Is this crazy?

[Micahbell]

I love tele neck tone, but I am not a big fan of the bridge pickup. It is too harsh for my liking. The only time I find I use it is when it is pretty distorted, so what I was thinking is replacing it with a Fralin P92.
Has anybody tried this?

 

[m4rk0]

that IS crazy! I think it may explode if you do that!

 

[jackthehack]

May cause an anode charge build up in your cap and cause it to explode/smoke....

 

[-CB-]

So, this guy has a flat tire right in front of the fence of an insane asylum.  He jacks up the car and takes off the lug nuts... puts em in the hubcap all together for safe keeping.  Well, things don't go well.  He accidentally bumps the hubcap while he's rolling the spare tire along the side of the road, and the hubcap, complete with all four lug nuts goes down into the storm drain.

Fit with despair, he sits down on the curb, and cries out loud... "No lug nuts, what am I going to do now?"

A patient of the asylum sees the events take place, and walks over to the fence and says... "Hey... just take one nut off of each of the other tires.  That will get you going in a pinch!"

The man turns, sees the patient and says "Thats brilliant!  You shouldn't be inside that fence!"

The patient replies, "Mister I'm CRAZY not STUPID!!!!"

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And so it goes with the P92.  Do not.  The P92 is thicker than a standard Tele pickup, but its no P90.  Coil shape is all wrong.  It is however, humbucking.  It still has that single coil tone, just a "little more" beef.

Maybe better choices for a standard Tele Bridge size pickup:
Little 59
Vintage Reissue Fender pickup <--- these spank but are not whiny and shrill
Fralin over wound Tele pickup

For a HB size pickup, rather than a P92, consider:
Gibson Burstbucker #1, a sweet and light toned humbucker
Gibson P94, the ballsiest "P90 wannabe" of the bunch
Fralin under wound PAF humbucker

Jury is still out on the Fat Bastard.  Jack says it kicks ass, but mine was a dud... and they're replacing it.  So, officially, no comment.  The Phat Cat might be a good one too, although... its not a lot thicker than the P92.

BTW, the P92 is two single coils in one HB shell.  Think of it like a Pbass pickup under the hood.  Thats how its humbucking.  And, finally, Lawrence makes a SC in HB clothing pickup... I think its on his website... I know it was delayed a while due to his thing with Fender.

 

[jackthehack]

Seriously; I haven't tried one, but think a couple of people on this forum - might have been the old site - raved about the Rio Grande Tele Dirty Harry bridge model; P90 type variant in Tele bridge PU form factor

Page: http://www.riograndepickups.com/scart/ProductPage.asp?ImageLink=DHTBB&ProductName=For+Tele


Sound clip: http://www.riograndepickups.com/audio/Super70s.mp3

 

[Soloshchenko]

Seriously; I haven't tried one, but think a couple of people on this forum - might have been the old site - raved about the Rio Grande Tele Dirty Harry bridge model; P90 type variant in Tele bridge PU form factor

Page: http://www.riograndepickups.com/scart/ProductPage.asp?ImageLink=DHTBB&ProductName=For+Tele


Sound clip: http://www.riograndepickups.com/audio/Super70s.mp3

I've ordered a pair of these for my Tele, a tele DH in the bridge and a strat DH jr for the neck (a bit smoother), the second they get through the door that thing is getting wired up!

 

[tfarny]

I'm liking the lil 59 tele bridge pup in my new tele a lot, but it doesn't sound anything like a PAF, if that's what you're after.  It's more like a super powered, quiet single coil. Plenty of treble, and it can squeal a bit if you hurt it. Don't know if that's a recommendation or not, depends on what you're looking for, but it's a great sound.  Just not a PAF by any stretch.