Tbh I was not expecting to like the “upgrade” so much but I really did. It still sounds like a Tele, just beefier. Even the coil tap tones sounded good, and I typically don’t care for coil tapping. Nice video!
Sounds beautiful! I’ve had my eye on these pickups for quite some time and my tele is such a great piece of wood. I really want to beef it up and you’ve certainly helped influence my decision. Thank you for this video!
Awesome! Super helpful. The orange got my attention but i stayed for the info. May just tackle my own next time. Favorite colour too. Pumpkincaster. 🤟 🎃
I love the shot of you looking at your notepad. I just revived an old strat style Tanara; paint, headstock repair and some modifications on the electronics, etc. and there was a lot of referring back to my notes.
Been thinking about the same change up to "Rails" , but your high end sounds very thin at least on this demo ? Ramping down the shrill high end of a Tele is my eternal quest . thanks great vid .
Thank you for doing this video. Im a Tele and Strat guy who plays in a jam band. I tire of the fender pickups. To quiet, not enough signal to really work with for what I do. Ive been thinking about switching over to hot rails for a while now. This video pushed me over the edge and pick ups are inbound. Great tone! Thanks again for a video with some jamming rather than the typical bridge on full gain metal clips that fill you tube..
I love modding guitars to achieve either a much broader array of tones not found to to acreage something not normally found in the range. A buddy nodded my 2003 MIM Strat with a couple of hot rails and one cool rail..add in an S-1 Switch and I was left with a very cool strat like none other in my collection. Thanks for doing this video, it makes me want to play my modded guitars///I have been looking at making my own Townshend Deluxe which comes with a Dimarzio HB between two Gibson Minis--add two stitches and two knobs (one to blend just the Dimarzio super distortion) and you will know why PT had 9 of these guitars!
Love the Rails and 4 Sure 2 have the push/pull on board to keep the Single Coils is the way to Roll!! Great Upgrade!!! As far as Fav Mod I like the Nashville 3 Pick-up Mod or Factory Set up! The B-Bender is a Kool Mod, but wood I Do that To A Great Sounding Fender Tele?? NO Way!! Keep My Fender Just Straight! Only Mod What Doesn't Chop up A Classy Guitar!! And the Black Gard looks great John if ONLY Rosewood or Ebony Fretboard!! Then She Would Have More of the Harley Davidson Looks, which is a very Classy Tele!!
Is it just me, or does the guitar actually still sound like a telecaster even with humbucker pickups? This kind of makes me want to get a telecaster even more
Teles are my favorite, and actually you bring up an important point - even when swapping pickups yes it’s still a Tele and imo should still sound like a Tele with the extra body from these hbs - there’s a difference for sure but it’s enhancing or reshaping, not replacing, traditional tone
I swear you were gonna break into Tweezer with the section after clean. Really wanna route my partscaster for full sized humbuckers someday, or have someone else, so i dont mess it up. I believe lace has a tele set as well. Pretty curious about those as well
Hello John & Zack, I really think this was a big improvement. She really came to life & that black pickguard was a big improvement, makes it look even cooler. Besides I am a big fan of Halloween & Home Depot's colors. Love to meet you guys someday. Stay safe and well and keep Rocking. Signed John Gregory Zepbass from Munster Indiana.
Hello: Once the pick-up is installed, how is the configuration? I guess: 1-Pick up bridge. 2-pick up bridge + neck 3- pick up neck. Is it like that? thank you so much. All the best.
Awesome vid, great tone! Gonna be ordering one of these for the bridge in a tele build im doing right now! Do you know what size pots you are running on these? Ik seymour duncan says the 250k but have heard mixed things. Thanks!
im thinking of doing this to my tele but instead of the single coil wiring im thinking of going series and parallel instead, less noise less volume drop and nearly the same as a single coil sound
doing the same to my 88 tele mij that currently has a nocaster set. 1 question, are you using 250k pots as in the schematics? for Humbuckers should be 500k.
I just grabbed a new fender tele player edition , do you know if the S D hot rails will fit in this model easily and what control.plate and wire harness do you recomend
Just found you while checking out pickups for a strat.. Very cool.. Sounds great man! If I had a tele that would be a great pickup to use because I like Humbuckers and I don't like tele pickups from the factory. Too weak..
