Matching Barden's Bridge PU

[zenfly]

I have a Nashville tele that I put 3 Barden's in because they are great in one of my Strats.. Right away I didn't like the bridge PU (too brittle for me) so I bought one out of a NoCaster Relic off ebay and it's just the opposite..

What I want is the twang but with a bit of mid punch for OD/distortion..

Also I'm not sure about matching ohms or whatever to the bardens and how important it is...thanks for help here.

[jefrs]

The Barden T-Style bridge pickup must use a 250k vol pot.

I fitted the Barden to match the output of an 8k neck humbucker.

The 250k pot makes the neck humbucker a bit dull so I fitted a TBX+47nF tone control with a "treble bleed" cap (can't remember value) from the top of the 1Meg to output (so the treble bleed is only operative at 10 on the tone pot). It also allowed me to raise the neck humbucker to regain some of the frissance lost to the 250k vol pot.

You have to carefully adjust the height of the Barden T-style or it can loosen your teeth, which it will do with a 500k vol pot, but it does not have to. It is very sensitive to height adjustment. Got right, it is a tele bridge pickup on steroids.

The Barden T is a ceramic dual rail humbucker with its coils in parallel. Hence rather low DC resistance and need for that 250k vol pot.