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For the OP - that's a real nice Tele and truthfully does not need any mods. It's a quality instrument as is. If you really want to change the feel and tonality put a set of flat wounds on it and either love em or hate em and move on.
Other than that all I can add is that a Tele is a very simple and responsive instrument and I found it takes a while to warm up to some. Anyone who plays guitar has along the way had someone who is a good player pick up their guitar and do things and get a sound they did not think was possible with their guitar. Add a couple of zeros to this experience with a Tele. |
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https://www.buyanalogman.com/Product...M%2DBIGTPICKUP It does take time to adjust to a new guitar, and I won't make any such decisions until I am completely comfortable with this guitar and know that I am not making changes to adjust for deficiencies in my own technique on it. As an example, I am finding that I need to adjust some of my fingerings of certain chords because I have a tendency to pull some of the strings out of tune since the strings are so much lighter than those on any of my acoustic guitars. Also, I am working on getting used to using a thumb pick so that I can work out single string runs while maintaining my normal fingerstyle approach to playing. These things take time to work through and get completely comfortable with, so I am just relaxing into that process as I get to truly know this guitar. I am glad that I spent the money to get a good guitar to work with so I am not looking around for something better and can instead focus on playing. Tony |
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Yep. I see folks spending extra to soup-up their tele with hot-wound pickups….and others pay extra to get vintage under-wound pickups for that true tele tone …. I think we all have a little Greener Grass Syndrome sometimes.
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Tony, That's a really nice Telecaster--I Hope You Enjoy It As Is!
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This is where I have been enjoying my time lately, too. I have really enjoyed working through the puzzle of figuring out some of the Great American Songbook classics of the past on the guitar, just as you describe. I am certainly not a jazz guitarist, either... And when I try to do this on an acoustic guitar, I find that I just don't seem to have the strength to do these songs well. Maybe I never did, who knows... Instead, I can do a much better job on an electric guitar. I do have a Tele, but I also have an Eastman archtop, a model AR910CE, that I enjoy just plugging straight into an old Fender 410 Blues DeVille that I have from the 1990s. Just a little reverb and it sounds very rewarding. And this has the advantage of not encouraging me to spend more money. I did change the preamp tubes from 12AX7 to 12AT7 to reduce the gain a little and that seems to help make the amp a lot more forgiving and not so ridiculously loud. - Glenn
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I rarely regretted swapping pickups for better ones - and it does not have be always for the boutique ones.. it depends on a guitar too, sometimes the swap doesnt work quite like you´d expect.
But never a rabbit hole for me.. the sounds I like are always best delivered with unpotted Alnico (II or III) pickups. and V in gibson bridge.. nor always tho Now unpotted is almost out of question with Fender.. but I once ordered a nitro lacquered (instead of wax) strat pickups.. gorgeous sounds, but when played thru El-84 amps... clanky madness Most stock pickups these days are from the lowest bidder.. cheap. |
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I've been playing for many years, I've had MANY guitars,
I've only modified a few.. that guitar needs no changes. leave it be.
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Maybe my struggle playing this material on an acoustic is not as unusual as I had originally thought. That makes me feel better, though not about the fact that you have similar issues but instead that I am not alone in this. I do have an archtop that I bought from Robert Conti. It is a Peerless Conti model and is surprisingly good. However, I am really taken with that chimey sound that Tim Lerch gets and Ted Greene got, along with the warmth that Ed Bickert got. As for amplifiers, I have not had a tube amp since I stopped playing out. My last tube amp was a Mesa Mark IV. Back in the late 1970s when I was full time as a musician, I had a Fender Concert amp with 4 10" speakers. It had a tan tolex case and those little brown knobs. Of course, I was a lot younger then. My current amp is the Acoustic Image Coda Series III, a great little amp with a lot of power with its class D output section. Tony |
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It may well be that some months down the road, I decide to get some of those third party boutique Tele pickups. Tony |
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I've bought a dozen (a baker's dozen if IIRC) pickups to put in my guitars. Mostly Seymour Duncan but also the Zakk Wylde EMG 81/85 set, SRV Fender pickup, a few DiMarzios, a custom Vineham pickup (out of Newfoundland) as well.
All my Gibsons are stock because I think they were fantastic as they are but I did upgrade some other guitars that had Duncan Designed pickups or other. I liked the change in all of them. I also enjoyed learning to solder and hearing the different tones that a pickup swap can do. I haven't done that in a few years though. |