Telecaster Guitar Forum - View Single Post - Tele buy-blind pickup suggestion?

Wayne Alexander · July 20th, 2003, 06:45 PM

Peter, you can get some ideas here or from other experienced players, but ultimately you'll have to judge for yourself what you like, and there's no substitute for putting those pickups in your guitar and playing them with your hands through your amp. Only then will you get a clear reading. What I've done is to buy a bunch of pickups over time USED, then resell the ones I don't want, usually at about the same prices. In my case, I ended up with Bardens in my 52 reissue, and those are absolutely the best pickups for what I needed, but they may or may not fit you.

You could get a bit more focused help here if you would tell us what guitar you've got now, what pickups are in it, what kind of strings and bridge it's got, what amp you use, and some recorded songs we know that have a tone you like.

July 20th, 2003, 06:45 PM	#3 (permalink)
Wayne Alexander Tele-Afflicted Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA Posts: 1,062	Peter, you can get some ideas here or from other experienced players, but ultimately you'll have to judge for yourself what you like, and there's no substitute for putting those pickups in your guitar and playing them with your hands through your amp. Only then will you get a clear reading. What I've done is to buy a bunch of pickups over time USED, then resell the ones I don't want, usually at about the same prices. In my case, I ended up with Bardens in my 52 reissue, and those are absolutely the best pickups for what I needed, but they may or may not fit you. You could get a bit more focused help here if you would tell us what guitar you've got now, what pickups are in it, what kind of strings and bridge it's got, what amp you use, and some recorded songs we know that have a tone you like.