I just got, about 2 weeks ago, the Squire Telecaster in Butterscotch Blonde (made in China, not Indonesia) and I love this guitar. The feel, heft, playability, etc. are off the charts! Fender backing this branding has not only gives huge credence to the brand, they've given the consumer a ton of proof as to why they should. I was so amazed and pleased I went out and got a Squire Stratocaster! Both guitars have the logo in gold script and the type that they are (Strat, etc.) in large black letters, as you would see in the late '60's and early '70's models. Telecasters? A huge believer here!
i have the same but in the white kinda see thru , forget the name ... it looks like white chocolate but you can see some grain i tried a bunch of fender teles ..the classic vibe squier beat them into a corner ... i still use it even though i have a more focused stable because it is to me ... a classic fender tele .. all the more amazing at that price ... i used the extra money to buy ...more basses !!!
Being relatively new to guitar, this is an invaluable video showing me the potential of my tele. I have a baja so i have 3 more tones (series + 2 out of phase tones) and this guitar is my holy grail! I can't imagine it getting any better than this! Thanks for the education, i just subscribed 🙏
I've had plenty of guitars over my 50 years of trying to play 😊 from Gibson Jazz boxes to Strats, Reverends and lots in between. But my Tele is the goat. It's just such a basic design, but so versatile,, good on you Leo, you sussed it out that's for sure 👍♌
man, I love your channel very much. I have a Squier Telecaster Classic Vibe 60s made in China, 3 tone sunburst with beautiful white binding. thru this episode, I can maximalize the use of my telecaster and find various tones. thanx mate, greeting from Indonesia 😀
Thank you, I found this video very helpful, as someone with a Tele Custom (Squier Classic Vibe) that I’m still getting to know, as my main guitar. All 3 pickup options sound great but I want to have a better sense of their respective uses and potential.
That's great! I didn't get chance to get into neck humbucker sounds on this video but I love the one on my deluxe. I bet it goes great with a tele bridge pickup too. Thanks for commenting!
Great job with tje video. I could never get on with my tele but you really showed how versatile they can be. The tele deluxe on the other hand, best thing I've had with humbuckers in.
Guitar tone is so subjective but can’t beat a telecaster just my opinion. Only guitar I don’t feel compromised at any kind of gig with. And this video proves my point perfectly.
Amazing playing and gorgeous tone. Recently bought a tele and it inspires almost everything you’ve played here. I keep naturally wanting to do something 50s with it. I mainly play indie stuff but looking to expand my arsenal lol. What was used for the 50s rock example?
Yeah that's a cool tone, sort of an evolution of the 60s rock tone but maybe with more of the break up coming from those early distortion and overdrive pedals. Thanks for commenting!
"10 Tele Tones You Should Know If You Own A Telecaster" ... and lots of pedals! Good video, nonetheless. For me, the classic country sound is achieved using the bridge pickup with the guitar's tone control rolled back about 90 degrees.
I have a Squier Tele Thinline CV 60, I wonder if it is worth changing the original bridge for a Fender Vintage Tele Bridge. Will the sound quality be improved ?
Wow, excellent presentation. I have telecaster however I found the neck pickup could not generate good sound intensity. Always sound too low. I changed the pickup and the result still the same. Yes I put too low gauge string 0.9 but I think the effect is not significant since I have good sound from the bridge pickup. Cheers from Indonesia.
@@Paul1287 Thank you. I have sprayed with contact cleaner. But yes, you are right. Probably I have to replace it with new one. Thank you Sir! Cheers from Indonesia.
Im now on my4th telecaster.... I think my wife is getting jelous lol. And yes, they all sound and play different... that wasnt for anyone reading this, it was for the spouce looking over your shoulder wondering why anyone would need 4 (and counting) of the same type of guitar :)
The greatest electric guitar design. The simplicity and reliability (teles stay in tune so well) combined with the versatility. There's just something about teles...
I agree wholeheartedly! Versatile, stable, reliable. I almost always have a Tele as primary or on standby, especially for summer outdoor gigs. I mainly play Strat style guitars with a little “float” in the bridge. But when heat and humidity changes make the Strats a little harder to tune quickly (often, a screwdriver comes into play instead of tuning each string individually) the fixed bridge of a Tele makes tuning a lot faster and easier!
