Ultimate Fender Telecaster Tone Test! - Player Series VS Gen4 Noiseless VS Twisted Tele Pickups
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- Опубліковано 21 лип 2024
- Fender Telecaster single coil pickups may all look similar on the outside, but just how different are they? In this video we are going to compare the tones of three sets of pickups from Fender. We’re going to do a blind tone challenge with Fender Player Series, Fender Generation 4 Noiseless and Fender Custom Shop Twisted Tele pickups.
Let me know which one sounds best to you and see if you can guess which is which.
►Content and Timestamps:
Intro: 0:00
What are The Guitars? 0:58
Blind Tone Challenge: 5:29
Clean Samples: 5:39
Dirt Samples: 7:56
Challenge Results: 10:59
Summary: 11:28
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Did you get them right?
Content and Timestamps:
What are The Guitars? 0:58
Blind Tone Challenge: 5:29
Clean Samples: 5:39
Dirt Samples: 7:56
Challenge Results: 10:59
Summary: 11:28
Get the pickups here: (affiliate link)
Gen4 Noiseless: amzn.to/3eSZFe6 (affiliate link)
Twisted Tele: amzn.to/2y7DU9W (affiliate link)
Somewhere in your guitar sample chain the left and right channels sound out of phase with each other.(your IE there is a reverse polarity not unlike happens when stereo loudspeakers are improperly connected out of phase with each other).
Colours are an underrated aspect of tone. Thanks for talking about that.
Love the second camera shots! You being you is what I keep coming back for!
Much appreciated!
Man your channel is awesome and very underrated. You should have 100 of thousands of subscribers. Keep up the great videos! I've learned a lot from your videos and reviews. Thank you! Cheers from Edmonton, AB ;)
ah hey thanks! I've been to Calgary. cheers!
@@landonbailey Cool! You should come to Edmonton, although I have to admit Calgary is probably nicer.
I was thinking of swapping out my players series Alnico 5 single coils for something else. Your video saved me a lot of money. I do prefer them! Overall, great pickups. Cheers Landon!
I really like the Player series pickups
Really great comparison. They all shine in different positions/applications. Nice!
cheers!
Excellent comparison, thanks. I was thinking it would be a great idea if you did this very thing and you did. I liked the sound of all three guitars, however I could not make up my mind of which was which. I thought if somebody pushed me to pick one , I would go with X, and that happened to be the Player series, which I happen to own (a beautiful black one). So I have to say, you helped me reaffirm the fact that I made a good decision, in my choice to buy one. Lucky you, you own all 3, congrats. Enjoy them in good health and thanks again. Cheers.
Well done!! Very interesting my guessing was not to bad! Those player versions are really awesome.
They are!
Just wanted to say thanks, Landon, for this amazing comparison video… been thinking about modding a guitar with some new pickups, and this helped me choose significantly.
I liked having the blind comparison, that really helps to focus on the tone. I liked all three in different positions, but liked the Fender noiseless best, it’s not too bright
Blind comparison changes the video and the way your brain processes the sound completely - just focusing straight in on the sound!
On the contrary, it is clear and more readable than the X. It is quite similar to the Z guitar. 4Gen Winner for me
Nice test, good format. Liked them all
Glad you enjoyed!
Dude 🤣 brightened my day. Thank you!
knowing that just brightened mine too! 👍🎸
Man the noiseless pups sound great,unlike some I've played! Cool vid mate \m/
ya they are impressive in person too
For my ear Twisted Tele pickups were different and more interesting. Thank you for this comparison.
no problem!
Awesome Tones man
Thanks!
I thought they were all great Landon. I honestly couldn’t distinguish that much. I still live the Gen 4. Funny and entertaining as usual 😄👍👍
I thought they were all close but liked the Twisted Tele pickups the best.
Surprisingly I liked the N4s the most! Great comparison man
Glad you enjoyed!
I personally liked the player series for the clean, and the twisted series for the dirty. the noiseless pickups sounded muddy to me.
hahahahaha, omg - that was great commentary! a real testament to a crazy time that is already in the rear view mirror now
My guess is:
1: butterscotch 2: blue 3: white
All are very nice looking/sounding guitars!
Lots of options for anyone looking to buy a tele, like I am. Thanks Landon! 🙏🤟
3:01 😂 Ok that’s it, I have to subscribe to your channel. You provide educational videos about guitars and you’re basically the younger version of Bill Murray. I obviously need this on a regular basis.
cheers!
Nailed it! Y was my favorite!
I’m digging your humor more and more...sub
Loved it! Y was my favorite
Hi Landon, I don't own a guitar but I am going to own one, a Telecaster. I love watching your vids because you are a Tele man and you are funny. Doing a blind comparison is great but I Ifind I hijack your show to focus on what I like and I was right the first one was a Player and that's my favourite. I have subscribed mate. I can never have enough of Tele's, keep it up.
nice!
