CLEAN: '51 Nocaster vs. Twisted Tele neck pickup (Fender Custom Shop ´52 Tele)
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2018
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Fender Customshop Telecaster 1952 neck pickup test: 51 Nocaster vs. Twisted Tele vs. 55/56 Tele Single Coil. CLEAN. Ibanez TS9, Brunetti Singleman 50 Head, arno unterlass, 2018
Absolutly great........very cool ! In this demo you can hear how a Tele can sound at it's best. Thank you for the comparison.
What a beautiful neck that is! Lovely playing as well.
My vote for the Nocasters - a lot more clarity than the others. I have a set of them in my Tele & can't ever see replacing them.
My 60th Anniversary Tele (2013) came stock with the Twisted Tele setup and they are exceptional pickups. But honestly I say it’s not a big deal between these two in a challenge. Both are winners.
I preferred the 51 nocaster, however the 55/56 seemed to be a lower output pickup, so not sure about that one. That pickup may be closer to the nocaster at a similar volume. Thanks for taking the time to do the demo!
Twisted tele is the best sounding neck pickup i have ever heard in a telecaster
Gracias por este video increible el sonido. Es el unico video que encontre asi. Pude tomar la decicion gracias a vos!!! Saludos desde ARGENTINA!!!! Gracias.
Nice. So Sweet ~ I could listen to this all day !
The twisted sound incredible
nice post. i like the clean playing.
both are beauties! nice playing! :)
Really great demo.
Very nice Telemanship too!
Both sounds great! I 'm waiting for a new tele with that combo (nocaster/twisted), can't wait to try it. Thanks for the demo!
I like both sounds and see why you'd prefer one over the other, but man, I love those Nocasters.
That's some tasty playing! I prefer the Nocaster, less muddy and more clarity.
Nocaster pickups with a 4 way switch wired in series in the 4th position is the perfect pickup set for me.
'51 Nocasters!
This is a unique demo usually tele players prefer emphasis on the bridge pickup tone.
you are right, but i love the neck pickup sound - would‘t need the bridge pickup 😂
@@UnterlassAudio I have a 4 way switch on my tele so I use both pickups together in parallel its a great tone Cheers !
therefore i play strats :) more versatile for me. but also 90% neck pickup 😂
@@UnterlassAudio Why don't u just removed the bridge pickup and save u some troubles You can be a full time Rhythm Jazz guitar player one of a kind lol
@@UnterlassAudio My Strats are for the neck pickup the other positions are just incidental. My Teles are for the bridge and middle position. You need both guitars! : )
Wow. What a great groove.
Incredible playing,.
For me the 51 nocaster has more of that indefinable quality of 'soul' to them.
Thats some nice playing man
Ehy mate great comparison, that exactly the choice i'm trying to make! By any chance did you do such a comparison also for the bridge pickup? I don't seem to find it
Both good but that twisted neck sounds spectacular
Responding to the comments about the Twisted sounding like a Strat - well its supposed to - that's what Fender wanted from the Twisted. I have the Nocaster neck and bridge - bridge great - neck - ....well.... it's a difficult one to bring out in a band mix so going to change it for the Lollar Royal T because it's Stratty. The Nocaster neck thing might be just my amp and pedal set up - I have a DV Mark Dawg. Maybe with a DLR it would be great.
Well this is and add edit.....changed to the Lollar Royal T.....brilliant! Exactly what I wanted.....got that glassy bluesy thing going.....cut through the mix just right. Don't understand why Fender wouldn't do something like this for say 25% of Teles. .....but perhaps the Twisted I haven't tried actually does that and it's why that Nocaster bridge and Twisted is so often chosen for Custom versions. I cannot rec enough this combo Nocaster bridge Lollar Royal T neck. This is now a dream set up!!!!
I ended up with the nocaster on the bridge and a twisted tele in the neck after testing both sets. Im happy.
I know they're not traditional,but there really is something special about the TT set. The nexk pickup tone on a tele is about as close to Knopfler as I've ever gotten even when using actual Strats. Its just incredible. And nobody ever talks about the bridge pickup in that set, but i honestly think i love that pickup even more than the neck. It freaking ROCKS. All that midrange is so nice to cut through with. Overdriven tones are just mean. Growly, throaty, and mean.
Great playing and comparison. Think I like the 51 Nocasters!