Agree! My favourite sound in all the world is a tele in to a tweed princeton/deluxe, in to an outboard reverb (6g15 etc) in to an echoplex (ep3). Alnico speaker and one of those wonderful Catalinbread JFET pre-amps and you can do anything.
Great video Michael. I have 2 Teles and I love em. I didn't realise you were such a versatile and skilled guy. The Jazz playing was beautiful. Top man ⭐🌴
I read "10 Tele Tones You Should Know If You Own A Telecaster" and immediately thought "UGH, this is gonna be some generic knob twiddling nothingness." I listened and watched and could NOT have been more wrong. SUPERB. Thank you.
Amazing video! Very complex and very simple at the same time. Very useful too. You know how to use tele very well. Big thanks! May be you could do part 2? 10 strat or lespol tones played on telecaster or something like that. Keep going! Good luck!
Thanks! Yeah maybe using an EQ pedal and other tricks to make standard tele pickups more versatile... I'll add some ideas to the list. Thanks for the suggestion, keep them coming!
I have an 🇺🇲 strat , I was in a music store looking at Mex telecaster and asked if they had an 🇺🇲 professional 2 telecaster. Well, as soon I held it, I knew that this 🎸 is mine ❗️
I think one of my favorite guitar tones is that of Jonny Greenwood from Radiohead, specifically songs like Sail To The Moon and Knives Out are really good demonstrations of that. If I could, I would pick up a Squier and get Blue/Red Lace Sensor pickups for it.
bro you are so accurate doing these two examples, the Sail to the moon tone is one of the bests of jonny greenwood. i love how he can go from super twangy and bright sounds like in the bends and super soft and warm in other records
Awesome stuff, a versatile guitar every guitarist should have. I appreciate other makers that improve upon the basic design with tummy and arm cuts, etc., but the original model is awesome as well. Loved your Radiohead tone as well, great playing. Tasteful use of the Mega Distortion which often doesn't sound great. Another possible omission of styles in this video is math rock, which makes great use of Teles in the middle pickup position running into a slightly overdriven amp (usually Vox or Fenders), often with a TS or other type of boost in front. Great stuff!
Currently building my first telecaster now. I'm adding body contours to it now and waiting for pickups to arrive. Going with a lil'59 in the bridge on a push/pull. I can't wait till it's finally done
Hey Michael. I really enjoyed this tone video. As a young guitarist I always found it hard to work out how to get the sounds I wanted to play. This makes it much easier. Also, I loved how you played 'misty'.
Not many people talk about Bruce Springteen as a guitar player, (I guess a lot are turned off by him in general), but I really like his Tele playing through the years...for example, Candy's Room, Cover Me, Kitty's Back, especially live.
Thanks for sharing this. I actually had that Springsteen tone on my list but it didn't quite make the final cut. I like that kinda rock jangle sound he gets from his tele but other than being familiar with a handful of the classics, I'm not really very up on the Springsteen sound. Thanks for sharing that list of tunes, I'll check them out.
I love me some Bruce. He’s the main reason I picked up a Tele- though I quickly found a lot to love about it outside of emulating one of my favorite artists.
I noticed Springsteen is doing his stumming over the bridge pickup of even sightly on the bridge side of that pickup which I think is unusual. I'm guessing that contributes to his sound.
Many thanks for mentioning plate reverb.I thought only spring reverb was for guitars. Do you know why Fender started using a higher output bridge pickup. These current Telecasters have a much thicker and less twang sound than the originals ones. I got a DiMarzio King Twang, and with the Jensen C12N and a transistor amp I get really close to 1960s twang. Really great and concise and in depth videos, and I cant thank you enough!
Sounds like you'd get a great classic twang out of that setup. I wish I had more amps to use when I was doing these examples. My Pro Reverb that I used is quite warm sounding, I kinda struggled getting some of those really sharp telecaster sounds, I'm on the look out an HH IC100 like Wilco Johnson had, that'd be quite cool. Thanks for commenting!
