Few will want to brighten up a vintage-spec Tele, but a k or 1m volume pot may drag a tad more twang out of a hot-wound Tele set. You may want to mess with your tone control, too. Tele types often feel compelled to imitate truck horns and train whistles. Wah effects are popular, too. In addition to pot values, you can experiment with a linear taper to alter the control response or try different capacitor values.
The stock cap is 0. The capacitor value will also alter the range of the tone control, so consider hooking up a bunch of capacitors to a rotary switch to decide which value works best for you. There are plenty of options to choose from and much depends on whether you are prepared to drill extra holes in your guitar. The Bigsby B5 kit also comes with a new bridge plate and a rocking bridge with six adjustable saddles. You also need to drill wide holes for the new bridge posts.
For a full-on vintage vibe, check out the Bigsby B16 kit. Originally introduced in , this massive casting replaces the original bridge and raises the bridge pickup height. Users report that the B16 has a wider range than the other Bigsby solutions, but the guitar will feel slightly different to play. One of the lesser-known quirks of s Gibson guitars was the way the controls were wired up.
The tone circuit was connected to the output of the volume control rather than the input, which maintains clarity when you turn down the volume control. Teles are naturally bright guitars, so a treble bleed capacitor over the volume control can thin out the tone excessively when you turn down.
Instead, try Gibson-style wiring and move the wire connecting the tone control to the volume control from the outside solder tag of the volume pot to the centre tag.
Fender chose k pots because they roll off some of the top end. Even so, the direct output mod has gained favour with country pickers, who often want brighter and more dynamic tone. Rock players might like it too, especially with darker-sounding over-wound pickups, because you get an even higher output level. This mod involves adding a switch to bypass the volume and tone controls, and routing the output of the pickups directly to the output jack. This would allow you to re-engage the controls individually or together.
The biggest problem for Fender fans is choosing between Strats and Teles. Understandably, players sometimes want and need the best of both worlds.
Some players take things further, with a Strat pickup in the neck position, too. Some perfectly good Telecasters of Far Eastern origin are let down by low-quality electronic components. The necks and bodies may be just fine, the hardware is generally functional and the finish may be really good.
But if you look under the control plate, you might find cheap mini potentiometers and dodgy plastic-cased switches. For relatively low cost, you can upgrade to an Oak Grigsby switch and a pair of CTS control potentiometers. After 30 minutes or so of soldering, your budget Tele will be packing controls that are identical to those used on top-of-the-line Custom Shop models. Simply download a schematic for Telecaster wiring and follow the diagram. Players were using Telecasters to mimic pedal steel guitars from the get-go, but a certain country virtuoso named Clarence teamed up with his Byrds band-mate Gene Parsons to move the goalposts forever.
This allows players to bend the B string up a whole tone while holding chords. In addition to bending with the strap button, you can use levers behind the bridge, or even operate a lever using your hip. Hipshot also manufactures toggle levers to alter the tunings of individual strings, and the Doubleshot which changes the tuning of all six strings simultaneously — so you can go from standard tuning to open G at the flick of a lever. This could be the ultimate in Tele wiring trickery.
Most of the wiring mods we have discussed elsewhere in this feature are included in a switchable format on the Toneshaper. All the pickup and output connections are push fit, so no soldering is required and you can simply plug in a three-, four- or five-way switch. Three banks of mini switches allow you to toggle the value of the volume pot from K to K to brighten the tone.
Four surface-mount tone capacitors are attached to the PCB; the switching allows you to use them individually or in combination, enabling you to choose between 15 different values. When guitarists talk about neck preferences, most think in terms of feel and playability. The common perception is that rosewood fingerboards warmed up the Tele tone compared to the earlier one-piece maple necks.
The proof comes when you swap between two identically made necks while retaining the same tuners, body, pickups and strings. Having tried this, we can report that the difference can be profound. As far as one-piece maple necks are concerned, we would associate them with clear definition, enhanced sustain and tonal brightness. A slimmer but otherwise identical neck will produce a woodier, warmer and slightly mellower tone. This one has two wafers, each loaded with 12 solder tags that are grouped in two batches of six.
The out-of-phase tone is thinner and scratchier with a hollowed-out Peter Green sort of tone. Image: El Dorado Guitar Accessories. There are plenty to choose from on eBay, and for a swampy blues vibe you could go for faux alligator.
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If you have MSTS installed, then the route goes in there as usual. If you don't have MSTS then it gets a little bit more complicated because you will have to construct a basic folder setup, then download and install some extra files. Beer is not a matter of life or death, it is much more serious than that. How exactly would I do that? Join Date Aug Posts It's all in the OR instructions. But it still won't show any details about the route, or let me start.
Thanks very much, but I'm not understanding any of it. Originally Posted by drummerboy. If you don't understand how to do that or what that means, it would be best if you purchase a copy of MSTS first to simplify the procedure for you. In that case, OR simply looks for the install path and does most of the work for you.
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