Humbucker + Single Coil Tele Wiring Mixing Humbuckers and Single Coils can be tricky – Humbuckers tend to sound best on a 500K pot, and Single Coils sound best on a 250K pot, to tame their brightness. Like a Telecaster, this is made more difficult on a guitar with a single volume po...
The electronics & wiring are decent and didn’t need replacing, but I wanted to mod mine with a humbucker in the bridge. I really wish they’d release an HS squier telecaster in a 3 tone sunburst with a maple fretboard and neck, but hey ho. Would recommend. Roles: Guitarist Bassist ...
there have been a lot of small modifications over the years, particularly with pick-ups. Some models, like the Telecaster Deluxe and Telecaster Custom, have humbucker rather than single coil pick-ups for
wiring while the fender american performer telecaster is teeming with vintage-tinged tone, its modern output and wiring give it a sound all its own. this tele's yosemite single-coil pickups feature flat-staggered pole pieces, yielding a vintage tonal balance and amp-b...
and grind of this guitar’s JW-90 single-coil. Finally, the bridge position slot contains a Custom Jack White Humbucker that snarls with raw attitude. It’s a supremely versatile arrangement of pickups, further elevated by Jack’s unusual wiring scheme, which includes an arcade-style stu...
Teles with a neck humbucker can benefit from having a 500k volume pot, with a 470k or 500k resistor connected between the bridge pickup’s hot connection and ground to balance them out. If you’re upgrading a budget guitar, the pot holes in the control plate may need widening to accommod...
Gibson humbuckers have a bar magnet within, but the pole pieces are not magnetic. But on Wide Range pickups, the pole piecesaremagnetic, as on Fender’s single-coil pickups. Situating individual magnets closer to the strings yield a brighter sound with greater note defition and string-to-str...
“If you’re using overdrive it gives you a little more overdrive; if you’re clean it will give you a little more volume – so people use it to juice their signal. With the two pickups wired in series mode it basically turns them into a humbucker – it gives you a little more ...