The Simple But Crucial Upgrades EVERY Tele Owner Should Do!! || NOSTALgufish
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0:00 Why I Love My Fender Player Series Telecaster
2:39 The Upgrade Parts!
4:56 Upgrading the Telecaster
9:36 Results in a Produced Mix (COWBOYCORE 🤠)
16:02 Final Thoughts and Raw Tones (Was It Worth It?)
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This might be the most ridiculous demo track I've ever written lol. Slide guitar and full octave drop? Seems to have worked, though! Also, let's go Braves!
THAT INTRO RIFF IS FyeahING AMAZING
Position 4 has that Jimi H tone
Random bullshit go!!!
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You hit the nail on the head when you said it is a phenomenon that some people just aren’t into telecasters and then suddenly they are. That is me.
I was one of the people that wasn’t particularly interested in telecasters until I tried one lol
It’s almost a rite of passage for guitarists 😂
@@agufish LMAO! exactly 😂
And the design haven't changed in what 60-70 years? Freaking genius
Same, thought I'd hate them as I despise strats buy there's something about teles, like they become the instrument you need them to be due to their simplicity you can shape the sound so easily
@@preston8836 it's also the only guitar you want to have on you, if you get run up on, or jumped by more than one dude lmao. The fuckin things are basically big 2x4s that are just ready to god damn crack a mafucka lmao
FINALLY - someone who has been waiting for more fender videos
Respect for the ODST pic!
That demo track is ridiculous in the best way.
Dude, you have no idea how happy it made me to hear you play this with all that distortion in that super metal heavy mix. Like I know that's "your thing" anyway, but there are too many people who think Teles and Strats are ONLY for Blues/Country, thank you for showcasing that those pickups can ROCK HARD too!
"Rudimentary", I think the phrase you're looking for is "platonic ideal"
MIJ Aerodyne Telecaster (P90 in the neck) is the one that got me... Teles are legit.
1:29 this so hard. I hated telecaster, especially thr way they looked, now I love them and I don't know why
I really like this NOSTALgufish series. Keep it up!
hi gen z
I really love this upgrade videos
KILLER demo track! Definitely one of the best you composed so far! Congrats!
The 90s! 😁 I love and miss them so much!🎵🎸 I appreciate the Nirvana riffage!💟
30th anniversary of Nevermind, had to do it!
Your cat is a Tele fan 😻
I used Fender locking tuners for my tele build, and they are actually awesome and look great on a....Fender.
Totally get the suddenly liking teles feeling. I didn’t like them at all when I started playing and the somewhere along the way I just realized I really wanted one. Still my favorite Fender guitar. I’m usually a Gibson fan but the tele is one of my favorite guitars.
Love the series!!
Did the same series/parallel mod on my Tele but with a push/pull on the tone knob instead of the 4 ways switch. Such a nice addition to the tonal palette of this guitar!
Server dad early catch.
I totally agree on the Tele. One needs a Tele.
I was late into it too. I always played LP's and superstrats for the most.
Until I got my first Tele, recently. A gift from my girlfriend.
Now, I can't go without a Tele.
Also, holy sh*t, Hunter, this video kicked major ass !! \m/
Some say he's mellowed because there's insufficient organic honey in Savanah (which is odd because he lives in Atlanta.) But he will get frenetic in the presence of haphazard black lace in the bedroom. And the best way to nest his tones involves shocks off a '69 Road Runner, memory foam and a girl willing to wear low-heeled shoes after all that black lace is discrarded. The man! The Legend! Der Fish!
That's just a great looking tele. Speaking of white guitars, your review of the 2017 SG Standard in Alpine White put me over the edge and I ended up pulling the trigger. Love it!
The thumbnail you made with frodo is the best thing I've seen all day... "alright keep your secrets then."
Honestly, every Tele should have a 4-way switch by default. I mean, look at the Washburn Nele. It has many tonal options, since it has a 6-way switch.
Hunter is missing the brass saddles upgrade
Lol you mean downgrade
Understand it wasn't in the budget or limit of the sponsor, but definitely recommend checking out the Rock Rabbit Tele control plate down the line. They slightly angle the switch and move the volume pot a little further away to make switching pickups more natural. Have one on my partscaster and now am more inclined to pick it up if we're being honest.