@@PlayandTradeGuitars I just ordered one, plus a black pickgard. It'll match much better the name of my band which is Black Mandarine (= Tangerine 🍊 in French, sorry for the 🎃😁). I don't know yet if I'll change the pickups, I'll see. Maybe a Hot Rails in the bridge position like on my Strat for good disto sounds, but probably not in the neck position because I also want to keep softer sounds. And I don't find this black pickup goes so well with a glossy black pickguard, because it's not the same black. So I'll keep a classic chrome tele pickup. Anyway, thank you for your video because it showed me, before I bought the guitar, what the result of the modifications I had in mind could be, which is very appreciable and not so common!
Very cool! I plan to do the same on my tele, can you share where to buy that black pickguard? I have a spare mini-humbucker pickup, but won't fit on the neck pickup cavity of the stock telecaster pickguard.
I put Hot Rails bridge and Hot Rhythm neck in my Tele. The magnetic pull on the strings from 16 and 10 ohms is so great it chokes out bends on a 9.5" radius--even with pickups mashed down.
Hey John and Zack. I have the JBE in my MIM Tele. They can get a bit spikey and brittle on the bridge. I was told it was common with rails. Did you experience that with the rails or is it because they are humbuckers you didnt experience it?
Thanks for watching. With the hot rails, I did not experience any brittle highs. It was really well rounded and articulate. In a weird way it reminded me of a 335, sort of.
Wow, i much prefer tye stock pickups. Hotrails are a Go d mod for a bit dge on a strat. Sounds dark and lifeless and lost dynamics compared to the stock demo on this s video.
Coil tapping is the biggest marketing gimmick in the history of pickups... If you want a singke coil sound then you need a single coil guitar. Its that simple. Different guitars have different applications. There is no substitute.
As if Fender themselves had never put humbucker on their own "single coil guitars". Do you think single coils grow on alders and humbuckers on mahogany? The pick up change the sound only, not the shape, the confort or the sensations. One guitar can have different applications. Its that simple.
The stock pickups can play just fine with high gain/distortion, but im not huge on the twangy tones that seem to come most naturally from tele pickups. If I could afford a Jim root tele or just get my tele routed for full sized invaders or whatever other humbuckers, then that's what I would do. But in the meantime, getting some of these for playing with overdrive and distortion. I think they even sound fine clean, too, imo. but you know what they say about opinions
Tbh I was not expecting to like the “upgrade” so much but I really did. It still sounds like a Tele, just beefier. Even the coil tap tones sounded good, and I typically don’t care for coil tapping. Nice video!
Sounds beautiful! I’ve had my eye on these pickups for quite some time and my tele is such a great piece of wood. I really want to beef it up and you’ve certainly helped influence my decision. Thank you for this video!
I bought a tele with this mod. I prefer the stock pickup. It’s a tele,after all
You could have got a control module from obsidian wire that is completely solderless
Awesome! Super helpful. The orange got my attention but i stayed for the info. May just tackle my own next time. Favorite colour too. Pumpkincaster. 🤟 🎃
I love the shot of you looking at your notepad. I just revived an old strat style Tanara; paint, headstock repair and some modifications on the electronics, etc. and there was a lot of referring back to my notes.
Been thinking about the same change up to "Rails" , but your high end sounds very thin at least on this demo ? Ramping down the shrill high end of a Tele is my eternal quest . thanks great vid .
Love the color of this guitar.
Thank you for doing this video. Im a Tele and Strat guy who plays in a jam band. I tire of the fender pickups. To quiet, not enough signal to really work with for what I do. Ive been thinking about switching over to hot rails for a while now. This video pushed me over the edge and pick ups are inbound. Great tone! Thanks again for a video with some jamming rather than the typical bridge on full gain metal clips that fill you tube..
I love modding guitars to achieve either a much broader array of tones not found to to acreage something not normally found in the range. A buddy nodded my 2003 MIM Strat with a couple of hot rails and one cool rail..add in an S-1 Switch and I was left with a very cool strat like none other in my collection. Thanks for doing this video, it makes me want to play my modded guitars///I have been looking at making my own Townshend Deluxe which comes with a Dimarzio HB between two Gibson Minis--add two stitches and two knobs (one to blend just the Dimarzio super distortion) and you will know why PT had 9 of these guitars!
