pickups with twang sound?

[speedotenshi]

may i ask something? telecaster twang sound tis because of its slanted pickup? or because of it pickup? or because of it bridge? or all the among factor affect them?

im currently using pac612 (yeah yamaha rox! :lol

if i will like to add the twang sound, its best to change the bridge pickup? but is there any humbucker that give twang sound? or i should get fender twang and palce it in the mid? how will it sound?

 

[unsane]

the tele twang comes mainly from the metal base plate in which the pickup is mounted i believe..although im sure other factors contribute.

 

[jony]

If you're still watching this..

Seymour duncan twangbanger can do it for you.

 

[alaineth]

Try the Dimarzio humbucker from hell in the bridge. I've read that you'll get a really sharp twang from it. Alternatively, you can try coil splitting your humbucker---wouldn't be so dramatic though.


For the electronic experts-- would changing the capacitor help? or only if you turn the volume down then it'll act like a high-pass filter?

 

[ciel21]

the humbucker from hell is twangy???

 

[Mobius]

im currently using pac612 (yeah yamaha rox! :lol

Hey speedotenshi, nice guitar. How does it sound? I am also own a yamaha but its a aes620.

 

[lppier]

I believe the longer scale of fender guitars has to do with it too. Yeah I kind of like the guitar, how does it sound?

Pier.

 

[thor666]

making it brighter helps, but not exactly the same as a tele tone.

a few things: a tele is a 2 pup guitar, alder or ash body, with a string through fixed bridge, featuring 250k pots and usually 21/22 frets. the pups are usually low output. one probably has to get close enough specs to sound similar.

 

[jony]

To successfully answer this we need to define twang.

So tele bridge tone.

Really nothing comes close but a real tele or the pickups modeled to sound like it. other than that its all over.

even the pickups simulating a tele dont sound like a tele anyways. But they come close.

 

[DeMoS]

the tele twang comes mainly from the metal base plate in which the pickup is mounted i believe..although im sure other factors contribute.

i'll have to agree with unsane here. Most of the tele tone comes from the metal plate which are not easily found nowadays. I've seen a Fender custom stock tele pickup b4 which has the plate there.

 

[jony]

Yea. Its the metal plate.

The way it modifies the magnetic field around the pickup.

Duncan twangbanger has a metalplate beneath it.

 

[fgl]

You can also get twang from strat pick ups e.g Dimarzio class of 55, Seymo Duckbuckers. Problem with twang is that normally pick ups need to be of somewhat lower volume /output to get that twang.

The metal plating on the bottom of the tele bridge pup is meant as a grounding plate but adds brightness and zip to the pup.

Lastly also depends on what type wood guitar body is - dun think you'd get too much twang outta a mahagony heavy bodied les paul

my 2 cents...

 

[nebo1981]

You can also get twang from strat pick ups e.g Dimarzio class of 55, Seymo Duckbuckers. Problem with twang is that normally pick ups need to be of somewhat lower volume /output to get that twang.

Agree totally ~!

Dimarzio Class of 55 very nice twang ...
But duno if swee lee still got ...

If not can try the HS2 ...
But gotta splitcoil (is this the proper term?) the pickup coz it's stack singlecoil...