Telecaster's in Metal

[jonnyc]

I was watching some kind of rock show on mtv2 that actually showed these things called videeoh's? Anyway I noticed quite a few Tele's, is this a new phenomenon, I alwasy considered Tele's more bluesy,country, southern rock guitars. I'm not a guitar player so I don't know much.

[jasgav]

nah, for metal you have to play an Ibanez rg! or a jackson!
I wonder who you saw?

[gvarko]

The Tele Flathead is the ultimate metal weapon. The dude from Slipknot plays one...

http://www.fender.jp/php/photo/Flathead-Tele.jpg

[Zaphod B]

That ain't a real Tele - it's got humbuckers in it!

[jonnyc]

Originally Posted by gvarko

The Tele Flathead is the ultimate metal weapon. The dude from Slipknot plays one...

http://www.fender.jp/php/photo/Flathead-Tele.jpg

Well it was a Stone Sour video, and also the newest video from the Deftones. I mean I've recorded Tele's but they all seemed rather twangy, even more so than Strats.

[jonnyc]

Originally Posted by Zaphod B

That ain't a real Tele - it's got humbuckers in it!

That's what I thought, but these guys were playing the single coil Tele's, I made it a point to look.

[notCardio]

Not a Slipknot fan, or metal in general for that matter, but I like people who think 'outside the box', to use a cliche.

Anything can be anything you want it to be.

[clinton]

Also remember that those band's guitar techies would have ripped out the original pickups and replaced them with supercharged ones.

I remember watching a vid of Zakk Wyldes Techie opening the back of Zakks guitar and man, that thing was supercharge.

[gcapel]

Every hear of the band "unsane"? The guitar tone is nasty. I believe it's a straight up tele.

[superspit]

Hi everyone....
maybe with all these virtual amps/fx we have at our disposal nowadays, it really wouldn't matter too much whether we go single coil or h/b's????

I pose this as a question, along with my personal perceptions...

I'm using my 24 year old Squire tele (a very comfortable guitar to play) to emulate the most insane drives/distortions. I plug my H/B equipped gits and find only a slight difference in tone/power.
I'm using a V-amp pro......just love it...

What do you guys think of my first comment?
Kindest Regards,
Superspit.

[noisedude]

John 5 who plays with Marilyn Manson is pretty much an all-Tele guy, but he's using a lot of hot rails, stacks etc.

The only metal-ish band I know playing a stock Tele at the minute is Lostprophets - one of their guitarists plays a tele whilst the other uses PRSs and SGs for the meatier stuff.

You can make up for a lot with modelling boxes etc, but if you get on stage with a stock Tele and a high-gain amp it will buzz like hell!! I love tele-type guitars myself so I'm buying a bunch of them and putting different pickups in for the sounds I want. If it sounds like an LP but looks like a tele, that's fine by me!

[metalj]

Warren D from Ratt back in the day played a G&L tele. I think, killer tone.

[peopleperson]

Originally Posted by gcapel

Every hear of the band "unsane"? The guitar tone is nasty. I believe it's a straight up tele.

One of my favorite bands of all time. Chris Spencer was one of the first guys ever to use a Tele for that type of music. It was a huge part of why Unsane sounded so different. And yes, it seems to me that more and more metal bands are utilizing Tele's. I've personally got mine currently in low C.

[Supercreep]

Chris Cornell played Teles with SoundGarden.

[daav]

Friend's of mine in an NYC band The Little Killers, only guitar is a tele, has a really nice dirty tone for garage band noisy rock and roll. Pretty sure it is striaght up single coils too.

Daav

[zacanger]

Originally Posted by noisedude

John 5 who plays with Marilyn Manson is pretty much an all-Tele guy, but he's using a lot of hot rails, stacks etc.

The only metal-ish band I know playing a stock Tele at the minute is Lostprophets - one of their guitarists plays a tele whilst the other uses PRSs and SGs for the meatier stuff.

You can make up for a lot with modelling boxes etc, but if you get on stage with a stock Tele and a high-gain amp it will buzz like hell!! I love tele-type guitars myself so I'm buying a bunch of them and putting different pickups in for the sounds I want. If it sounds like an LP but looks like a tele, that's fine by me!

John5 is awesome. If you hear his solo work, it's all country-metal-shred stuff, and it's insane.

[donkeystyle]

one of the guys in thrice uses a tele. I don't know if it's modified or not. I imagine it has had the pickups replaced at most though.

[rayc]

With the signal modifiers etc being used in this type of metal the guitar is just an initial signal generator.
Now if they were actually amplifying the sound of a guitar...

[blueroommusic]

it's a great metal/hard rock guitar, if you replace the single coil with a humbucker IMO. that requires routing the body, replacing the bridge, and re-wiring things a bit. I just did it to my tele about 3 days ago, I will put pics and sounds up as soon as it's ready to go.

[amra]

Yea, I think tele's are becoming kind of hip right now in emo and screamo type stuff. I have recorded a couple of bands that are using teles and strats for a metal-ish type sound (I call it metal-ish because my idea of metal guitar is quite a bit heavier).

[mrface2112]

Alex Lifeson's used a Tele for some of the harder songs on Rush's most recent tours. "Earthshine" being one. and IIRC, he was using single coils.

i've got a stacked humbucker in my (88 US) tele at the bridge--a Duncan Little 59. it's ok for some things and pretty crappy for others.

i'm looking at swapping both of my pups out for a pair of Duncan Nashville 5/2's, although i like the way the neck pup sounds.


cheers,
wade

[ZoSo58LP]

jerry cantrell played a few G&L Asat's..humbuckers of course, but still same basic design.

[guttapercha]

Lest we not forget...

Zeppelin I was all '58 telecaster. That album really helped pave the way for........just about everything.

JD