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The tele lipstick can be an acquired taste. The JD sig with strat pickup in the neck and five way switching was my choice back when I had sideman gigs. They did a matching strat that sounded like a tele in the bridge just to be awkward.
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The tele bridge is amazing and the tele neck I just don't use ever I've got a tex mex bridge pickup in the mail I'm excited to get but I'm leaving the neck stock cause cheap I might also upgrade all of the not great pickups I'm my strat if I find a set of all three that's a good value (should I make it SSS instead of the current HSS? I thought I'd like having a more conventional humbucker guitar handy but the humbucker in this sounds terrible)
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I'm about to order a set from here: https://bootstrappickups.com/ All of the demos I've found sound great, and there's quite a bit of positive buzz for them on guitar forums, for what that's worth. I emailed the guy directly and he suggested a set for my SSH Godin. The total is just under $100 for the bunch. SSS sets are about half that price.
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Sep 23, 2020 01:17
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The 72 tele custom is god's chosen guitar.
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Sep 23, 2020 01:29
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New HER signature Strat is p rad.  
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TraderStav posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFaPqBNNeYI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5dAi1izlmA See above, got my Blue Yeti and it's infinitely better in my opinion. Thanks for all of the input on this. I'll move up to the real deal when I outgrow this and give it to my kids to youtube with or something at that time. Ignore the poor playing, as above. I've been struggling to grok a swung rhythm and my I could tell I left my lesson tonight having frustrated my instructor. I THINK I got it closer to it should be, so hopefully he's less stressed after I send that to him.
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beer gas canister posted:I'm about to order a set from here: https://bootstrappickups.com/ I have a set in my tele and they are good.
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Sep 23, 2020 02:37
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TraderStav posted:Ignore the poor playing, as above. I've been struggling to grok a swung rhythm and my I could tell I left my lesson tonight having frustrated my instructor. I THINK I got it closer to it should be, so hopefully he's less stressed after I send that to him. Your swung rhythm is perfectly fine for a beginner in that clip. You'll start to develop more of a natural feel for different rhythms over time so just take it slow and steadily work up to tempo. And don't worry about frustrating your instructor - for a start you're paying them and I guarantee that even if you came in and held the guitar backwards you wouldn't be the most clueless student they have had.
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Sep 23, 2020 02:41
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darkwasthenight posted:Your swung rhythm is perfectly fine for a beginner in that clip. You'll start to develop more of a natural feel for different rhythms over time so just take it slow and steadily work up to tempo. And don't worry about frustrating your instructor - for a start you're paying them and I guarantee that even if you came in and held the guitar backwards you wouldn't be the most clueless student they have had. Thanks for the feedback, it's very appreciated. I really wanted to post to close out the initial question about microphones and such and compare/contrast the difference. Just happened that I had that video handy to do so. I kid about frustrating my instructor, he's a really awesome guy that I've been with for almost a year now and he knows it takes me a bit to get out of my head and into the guitar. He's actually been super energized with me in the past few months, I feel as that I've grown quite a bit since I sent my guitar to the Luthier for a setup for the first time in five years. Everything fell into place after that (plus covid and lots of time practicing...)
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beer gas canister posted:I'm about to order a set from here: https://bootstrappickups.com/ Those seem cool, and knowing a single coil set is half the price is a good excuse to do that Unrelated but I am surprised that when you look up videos of jazz masters a huge amount of them are “guitar worship” channels. Like jazz masters are for some reason popular in Christian church band YouTube??
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You can hear the difference in confidence even between those two clips you posted. It's good to keep recordings of your practice sessions occasionally so you can listen back and see how you're progressing.
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TraderStav posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5dAi1izlmA Holy poo poo that's night and day, hell yeah dude
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After spending a few months playing a Tele with a Gretsch-made filtertron in the neck, I've decided that it kicks rear end. Nothing like a trad humbucker, much brighter than the traditional neck pickup, but not "stringy" or metallic like a Strat neck, and not at all ice-picky. Works for warm jazz sounds, but not in the "imitating a hollowbody" way, it's more of a Bill Frisell, electric Americana kind of sound. The tone sort of sizzles, like there's a slight vinyl noise emulator on it or something, in a good way. Excellent at driving fuzz and utterly incapable of carrying milder distortions. Neck+bridge setting is beautiful, quacks like a Strat, but more throaty and vocal. Highly recommended if you want something different.
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I LIKE the single coil pickup on my Tele neck but I freely admit that I know nothing.
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Sep 23, 2020 04:56
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Tele neck pickup is so awesome I love it.
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 The correct answer is Jaguar neck pickup.
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Chip McFuck posted:
o my lore (nice books btw, i see pynchon, chekhov... and no longer human is one of my favorite novels)
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lol mugging for the camera at the end mic sounds good, you're on your way TraderStav posted:I feel as that I've grown quite a bit since I sent my guitar to the Luthier for a setup for the first time in five years. Everything fell into place after that (plus covid and lots of time practicing...) cool that a setup helped you improve
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the Tele pick guard is what throws me. It’s all curves and smooth lines but then there’s just this weird straight line. I don’t have a better idea I just don’t like that
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Sep 23, 2020 08:42
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The Tele body is an early design that should be replaced:
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Great colour, shame it melted. 