I second this. As someone who switches pickups constantly, I replaced the plate on my Richie Kotzen with one of these and made it actually usable. I always thought, "wow, tele players really must just use one pickup OR the other, because selecting pickups blows!"
Flipping the control plate upside down like J Leonard Jay's Telecaster is probably more useful, still...I can't decide which to do for my next build.
@@InGrindWeCrust2010 Note that I'm speaking as someone who prefers Strat and LP style control layouts so take this as you will. In my mind, while flipping the control plate defiantly mitigates a few issues (especially if you use a tophat knob instead of a barrel knob), there's still the issue of it being too close to another control for my comfort which the rock rabbit eliminates pretty much entirely. Still, flipping it is what my cousin does and is definitely a vibe I can get behind. No harm in trying both and seeing how it goes.
"I don't wanna go full High Intergrity with it"
....well then😒
I literally hated Telecasters with every fiber of my being and now it’s my favorite shape
That demo track was heavy dude. Instant bop.
Using the slide was ridiculous but sounded so fkn awesome
I love this Nostalgufish series it's dope
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A great video for me to watch while I'm cleaning my own guitar, preparing it for its next set of strings. :)
Dude I love what you did with this! Having the series switch must be so nice since you’re probably more used to having humbuckers
Makes a video about worthwhile upgrades.
Installs strap locks.
Doesn't use a strap.
Lol like the concept is worthwhile, I meant to swap one on for the video from the ML2 or my signature, I just forgot :(
For a moment, I thought you might try to convince me it was an invisible strap. But you went with honesty instead. Haha!
I did a similar version of running the pick ups in series instead of parallel, I put it on a push pull pot instead of a 4 way switch and I found that it’s a lot cheaper because it’s less parts and easier to wire
I think Gojira used this or a very similar guitar in the music video for grind wich sounds just amazing
What is your opinion on the t-chopper humbucker?
dude i totally understand what you mean! i hated teles for a long time because i didn't like the way the looked. but one day i just all of a sudden started to want a tele. still haven't got one yet, but will likely be my next guitar! thanks for the vid!
From these mods you've done the only one I would have done is the 4-way switch, and with the money you'd have saved you could have done a cooler, cheaper mod instead. Of the numerous Teles I've owned I have only changed one tuner with a locking tuner and that was on the B string of my B-Bender Telecaster. That was the only string that benefited with having no wraps around the post for tuning stability, plus you have multiple wraps around your locking tuners you've installed making their advantage totally useless. I have used those Schaller strap locks before but ditched them for two reasons. First, over time the clip part on the strap would slowly cut into the strap button to the point it would have to be replaced. Second, the nut and washer on the strap would always work itself loose and sometimes fall apart when playing. You have the updated model with a thumb wheel instead so if it works itself loose it's easy to tighten up again I guess. I'm happy with the tried and true Grolsch beer red washer rings that everybody uses that work, are basically free if you buy 2 beers, and you can keep your original strap buttons. The four way switch I totally agree with and if the jack needed replacing, good, but the pots and cap were not needed. Instead I would have got from rockrabbit.com an angled switch control plate with an added kill switch that is probably more useful for your style of playing and you still would have spent less money. The angled switch is easier to maneuver and it allows more space to hook your pinky between the switch and volume knob. You would still have money left over if you avoided the strap locks, locking tuners, and pots and cap and it could have gone towards compensated traditional saddles and/or a dual top-loader or string through bridge plate.
Great video! My Fender Player Plus Tele came with locking tuners and push-pull pot for serial mode. But my old Squier CV 50s Tele was unmodified, so I bought cheap Harley Benton locking tuners (roundabout 40 €). I have them on a Harley Benton PRS-clone and they´re really good, so I decided to buy some for the Tele. Together with the tuners I bought a barrel-stringtree and replaced the old one. But the best mod was the 4-way-switch and a new control-plate with angled cutout for the switch and more space between switch and volume knob. 👍
I have this guitar and love it! I made most of the same changes except for the 4-way switch and I added a red pickguard for looks. I may have to add that switch, too.
