For any of u that own a Tele Custom, or know about them.....

[FortyEight]

This is an effort to learn about the configuration. ive never played one and im considering the same pickup configuration in my Starcaster. i have a mexican split bar single coil in the bridge now and im curious what the two together sound like.

i typically like the blended sound on most guitars ive had configured as such, best. any tele ive had its my favorite sound.

the downside is i typically dont like a neck humbucker sound. but thats when i owned epiphone les pauls. it was just too much imho. but maybe if i woulda played with the volume more. and a neck humbucker in an s style guitar with a trem bridge probably has more highs than a lp style.

i aslo realize that a tele custom has a distinct type of humbucker. im kind of open to what id put in there. although i doubt id wanna spring for a wide range humbucker unless i found some kind of stellar deal.

what kind of pots does a custom usually use? seems problematic to use a 500k volume with the tele bridge pup.

 

[Mr Swisher]

Seymour Duncan 59 in mine. Love it.

Oddly though, no bridge spec or pots?!

The neck sounds this..

 

[FortyEight]

weird how they dont list the pots.

THAT WAS BEAUTIFUL!!!! The riff, sound and guitar. Thanks for sharing. u got any of the blended sound? What amp and distortion are you using there?

 

[2HBStrat]

Seymour Duncan 59 in mine. Love it.

Oddly though, no bridge spec or pots?!

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The neck sounds this..

What you have is actually a Custom Telecaster, not a Telecaster Custom. THIS is a Telecaster Custom:

 

[Mr Swisher]

What you have is actually a Custom Telecaster, not a Telecaster Custom. THIS is a Telecaster Custom:
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You are right, and that just goes to show I should read things more carefully, and now I also want Telecaster Custom!

weird how they dont list the pots.

THAT WAS BEAUTIFUL!!!! The riff, sound and guitar. Thanks for sharing. u got any of the blended sound? What amp and distortion are you using there?

That was a long time ago, I think it was a Marshall SV20 studio, Rat pedal and reverb.

I don't have anything with them blended. If I get chance at the weekend I will do something.

 

[FortyEight]

What you have is actually a Custom Telecaster, not a Telecaster Custom. THIS is a Telecaster Custom:
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yes, this is what i meant. but it was mainly to understand in general a humbucker in the neck and single coil in the bridge. how it sounds and how its wired.

 

[2HBStrat]

yes, this is what i meant. but it was mainly to understand in general a humbucker in the neck and single coil in the bridge. how it sounds and how its wired.

To me having a humbucker in the bridge and a single coil in the neck position works better tonally. However, on a Tele Custom if you set your amp tone to where the humbucker sounds good with the tone all the way up then you can adjust the bridge position single coil tone control so it won't be so bright. If you set it the opposite way the neck humbucker will be too bassy. IMO.

 

[FortyEight]

yeah. good points. i might go a p90 in neck and humbucker in bridge.

 

[Gardo]

I have a Vintage Brand V72 Tele type with a neck mini humbucker. The mini is a Wilkinson WDG which seems to be relatively low output 5.75k . The bridge is a Wilkinson WTB wound to 6.8k. The pots are 500k and I think it works well. If it’s bright I just roll back the tone a bit
I think matching pickups output makes a big difference

 

[Mekhem]

I had an actual 70's Tele Custom for a bit and it was very hard to balance in the middle, just due to the fact that the WRHB just blew away the neck pup, without some major knob twiddling.

Not impossible - but then again - not easy to do quickly while playing. Individually - they sounded great but together was a hassle. I might have kept that guitar if it didnt weigh 10+ pounds.... There was a lot of rock and roll in that neck pickup

 

[FortyEight]

I have a Vintage Brand V72 Tele type with a neck mini humbucker. The mini is a Wilkinson WDG which seems to be relatively low output 5.75k . The bridge is a Wilkinson WTB wound to 6.8k. The pots are 500k and I think it works well. If it’s bright I just roll back the tone a bit
I think matching pickups output makes a big difference

Wow that seems low for a humbucker. heck for some single coils its low. but i forgot about mini humbuckers..... hmmmmmmmm

 

[Gardo]

I measured the pickup at the jack, it’s hard to find published specs on that one The pickup also has the pole pieces down pretty low

 

[FortyEight]

Where did u get that/those and how much? are u liking them?

 

[Southpole]

I have a 52 Hot Rod with a SD minibucker in the neck position. It has way more output than the bridge pick up. Definitely need to compensate with volume control when changing pickup positions.

 

[THX1123]

I replaced the 250ks with 500k Pots in my '72 RI. I prefer the 500K. The bridge Pup can still be tone-swept as before.

A pickup balance/blend can be achieved. I spent a few hours adjusting the pickup heights and pole pieces between the WRHB and the bridge.

These guitars a re a little more of a pain to wire than a regular Tele...

 

[2HBStrat]

I replaced the 250ks with 500k Pots in my '72 RI. I prefer the 500K..

I wonder how/why Fender messed that up...

 

[msalama]

70's Customs can be problematic if you're switching between the PUs live because of the huge output difference, and also because Fender used 1M pots for all Teles back then - and that can really make the SC awful harsh and bright sounding. I've had some success using the bridge PU for rhythm only, and then switching over to the WRHB for leads and fills, but for that to work, one may have to play with the amp EQ and/or PU tone knobs quite a bit. But it can work nevertheless, you'll just have to know how to set the whole thingamajig up

 

[msalama]

PS. And just to clarify some, the abovementioned works if you're using a good amp set at the edge of breakup with the SC, because the WRHB will then push it clear over the edge and that's your lead sound right there. Not an all around solution, true, but works for blues and trad rock at the very least.

 

[Thadocaster]

This is an effort to learn about the configuration. ive never played one and im considering the same pickup configuration in my Starcaster. i have a mexican split bar single coil in the bridge now and im curious what the two together sound like.

i typically like the blended sound on most guitars ive had configured as such, best. any tele ive had its my favorite sound.

the downside is i typically dont like a neck humbucker sound. but thats when i owned epiphone les pauls. it was just too much imho. but maybe if i woulda played with the volume more. and a neck humbucker in an s style guitar with a trem bridge probably has more highs than a lp style.

i aslo realize that a tele custom has a distinct type of humbucker. im kind of open to what id put in there. although i doubt id wanna spring for a wide range humbucker unless i found some kind of stellar deal.

what kind of pots does a custom usually use? seems problematic to use a 500k volume with the tele bridge pup.

Vintera has 500k pots for the neck pickup. Recent AO/AV with CUNIFE has 1M. Both have 250k on the bridge. Unsure about other models.

 

[FortyEight]

I'm starting to think two minibuckers might be the way to go.... I do like the way this mexican split bar single coil I have in there now sounds though... And I don't love how the neck position sounds with a single coil. Or hmmmm maybe a P90.... Although I don't know what their output is. Plus I wouldn't mind the hum cancelling aspect of a humbucker....