Personally I like the coil split sound, i guess it's up to preference
Love the Rails and 4 Sure 2 have the push/pull on board to keep the Single Coils is the way to Roll!!
Great Upgrade!!! As far as Fav Mod I like the Nashville 3 Pick-up Mod or Factory Set up! The B-Bender is a Kool Mod, but wood I Do that To A Great Sounding Fender Tele?? NO Way!! Keep My Fender Just Straight! Only Mod What Doesn't Chop up A Classy Guitar!! And the Black Gard looks great John if ONLY Rosewood or Ebony Fretboard!! Then She Would Have More of the Harley Davidson Looks, which is a very Classy Tele!!
I agree straight humbucker sounds better!
Only split I ever heard that worked was on a PRS
That sounds really good. Maybe I’ll do that with my tele neck pickup
wow thanks I think I'm going to use this in my tele. in the bridge I put a billy gibbons red devil pickup
Is it just me, or does the guitar actually still sound like a telecaster even with humbucker pickups?
This kind of makes me want to get a telecaster even more
Teles are my favorite, and actually you bring up an important point - even when swapping pickups yes it’s still a Tele and imo should still sound like a Tele with the extra body from these hbs - there’s a difference for sure but it’s enhancing or reshaping, not replacing, traditional tone
i love the bridge! For the Neck I'm curious what DiMarzio chopper pro would sound like with that SD on the bridge. Or if possible DiMarzio Time Zone!
You're right. The split pickup sounds to thin. I like the split rail humbucker sound! ;)
I put SD Hot Rodders in my Epi SG mod ... it turned out fantastic sound. I have several SD products, good stuff.
Hi bro what Sound it brought yo your SG?
getting all technical! love it, great job!
Thanks now u made my decision harder between this or quarter pounders 😅😅😅😅🎸
RE: Coil Split, the Pickups on a PRS DGT have quite the split if you fancy trying a good set of splitters.
It definitely now sounds like a Les Paul but still has the funkiness of a tele
I swear you were gonna break into Tweezer with the section after clean. Really wanna route my partscaster for full sized humbuckers someday, or have someone else, so i dont mess it up. I believe lace has a tele set as well. Pretty curious about those as well
Good tone.
Sounds great!
Hello John & Zack, I really think this was a big improvement. She really came to life & that black pickguard was a big improvement, makes it look even cooler. Besides I am a big fan of Halloween & Home Depot's colors. Love to meet you guys someday. Stay safe and well and keep Rocking. Signed John Gregory Zepbass from Munster Indiana.
did you just follow the old wiring from the stock pickup? like its hot connection and ground and put the hot rail on same connections?
I wouldve wired those pickups to go parallel vs coil split. Parallel is a fuller sound.
Thanks very much for making this video. I was trying with the idea of hotrails and a coil split, but I was very unimpressed with the split sound.
Love the bold mod sounds .
Hello: Once the pick-up is installed, how is the configuration? I guess: 1-Pick up bridge. 2-pick up bridge + neck 3- pick up neck. Is it like that? thank you so much. All the best.
Try a Seymour Duncan BG1400 Billy Gibbons tele bridge pickup. Change your life.
Definitely looking to try these out!
What pot value you use for the volume and tone knob when using the Hotrails?
Spanky to Cranky 🎸
Normally not a fan of relicing guitars, but anything would look better than pumpkin orange, hah. It might look pretty good a little beat up or worn.
Awesome vid, great tone! Gonna be ordering one of these for the bridge in a tele build im doing right now! Do you know what size pots you are running on these? Ik seymour duncan says the 250k but have heard mixed things. Thanks!
im thinking of doing this to my tele but instead of the single coil wiring im thinking of going series and parallel instead, less noise less volume drop and nearly the same as a single coil sound
I could definitely use that Gibson It would go awesome with my Marshall plexi amp.
doing the same to my 88 tele mij that currently has a nocaster set. 1 question, are you using 250k pots as in the schematics? for Humbuckers should be 500k.
Better lower end frequencies but not so much on the upper end frequencies.
That sounds great!
Btw, It sounds great. I love that color as well.
Wait, the twang is still there when you installed the Hot Rails?