I have many guitars and have had many over the years. The go-to has always been a Telecaster. Fits everything. My best is a Nashville B Bender. Truly magical!!!
Thank you so much, this video was so helpful for me! I wanted to know what are your amp settings? When I play with the neck or middle position I usually have the treble in 7 or 8, but when I play with the bridge I have to change it to 5 because it sounds too bright. Sry about my english.
The best thing about a Tele Deluxe for me, is not even the Wide Range Humbuckers (which, TBH, are kinda my favorite pickups, way above regular PAFs), but just having 2 separate volume knobs, and 2 tone knobs, which makes a HUGE difference, and much easier to esculpt and find the tones that I like, and I'm looking for.
You made my day when you started into Toejam and Earl for your funk demo, well done sir! I have a classic vibe Esquire that I initially modded to have no switch and 50s wiring, but eventually I put the switch back in when I installed a DiMarzio Chopper T in the bridge and wired it up for series/split/parallel options off the 3 way switch. It’s become such a fun guitar now that I basically get 3 great bridge pickup options off of one pickup. Series is like a mini humbucker sound, parallel is like a p90 and split take you back to classic tele bridge land. Anyways, great video. Loved it!
Great! Yeah I played a lot of 90s computer games as a kid before I started playing guitar. A lot of the music stayed with me. Sounds like a cool wiring setup you've got on your Esquire.
I have Les Paul's, SG's, Strats and Teles. So many people overlook the Telecaster, and that is a shame. They are very versatile, unique and easily moded to your individual performance tastes. If you want to get in cheap to test the waters, a classic vibe with some pickups of your choice will get you there. I own and have made my share. My go to is a Tele with a Seymour Duncan 59 in the neck and a Dimarzio Pre B-1 in the bridge, (reverse the leads on the bridge PU), this will give a sweet out of phase sound in the middle position. Balance out the pickup heights and you are good to go.
I'm a 90s kinda guy with my telecaster. I get most of that tone on the bridge pup through a Rat into a Fender 65 Deluxe Reverb. You are right on point with this.
Well the TELE is just a true rough guitar, which is right for me .I once owned a Gibson LES PAUL 20 Anniversary with a really clear sound, but that's not my guitar when I first played a vintage 60ties black guard red Telecaster a very good one that talked to me the right way.....
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Not only for Stairway to Haven, He used Telecaster in all Zep's first record. That Tele helped Gibson to sell more Les Pauls than any other guitar
Good info thanks!
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Awesome comment! Hahaha! True!
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I’m a LP guy looking to finally pick up a tele.
Best comment ever 😂
I just got, about 2 weeks ago, the Squire Telecaster in Butterscotch Blonde (made in China, not Indonesia) and I love this guitar. The feel, heft, playability, etc. are off the charts! Fender backing this branding has not only gives huge credence to the brand, they've given the consumer a ton of proof as to why they should. I was so amazed and pleased I went out and got a Squire Stratocaster! Both guitars have the logo in gold script and the type that they are (Strat, etc.) in large black letters, as you would see in the late '60's and early '70's models.
Telecasters? A huge believer here!
i have the same but in the white kinda see thru , forget the name ... it looks like white chocolate but you can see some grain
i tried a bunch of fender teles ..the classic vibe squier beat them into a corner ... i still use it even though i have a more focused stable because it is to me ... a classic fender tele .. all the more amazing at that price ... i used the extra money to buy ...more basses !!!
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This is great man. Versatile playing…really shows off the wide range of possibilities on a Tele!
Being relatively new to guitar, this is an invaluable video showing me the potential of my tele. I have a baja so i have 3 more tones (series + 2 out of phase tones) and this guitar is my holy grail! I can't imagine it getting any better than this! Thanks for the education, i just subscribed 🙏
A good telecaster will never let you down! That's a great choice.
Very well done demonstration of the Tele's array of sounds. Thanks for posting.
You're on fire man! 🔥 Really enjoying your videos and am excited to see this channel grow.
Hey thanks Max! I feel like I've still got a long way to go, your encouragement is very much appreciated!