BTW, can you provide your settings to acquire this great tone?
Tolles Video,
am liebsten habe ich die Kombi von Twisted am Hals und den Nocaster an der Brücke ❤️
Solltest du mal ausprobieren wenn du Lust am basteln hast ;)
Nice playing - my preference is Nocaster. Twisted Tele is nice but sounds very “Strat like”. Thank you for posting this comparison!
I thought the nocaster neck sounded more stratty!! But I'm a strat player so maybe I hear strat in everything. I'm researching for my first tele.
@@joshuageorge5389 what did you decide to go with? lol 2 years later, ikr!
Thank you so much I like them all but I really like the Twisted Tele from what I hear👍🏿
Thanks for posting! I’m thinking I like the TWISTED TELE.
It's the only neck pickup I've ever liked on a Telecaster
The Twisted Tele set is what I have in my 2012 American Standard. Thats my baby. Nothing else I own compares. It's kind of the best of both worlds. A little stratty with but totally tele. Bent steel saddles, no load pots. But man... does that 51 twang well.
great playin and sound ...
Goddamn, I clicked on this video just so I can hear some of that good glossy clean neck tone
In all honesty the Twisted tele is the only neck pup I've ever really liked on a tele. Prior to installing a TT I was primarily on the middle and bridge position only. Now it's the opposite way. More neck, less middle and bridge.
Yeah...the bridge on those TT really sucks.
Absolutely excellent video! Obviously, the Tele neck pup gets overshadowed by its neighbor to the south. You do an amazing job, showcasing these different pickups. A question, if I may? Exactly what effects/processing is in your signal chain in this video? Thank you very much!
hi! thanks; the signal goes straight into the brunetti head with eventide time factor as parallel insert (only does simple delay, any delay would work). spring reverb is from the head. no other processing, just miced
@@UnterlassAudio Brilliant! Thank you!
Great Review. Thanks a lot.
51 Nocaster....Suggestions for the Bridge to go along with it. You are amazing! suabscribed immediately...
thank you 🙏
Broadcaster
Great video
Nocaster Pickups for me just sound like butter!
What bridge pickup do you pair with the Twisted Tele? I ended up here because I was looking for demos of the Nocasters, but that Twisted Tele neck really has my attention. I love it. But the bridge PU in that set would be too hot for me for sure
Amazing performance and comparison!! You own three custom shop. Great!!
1. 51 Nocaster
2. Twisted Tele
3. 55/56
I own AM vintage reissue 64, and recently I changed neck PU to custom shop Texas Special owing to be boosted up. It succeeded. Depending on the adjustment, neck PU has more tone pressure than the existing bridge PU. I like neck PU on my Fender strat 60 custom shop as well.
have a listen to my new video with a 53 masterbuilt paul waller tele. it has also nocaster pickups that sound in between those PUs. creamy and aggressive at the same time ;)
@@UnterlassAudio Thank you for a kind message!! Please check my guitar play and singing on my channel!!
sold me on the nocaster, thanks.
I like the nocaster the best, because it has that hollow chime thang
Twisted Tele pups had more snap to them and sounded clearer to me, but it's hard to say which I liked better. I'd used the '52 more for classic blues vs. the Twisted for more modern tones...didn't hear any buzz...are they as clean as they sounded?
The Nocaster sounds best by a long shot. Thank You I'll be here all week!
Idk about long shot? One is not entirely better than the other. At the end of the day this video only proves their both 2 very usable tones.
@@BITESIZEJONES It's an opinion, you can't simply negate by stating one is not entirely better than the other. That isn't a statement of fact because it is no more true than my opinion. So, NO CASTER IS BETTER and i'll stay with that and you go have your own. You see...You haven't provided any proof that it is a fact yet you claim both tones are usable. They wouldn't be products from Fender if they weren't usable, genius.
@@BITESIZEJONES So you don't know...about long shot...I DO, OK...it's an opinion.
You two win the internet this week for posting the most inane argument we’ve seen in a long time.
@@ASM881 Actually, having an opinion is not a silly thing, which is the definition of inane. It is vital. I subjectively think the Nocaster is best by far. That is my opinion, take it or FO but you don't get to modify opinions. It's a rhetorical and philosophical point that is in no way silly, jackass.
Nocaster for the win!
