Duncan Quarter Pound Tele Pups?

[J Boon]

I was just wondering about them. I love the tele twang, but I play heavy music some times. So I heard about these Quarter Pound for Tele pickups and listened to the clips on the SD website and liked what I heard.

However, I was wondering if any of you use them on your telecasters, know someone how does and heard it, heard it live, or whatever?

Also what your overall thoughts on them are, and be bias and harsh please, cause honesty is the best policy...

One more thing I can't find any place or website that sells them so if any of you know a page that sells both pickups, please post the you URL.

Thank you,

 

[musicmatty]

You should post this in the 'Pickups' part of this forum. Lots of info over there.

 

[J Boon]

Oh I'm sorry about that... Newbie mistake I guess... Anyone got any info though?

 

[teleyouk]

I played with this pickup in my tele some years ago; very dynamic with big attack.
The twangy sound is lost, and this pickup is essentially rock-oriented.
Also, I have to warn you that the quarter pound is very noisy when played in distortion mode, due to the big magnets.
Recommended if you are looking for a punchy sound with bite; forget it if you prefer a smooth , subtle sound.

 

[J Boon]

I played with this pickup in my tele some years ago; very dynamic with big attack.
The twangy sound is lost, and this pickup is essentially rock-oriented.
Also, I have to warn you that the quarter pound is very noisy when played in distortion mode, due to the big magnets.
Recommended if you are looking for a punchy sound with bite; forget it if you prefer a smooth , subtle sound.

Thank you friend that answers all my questions. I think I will try a more vintage pickup set and just use the right kind of overdrive.

 

[Quarterpounder]

I have a Quarterpounder in my esquire partscaster. (bridge pu only)I love it. I had a seymour duncan broadcaster pu in there last. With lots of heavy distortion the broadcaster pu was sqeeley and ice picky. The Quarterpounder works way better for heavy stuff. Its simply bigger and stronger sounding. More like a p-90. It still sounds enough like a tele, which is a good thing. Mine is dead quiet. I use canare cables and I shielded the pu cavity and control cavity. They are inexpensive enough to give it a shot. Around 50 bucks a piece on ebay.

 

[maestrovert]

i installed a Q-P'r into an Esquire once uponna way back when
i quite liked it, it was very versatile and responded very well to control manipulations....

interestingly, i could get a very nice faux acoustic-y rhythm quality out of it by lightly strumming at the base of the fingerboard with the tone full up and the vol rolled back a fair bit....

 

[e-merlin]

I had one in a MIJ Tele years ago and it wasn't my cup o' tea. It sounded dull and didn't really have much Tele character, IMO.

I'm really happy with the DiMarzio PRE-B1 I have in the middle one:

It's plenty hot enough to keep up with the P-90 but doesn't severely roll off the high end like the QP and most conventional overwounds do. It does lose a bit of top end, but it still sounds Tele!

 

[J Boon]

I had one in a MIJ Tele years ago and it wasn't my cup o' tea. It sounded dull and didn't really have much Tele character, IMO.

I'm really happy with the DiMarzio PRE-B1 I have in the middle one:

It's plenty hot enough to keep up with the P-90 but doesn't severely roll off the high end like the QP and most conventional overwounds do. It does lose a bit of top end, but it still sounds Tele!

PRE-B1 you say? Sounds great! What Dimarzio neck pup would you say would be good for that (single coil or stacks only please?)

 

[Oldschoolwax]

Quarter Pounders can be damned nice, but you should go up to 500 k pots if you want to get the top end sizzle out of them! =) i like them. sold the guit I had one in, but miss the sound! 500 k pots and no tone control, that's the diff, if you use a standard Tele bridge use a 250 k for that and just have two volumes! if a bucker, I'd still ditch the tone, for heavy, I never use it! YMMV etc...

 

[e-merlin]

PRE-B1 you say? Sounds great! What Dimarzio neck pup would you say would be good for that (single coil or stacks only please?)

Wish I could help you out there. I bought it on a lark because I had enough extra parts laying around to build the first version of the above Tele, but just needed a bridge pickup that could hang with a P-90. It also helped that I got it for $30 on eBay including shipping. That was back in the early days, though, so that gives you some idea of how long I've been happy with it.

 

[Radspin]

I had one in my '69 Tele for a while and it was way too dark-sounding for me, and that was with 1 meg pots. It did make the guitar sound thick and heavy, but I thought it was too much so.

 

[amileaway]

I've got one in the bridge of my American Series, with a Mean 90 in the neck. Not too sure if I like it not, but with the tone circuit disengaged it's brighter and fairly useable.

 

[teleyouk]

Thank you friend that answers all my questions. I think I will try a more vintage pickup set and just use the right kind of overdrive.

Very happy if that can help you!