously seemed like they were eating hash before the show. Uninspired, plodding, and on the verge of falling asleep is what it seemed like...then they verbally berated the audience for 'not being into it'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BryanMichael Posted October 30, 2011 Members Share Posted October 30, 2011 I always wanted this really thick, woody jazz sound from a neck humbucker and I never found that sound until I grabbed a Benedetto A6 (Duncan) Other pickups never did that "compressed" attack thing like the A6 did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cratz2 Posted October 30, 2011 Members Share Posted October 30, 2011 This isn't helpful at all, but I figured out a long time ago that, as much as I think I know, I don't know {censored} about {censored}. Whether trying to audibly decipher of Page is using an LP or a Tele... listening to Yngwie's tones on his first solo album... I know there's a lot of studio stuff going on there, but walking around the Dallas Guitar Show three years in a row, hearing a great tone and having a picture in your mind of how he was getting that tone only to find out that it was a strat through a Fender amp and a pedal rather than an HB guitar through a JBM800... Different paths, man. I was at Doc Morbius's place the other day. I'd bought a Lovepedal and we were trying different guitar and combos for {censored}s and giggles. One of the best Marshall tones we got that day was an American Jazzmaster with flat wound strings through a Vibrosonic. That pedal just brought the rock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frets99 Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 Hot! Boss plays with heat!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MrPFloyd Posted October 30, 2011 Members Share Posted October 30, 2011 i pick really hard so a humbucker gets rid of most of the shrill of my picking lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Angry Tele Posted October 30, 2011 Members Share Posted October 30, 2011 Yup.... I can get Jimmy Page or turn the tone knob down and its Clapton Beano. tele's with rw/rp pickups and 4 way switching are the hook! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Davo17 Posted October 30, 2011 Members Share Posted October 30, 2011 Yes! I liked the les paul sound, but wanted a bit more clarity and articulation. I first went to the fender toronado (gibson pups/scale with fender bolt-on construction). It was a step in the right direction, but I realized it wasnt where I wanted to be. Then I watched this vid on youtube, and started listening to more Roy Buchanon. [video=youtube;IgZFWCZLMJM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgZFWCZLMJM I picked up a Baja tele and ran it through my Class 5 and it was good. All the clarity and articulation I wanted, with plenty of muscle behind it. And when combining the neck and bridge in series you get almost an idealized humbucker tone. I love the tele, and Im pretty sure its a guitar I will be using alot from here out I think I found it in my tele I've never been after a super distorted, smooth sound - the kind of sound I've been looking for in a bridge humbucker have been brash, cutting, not terribly distorted but biting. Something along some of Jimi Page's sounds on HTWWW or Clapton with the Bluesbreakers. Those sounds came from Gibsons, so I figured that was what I had to get. I've had several gibson style instruments over the years and never found quite what I was looking for. sure some of them sounded great, but they were always a bit compressed feeling, and a bit smooth and while I'm sure it's down to operator error I often found the bass a bit hard to control. Lately I've been playing my tele almost exclusively and I'll be damned if it isn't all there - bite but with girth, just the right kind of rudeness with gain while retaining definition, brash but open. Sometimes, hindsight make me feel utterly clueless Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Angry Tele Posted October 30, 2011 Members Share Posted October 30, 2011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members smorgdonkey Posted October 30, 2011 Members Share Posted October 30, 2011 This isn't helpful at all, but I figured out a long time ago that, as much as I think I know, I don't know {censored} about {censored}. TRUE!! A friend of mine long ago said "the more you know - the more you don't know" and I learned it shortly after he said that. BUT, I still feel somewhat compelled to list a bunch of members here that I know more than... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blazingblake Posted October 31, 2011 Members Share Posted October 31, 2011 Speaking about Yngwie I think he actually uses stacked dimarzios which I think makes them closer to humbuckers that regular strat single coils. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cratz2 Posted November 1, 2011 Members Share Posted November 1, 2011 Speaking about Yngwie I think he actually uses stacked dimarzios which I think makes them closer to humbuckers that regular strat single coils. I dunno about that. I've had two guitars with HS3s and one with a YJM in the bridge and HS3s in the bridge and my current beater has an HS3 in the bridge. In all instances, they sound MUCH more like single coils than like any humbuckers I've ever used. They are very bright and very low output. Just my opinion, anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members treedroppings Posted November 1, 2011 Members Share Posted November 1, 2011 I had a nice sound w/ Lite Ash strat plus a voodoo '57 humbucker bridge of coursenice and bright I also did nicely with a Gibson The Paul II with a tom short a5 tombucker (they usually come with alnico2) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members vintage clubber Posted November 1, 2011 Members Share Posted November 1, 2011 Les Paul, More Tele...:poke: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Angry Tele Posted November 1, 2011 Members Share Posted November 1, 2011 the secret is out: thats the guitar hes recorded alll his hits with. Les Paul, More Tele...:poke: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mightysasquatch Posted November 1, 2011 Members Share Posted November 1, 2011 You're not Jimmy Page, are you? Entire first Zep album was a Tele. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Davo17 Posted November 2, 2011 Members Share Posted November 2, 2011 the secret is out: thats the guitar hes recorded alll his hits with. Are you serious? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sologrrl Posted November 2, 2011 Members Share Posted November 2, 2011 Seymour Duncan Lil 59's for the tele. Thats what my friend just figured out with his 1992 mexican telecaster. He sold his les paul and discovered his tele with that pickup sounds ten times better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Angry Tele Posted November 2, 2011 Members Share Posted November 2, 2011 Dont call me Shirley! Look at the facts, Les was married in 1948, had his first hit in 1949. Leo Fender started making Teles in late 1949. Draw your own conclusion. Are you serious? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Davo17 Posted November 3, 2011 Members Share Posted November 3, 2011 Les did have a fairly bright sound, but Les made his own guitars, and they were semi hollow. Dont call me Shirley! Look at the facts, Les was married in 1948, had his first hit in 1949. Leo Fender started making Teles in late 1949. Draw your own conclusion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members docjeffrey Posted November 3, 2011 Members Share Posted November 3, 2011 You can't assume that just because you're using the same guitar/amp as the tone that you want to ape, you'll be able to dial it in. Why? IT"S A RECORDING! The signal is going through a high end Neve board then looping through a couple of high end tube compressors and other tone shaping devices before it is even mixed down. Then the mastering process further alters the original tone. You can get close to the general character of your favorite guitar tone, but even your little handycam that you take to a concert is gonna compress and limit the signal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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