I've had plenty of guitars over my 50 years of trying to play 😊 from Gibson Jazz boxes to Strats, Reverends and lots in between. But my Tele is the goat. It's just such a basic design, but so versatile,, good on you Leo, you sussed it out that's for sure 👍♌
That jazz part you played was beautiful
man, I love your channel very much. I have a Squier Telecaster Classic Vibe 60s made in China, 3 tone sunburst with beautiful white binding. thru this episode, I can maximalize the use of my telecaster and find various tones. thanx mate, greeting from Indonesia 😀
It might be obvious to some people, but I wish that that I could see your switch position for each tone. Thanks for doing this!
Enjoyed that...superb demonstration of how to get a wide variety of tones and styles from a Tele.
Glad you liked it!
Proud Nashville Tele owner here, but I love all Telecasters. Great video!
You´re the man - I love you get in so much detail which pedals to use - big help for a musician here, thank and awesome playing skills!
You have great phrasing and just a brilliant guitarist all around.
Amazing video. Goodness me so much time and effort must have gone in to this. Legitimately proper content sir. Thanks!
That jazz tone is unbelievable. I never knew you could even get that sound from a Telecaster.
Watch some Julian lage. Complete animal with a tele and jazz :)
Just bought a Tele, so this is really helpful🙂What would be useful is some sort of indication of amp settings (& tone/volume on guitar)
you make me love telecaster now, nice video, great tone!
You’ve got one of the best channels on RUclips Michael 🙌🏻
Fantastic review on this iconic guitar, just what us Tele players like.
Thank you, I found this video very helpful, as someone with a Tele Custom (Squier Classic Vibe) that I’m still getting to know, as my main guitar. All 3 pickup options sound great but I want to have a better sense of their respective uses and potential.
That's great! I didn't get chance to get into neck humbucker sounds on this video but I love the one on my deluxe. I bet it goes great with a tele bridge pickup too. Thanks for commenting!
Great job with tje video. I could never get on with my tele but you really showed how versatile they can be.
The tele deluxe on the other hand, best thing I've had with humbuckers in.
I just love my middle pickup❤
Nice pick up, good clarity and good tone control, good monitoring system, reverbing is good❤️✌️🤘🔥
Guitar tone is so subjective but can’t beat a telecaster just my opinion. Only guitar I don’t feel compromised at any kind of gig with. And this video proves my point perfectly.
Amazing playing and gorgeous tone. Recently bought a tele and it inspires almost everything you’ve played here. I keep naturally wanting to do something 50s with it. I mainly play indie stuff but looking to expand my arsenal lol. What was used for the 50s rock example?
Gonna play some country (THEN HITS ME WITH MENTHUS SOLE STU. ) gonna learn that lick of you. Thank you sir❤
That tele and amp sound & look the part 😎
Very nicely demonstrated, Michael :)
A possible omission - 70’s hard rock? Status Quo had a very distinctive twin-Tele sound
Yeah that's a cool tone, sort of an evolution of the 60s rock tone but maybe with more of the break up coming from those early distortion and overdrive pedals. Thanks for commenting!
Very well played Misty
You Rock Dude! I Love my tele.
Very nice playing!
Very compelling video, thank you!
Wow, great tones and playing! Was not expecting elastica and blur! Classic Brit pop! You from northern England?
This was brilliant 👏👏
Jazz tone is really great.
Thank you! It'd be even better with heavier gauge strings, I have 12's on my tele deluxe at the moment and really loving it for jazz blues.
excellent!
"10 Tele Tones You Should Know If You Own A Telecaster" ... and lots of pedals! Good video, nonetheless. For me, the classic country sound is achieved using the bridge pickup with the guitar's tone control rolled back about 90 degrees.
Great Michael! Wich Telecaster pickups are installed on your Telecaster? Thnks
Awesome bud!
Great video!
Great info thanks!
Awesome video!!
What do you recommend for a clean bluesy sound .
I have a Texas tea American ultra telecaster and a fender blues jr 4
Fantastic!!!
Telecaster is still the king of guitars.
Excellent!
Many thanks!
For the arpeggiated chord the pick ups are in the middle position right??!
This is great information!
Glad it was helpful!
can i get tabs for this? want to learn this specially country jazz blues and funk
Between my Tele and my Les Paul, I have all I need.
