I betrayed Bass and bought a Guitar!

I was swapping emails with DiMarzio and they can make several of their strat pickups in Tele housing.

Still, I did find a Pearly Gate in Tele Bridge size on the SD site. It didn’t come up in a search.

I also liked the sound of the Lil 59. Thanks to Duncan for giving samples of all their pickups

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The Pearly Gates is close to a 59, with just a bit more high mids, which drive the amp in a bit more aggressive way. It’s like a PAF with a bit more bite, very suitable in bridge position.

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If you’re buying a new humbucker, though there are arguments to the contrary, make sure it’s Fender spaced. The poles alignment shows up less in the sound than you think but it really does bother those with details in mind. The small humbucker like the Pearly Gates you showed will work but then you’ll want to change to 500k pots. SD jazz or 59 works great in the neck. Especially paired with a Duncan JB in the bridge. As others have mentioned, PAF output is lower and I like them for the dynamic range they have in both the clean and edge of breakup territory. But signal chain, amp/preamp will all be part of that equation as well. I hope that’s more helpful than confusin’!

Agree, a SH-1n sounds great in the neck slot. I liked the one I put in my Cort anyway.

But for a Tele you have intrigued me with the Fender Wide Range (or its clones).

BTW, @Wombat-metal - the J-Standard Iliad comes with Seymour Duncan pickups in it (single coils of course). I’m willing to bet they put decent pickups in the Boundary Iliad. I’d give the Fujigen pickups a chance before buying anything for swapping them out, too.

This is a good point. For the bridge it will be a different size if there is a trem too, so be careful which you select.

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I’m on a 10 hour phone call. This is my method of dealing with ennui

The J-Standard in this country comes with dual humbuckers, Duncan SH2/TB4, or a pair of Fishman Fluence.

Rest easy, no money is spent

It’s a hardtail bridge, and the Duncan site popped out a Lil 59 for it not sure how accurate that tool is

I meant, bridge pickups are offered in two sizes, so you need to be careful which one you pick on the site. I know your Tele is a hardtail :slight_smile:

Though I have seen Telecaster clones with trems and just wondered why.

I saw one and was like, wouldn’t it be easier to buy a strat?

excellent pickups but very expensive because of the CuNiFe magnets. and a Wide Range without CuNiFe is not a Wide Range :confused:

why not ? actually I find this quite funny, even if all my Tele are hardtail

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You see, this entire previous conversation is why I bought the Baja Tele. It’s got Custom Shop designed pickups in it made specifically for this incarnation of tele that the Custom Shop was building a bunch of by request.

What all that means to me is the pickups in it are good enough for a dope like me, and I’m not touching anything because I’d go insane choosing. Lolol.

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Naah, this is relaxing. I love modding. Probably due to owning jeeps for 45 years

Oh so do I - on bass.
Guitar is interesting fodder.
This Amplitube thing seems to be able to make my tele sound like a zillion more things than I’d ever care about.
So why do I need a strat let alone mod anything on the tele? Ya you can say the same for basses and plugins or super helix things too. But guitar tone is a giant landscape that I see best served by plugins ala @howard. Lol

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Haha yeah, I am staying away from guitars pedal as best as I can. I already ended up with 5 electric guitars…

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Amp sims are better for bass too!

I prefer real. The software route doesn’t do it for me. Maybe because I work in front of a computer all day.

For guitar I find the Boss Katana is a good compromise.

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I work with computers and fix servers all day. When I get home just don’t want to mess with software.

But that’s me

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Hey @Wombat-metal did they send you your Pringles?

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It hasn’t shipped yet; want my money back!!!

They told me it would ship the 31, which is today Tokyo time. I should ask them to toss in the chips - hey Sweetwater does candy, why not?

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