freshmattyp said:
I believe it's both. Unplated brass saddles and the 3 saddle bridge seem (to me anyway) to contribute to that telecaster twang, bite and snap they are known for. In my experience, you get less of that with the modern bridge.]
What about the difference between string throughs and top-loading?
Now that I think about it, it may help the bridge pickup twang, but it would certainly hurt the other PU combos as far as emulating anything else.
the reason why I am asking is because I was playing some teles the other day and really was digging on the strat-ish tele with the middle pickup. It was like $550 at GC. I just bought a guitar and they are starting to be leaned on every goddamned thing in the house, but it was hard not to have him wrap it up.
I have a homemade monster guitar that has a jaguar pickup at the bridge. I thought it'd be cool to get a surfey sound, so that's why I put it in there. It just sounds like crap for everything else. I was gonna hack out some more wood and put in a P90, which would be good for something. But I think it's be tits to get rid of the strat trem bridge and mount up a tele bridge/PU. I know it would looking f-ing CRAZY and if it would leave my other PU combinations intact tone-wise, I'd totally do it for a bad-ass authentic tele growl at the flip of a switch.
Three saddles, compensated? Sounds good to me but I have come to rely a bit on the piezos in the current strat bridge on the thing. I think I'm looking at getting the whole fishman or whoever bridge assembly. I'm not gonna do all that unless I'm confident that it'll sound like a tele when I'm done. Anyone have one of those piezo tele bridges? Does it make your guitar souns un tele like?
Last hurdle is that the thing has a hole cut in it for the tremelo block. I never cut out the springs and the thing interference fits (mostly). I was just leaving room for future expansion and I already had a couple strat bridges laying around when I built it. A top loader one would be great because then I can try it on and see how it works before over commiting to the process. I like the idea of being able to buy all the crap and screwing it on and trying it out in like 4 or 5 hours and a six pack. It doesn't have to look pretty, but it has to at least be as good as it sounds now, which is PFG.
I guess the reason I'm going on about it is because you guys are all gear heads and you probably do shit like this yourself and can say "Hey, dood, you should get one of these here lead PUs and wire this kind of switching yada yada"