#5965

Yeah I was hoping I could just swap in new saddles

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#5966

Donā€™t know if youā€™ve got particular pickups in mind but these are the ones that come in my American Performer and theyā€™re excellent:

Proper night and day when compared to the Vinteras.

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#5967

I donā€™t know where to start objectively judging pickups. I just want classic telecaster sounds. The current bridge pickup is actually fine, but maybe lacking in classic tele ā€œtwangā€ when clean. The neck is not as good as the neck pickup on my strat (which apparently has custom shop pickups whatever that means). I basically want a neck pickup which will encourage me to use the neck pickup more

#5968

iā€™m not a telecaster person, never even played one, but think the neck pickup is always considered a bit of an issue with them. it is smaller than a strat one, and the metal cover affects the sound. you could try removing the cover and seeing how that sounds, and if it is no improvement get a pickguard routed for a strat sized one (though may mess with the aesthetic)

#5969

Itā€™s a worthwhile mod to get some brass compensated saddles. I did it with my Highway 1 Telecaster and it was definitely an improvement.

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#5970

Speaking of pickups, I think one of the best Teles Fender has ever made is the Vintage Hot Rod '52 Tele, which has a Seymour Duncan mini humbucker in the neck position. That pickup is fucking awesome.

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#5971

there are some Tele neck pickups which are billed as Strat pickups shrunk down - Custom Shop Twisted Teles are one type (sure you could find a used set) or this type of thing for a more boutique angle (though he isn;t taking new orders til November)

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#5972

Everyone should definitely experience going SPRANG on a tele at least once

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#5973

Iā€™ve got one of these in my tele neck, but I put a little '59 in my bridge, which is not a tele tone pickup, so not sure how it would compliment a more standard bridge. worth a look though.

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#5974

My default is neck pickup, volume and tone rolled back slightly. Itā€™s not going to fool anyone into thinking itā€™s a Strat but itā€™s in that ballpark.

Did a quick and dirty comparison. Please excuse the hum, I didnā€™t move away from the computer or anything so itā€™s full on single coil noise. First three are neck, middle, bridge, all at my default slightly rolled back vol and tone. Next three are everything on full, neck, middle, bridge.

#5975

Also donā€™t @ me about those bends. Strings could use changing too.

#5976

Sounding good. Lots of nice bite in those. Thanks man!

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#5977

They can get a lot bitier, that overdrive has the treble rolled back a bit and so does my always on pre-amp. I find it a bit brittle if you donā€™t tame the treble a little, but horses for etc.

#5978

Yeah, I usually tone down my bridge pickup with the guitar tone control. Got my strat rewired so I could do the same on that.

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#5979

thinking about (which means I will probably own it by the weekend) getting one of those EHX mellotron pedals. wondering whether it would be able to track the output from my freqout pedal on dry kill mode, as that just outputs just the one note that it thinks would be most likely to be feeding back, but that could be turned into a mellotron flute or violin for a nice bit of accompaniment rather than the mellotron duplicating all the notes/chords. dunno if it will work though as the freqout output is just one harmonic rather than the full note, potentially that could make the EHX pedals work easy as it is just one frequency to deal with, but I dont know if it needs a range of overtones to do its thing, can never tell to what extent those pedals are just replacing the signal with a synthesised one or altering the original signal, with my pog2 I suspect it is a bit of both, so just using it on harmonics might be thin, dunno

#5980

Iā€™ve been using some melotron samples on the Digitakt recently. Really fun sounds

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#5981

A Mel9? I have one and itā€™s a very good pedal for some intereting different timbres.

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#5982

yeah melotron are one of those cases where a past attempt to emulate something real fails but ends up becoming a great sound in its own right. iā€™ve got a couple of options for melotron sounds, there is a software instrument in logic, and also a patch in the equator software that goes with my roli seaboard block, I can use that in recording, my interest in getting the pedal was to add it to my parallel path chain of effects that can provide a sort of auto accompaniment to my main guitar sound, so far I have been doing that with the freqout, or my pog2 to take out the attack, or a particle delay, I think if it works the freqout isolating the main note and then turned into a melotron sound it would be another option for a bit of extra atmosphere without having to pre record it

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#5983

iā€™m surprised I donā€™t already own one, it is right up my street

#5984

Got this in as a donation for our library. Iā€™m going to tell the person running the scheme to sell it and buy some Squier Telecasters instead, absolutely no point in having it.

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