Nice guitar & skill man...
I have a Squier Tele Thinline CV 60, I wonder if it is worth changing the original bridge for a Fender Vintage Tele Bridge. Will the sound quality be improved ?
🤓Geeks every one of us. And every one of us needs at LEAST one Tele!👍
Teles are the most versatile guitars ever.
Ritchie Kotzen was/is a Tele guy. The Cars had a Tele. Springsteen. Etc..
I like telecaster
Fender Classic Series 50'S Telecaster?
Talks about Stairway to Heaven and plays Brown Sugar to demonstrate 1960s Rock tones. Neither song was released until 1971.
Wow, excellent presentation. I have telecaster however I found the neck pickup could not generate good sound intensity. Always sound too low. I changed the pickup and the result still the same.
Yes I put too low gauge string 0.9 but I think the effect is not significant since I have good sound from the bridge pickup.
Cheers from Indonesia.
Change the height of the pickup, so it's nearer to the strings.
@@Paul1287 almost touched the string and the result was the same. So i just stick to brindge pickup.
May be somewhere else.
Perhaps the pickup switch?
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Thank you. I have sprayed with contact cleaner. But yes, you are right. Probably I have to replace it with new one. Thank you Sir!
Cheers from Indonesia.
What model tele are you playing?
do this for les pauls please
On it! Just doing some research for that video today.
Top!!!!
Im now on my4th telecaster.... I think my wife is getting jelous lol. And yes, they all sound and play different... that wasnt for anyone reading this, it was for the spouce looking over your shoulder wondering why anyone would need 4 (and counting) of the same type of guitar :)
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I just love my telecaster.
That makes two if us
Now three😊
5. I have a fender champion 50 xl as well and just beginning. Can anyone recommend a pedal or will the amps effects do for now?
@@markuskreuzinger3250 my proposal for the beginning: Overdrive Chorus and Compressor from Boss e.g. Or others
@@markuskreuzinger3250 Get a looping pedal. Then you can set up a simple chord progression and practise soloing over it.
The greatest electric guitar design. The simplicity and reliability (teles stay in tune so well) combined with the versatility. There's just something about teles...
They are very satisfying to play and diverse I originally thought Tele's were ugly but they are actually very good looking I love my Fender Tele.
I agree wholeheartedly! Versatile, stable, reliable. I almost always have a Tele as primary or on standby, especially for summer outdoor gigs. I mainly play Strat style guitars with a little “float” in the bridge. But when heat and humidity changes make the Strats a little harder to tune quickly (often, a screwdriver comes into play instead of tuning each string individually) the fixed bridge of a Tele makes tuning a lot faster and easier!
@@craigusselman546 . Yup. Strats are pretty sexy. But Teles are all business…and they look good doing it!
Recently acquired a second hand Tele and I love it.
Agree! My favourite sound in all the world is a tele in to a tweed princeton/deluxe, in to an outboard reverb (6g15 etc) in to an echoplex (ep3).
Alnico speaker and one of those wonderful Catalinbread JFET pre-amps and you can do anything.
Can we get a full version of your rendition of "Misty"? Great as always, love your stuff!
Yeah I was hoping the rest of the video was him playing all of Misty
Yes. Full version please
Great video Michael. I have 2 Teles and I love em. I didn't realise you were such a versatile and skilled guy. The Jazz playing was beautiful. Top man ⭐🌴
That is mighty kind of you to say sir. Enjoy those teles, what are they if you don't mind me asking?
@@MichaelBanfieldGuitar 2013 Mexican Standard Lake Placid Blue (Vintage Noiseless Pup upgrade), and 2012 American Standard Tobacco Sunburst (stock).
Incredible content, very clear style, I like your tone. Please continue this series with Strats, LPs, but also with less commonly featured guitars
I always say, every guitarist should own a tele. You'll love it for years.
Could not agree more
Agreed.
It sounds iconic to me.
I read "10 Tele Tones You Should Know If You Own A Telecaster" and immediately thought "UGH, this is gonna be some generic knob twiddling nothingness." I listened and watched and could NOT have been more wrong. SUPERB. Thank you.