I just grabbed a new fender tele player edition , do you know if the S D hot rails will fit in this model easily and what control.plate and wire harness do you recomend
Just found you while checking out pickups for a strat.. Very cool.. Sounds great man! If I had a tele that would be a great pickup to use because I like Humbuckers and I don't like tele pickups from the factory. Too weak..
Hello, could you tell me which is the exact reference of this guitar with this orange colour? Is it a Player Series Tele MN Capri?
Yes Capri orange, thanks for watching!
@@PlayandTradeGuitars I just ordered one, plus a black pickgard. It'll match much better the name of my band which is Black Mandarine (= Tangerine 🍊 in French, sorry for the 🎃😁). I don't know yet if I'll change the pickups, I'll see. Maybe a Hot Rails in the bridge position like on my Strat for good disto sounds, but probably not in the neck position because I also want to keep softer sounds. And I don't find this black pickup goes so well with a glossy black pickguard, because it's not the same black. So I'll keep a classic chrome tele pickup. Anyway, thank you for your video because it showed me, before I bought the guitar, what the result of the modifications I had in mind could be, which is very appreciable and not so common!
I think Hot Rails are proper for Strats, its a distinct sound because of that middle pickup magnets, this just sounds like any 2 humbucker guitar :(
killer sound!
Great, thanks a lot
Great Video Guys!
He has a plausible deniability mullet. Nice!
In the spirit of Albert Collins
Very cool! I plan to do the same on my tele, can you share where to buy that black pickguard? I have a spare mini-humbucker pickup, but won't fit on the neck pickup cavity of the stock telecaster pickguard.
Thanks for watching, good plan! I found a cheap one on Amazon: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00ZR24VJC/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1
I put Hot Rails bridge and Hot Rhythm neck in my Tele. The magnetic pull on the strings from 16 and 10 ohms is so great it chokes out bends on a 9.5" radius--even with pickups mashed down.
Wow way better than stock .
Great video👍
These sound even better with 500k pots.
Hey John and Zack. I have the JBE in my MIM Tele. They can get a bit spikey and brittle on the bridge. I was told it was common with rails. Did you experience that with the rails or is it because they are humbuckers you didnt experience it?
Thanks for watching. With the hot rails, I did not experience any brittle highs. It was really well rounded and articulate. In a weird way it reminded me of a 335, sort of.
what pots need that type of pickups? 250k or 500k?
Coil split not tap
Please gift me that guitar in intro. Love tha look of tha Custom Les Paul. I want it. I need it. I gots to have it. Gots to have it mister.
did you change to 500k pots?
I don’t think you mentioned, but you did swap both pots to 500k, right?
yes, those pots he is using are 500k
Dude play a damn chord!!!!!!
Got any 80s/90s MIJs you're trying to get rid of?
I have a few, not sure if I could part with them! Are you looking for a strat or tele?
@@PlayandTradeGuitars A bound TL62 or an ST62 (JV / Extrad type preferably). If you come across one that you want to sell off, remember me!
Still 250k pots?
Push Pull is 500k, thanks for watching
Can I still win that guitar…………..
Did you go with 500s or just stay with stock 250s?
The push pull is 500k, thanks for watching!
500k pots?
Sounded better with stock Tele pickups..
Wow, i much prefer tye stock pickups. Hotrails are a Go d mod for a bit dge on a strat. Sounds dark and lifeless and lost dynamics compared to the stock demo on this s video.
What is a tye stock pickup?
Drum machine sucks
Pretty good riffs but your timing is terrible! Respectfully
These pickups are so overpriced man. You can get basically the same sound from $17. pickups on Amazon. 🙄
Bullshit
Coil tapping is the biggest marketing gimmick in the history of pickups...
If you want a singke coil sound then you need a single coil guitar. Its that simple. Different guitars have different applications. There is no substitute.
As if Fender themselves had never put humbucker on their own "single coil guitars". Do you think single coils grow on alders and humbuckers on mahogany? The pick up change the sound only, not the shape, the confort or the sensations. One guitar can have different applications. Its that simple.
Before is much more better.
The stock pickups can play just fine with high gain/distortion, but im not huge on the twangy tones that seem to come most naturally from tele pickups. If I could afford a Jim root tele or just get my tele routed for full sized invaders or whatever other humbuckers, then that's what I would do. But in the meantime, getting some of these for playing with overdrive and distortion. I think they even sound fine clean, too, imo. but you know what they say about opinions