Wow 😮 interesting video!! I preferred X & Z ...I’ve been questioning wether or not to change the pickups in my Player & reckon I’ve probably got that wrong, I actually like the pickups, in this video preferred them as a gritty tone (hmm) SO probably what I really need just a another Tele so my Player doesn’t lonely when I’m not around.
Thanks for your help again & for the funny, insightful vids!
I did not try to match guitars to x, y, z. I wanted to pick the one I liked best. X - the Player Series Telecaster. Also, I too prefer maple fretboards which is what all my telecasters ( 8 ) have. Another 'GREAT" video Landon!
👍🎸
Can never have too many teles!!!
To my ears they all sounded similar and they all sounded good . So I would probably opt for the noiseless pickups because of their advantages concerning lack of interference, particularly in a live situation.
I liked the noiseless for clean tones. I liked the twisted for dirt. I may just need a twisted tele bridge and leave the noiseless in my neck and middle position.
it's interesting that I found that X is my preferred, the new player's pickup has some features which makes it unique
You saved me quite some bucks. I was thinking to upgrade my Player Series with Twisted Tele pickups but it doesn't really have significant improvements in tone. Maybe it's just the butterscotch doing its magic, so I'm staying with my stock pickups. Cheers
I love the Player series pickups
I'm surprised that I managed to guess them correctly, but I realised I wasn't listening to see which one I preferred. Oh well, I'll just have to watch again!
LOL! "Staying Sane" has always been a challenge for me... mostly cuz you have to be sane at some point in life.... so i just enjoy my brand of insanity! idk if those around do or not LOL! Great Vid as always! @Landon Bailey #telesarelife!
loving the second camera
I’m building an offset tele out of some scrap wood (pine and big leaf maple) and I’m having a difficult time choosing pickups. This video helped me eliminate the Gen 4s.
I liked the X-guitar the most, nice find to see it's the player series! I'm about to buy my first electric guitar and my eyes are on the tele player series.
Have fun! the Player series is great
I recently bought a Player Series Tele. What an amazing guitar. Better than many older American Standard Teles from the 90's and 00's. The pickups are quite hot with about 7-8 kohms, but they sound surprsingly clear and open.
the player models are so good
The Player Tele's are actually Alnico pickups, so a lot less hot (more vintage voiced) than the ceramic ones in the previous Mexican Standard..
I agree, the Fender Player "x" was my favorite also. It sounded as a tele sounds when I think of it.
You’ve convinced me that I don’t need new pickups, I need a new amp 🤣 those all sounded so similar that’s it’s not even worth the expense imho, but the amp tho, sounds so good.
That being said, I liked guitar Z the best, by a tiny margin. I guessed X right, but the other two wrong.
Hi there can you please do a comparison between a twisted tele pickups and v Mod 2 pickups thinking of buying a player series not sure pickups I should put in it thank you
hey thanks for the idea! I'm actually just assembling a Tele with my Twisted Tele pickups so I should be able to do this.
wtf the second camera.. LOL
made my day. LOVE TELE!!
I own 2 fender Stratocaster, an hss Wich I love it's versatility, and a Stratocaster player series ( sss MIM) that has very descent features and sound with alnico 5 single coil pickups. But some says that telecaster single coils are better for cleaner tones.
A friend of mine has that butterscotch telecaster player series and want to make an exchange with me for the sss.
Before that I was thinking in change my sss alnico 5 pickups for a vintage noiseless.
Do you think it's a better idea to exchange my strat for a tely and install noiseless in that instead of the player Stratocaster???
depends what you want. Do you want a Tele? :) I really love my Player Tele with the stock pickups
Nice comparison, well done! I'm interested in Gen 4 Noiseless pickups and this samples are very useful. I'm a tele fan and also have Vox AC series amp :) .
Thanks for watching!
Wich is the best pickup height for the tele player series ?Mostly the bridge pickup....Thanks
there's no best. it's what you set it to and like :)
Nice comparison. Thankfully they're all Player-type (MIM) Teles that have the six saddle bridges. I feel that if one of the saddles was a classic three saddle bridge, it would alter the tone as much as if not more than the pickup!
I surprised myself. Nailed all 3 guitars. I recently bought guitar X. Player series. I'm loving it. All 3 guitar sound awesome. Thanks for the Tele shootout.😅
Hi Landon, can you do a blind test on the American Professional Telecaster II and a Telecaster with Twisted Tele pickups? :)
Hey Lando, do you still own the vox mini superbeetle and would you still recommend it as a good bedroom amp ??
I do, and yes still love it and recommend it for a bedroom amp
@@landonbailey thanks buddy !
Ha this is just what I needed... I have a player strat and I really want a FENDER tele now.... I don't want to spend money but I also don't want my tele to be lower end than the strat.