I am biased and have been playing the 51s for a few years now. To me the twisted set sounds like the tonality, but you have compression on it. Not a pedal dirty type, more 1176, or opto, bet ya could
Compress the 51s and get close to the twisted tone? Wonder if they feel that way? Have a set of twisted on the way to check out
That blue tele is gorgeous what one is that? Or did u build it
Preferred the Nocasters in this video but the Twisted Tele in your overdrive video
Great video and playing !!! Twisted for my taste ...
thanks. i uploaded a video with a MB tele paul waller with custom hw nocaster pickups - they are best of both worlds, aggressive and smoth
@@UnterlassAudio If i put nocaster 51 custom shop pickup or twisted in my performer series tele will it sounds like that 😂 ???
Nicolas Mayrand 😄 maybe, but there are lot of other components in the chain... amp, speaker, fingers... but its a good way to find out which pus you like sound wise
Nicolas Mayrand you may not necessarily hear the difference between a cs or mb tele in comparison with a performer, its more a feeling thing. good guitars may be more inspiring / fun... so you play different things. performer is not bad at all 👍
@@UnterlassAudio cause i am looking for a 50s tone but im scared of the big U neck shape i have kind of small medium hands
Hi... wonderful videos !!... I would like to know your personal opinion, do you like Twisted tele or Nocaster more? for blues and rock! Thank you very much
twisted tele ;)
55/56 was my favorite.
como tienes configurado el eq del amp con las pastillas 51 nocaster me encantó el sonido
I got a CS tele with 51 Nocaster bridge and Twisted neck pup. For my taste the Twisted seems a bit darker, and I’d like something hotter I think.
normally twisted is way brighter
You're playing and tone is as good as it gets! 🗻 🕊 🦅
Nice playing, cool vid.
thank you!
Great comparison and playing(I favour the Nocasters). What is the name of that tune? -- Thank you
Daniel Dunlop thanks. no name for this, it was just an spontaneous improvisation
@@UnterlassAudio Very impressive. I wish I could improvise like that.
THANKS, UM!
Do you remember which speakers were installed in the cabinet? Thank you very much.
sure. 2 x v30 16ohm
I loved your playing and the fact that you made a separate video for the clean tones......
By the way, is that blue tele in 'sonic blue' or in 'daphne blue' ?? Looks killer..
Mala Chaudhury thanks 🙏 - the color is daphne blue
I like the 55/56
What did the original 52 pickups sound like?
How you kept it humless?
i don‘t know, did nothing special. sometimes to change position / rotate a bit helps
A bit different from each other but both sounds good. The fingers, that's where most of the tone is. 😉
I have never heard of swapping fingers, but you can swap pickups.
Do you remember which strings you used in your video?
sure Daddario EXL110, 010-046
would this neck pickup work with a seymour duncan hotrail in the bridge?
sorry, i really don‘t know
Was that first tele sonic blue or daphne blue?
its daphne blue
Nice video? Which ones do you prefer?
i personal prefer the twisted tele, since i play bluesrock style. i like the bite in the attack of the twisted tele. for clean, thick and warm tones, i would go for the ´52. Btw I‘m strat player :)
UNTERLASS MUSIC great comparison brother. I think they both sound great but I’m leaning towards the twisted. What bridge pup are you using or do you suggest for classic rock and blues ??
'51 Nocaster for the win.
Would like to hear these neck pickups with some dirt also
there are some with dirt. just have look on the channel…
Twisted Tele = more output?
Nocaster pickup here.
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what does Twisted pickup mean? I'm guessing the are winding the pickup winding twisted?
don‘t know. it’s just the product name
@@UnterlassAudio The Twisted is suppose to cancel out the hum and noises they are claiming right?
I actually think for me the nocaster had a bit more clarity
Twisted Tele in the neck, Nocaster in the bridge ;)
Noah G that’s my go-to setup! With the s1 switching and a 4-way switch, it does it all
Like Pete's tele
@@guguslive I thought Pete’s tele was no caster in the neck and twisted in the bridge?
@@bradcarter6396 I'd swear it was the other way around... now I'm not so sure.
@@guguslive you are probably right I’m just going off what I thought I heard him say in a video I could be wrong I’m finding mixed info on it
If i put nocaster 51 custom shop pickup or twisted in my performer series tele will it sounds like that 😂 ???
