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Nocaster vs. CS Broadcaster/Twisted Tele vs. SD AlnicoII

RomanS
September 17th, 2007, 05:03 PM
Doing research about pickups for my upcoming Thinline Partscaster project - here are some options I'm considering:

CS Twisted Tele/Broadcaster set - as featured on the Baja Tele; forum member "nokaster" has a set of these for sale in the classifieds (BTW, don't let my post deter you from buying those from him, if you want them); from what I could find in the archives here, the Twisted Tele neck pickup seems to be a bit brighter, Strat-ish (not what I'm looking for), but I found few opinions about the Broadcaster bridge pickup.

Nocaster pickups: from what I've read, probably the best match for what I'm looking for, slightly warmer, slightly raunchy.

Seymour Duncan AlnicoII - as featured on the Lite Ash, which I've played and liked; also slightly warmer than "regular" vintage-style Tele pickups; I'm just not sure where the difference to the Nocaster pickup lies...

Also thinking about the SD 5-2...

Here's what I'm looking for:
Neck pickup: warm, round, full, jazzy, smoky; I love the sound of the VVG HCC (HB-sized Charlie Christian-style blade pickup) in my other Thinline Partscaster, but this body is routed for a single coil.
Bridge pickup: it should be able to twang, but shouldn't be too bright, thin, ice-picky; I'm looking for a fuller, raunchier tone, which would work well both for rockabilly (think Lutehr Perkins) as well as raunchy OD tones (think Bruce Springsteen).

So, what do you think? Nocaster the best choice, or any of the other ones...?

tkingen
September 17th, 2007, 05:26 PM
I used to have a set of SD Alnico II's. Great sounding pickups but I wouldn't choose them for Luther Perkins twang... especially on the low strings.

Have you talked to Don Mare? I have a set of 2324's and feel impressed at how many different sounds can be coaxed out of them. They do twangy, raunchy, jazzy - all with simple turns of the volume and tone pots. I can get Roy Buchanan and Jim Camplilongo tones, convincing steel guitar tones, Bakersfield, convincing clean jazz, muscular blues tones, as well as Page's neck tone from Led Zep I (that's with the Nancy's Heart tone pot in the neck postion).

I like these pickups!

Btw... no ones running for cover when I bend the high E string with the bridge pickup :cool:

boris bubbanov
September 18th, 2007, 12:49 AM
If nokaster has a full Baja pickup set and the four way control panel, by all means buy 'em all.
I thought about trying to have 'em shipped back across the Atlantic, bound to end up costing too much, now money's an issue for me so I'm out; make him a deal.

Bubbanov