Mexican made Fender Telecaster tone

[rokdog49]

Campilongo made a great point about the volume and tone knobs. Listen to him closely again on that.
All in all, the Tele might be the one electric guitar they reflects the uniqueness of the player than any other.
You literally can play anything with it dialed in right.

[davidd]

Originally Posted by rockabilly69

Th cleans were sterile and the dirty clips were too dirty for me tell what they actually sounded like.

So I wasn't impressed with that tone, but I am going on to YOUTUBE to see what I can find. Maybe somebody playing more what I think is in line with good Tele tone.

Edit: I just listened to as many of the clips as I can find of the Bootstrap Tele pickups, and frankly, and I couldn't find one that I liked. Most of the players I heard demoing them were amateurish, and playing through either too much reverb, digital sounding amps, etc. Many them seemed to be demoing pedals along with the pickups. What I would like to hear is somebody playing through a decent amp, that knows how to play the music that Teles shine in. I would to like hear a Tele with pickups straight into a Tweed Deluxe style amp, cranked to the point of the amp working.

I'm all for cheap pickups, and I used an unknown winder that someone recommended to me. Their name is EP Custom. I bought their Jaguar and Jazzmaster sets, and they were great. But since I bought them, their priced went up considerably. So I'm always on the hunt for cheaper pickups.


This is the kind of Tele tones I like...

Trying to discern from a YT video how a pickup will work is a crap shoot at best. Most of my experience with pickups is that magnet type and output ohms along with cap value is pretty much 90% of the recipe. The rest is pickup height, tone control and most importantly the amp. IMO A Fender guitar through a Fender tube amp is THE classic sound.

[rockabilly69]

Originally Posted by davidd

Trying to discern from a YT video how a pickup will work is a crap shoot at best. Most of my experience with pickups is that magnet type and output ohms along with cap value is pretty much 90% of the recipe. The rest is pickup height, tone control and most importantly the amp. IMO A Fender guitar through a Fender tube amp is THE classic sound.

I can hear the tone on the three clips I posted perfectly. And I guarantee I can record a clip of any pickup that I have in a guitar and you can hear what I like about it, although there is still the matter of feel that can't be expressed through a video.But if what I hear in a clip is close enough to the sound I'm looking for, I'll be interested in giving that pickup a try. The Bootstrap clips aren't even close to what I look for in a Tele pickup. Maybe you can point me to a better clip, or better yet, perhaps you can record one.

But as I said, I don't discredit cheaper pickups, and along with the other pickup company I mentioned, EP Customs, there's another one I tried and liked, Cavalier. They can be found here... https://www.frettech.com/ I put one of their Hot Lion pickups in my Esquire and it's great.

But I surely don't agree with you that the supplies pickup users use are all the same. And I think some of the boutique pickup companies, along with having YEARS of winding experience, people like Wolfetone, Lollar, Fralin, have also went to great lengths to source more accurate magnets, base plates, covers, wire, etc. Some pickup companies do have ridiculous prices, but if I'm going to build a guitar that I plan to play (ie make a living with, or record songs for me or clients with), I want to get as close to the ideal sound as I can get.

[rockabilly69]

Originally Posted by rokdog49

Campilongo made a great point about the volume and tone knobs. Listen to him closely again on that.
All in all, the Tele might be the one electric guitar they reflects the uniqueness of the player than any other.
You literally can play anything with it dialed in right.

For a while, Jim Campilongo was my brother Pete's guitar teacher. It was when Jim lived in San Francisco. When I would visit my brother, I would go catch Jim's show at the Paradise Lounge where he had a weekly house gig. I can tell you from watching him he eked every bit of tone out of a Tele and a Princeton that you could possible imagine.