Pickups for a Rock Tele

[SpaceAceman]

Needs:

1. Hot as, or hotter than a PAF/59
2. Looks like a Tele Pickup / Standard mount
3. No hum

What do you suggest?

 

[Sax-son]

Needs:

1. Hot as, or hotter than a PAF/59
2. Looks like a Tele Pickup / Standard mount
3. No hum

What do you suggest?

Seymour Duncan BG1400 in the bridge, stacked humbucking Tele pickup in the neck (less hot to avoid a dark muddy tone) 500k pots, that's the best I can do for you.

 

[TunedupFlat]

Seymour Duncan BG1400 in the bridge, stacked humbucking Tele pickup in the neck (less hot to avoid a dark muddy tone) 500k pots, that's the best I can do for you.

Beat me to it. BG1400

 

[JeffBlue]

How about a Seymour Duncan BG1400 (Billy Gibbons Custom Shop stacked hum-canceling pickup? Yep, beat me to it also.

 

[chris m.]

Lots of guys like the SD Hot Rails set for rock and 80s grunge/metal tones.

 

[SpaceAceman]

Lots of guys like the SD Hot Rails set for rock and 80s grunge/metal tones.

Agree - a great "metal" pickup, but too hot for the purpose.

 

[SpaceAceman]

Never heard of the BG1400....interesting!

 

[Skyhook]

Needs:

1. Hot as, or hotter than a PAF/59
2. Looks like a Tele Pickup / Standard mount
3. No hum

What do you suggest?

SD Hot Rail in the bridge to begin with... how hot do you want the neck to be?

 

[JeffBlue]

The BG1400 is something that Billy Gibbons asked Seymour to construct for his' telecaster. Custom shop order.

 

[el cheapo]

Dimarzio Pre-B1 is way cheaper but may need shielding.

 

[NICQ]

DiMarzio Chopper ?

 

[Killing Floor]

Humbuckers buck hum. And they rock. Lots of great winders.

 

[Southpaw Tele]

I love my Tele with a Dimarzio Chopper T in the bridge and Area T in the neck.

 

[Southpaw Tele]

 

[SheldonP]

My AVRI '52 is my "rock" Tele. I've had a DiMarzio Super Distortion T (DP318) in the bridge position for several years and love it. There's a Seymour Duncan STR-3 Quarter pounder in the neck position. While not a humbucker, I've never gotten hum or buzz from it, either. They pair well with my 4010 JCM 800 and my X100b.

 

[Sax-son]

Yeah! I forgot about the quarter pounders, another good choice.

 

[chris m.]

The lead guitar player in Khruangbin uses Choppers in his Strat and plays totally clean, so that's one piece of data that
tells me they can sound really good clean as well as dirty.

 

[TinkerSolderTry]

Quarter pounder will definitely be heavy enough but doesn't match the no hum demand.

The only noiseless Tele PUs i know is ChopperT and Lil59.

i was disappointed with the lil 59 because it sounded nothing like the full sized SH-1 which is a rather scooped voiced PU and rather open than compressed.
The lil 59 is more on the compressed side, has quite some mids and you can hear it's not an alnico magnet. I say it's hotter than the SH-1 also.
Not what i was looking for at the time.
I don't know how i would like it today.

The chopper is also quite mid forward but has less output than the lil59. It's definitely a humbucker sound but there is more tele in there than with the lil59. I didn't like it in my warm alder tele, but it's really great in my rather cold ash tele which benefits from some extra mids.

 

[SpaceAceman]

The only thing I know that meets the specs is a DiMarzio Area T Hot...

 

[Audiowonderland]

Duncan lil59