I actually bought that same guitar last November. GC had three white on white Player Series Telecaster on sale for $499.00. I went there to look at a Strat but that price was too good. I absolutely love it. I already had a pretty decent Strat style guitar anyway. Now the Tele is usually my go to. Thanks for the Telecaster love man.
I was in the same boat. I used to hate telecasters then I re-read the manga BECK and I had to have one. I don't know what magic they did to this thing but I love the tuning stability of it. I could not play my tele for weeks and pick it up and like one string will be out of tune. Its really an impressive guitar. Always on the middle position for that emo/math rock tone. Its by far my favorite sound I get from a guitar.
Hey, thats my main axe too! And I did the same upgrades months ago. So happy with my tele since the 4 switch and the locking parts
I started playing and looking for a telecaster way back in 1996 didn't find one I wanted till 2015. Now I have a MIA a MIM and a Hufschmid baritone Tstyle ahaha.
How’s the Hufschmid? I keep seeing him on Instagram and his stuff looks great
Music is win just demoed a sick squier baritone tele cabronita, you should check it out!
I was never a fan of the Telecaster until a few weeks ago...bought one this week. Now I'm wondering why it took me so long to buy one. I got a Fender Vintera 50's Telecaster in Sonic Blue. I love it.
I bought a player Tele earlier this year. The only modification I felt was necessary was replacing the string tree. With the stock tree, it didn''t keep tune very well. I replaced it with a roller tree and now it's fine.
I've got a MIM Tele as well, it was actually my first non-bass guitar I bought years ago. I keep meaning to pimp it, but it's honestly fine as it is!
I hated teles for years and then woke up one day, bought one, now own 6. The accuracy of your statement of "just liking them out of nowhere" is to true.
Interesting and entertaining video, thanks for posting. I bought my first electric after years of playing acoustic and I chose a telecaster. It’s the American Performer and I love it. My mods to it so far are new brass compensated saddles from Philadelphia Luthier Tools and a 4 way ObsidianWire solderless wiring harness. I’ve had it for over 2 years now and I don’t think about any other guitar. I’m so glad I went with a telecaster.
Thanks again for the video.
Hunter!! I’ve missed you!! A week is too long!
I bought a Squier Danish Pete purple Tele. Following upgrades: Locking tuners, Graphtec nut & saddles, four way switch and Fender noiseless PUs. Sounds and plays great
Beautiful Tele, love the white and chrome. Great vid.
4-way switching on Teles needs to be the new normal, there's literally no reason to not do it especially if you have true singlecoils. My Tele has hot rails and I still use position 4 as my default, there's just something magic about it.
I wasn't a Tele fan when I was younger. Then I tried a HSS Strat and fell in love with the single coil pickup in the neck, but didn't like the middle pickup, so I wanted a guitar with a single coil in the neck, humbucker in the bridge. Seeing stuff like Rabea's signature Chapman made me get a Tele, and then I tried a Telecaster with a very hot bridge pickup and got blown away. So yeah I'm now definitely a Telecaster fan.
Funnily enough I just ordered a 4 way switch for my Hannah Montana tele mod project. I can’t wait to install it and hear the hot rails pickup and the teisco pickup in series
The Telecaster is my favorite guitar design but when I wear it on a guitar strap while standing, the guitar sits awkward and uncomfortably against my body. I found through testing various guitar strap lengths that only when the Tele sits high on my chest (like the Beatles' George Harrison and his Tele) does the Tele feel somewhat comfortable.
I snagged a MIM Blacktop HH Tele from a pawn shop in 2017. Love it.
I have the same guitar except for the pao ferro fretboard. I love it so much
I did that same wiring in my tele and love it :)
I got a telecaster I built from fender parts. Built it to have the vibe of a white les paul custom, white body, black pickguard and gold hardware and neck pickup. It's got gotoh non locking tuners in it, and I swear it never goes out of tune, and that's with a handcut nut cut by myself
I’d have gone cheaper on the strap locks, just the Fender rubber washers are good.
A classic tele adjustment is flipping the control plate so the volume control is closest to the neck for volume swells and I’d have also gone with the reverse angle bridge. Having the bridge pickup at then opposite angle really does something to the low end and gets rid of what a lot of people don’t like like about tele’s. Sometimes they’re just too bitey/chimey/top-endy. Shrill almost.
