i got a seymour duncan little 59 for the bridge position of my tele, and tbh, it's a load of shit.

there's a dude on ebay.co.uk, who handmakes pickups i got some humbuckers from him and they fucking rule.

he makes single coil sized p90's for telecasters. they are actually pretty cheap cost around £30 per pickup or something, so i'd recommend giving them a try, have a search around for catwhiskers.

honeyisfunny wrote:So did Reis to start with too, a sort of blondey coloured one. When I saw him using a Les Paul with a lipstick pickup in the neck and a humucker in the bridge (each going through a separate jack output) I reckon he probably had the best guitar sound I could imagine...

Yeah, that's the Tele I was talking about. It's Pen Rollings' old Tele that he bought from Mac from Superchunk.

Jesus Christ, why do I know this shit? I'm such a dork.

Anyway, the pickups that he used in his Tele and both of his Les Pauls is the Rio Grande "Bastard," which is their humbucker-sized P-90. I'd imagine that the "Dirty Harry" in a Tele would sound pretty close.

rayj wrote:It doesn't sound like Mr. Hot Snake is playing through a Voxy amp. It does, however, sound like he's getting snicky with it. Here's a metaphorical conceptualization of where I'm going with this, at least as far as I do actually know it:

In relation to the Hot Snake sound, I want more 'snicky' blasting through my amp's 'blare'. Does that actually effectively communicate anything?

Yeah, you kind of lost me.

I don't know which album you checked out, but a good chunk of Audit In Progress was recorded with AC30s. I think the majority of their other records were JCM800s.

I spend way too much time on the Swami message board.

So Ray, what's going on? What did you end up doing? Please tell me you didn't buy an SG. :)

Nope, no SG. I've been avoiding humbuckers for way too long to stop now...

I'm waiting 'till next week to make my decision (I'll have the scratch then...). So far, it's a toss up between the Lindy Fralin and the Q-Tuner. If I can find any genuine feedback on the latter, that is...all I can find are sales promos and fake reviews.

rayj

Have you seen these?

http://www.riograndepickups.com/scart/C ... FOR%20TELE

I've been looking into replacing the stock pickup on my tele - it's a re-issue WRH that I don't really like. They seem to be a bit 'hotter' (I think that's the term?) than the Lindy Fralin pickups.