Pickguard Tele
Posted January 18, 2009
By admin
Is this going to make a Stratocaster sound like a Telecaster?
I'll replace the plastic pickguard with a steel one and i'll replace the neck pickup with a Tele neck pickup. Will that do anything to make it sound a lot more like a tele?
Changing the pickguard won't do much of anything to the sound. And changing a pickup won't do much either. If you want a good Tele sound you wouldn't want to use the neck pickup anyway. The way the Tele is made and the placement of the pickups along the scale length of the guitar are the main factors that give it that Tele tone. About the best you can do is to use the bridge and middle pickups on the strat and try to work the tone controls on both the amp and guitar to try and get a Tele type tone. You can change things on a guitar all you want but it's the wood , scale length , and construction method that give the guitar it's main tone and there is no way to change any of that , outside of getting a new instrument. You don't have to believe me , that's up to you, but I've been playing , teaching and working on guitars for a long long time and I'm just trying to help you save your money and not get disappointed. I don't mean to be rude but if you want that tele sound then you should consider trading for or buying one. Another thing I almost forgot to mention was that I sometimes use a Boss 7 band graphic equalizer pedal with my strat and if I set it just right I can get some pretty good Tele tones. So that's something else you may want to consider. Good luck and I hope things work out.
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