You should check some of those out if you’ve never heard of them. I’ve also heard of people changing the metal of some saddles but I don’t know too much about that.
A great sounding Tele .I was looking at a new player series when i came across a mint condition 2019 Vintera 60s modified in Lake Placid blue and had to have it .The 4 way switching is brilliant [plus the S1 switch to take it out of phase]and as you say and should be done to every Tele .It's my first actual Fender and my other 2 T styles have modern 6 saddle bridges so fancied a 3 saddle ashtray just for a change .Now i know how good and under rated Mexican Teles are I might get that player series too .
I always thought that liking a telecaster out of nowhere means you’re in Chill dad mode
Upgraded mine with vintage fender 3 brass saddle bridge and vintage tuners. Going to add a vintage pickguard sometime.
Love the Nirvana in the sound samples. Wasn't really expecting that from you. Great content as always.
Love the feel and finish on my MIM Tele.
My first guitar was a red affinity squire tele. Love that thing for DACGCE/FACGCE
$116 for the tuners? You could have gotten the exact same product from Reverb for like $70-80.
Or eBay for $40-$60.
I think a Hagstrom Ultra Swede should be on your channel. I picked one up a couple months ago and love it. So much that I bought another yesterday. On another note, the Grover Rotomatic self locking tuners are amazing. Threw a set on my new Hagstrom and I don't think I'll go with any other locking tuners from here out.
I always admired teles because they're so simple but extremely usable in nearly every situation and genre. Honestly I also prefer the knobs and switch position because it's nearly impossible to bump it and change the settings.
Another vote for the rock rabbit control plate , tht little distance makes a big difference . I really like it .
I have a Harley Benton Tele. Its they style that Prince played.
I was rather impressed with it but decided to add a solderless Mojotone 4 way selector wiring harness. And boy did the new pots plus the 4th position that gives a "humbucker" sound really make a huge difference.
Other than done locking tuners some day, I don't think I'll ever do anything more to it.
I thought it was Yeehaw-core, tho it's been a minute 😂
Also not sure why it's so noisy in the isolated tracks, I can hear that fizz even on the cleans through a phone speaker. Did something happen? Or maybe it's just the amp?
Oh true! lol it is "yeehaw-core", it's been gone too long. And Teles are inherently noisy, then my apartment has the world's poopiest power that is quiet or noisy depending on who knows what. Sometimes when I'm recording, I'll get conservative AM radio coming through the amps at damn near full volume lol
Now that is, by far, the worst thing that could ever happen to a guitarist, my condolences
That is the absolute truth. I hated Telecasters my whole life until about 2 years ago. Now I have 3 of them
Have you ever tried graphtech ratio tuners? I've been considering them over Gotoh and Hip shot for my PRS
I just received one of these from Adorama, and am enjoying it. Not sure if I'm going to keep it, as it's a bit heavy for my liking for a Tele. As for upgrades, if I keep it... I've never had need for (or desire for) locking tuners, so I'd pass on those. I'll likely go with the vintage style tuners that you feed the string through the top. I will upgrade the bridge construction to a 3 brass barrel set-up, I just prefer it. I'll maybe upgrade the pickups down the road. Either way, Fender did a really nice job with this series. Great video, thanks for sharing this!
I would go total nuts and mod on Agufish style adding in the midle position a bridge hotrails pickup, so I could switch between a tele single bridge or a humbucker bridge, for high gain a bridge pickup in the midle wouldn't make as much difference as the difference that a real single has to a real hot rails, it will never sound the same when split
I miss my MIM Tele but it didn"t sound like a tele. I'm getting a used Squier Classic Vibe 50's someday for studio cleans and overdubs and some shit.Very complementary to my strat and these Squier are simply fantastic when it comes to sound and build quality. I just don't like the 7.25" radius but I'll make an exception since they are so good for the price. Highly recommend them
This video is PERFECT. I just bought my player tele and locking turners.
Ill think of these upgrades. I have a squier cv 50s tele with some lollar special and vintage ts and aome brass saddles in them for about the same price as one of these, maybe a tad bit cheaper. Great video!
