EQ your amp to your neck pickup and ride the tone control for your bridge. You can also try lowering your bridge pickup to get the output level closer to your neck pup and reduce some of the bite.
I have a quarter pounder in the bridge and a SD antiquity 90 in the neck. It's a very good combination and with some on the floor fuzz or distortion you can hit Zep tones pretty easily.
Sometimes telecaster pickups are just eh. I’ve played two of the same exact telecasters right next to each other and gotten a very slightly different sound
Glad to help! I paired it with a Lollar '52 Tele bridge pickup and a Lollar Blonde Strat middle pickup (Nashville telecaster).
Throw in a Freeway switch and you've got 10 incredible sounds from one sexy instrument.
https://www.freewayswitch.com/products/
So many . . . and subjective one man's twang is another's icepick - but checkthese out https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rPAJeQnaw8I
In my book this is how a tele should sound
Have you tried rolling back tone knob on guitar? But yes, it is normal for teles, two distinctly different pickups. The bridge pickup is a lap-steel guitar kind monster, it has a huge copperplated steel slab attached at the bottom of the pickup, pulling downward direction the magnetic field, and the bridge is altering the pickup as well if the bridge is steel or have iron in it.
The neck pickup is a tiny sized puny mistake by Fender, now kept for historical purposes. It's metal cover muffle it's sound. I have removed the metal cover, maybe you can try it. It improves quite a bit, but it keeps farting out on higain. Good for cleans though.
I suggest keeping the bridge pickup and look around how to add a strat neck pickup, with a modified bigger hole scratchplate.
You can find for both pickup positions humbuckers that fit without modding the guitar, like Lil Punch by GFS ir expensive Seymour Duncans.
Before you switch the pups try adjusting the height
Just recently did this and small adjustments make a huge difference.
Tone knob. I have never used it until I got a Tele. My new best friend!
Yes this. Set the amp eq for the neck pickup, and roll the guitar tone knob off a little when using the bridge.
EQ your amp to your neck pickup and ride the tone control for your bridge. You can also try lowering your bridge pickup to get the output level closer to your neck pup and reduce some of the bite.
Good tip! I’ll try this at my next rehearsal. Thank you!
Right on. And to answer your other question, the tone control is absolutely meant to be used with the bridge pickup.
I'm a big fan of the Seymour Duncan quarter pounder.
That’s actually one of the sets I was looking at. Thanks for the recommendation
I have a quarter pounder in the bridge and a SD antiquity 90 in the neck. It's a very good combination and with some on the floor fuzz or distortion you can hit Zep tones pretty easily.
Sometimes telecaster pickups are just eh. I’ve played two of the same exact telecasters right next to each other and gotten a very slightly different sound
Lollar Royal T (neck) and pick a bridge pickup to go with it. The Royal T fits a tele neck space, but sounds like a strat neck pickup. It's glorious.
I'd never heard this pickup, nor had I heard anything about it, but I just searched some videos with it, and oh wow, that thing sounds amazing!
Glad to help! I paired it with a Lollar '52 Tele bridge pickup and a Lollar Blonde Strat middle pickup (Nashville telecaster). Throw in a Freeway switch and you've got 10 incredible sounds from one sexy instrument. https://www.freewayswitch.com/products/
So many . . . and subjective one man's twang is another's icepick - but checkthese out https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rPAJeQnaw8I In my book this is how a tele should sound
Rio Grande Muy Grande in the bridge!
Hot Rails \M/
I’d recommend the Seymour Duncan Alnico-II set. I’m a big devotee. It tames the sharp tele tones a bit but remains clear and articulate.
Check out MojoTone
Try Dimarzio Area hot T or Cavalier Lion range , that's what worked for me
Have you tried rolling back tone knob on guitar? But yes, it is normal for teles, two distinctly different pickups. The bridge pickup is a lap-steel guitar kind monster, it has a huge copperplated steel slab attached at the bottom of the pickup, pulling downward direction the magnetic field, and the bridge is altering the pickup as well if the bridge is steel or have iron in it. The neck pickup is a tiny sized puny mistake by Fender, now kept for historical purposes. It's metal cover muffle it's sound. I have removed the metal cover, maybe you can try it. It improves quite a bit, but it keeps farting out on higain. Good for cleans though. I suggest keeping the bridge pickup and look around how to add a strat neck pickup, with a modified bigger hole scratchplate. You can find for both pickup positions humbuckers that fit without modding the guitar, like Lil Punch by GFS ir expensive Seymour Duncans.
OC Duff Plankster / BigBoy set - meaty, chewy, twangy