Making Strat bridge pickup sound like a Tele...

[stratamania]

Actually, I'm intreguied by the red devil, but I haven't gotten to play one yet.

I have a Red devil neck...which reminds me I have a project to finish and then I can try it.

Single coil sized humbuckers can sound great and very convincing with a bit of overdrive, but fall well short compared to their full sized counterparts when playing clean.

Given that I actually have one and have found it to work very well clean or with gain individually or paired with a full size Pearly Gates I don't agree. They sound very good. YMMV.

 

[Spud]

If you like it that is all that matters! :icon_thumright:

 

[musicispeace]

Harmonic Design Pickups makes a strat bridge called the STP which is supposed to be tele like. I have one but have not yet had a chance to install it.

Strat page

www.harmonicdesign.net

There is also this vid on a particular David Allen set

 

[JohnnyHardtail]

For the D. Allen pickups, I'm curious if there is anything on the product that mentions the country of manufacture. I remember there was a controversy about that 5 years ago, where that was called into question. It may not be terribly important if you like the sound, but personally I'd like to know before buying their product again.

 

[Lewguitar]

This is the one and only way to get close. The body was already hogged out for a bridge humbucker and the Tele bridge pickup fit right in. So all it took was a new pickup and a new pickguard.

https://imgur.com/OoMMGcS

https://imgur.com/6rRVIXI

 

[Lewguitar]

To be honest, it would need the pickup mounted to a steel Tele bridge and string through body to get any closer. I had it with a Strat neck and middle pickup for a while.

This will infuriate those here who like to argue about EVERYTHING they're deaf to or which they are NOT sensitive enough to hear the difference. {Or maybe they just need to leave their FULL METAL MONDO FUZZ off once in a while...} But eliminating the middle pickup reduced the string pull from the magnetic polepieces and the guitar sustains more like a Tele now.

Not saying it didn't sound good with three pickups. It did. But I get closer to the sound i was looking for with two pickups. Fralin "True Vintage" Strat pickup. Just under 5.9K...although DCR is not a measurement of output.

 

[BroccoliRob]

This will infuriate those here who like to argue about EVERYTHING they're deaf to or which they are NOT sensitive enough to hear the difference. {Or maybe they just need to leave their FULL METAL MONDO FUZZ off once in a while...}

hey, fam, your sense of superiority is at an Alnico V, but we need you at about a II

thx