Telecasters (and LP Jrs) are the epitome of cool guitar for me. No bullshit, no frills, tons of character, great tones, endlessly playable, easy to mod. What more could you want?
4-way switches seem like a weird compromise to me. My preference is 5-way super with a series out of phase connection thrown in. (If it was a toggle switch, I'd add parallel out of phase as well with a 6-way.) With the increased usage of blending (from the out of phase option), I'd likely also separate the volume and tone per pickup with concentric knobs.
I actually bought one recently (just a Grote) because I liked the color (bright yellow) but I love the damn thing. I never liked the look of them until I saw this one and fell in love with it. I'm going to upgrade all hardware and electronics to Fender specs and have a blast. It's cheap but it pretty much stays in tune and sounds like something from a 40's blues album. I am a convert.
Curious if you found mounting the four way switch to the existing plate gave you enough room (in the control plate slot) to move to in-series without the switch sticking
That same apiffany happened to me ...never wanted a "country" guitar 🎸 until I got one in a trade and me-oh-my I'm hooked!
Nice, but I prefer the upgrades I did to my Baja, Gotoh bridge with compensated brass saddles, and also vintage Gotoh kluson style locking tuners, kept the whole guitar looking vintage and legit!
I also added locking tuners to my American Standard Tele. Just wondering why you wrap so much string around the post? I thought with locking tuners you didn't have to wrap all that much string. Especially since all that extra string means the strings will pull out of tune more so than if there wasn't all that extra string around the tuner post. What I do is thread the string through the bridge, over the nut and into the tuner, pull tight, then lock it down there. Then I'll tune up the string and finally will trim off the excess string last. So with low strings, mine only wrap about 1/4 to 1/3 of a revolution (I never tune to drop D with my tele). It locks perfectly, doesn't have any slack that can tighten around the peg which means it stays in tune very well. Plus, it's a lot faster to change strings when you don't have 3 or more revolutions of string wound around the post.
So seeing you still doing a lot of string wrapping around the post as if you weren't using locking tuners makes me wonder... am I missing something? Just wondering if there's a downside to less string wrap in your opinion. Also was wondering if you've ever tried minimal wrap around the post like I do? I thought that was the whole reason to use locking tuners... so you don't have all that extra string wrap making it pull out of tune easier.
I have the exact same one as you, the most inspiring guitar ive ever had.
I recommend the Rabbit Hole control plate. Easier access to the pickup selector. That's what I have on my Fender Player Series Tele. Mine is the same as yours...Maple fretboard with a white body. But I also replaced the pickguard with a mint green pickguard to make it look more vintage as well as the vintage style Bridge plate with 3 brass barrel saddles.
Thanks for reminding me to get a nut so u can finally mod my 1984 Epiphone Explorer. Been holding onto this project for almost 2 months now lol
Also suggest an 022 cap vs a 047, and a no load tone pot. This will open up some room between the dark and bright tones.
022 vs 047
Me: 033 👼
Is the size of your replacement adaptor bushing for tuning pegs is 10mm?
Hunter, could you make a video going through the process of how you write the demo tracks?👀
gotoh is my go-to(h) for hardware. never failed me or disappointed me. solid heavy-duty stuff that looks and feels good and is not overpriced. for tuners i sometimes go grover though.
You should try Seymour Duncan Quarter Pound Tele pickups! Monstrous sound for high gain tones!
1:26 F*ck yeah! Used to hate teles, now I have 4 haha!
This rite of passage just happened to me last week. I started playing around 2003 and I just always hated teles. Out of nowhere I just got the itch for one and I had to pick one up. Been having so much fun with it, can’t put it down.
For anyone wondering I did this to my telecaster years ago because I'm more of a humbucker guy but ended up with a telecaster... I don't regret this mod at all it's amazing. I also flipped the controls upside down because I used to hit the pickup selector every time
Geez. I’ve been loving my new Tele, but that selector switch issue was getting to me. I never thought of that simple fix. Great idea.
4 way switch is a must on a Tele. Recommend an Electrosocket jack too. But the benefits of locking tuners are somewhat lost if you don’t pull the strings through taut before you lock them. There shouldn’t be more than one wind round the post when tuned at pitch.