Interesting - I thought the Noiseless were the Twisted set, mainly because I thought they sounded more Stratty - very quacky in the middle position. In this demo I preferred the Player Series and the Twisted set.
Same. I had a preconceived notion that Twisteds would pop out here as my favorite (though I've never played a Tele with them), and I assumed they were guitar Y, which I preferred. Felt there was a nice glassiness to the middle position of guitar Y, with bridge and neck elements coming out balanced.
I thought Z was the noiseless pickups since they were my least favourite, X being the custom shop ones because I like them a lot, Y being the player because they were great.
Turns out I got fooled pretty hard. Thanks for the comparison.
Exactly what I thought before the reveal...
I thought the same exact thing. Crazy.
Edit: I just went and watched his other video of twisted tele vs noiseless, and I consistently and easily preferred the twisted tele. Hm...
This opinion shows why I HATE blind tests. Everyone already makes assumptions based on their prejudices, so, at the end of the day, those are totally useless because people won't ever listen without having their minds made already.
Thanks for these comparison videos. I didn't get them right since I knew nothing of these pickups. But I know which I liked - For the cleans I liked the Noiseless and for the dirt I preferred the Twisted (Guitar Z) slightly. Overall, I think Noiseless would be my choice.
"Some days you do well, and some days you do... the other thing" The weird shit you say is like half the reason I watch your videos
Edit: I guessed the guitars right once I heard the distorted sound. I like distortion so I think I liked the player pickups the least, then it was really close between noiseless and twisted, but noiseless wins for me, I felt there was more clarity in the distortion with those. Also the twisted were warmer than I expected in the clean part.
:)
Another average video. Could do better . Actually probably not
😉
:P
Some people tell me half the reason they watch my videos is 50%.
I got them wrong ! In all situations I like Z the least in all positions, clean or dirty. Clean , I couldn't discern much difference in X or Y's clean neck tone ,but I preferred X's clean & dirty bridge . For me the best middle position tone both clean & dirty was Y . Excellent stuff 👍
I knew the last one was the twisted. they are balanced oddly in their output where the neck is like 7-8k but the bridge is nearly 11k which I think I could hear that extra output anytime the bridge was introduced.
The best sounding was the 1st one, but I honestly thought the first one was the noiseless because it seemed to have less "chatter" when playing.
Just bought player series Tele, not sure I'm going to change the pickups now.
got them all right and preferred the Twisted
This was great, thanks a ton! My notes went like these (no middle position): I liked best Z on clean neck, dirty neck, clean bridge. I wrote "fullest sound all around?" for clean neck. But for dirty bridge I gave the edge to Y. I liked X quite a lot on clean neck, more than Y. I did NOT like X or Y on dirty neck. I wrote okay for Z. I liked X over Y also on clean bridge. On dirty bridge everything got upside down, with Y beating X. So overall 1/ Z, 2/ X, and 3/ Y. I guess I was not impressed by the noiseless. I will pat myself on the back for liking Z best:) But I can certainly live with the Player neck for cleans. And a super distortion Di Marzio maybe for the bridge:)
I guessed #1 Twisted Tele pick ups,#2 Noiseless pickups, and #3 the player Tele pickups. I liked the twisted Tele pickups sound the best!
I love the Twisted Tele pickups!
Brilliant
thanks!
I got X correct, but I mixed up Y & Z. I was surprised I like the noiseless set, and I thought the Twisted Tele set would be more twangy-er-ish. Is that a word?...
Same here, on all counts.
Got them right! I prefer twisted teles and actually I got them on one of my teles.
| love your vids ...i hate blind tests. Liked it for support.
hey thanks!
What's the radius of the 50s neck with the twisted pickups?
7.25
@@landonbailey man, how is that getting used to playing? I learned (am learning really) on an LP and still have issues with the high E and B strings when I grab my daughter's '04 Indonesian Squier strat with the 9.25.
I was thinking of switching my stock player series tele to Twisted Tele until this video...very little difference. 👍
stock Player Tele pickups are sweet!
Hmm, first (X) sounded most sparkly for me. I thought this is the white one. It sounds different from y and z.
I nailed it!
IMO
- the Stock PUs lbit thin and less mid.
- the noiselless lbit grey but overall better than the stock
- the Twisted set is the ultimate tele sound…
again IMO!
Greetings from central EU, Hungary
Right on!
The Player sounded the best to me...
Fun video.
They sounded quite similar to me. The biggest difference I notice was in the neck PU. Player sounded a bit brighter. More Strat like. But just by a bit. Bridge PU’s seemed very close, but again the player felt a smidge brighter. Last comment is about what the player seemed to lack. It seemed to NOT have that slight ‘muted’ quality that I hate. Noiseless PU’s did this the most. Unsurprisingly. My preference was for the player, but again, they all sounded like telecasters.