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BonHair posted:The Tele body is an early design that should be replaced: So close, now do the headstock 
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I used to prefer the Strat headstock but the Tele proportions are growing on me. Had a tough practice session today. All thumbs, buzzing frets and a feeling like I'd gone backwards a month on the song I was practicing. Oh well tomorrow can only be better.
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Carth Dookie posted:Had a tough practice session today. All thumbs, buzzing frets and a feeling like I'd gone backwards a month on the song I was practicing. Oh well tomorrow can only be better. In my house we call those "stupid fingers" and unless you have something you really need to push through for professional reasons, "try again tomorrow" is the only cure.
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This is a good amp! e: tag
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Generally speaking, what is the reason for having extremely hot passive pickups? Do they offer some benefit that I am missing? It seems that you could take a 6-9kohm hamburger and drive it through a pedal (or three) or a super evil preamp and get all the gain you could ever want, right? If you have 16k in your bridge position, can you ever be anything but the spawn of Satan?
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former glory posted:This is a good amp! I have been saying that in here for years. Sadly, there's no 64 bit version I don't think, so I can't use any of the LePou stuff any more.
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Rolabi Wizenard posted:Generally speaking, what is the reason for having extremely hot passive pickups? Do they offer some benefit that I am missing? It seems that you could take a 6-9kohm hamburger and drive it through a pedal (or three) or a super evil preamp and get all the gain you could ever want, right? If you have 16k in your bridge position, can you ever be anything but the spawn of Satan? It impacts tonal characteristics beyond just how hard it drives a tube amp; generally higher output pickups are going to be darker and there's going to be some amount of lost sustain since the stronger field is literally deadening the strings. That said I think the more common metal thing these days is to use lower output pickups and boosts.
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Rolabi Wizenard posted:Generally speaking, what is the reason for having extremely hot passive pickups? Do they offer some benefit that I am missing? It seems that you could take a 6-9kohm hamburger and drive it through a pedal (or three) or a super evil preamp and get all the gain you could ever want, right? If you have 16k in your bridge position, can you ever be anything but the spawn of Satan? It's a tonal thing too with the mid frequencies. Mild output pickups just sound so muddy compared to higher ones.
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Tele poo poo
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We posting Teles now? Fanciest one I built. Mini humbuckers, ash body 5 piece neck, ebony fretboard.  Pine body, one piece neck hardware made out of an old engraved serving tray as all of these are.  No idea about body maybe fir? Literally found a piece of wood behind my shed and used it for the body it weighs nothing. I did a really hard V on the neck shape just because I never played one before it's nice and comfy. Made the control knobs out of a tree branch.
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I just flipped the control plate order around on a Tele and I will never go back.
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beer gas canister posted:the bridge pickup in my tele fuckin rips with distortion. perfect punk tone. I put a 4 way switch with a series mode and I never use any other mode now. It was so worth it. 15 bux for the switch, whatever you want to pay to get a soldering iron and wire.
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Rolabi Wizenard posted:Generally speaking, what is the reason for having extremely hot passive pickups? Do they offer some benefit that I am missing? It seems that you could take a 6-9kohm hamburger and drive it through a pedal (or three) or a super evil preamp and get all the gain you could ever want, right? If you have 16k in your bridge position, can you ever be anything but the spawn of Satan? they're a product of when super high gain amps didn't exist, but like baron von eevl said the trend in heavy stuff for a while has been vintage output pickups into modern high gain amps. personally i think it has more to do with the ongoing trend in production toward making guitar sounds as super-trebly as possible plus if anything low output pickups force you to basically dime the gain knob to get a heavy sound so you're still losing any dynamic range and like spanish manlove said it just gets muddy. with higher output pickups you can back off the amp gain which gives you a lot more clarity and range, and the full range of the volume knob is actually useful if you're the kind of person who uses it to get a clean tone rather than switch channels
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The Muppets On PCP posted:they're a product of when super high gain amps didn't exist, but like baron von eevl said the trend in heavy stuff for a while has been vintage output pickups into modern high gain amps. personally i think it has more to do with the ongoing trend in production toward making guitar sounds as super-trebly as possible Or you could just use a boost pedal, get a comparable signal level to the amp without the detrimental effects of having it be so dark and impeding the strings.
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Baron von Eevl posted:Or you could just use a boost pedal, get a comparable signal level to the amp without the detrimental effects of having it be so dark and impeding the strings. depends on the amp and you're probably using a ts style boost with high output pickups anyway. and you can always lower the pickup if you think you're losing sustain. i've never had a problem with it, but ymmv it's all personal preference, really
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Absolutely, I think that's the stated idea behind using a lower output pickup with a boost to compensate; it's basically how an active pickup works already. I tend to prefer higher output on single coils to compensate and soften the edge a little bit, and lower-to-middle output on humbuckers so they're not too muddy.
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Lumpy posted:I have been saying that in here for years. Sadly, there's no 64 bit version I don't think, so I can't use any of the LePou stuff any more. Is that 64 bit Mac version cos I'm running it just fine on Win10 with Cubase that won't let me use 32 bit vsts
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Fuzz and wooly-bassed distortions are super hip and cool and don’t like high output pickups.
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NonzeroCircle posted:Is that 64 bit Mac version cos I'm running it just fine on Win10 with Cubase that won't let me use 32 bit vsts Yes, I should have specified. They stopped working under OS X 10.15.x
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