It will have the potential to do so. But the real tone is in your fingers and signal chain. A good instrument is there to inspire you
Don't forget -make sure you have high quality Pots! Those lil Pots can be terrible.
@@alexpiccione610 thanks
I somehow get the feeling that the twisted teles will sound too trebly on a RW board tele
topografer ok, let‘s see. i will swap the pickups of my 63 cs tele soon to twisted‘s and do a video. 👍
@@UnterlassAudio huh that's great thanks
which to you prefer, Tele Neck Pickup or Strat Neck Pickup ?
Bobby G there is no answer, since there are lots of different neck pickups for both guitars that can hardly be compared and sound really good. easier to compare strat vs tele guitars in general. here i prefer strats (neck pickup most of the time), because I’m more familiar to strats (play them for almost 20 years, they are very versatile). this was my first tele i recently bought, and there are lots of things i really like.
But I loved the groove
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Twisted tele you can allways role the tone back a bit - then you have the best of both. Why do people allways forget about the tone knob? Very slight adjustment tone diffrence. Come on people get familar with your instruments.and their functions. Pedals and pickup changes is not allways the solution. If its brite you can allways take away with out tweaking your amp or kiking a pedal - its in hands reach. Twisted tele my choice.
Keith Clark - ditto. Don’t think you’ll ever see a guitarist on stage just jamming away with no pedals or any effects.
And what happens when you switch back to the bridge pickup on the fly, and the single Tone control is still rolled off?
@@wakjob961
If you can switch the pickup on the fly
You can roll the tone on the fly also
You think ?
Ooh, gotta be nocasters.
I'd say the middle ones....the twisted.
Twisted Tele is GOOD!
Danish Pete has twisted tele pups in his purple tele and I think that’s one of the best sounding teles out there, but I have 2 guitars with nocasters and I will never switch the pups out. I love NoCasters.
he actually has a nocaster in the bridge and his own signature pick up in the neck made by montysguitars and andertons sell it, it's called dp51. Also the twisted tele and dp51 make your tele sound like a strat so maybe his tele is the best sounding tele because it sounds more like a stratocaster?
@@killrockstartv sounds like a tele to me.
Which capacitor did you use for nocasters?
don‘t know. came with this guitar, and never modify anything
@Jason Reding lmao exactly
Nocasters. Twisted just sound like a strat and we want a telecaster!!!!
we? ;)
Are nocaster pickups noiseless?
levibgoldenberg no - noisy :)
Twisted tele is just not a teleneck pickup. That holy woodness is completely absent in the twisted, it's for people who don't like teles
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just bought two from aliexpress
wait....did you replace pickups in your 52 custom?????? Dude, just buy a squier and change pick-ups
Twisted Tele...
They both sound good,but it's the guitar not necessarily the pickups. I have a Squier standard tele that sounds as good as this tone rocket of a tele. I also have a 52 reissue tele that doesn't sound as good as the Squier. Mind you, the the 52 has higher quality components, "tone wood" etc. so it must sound better right? The Squier is newer, made of agathis-not a "tone wood", original small pots etc, all stock. The Squier tele resonates and sounds every bit as good as the tele in this video. Pickups can make a difference, but they can't make a guitar resonate like this tele.
sound comes from you fingers, good instruments give inspiration, and pickups, amps, boxes, cables add character ;) glad if you found a good squier 👍 - btw three diff guitars in this video.
UNTERLASS MUSIC Agreed. I have been playing for forty years so not exactly a novice.Apparently you have acquired some "keeper" teles. I have other guitars that are what I call "keepers" including the 52. If there is a way to make all guitars that resonant, I'd like to know the secret. For instance, I once purchased a beautiful practically new strat for a great price. When I tried it out it sounded dead and muffled. I figured it just needed new strings, set up etc. No matter what I did, strings,set up even new pickups, it always sounded dead and muffled. I finally traded it off and when the store owner plucked the strings, he said Oh I'll need to change the strings. It had a brand new set strings on it. Don't worry,he still got the better end of the deal money wise. It was a gorgeous swamp ash strat with the most beautiful grain pattern I had ever seen but dead and muffled sounding.
lol, tone wood.
If you put the squire pckups in the 52 tele it would sound just as good as the squire
Definitely the Nocaster for me. The Twisted Tele really had too much of a strat vibe.
If you want to compare pickups you must use the same guitar. Not two sorry
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Nocaster PU sounded best