All 3 sound similar , all sound very good . I can tell by the tone that they are well setup and in great shape ! I would do a gig with any of them and not worry about a thing !
decision. decision. each time ive made up my mind on my pickup upgrade, i got to come back here to make sure its the right decision to go for next. and with the color on the guitar affecting the sound made it a tougher choice for me to make 😂
I thought x had a slight edge on y and y a slight edge on z. I own a tele with gen 4 noiseless and I’ve grown to like them
I thought the X was noiseless at first because it sounded best to me then Y twisted tele and Z player in order of declension goodness. but then thought Z was noiseless and X twisted, Was completely wrong. Glad I prefer the player pickups since I just bought one!
ya the Player series is great!
Player series (MiM) guitars are excellent value. I have a Strat, but I have since change the nut, saddles, nut (tusq), tuners (fender locking), pups (bootstrappickups Sun City Selects), Fender pickguard, and I put in an Obsidian Wire 7-way (Gilmour) switch. I like the 7-way, makes the give the Strat a couple other options (one to sound kinda Telecaster'ish), but I would not buy it again. I am interested in a tele with humbuckers. Will either Warmoth it (perhaps with a 24¾ conversion neck) or Player series it (then change the nut to tusq).
7way! cool. didn't know they had one
obsidianwire.com/custom-7-way-for-strat-gilmour-switch/
player is amazing！！
In this test I preferred player, then noiseless, then twisted tele for cleans, didn't really pay close attention to gain. But then I watched the other video of twisted tele vs noiseless, and I consistently and easily preferred the twisted tele. Hm...
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I own a telecaster player serie tidepool blue like the Y guitar it is a great guitar better than my older tele squier lol...
I had guest the Y it's was the noise less pick so the blue and it is the right anwser :P but they all sound great
I had try to put the bell notification but youtube said the videos is for children...
I also have the player tide pool 🤘
the one with noisless what letter is it? Thank you
what do you mean?
@@landonbailey i am using a translator ... I am from Peru and I want to know which guitar has the noise
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@@landonbailey perfect thank you very much, what potentiometer does the noisless use? your video very interesting
Killin' it! :-D
:)
This Color this Tone 🤩😎👍🔥🎸🦅
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Been playing for decades playing mostly les Paul jrs. And I can’t tell the difference . I can say that my player teles sound better than my stock American tele
Don’t know which is supposed to be best or worst but my ears it was from best to worst, Z, X, Y. Twisted Teles rock the hardest. Y sounded weak. X was pretty good
Z had finesse and later confirmed as the twisted custom....but had lower output but was nice....smooth on the ears and mellow...not so harsh on the ears...Y is a no no....horrible....X was ok and later finding out its the stock pickup found in latest players was interesting?....so really means to me just buy a player and then worry about pickups later...cheers for the demo was relevant to help me decide on guitar purchase...all the best from australia 🇦🇺..
“Late for dinner..” 😂
The wiring, tone circuit, caps etc. make a difference in tone too. As does the choice of woods and whether or not it smothered in thick polyester resin, choking the life out of its tone or not..
Even the type of alloy used in the bridge plate and how tight it and the neck are crushed against the body.
Wow I like the noiseless best, I think I might have to drop a pair in my Tele. The Players series Tele has Alnico 5 pups. I did not like the video so I hit the like anyways. Thanks for the Video! Serenity Now!
insanity later! :P
Why no Rosewood board Teles??
No reason!
@@landonbailey I just gave you a topic for a new video! Now all you have to do is buy ANOTHER Tele, haha
PS could we please have a blind + deaf test next time? So I can just watch this video until the end and leave in the same mental state that I was in as I entered, my prepossessions untouched.
“What good is money?” To buy more Telecasters of course. Oh btw.. I liked the Tele most.
Neck
x- good
Y- flat
Z - ok
Middle
x - great
Y - ok
Z - ok
bridge
x - ok
Y - great
Z - ok
Guitar Y is clearly muddy
Playing this on my phone. Really couldn't pick it.
I have 2 teles and they are different. But I think if you play 3 guitars identical models back to back they will be slightly different.
My advice is PLAY it before you buy it.
No brass saddles, ????
next day, laughing again! Good thing I turned on my youtube video today.
I got it right. The Noiseless bridge sounded like a Les Paul.
I don’t get the Les Paul comparison at all? Such a different sound on a bridge pickup… maybe unless you’re talking about one with P90’s or something?
Yes, I got it right.
that's a tough one!
Guitar X sounded best to me. A ALSO liked guitar Z. And I didn't like guitar Y at all!
Liking the Player most was a surprise for me 😁
Immediately reminded of Dr. Steve Brule.
X, twisted, Y, player, Z, noiseless, by guess so far