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Tele Bridge Pickup Options
If you’ve got a Telecaster that you love the feel of but you’re not totally happy with the lead pickup sound, there are lots of options. In this article I’ll take you through some of them, and let you hear what a few of them would sound like too. I’m going to assume that your Tele is a “normal” one – as in, it has the big metal bridge plate with a single coil pickup in it. Where can we go from there? Continue reading
Posted in The Tone Garage
Tagged Broadcaster, Hot for Tele, Hot Lead Stack, JB Jr., Little '59, Quarter Pound For Tele, telecaster
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What Is Coil Tapping?
Coil splitting is the practice of shutting off (or otherwise fading out) one coil of a humbucker, leaving behind a single coil for a brighter tone. Coil splitting is often confused with coil tapping, in much the same way that the terms ‘vibrato bar’ and ‘tremolo bar’ are considered interchangeable even though only one is technically correct. So what is coil tapping, and how is it different to coil splitting? Continue reading
Posted in The Tone Garage, Tips and Tricks
Tagged coil tapping, Hot for Tele, Quarter Pound For Tele, SSL-4, SSL-5, Tapped Tele
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