wow great idea Mike...remember I bought a Squire Tele, used the body and pickgaurd only and got the Warmoth Tele Baritone neck and that's how the baritone started. Well, I do have the neck still (only played on for about five minutes), I'm not using the body anymore and I should have all the other parts but it was a tele custom (that was not even a true tele custom because the original like my old 72 tele custom was a single coil in the bridge and a humbucker in the neck)...I could throw that back togetherrobojam wrote:It's why I love my Telecaster so much. And there's such a huge range of sounds between clean, clean with extreme high or low tone, breaking up, full on overdrive and extreme distortion. It's just so versatile. One of the reasons I loved the Strat I had many years ago (although it's a very different sound).Hink wrote:so yeah, I just spent two hours jamming away on the Hello Guitar and I had an absolute ball and on top of that I discovered a serious flaw in my guitar tone thinking. I'm always putting hot pick-ups in my guitars, but the Hello Kitty reminded me why I might sometimes want weak pick-ups...one thing is official, I can have just as much fun on cheapy, single humbucker Squire as I can on my Ibanez Prestige (and everything in between) and that's what it's all about
But as you well know (), I used to own a 70s Les Paul, which for years was my main guitar and that's totally different too. It had the stock pickups which weren't particularly hot, but along with the fatter sound than the Strat or Tele it also had a good range of sounds.
I think hot pickups have their place, but I tend to prefer something that isn't really hot.
