High output bridge pickup

What is a good tele bridge pickup with a good amount of output, but has good treble too?

I am thinking about possible pickups for my new MIM tele.

I wanna put a PAF type humbucker in the neck, but I don't know what to do with the bridge. The stock pickup is ok, but I think there is room for improvement.

The Seymour Duncan STL-1B Broadcaster bridge pickup measures up at around 8k, & it makes a good partner with a neck P90. Here's mine in action.

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Someone here uses a BG1400 bridge pickup with good results. It's very hot! They wanted to match the output of a WRHB in the neck position. It sounded very good. Much better than I expected.

Yes on the Broadcaster. Also if you don't mind variing from traditional tone, the tapped 1/4 lb er. It goes great w HBs powerwise and still has highs. Especially when using the tap you get back to a more normal tone. Its wide magnets does smear the attack so bite is toned down.

Agreed on the Broadcaster.

For a boutique offering - the Fralin Blues Special set has been my main pickups in my #1 Tele and Strat (he has a Strat set too) and I love them and they are the best I've heard.

Check out the Fralin Steel Pole 43...(10k)...I have it paired with the SD-52 (7.9k) in the neck and it can do anything...dirty when pushed hard, twangy when needed, jazzy when the treble is rolled off....

Quarter pounder or HD super90

I find the SD Broadcaster too thin on the low end. Their Jerry Donahue Lead has a much better balance of fatness and twang in my experience.

Either way, if you want to maintain good treble response, don't fall for a "hot" pickup. You can add all the hotness you want by turning up your amp or using pedals, but you can never add back in a sweet clean tone (see my tagline).

+1 on the Jerry Donohue

I find the SD Broadcaster too thin on the low end. Their Jerry Donahue Lead has a much better balance of fatness and twang in my experience.

Either way, if you want to maintain good treble response, don't fall for a "hot" pickup. You can add all the hotness you want by turning up your amp or using pedals, but you can never add back in a sweet clean tone (see my tagline).I'll have to disagree. I've made opamp distortion boxes w a gain of 10,000 and even that doesn't make a cool p/up sound hot just really,really distorted.Theres something to an overwound p/up that can't be gotten any otherway regardless of how hot your signal chain or amp is.However nothings going to add clarity or sweetness if it isn't there to start with either.A tapped quater pounder for both.

I'll have to disagree. I've made opamp distortion boxes w a gain of 10,000 and even that doesn't make a cool p/up sound hot just really,really distorted.Theres something to an overwound p/up that can't be gotten any otherway regardless of how hot your signal chain or amp is.However nothings going to add clarity or sweetness if it isn't there to start with either.A tapped quater pounder for both.

+1
You can add dirt but you can't add hot

match mismatched pups via their pole piece distance to the strings. it's no big deal to create a usable tele custom (tele bridge pup + hb neck pup) with a warm gibson-like paf hb neck pup and decent output/tone tele-like bridge pup. yer not reinventing the wheel, there are a gajillion tele customs out there in geetarland. do look for a fat tele bridge pup to mate well with yer choice of paf hb. maybe you need to test drive a cavalier lion?

I have a rumpelstiltskin black rope thats around 12K. Its pretty fat. It still twangs too.

Fralin blue specials are pretty low output, I think 7K...I have the stock set which is 6.6K, and its a great pickup but not very "hot"

Brad Paisley uses blues specials and most of his Teles have around 7K bridges from his 69 to his blackguard 52 Tele.

I got a Pre-B1 going in an Esquire. These are not known for any sparkle. In my case with just a VOL and no tone circuit, wide open it has plenty treble. I can not speak for it in the usual Tele VOL/TONE setup as I have never used it that way. So I hope the post offers some prospective for the Dimarzio

unless the pickup design, build, materials and wind criteria are the same or very very similar, using resistance to describe output/tone is, well, worthless. even more so true with single coil footprint humbuckers. it's the apples and oranges things.

Wilde 290TLE or 298TL

Contact one of the many many handwinders here on TDPRI. They will make you Very Happy, to the point that you will wonder how they can do so much for so little money. Have a dialog, send money, get Happy.

http://www.bareknucklepickups.co.uk/main/pickups.php?cat=teles&sub=vintage&pickup=flat50&series=blackguard - 10.6K


This is what i have in my Tele !