Telecaster Guitar Forum - View Single Post - Will putting a humbucker in my Tele hurt its sound?

bonemachine78 · December 5th, 2007, 02:16 PM

my guitar came with a neck humbucker, and while i generally hate humbuckers i definitely think they can improve the neck pickup on the tele. i've always thought the neck pickup on a tele was a little weak, and my humbucker doesn't sound like metal or some other terrible derivative. it's got a driving swampy sound that kind of reminds me of pj harvey. now that i think about it she plays a tele with a humbucker as one of her guitars.

December 5th, 2007, 02:16 PM	#13 (permalink)
bonemachine78 Tele-Meister Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: stow, ohio Age: 26 Posts: 132	try to find somebody who will do it my guitar came with a neck humbucker, and while i generally hate humbuckers i definitely think they can improve the neck pickup on the tele. i've always thought the neck pickup on a tele was a little weak, and my humbucker doesn't sound like metal or some other terrible derivative. it's got a driving swampy sound that kind of reminds me of pj harvey. now that i think about it she plays a tele with a humbucker as one of her guitars.