Tele'fying your humbucker guitar

Reinhard

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I still need to have some coffee, but this sounds pretty damn close. The guy takes really long to get to the point, but if you want to hear what the guitar sounds like after the mod, go to around the 7:15 mark.

DaFiz

Hey... it has to 'hum or it duzzent sound like a Tele :-[

Reinhard

DaFiz wrote: Hey... it has to 'hum or it duzzent sound like a Tele :-[

Chocklit_Thunda

DaFiz wrote: Hey... it has to 'hum or it duzzent sound like a Tele :-[

No, no, no... Aluminium foil and pritt takes care of that problem 8)

DaFiz

Chocklit_Thunda wrote:
DaFiz wrote: Hey... it has to 'hum or it duzzent sound like a Tele :-[
It only hums during the quiet breaks... solution... don't stop playin' 8)

Chocklit_Thunda

DaFiz wrote:
Chocklit_Thunda wrote:
DaFiz wrote: Hey... it has to 'hum or it duzzent sound like a Tele :-[
No, no, no... Aluminium foil and pritt takes care of that problem 8)
It only hums during the quiet breaks... solution... don't stop playin' 8)

I like the way you think ?

el-guapo

Chocklit_Thunda wrote:
DaFiz wrote: Hey... it has to 'hum or it duzzent sound like a Tele :-[
No, no, no... Aluminium foil and pritt takes care of that problem 8)

I thought that was how Scott Grove made hats?

guidothepimmp

If you want to sound like Tele..why not get a Tele? ???

Psean

Chocklit_Thunda wrote:
DaFiz wrote: Hey... it has to 'hum or it duzzent sound like a Tele :-[
No, no, no... Aluminium foil and pritt takes care of that problem 8)

Does it? Correct me if I'm wrong but I always thought foil could help with RF interference but not 50 cycle hum.

Chocklit_Thunda

Psean wrote:
Chocklit_Thunda wrote:
DaFiz wrote: Hey... it has to 'hum or it duzzent sound like a Tele :-[
No, no, no... Aluminium foil and pritt takes care of that problem 8)
Does it? Correct me if I'm wrong but I always thought foil could help with RF interference but not 50 cycle hum.

Wait, is there a difference between the 2? The foil works to cut noise, that's all I know. I just know it makes a faraday cage which cuts any interference with the EMF in the cage.
When I first built my Tele it had that click from the electric fence and a slight hum from the energy saver lights in the room but since I foiled the pickguard and the cavities, it's dead quiet... Like corpse dead quiet... ?

funkadelic

I'm doing something similar to my guitar myself. Want to make my humbucker (actives) sound like a strat. Don't like the idea of carrying two guitars for different sounds so I'm in the process of installing a new pickup and having my guitar rewired with a split pickup. Can't wait!!! PS: Why does anyone love a tele? Such an ugly guitar. LOL!

chris77

funkadelic wrote: PS: Why does anyone love a tele? Such an ugly guitar. LOL!

Yeah, I know what you mean, the design was meant to be practical rather than pretty...
But if you grow to love something ugly it's based on more than superficial aesthetics and once you get past the akward flirting stages of owning one you'll probably discover that she's a keeper. ?

FRIX

Chocklit_Thunda wrote:
Psean wrote:
Chocklit_Thunda wrote:
DaFiz wrote: Hey... it has to 'hum or it duzzent sound like a Tele :-[
No, no, no... Aluminium foil and pritt takes care of that problem 8)
Does it? Correct me if I'm wrong but I always thought foil could help with RF interference but not 50 cycle hum.
Wait, is there a difference between the 2? The foil works to cut noise, that's all I know. I just know it makes a faraday cage which cuts any interference with the EMF in the cage.
When I first built my Tele it had that click from the electric fence and a slight hum from the energy saver lights in the room but since I foiled the pickguard and the cavities, it's dead quiet... Like corpse dead quiet... ?

Man I need to do that. I have the issues as what you mentioned.

AlanRatcliffe

Psean wrote: Does it? Correct me if I'm wrong but I always thought foil could help with RF interference but not 50 cycle hum.

It does help a little with EMF (which you'd need a fairly thick mu-metal shield for it to be effective), but is far more effective on RF. Then again, RF is becoming more and more of an issue these days - modern gear throws of far more RF than EMF. Compare modern flatscreens with old CRTs, dimmers are more likely to be electronic than rheostats, etc..

Psean

Alan Ratcliffe wrote:
Psean wrote: Does it? Correct me if I'm wrong but I always thought foil could help with RF interference but not 50 cycle hum.
It does help a little with EMF (which you'd need a fairly thick mu-metal shield for it to be effective), but is far more effective on RF. Then again, RF is becoming more and more of an issue these days - modern gear throws of far more RF than EMF. Compare modern flatscreens with old CRTs, dimmers are more likely to be electronic than rheostats, etc..

Aah... Thanks for clarifying.

Nitebob

Saw a clip of a guy tele'fying a strat by joining neck and bridge pups. Anybody try that? Spent so much time and money making my strat look good. Dont want to sell it now for a tele....

Psean

Nitebob wrote: Saw a clip of a guy tele'fying a strat by joining neck and bridge pups. Anybody try that? Spent so much time and money making my strat look good. Dont want to sell it now for a tele....

Yeah, adding a "neck on" switch allows you to get neck and bridge together and supposedly gives a decent approximation of Tele tone. You also get pickups like Duncan's Twangbanger that are basically Tele bridge pickups designed to fit into a Strat.

Nitebob

THanx Psean....appreciated

AlanRatcliffe

Nitebob wrote: Saw a clip of a guy tele'fying a strat by joining neck and bridge pups. Anybody try that? Spent so much time and money making my strat look good. Dont want to sell it now for a tele....

I do that all the time (although my fave is still "all 3 on"). It gets some of the "gonk" of a Tele mid position, but it's not quite the same because the pickups, bridge pup mounting and pickup spacing are all different. You can also add a plate under a Strat's bridge pickup, which pushes it more into Tele territory.

Chocklit_Thunda

funkadelic wrote: PS: Why does anyone love a tele? Such an ugly guitar. LOL!

Is it though? :?