The Super High Output version of this pickup is 15% stronger than the Vintage Output version and it also uses the larger magnet. This style also uses a bigger magnet for a brighter sound to balance the tone from the extra windings around the coil. The High Output version of this pickup has 10% more winding on the coils than the Vintage Output version. This tone balance is a great choice for blues, and sounds good clean or overdriven. This extra winding will give you more bass and more midrange but less high-end. The Blues Output version of this pickup has 5% more winding than the Vintage Output version. This version gets the closest to the vintage sound and still offers a plenty of twang and bite. The Vintage Output version offers a thicker and darker tone than the other options. This pickup comes in four styles, and each style has a different output level. This is a hand wound pickup that uses Lilly Fralins signature Sectioning Technique. It uses American-made ceramic magnets for maximum quality, tonal balance, and output. The Fralin Split Blade is a bright sounding pickup carefully designed to provide plenty of the sparkle and twang that caused us to seek out the Tele in the first place. The blades are available in three different heights to match your fingerboard radius, and the bridge pickup is wound a little hotter to match the neck pickup in output level. This pickup features Lily Fralin’s unique 4 Split Blade design for achieving both single coil and humbucker tones, the unique design also gives the pickup a modern look. It is a single coil sized humbucker pickup that places the two coils in a side by side design for a truer and more balanced single-coil tone. The Fralin Split Blade Telecaster Bridge Pickups feature a revolutionary noiseless design. These split blades are 100% noise-free, but come packed with all of the jaw-dropping tone that has become standard for all of his products. There was a time when he actually answered his own phone and took your order! I’m not sure if this is still the case, and if not, you can’t blame him the guy is busy making some of the most popular replacement pickups out there.įinally, Lindy has gone noiseless. His reputation for craftsmanship is second to none. Lindy Fralin has long been known as the go-to guy when it comes to passive / vintage replacement pickups. Noiseless / Hum-Canceling Telecaster Bridge Pickupsįralin Split Blade Telecaster Bridge Pickups The ones on this list are tuned to sound perfect in the bridge position of the Telecaster. The tone from these pickups is quite good, and they have the added benefit of being hum bucking. This is usually achieved by stacking the coils, or using two coils side by side. Most of the pickups on this list are “Noiseless”, which means that they are humbucker pickups that are the size of single coil pickups. If you play a Fender Telecaster and feel that your sound is getting a little stale, or maybe you would just like to change up your sound a bit, then this might be the perfect time to try out some new pickups. Which one is right for you depends mostly on your needs as well as taste. Below are links for the best Telecaster bridge pickups on the market.
#Telecaster neck single coil vs humbucker upgrade#
Even if you simply want to improve the quality of your existing sound, an upgrade is usually the best bet. If you need to extend what your Telecaster can do, should consider upgrading your bridge and neck pickups. Although Telecaster bridge pickups are best known for their famous “twang,” more and more, guitarists are looking to coax an increased array of sounds out of their instrument.
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