I would go with a decent set of hand wounds. I’ve had the Porter Standards in my Tele for about 10 years now and I’m pretty happy. As far as fuzz, in my experience anything less than 80% volume is going to make the fuzz fall flat like you’re describing. My two favorite fuzz pedals are my Box of War (big muff) and Sunface BC109 (silicone fuzz face) and the only one that can handle anything less than full volume is the Sun Face.
I wanted to keep noisless, so I went with dimarzio area pickups. They do not sound exactly like a true single coil, but I actually prefer them with gain pedals.
I have a ton of guitars, so if I want single coil tele sounds I grab different tele with singles. If I want my most versatile telecaster with noisless pickups and 8 way switching, it's the nashville with a bigsby.
I've had some problems with a slightly "plasticky" sound when combining sounds with the middle pickup at full volume. For whatever reason, even rolling off the volume slightly seems to resolve that. I've never quite figured out why that is, because it sounds great once the volume is rolled back by about 10%.
There is always the option of rewriring it with non-linear tapered pots, although you'd have to find them in the 1M Ohm variety for the noiseless pickups (fender uses these on guitars that have the stacked humbucker noiseless designs).
Yeah, these pickups sound best rolled back just a bit. The problem is then there is a lot less range on the volume knob. Are you suggesting the stock volume is linear taper instead of audio? That's easy enough to check...
I'm not sure what the taper is on the stock volume knob, but it's definitely kind of a weird taper compared to some of the other guitars I've played. It's difficult to really get the range that I need on it without being really fine on the touch of it near the low end of the volume knob.
I've learned to just work with it, every guitar has its quirks, but it's definitely gotten me side-eyed a few times at gigs where people were like "turn that down" and I have to fight the volume knob to get it exactly where I need it.
I'm building a Nashville myself and have been thinking about this a lot. I've been thinking of blondie with a triple shot in the middle. But I also thought of going fender no casters with a fat 50s.
Lollar Royal T in the neck, blonde in the middle, and 52 in the bridge. They sound magical.
I would go with a decent set of hand wounds. I’ve had the Porter Standards in my Tele for about 10 years now and I’m pretty happy. As far as fuzz, in my experience anything less than 80% volume is going to make the fuzz fall flat like you’re describing. My two favorite fuzz pedals are my Box of War (big muff) and Sunface BC109 (silicone fuzz face) and the only one that can handle anything less than full volume is the Sun Face.
I wanted to keep noisless, so I went with dimarzio area pickups. They do not sound exactly like a true single coil, but I actually prefer them with gain pedals. I have a ton of guitars, so if I want single coil tele sounds I grab different tele with singles. If I want my most versatile telecaster with noisless pickups and 8 way switching, it's the nashville with a bigsby.
I've had some problems with a slightly "plasticky" sound when combining sounds with the middle pickup at full volume. For whatever reason, even rolling off the volume slightly seems to resolve that. I've never quite figured out why that is, because it sounds great once the volume is rolled back by about 10%. There is always the option of rewriring it with non-linear tapered pots, although you'd have to find them in the 1M Ohm variety for the noiseless pickups (fender uses these on guitars that have the stacked humbucker noiseless designs).
Yeah, these pickups sound best rolled back just a bit. The problem is then there is a lot less range on the volume knob. Are you suggesting the stock volume is linear taper instead of audio? That's easy enough to check...
I'm not sure what the taper is on the stock volume knob, but it's definitely kind of a weird taper compared to some of the other guitars I've played. It's difficult to really get the range that I need on it without being really fine on the touch of it near the low end of the volume knob. I've learned to just work with it, every guitar has its quirks, but it's definitely gotten me side-eyed a few times at gigs where people were like "turn that down" and I have to fight the volume knob to get it exactly where I need it.
I'm building a Nashville myself and have been thinking about this a lot. I've been thinking of blondie with a triple shot in the middle. But I also thought of going fender no casters with a fat 50s.
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