Amazing video! Very complex and very simple at the same time. Very useful too. You know how to use tele very well. Big thanks! May be you could do part 2? 10 strat or lespol tones played on telecaster or something like that. Keep going! Good luck!
Thanks! Yeah maybe using an EQ pedal and other tricks to make standard tele pickups more versatile... I'll add some ideas to the list. Thanks for the suggestion, keep them coming!
@@MichaelBanfieldGuitar I like to use the "tone" dial on the compressor to get a 'strat' sound
I have an 🇺🇲 strat , I was in a music store looking at Mex telecaster and asked if they had an 🇺🇲 professional 2 telecaster. Well, as soon I held it, I knew that this 🎸 is mine ❗️
I think one of my favorite guitar tones is that of Jonny Greenwood from Radiohead, specifically songs like Sail To The Moon and Knives Out are really good demonstrations of that. If I could, I would pick up a Squier and get Blue/Red Lace Sensor pickups for it.
bro you are so accurate doing these two examples, the Sail to the moon tone is one of the bests of jonny greenwood. i love how he can go from super twangy and bright sounds like in the bends and super soft and warm in other records
Awesome stuff, a versatile guitar every guitarist should have. I appreciate other makers that improve upon the basic design with tummy and arm cuts, etc., but the original model is awesome as well. Loved your Radiohead tone as well, great playing. Tasteful use of the Mega Distortion which often doesn't sound great.
Another possible omission of styles in this video is math rock, which makes great use of Teles in the middle pickup position running into a slightly overdriven amp (usually Vox or Fenders), often with a TS or other type of boost in front.
Great stuff!
Dude! Never loved a tone/genre breakdown video more. The diversity in playing styles was appreciated!! Subscribed!
That's very kind, thank you. Glad you enjoyed it!
Well said! I wholeheartedly agree with everything you said!!
Currently building my first telecaster now. I'm adding body contours to it now and waiting for pickups to arrive. Going with a lil'59 in the bridge on a push/pull. I can't wait till it's finally done
Owned a strat, sold it and bought a tele.
You nailed every one of those tones. Nice job!
Hey Michael. I really enjoyed this tone video. As a young guitarist I always found it hard to work out how to get the sounds I wanted to play. This makes it much easier. Also, I loved how you played 'misty'.
Not many people talk about Bruce Springteen as a guitar player, (I guess a lot are turned off by him in general), but I really like his Tele playing through the years...for example, Candy's Room, Cover Me, Kitty's Back, especially live.
Thanks for sharing this. I actually had that Springsteen tone on my list but it didn't quite make the final cut. I like that kinda rock jangle sound he gets from his tele but other than being familiar with a handful of the classics, I'm not really very up on the Springsteen sound. Thanks for sharing that list of tunes, I'll check them out.
I love me some Bruce. He’s the main reason I picked up a Tele- though I quickly found a lot to love about it outside of emulating one of my favorite artists.
I noticed Springsteen is doing his stumming over the bridge pickup of even sightly on the bridge side of that pickup which I think is unusual. I'm guessing that contributes to his sound.
prove it all night is another great example
Springsteen is the one who turned me on to telecasters .Always loved his tone . So special .
Many thanks for mentioning plate reverb.I thought only spring reverb was for guitars. Do you know why Fender started using a higher output bridge pickup. These current Telecasters have a much thicker and less twang sound than the originals ones. I got a DiMarzio King Twang, and with the Jensen C12N and a transistor amp I get really close to 1960s twang. Really great and concise and in depth videos, and I cant thank you enough!
Sounds like you'd get a great classic twang out of that setup. I wish I had more amps to use when I was doing these examples. My Pro Reverb that I used is quite warm sounding, I kinda struggled getting some of those really sharp telecaster sounds, I'm on the look out an HH IC100 like Wilco Johnson had, that'd be quite cool. Thanks for commenting!
There are no different tones, you’re just a very good player.
I have many guitars and have had many over the years. The go-to has always been
a Telecaster. Fits everything. My best is a Nashville B Bender. Truly magical!!!
Never tried a B bender, must get hold of one some time. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you so much, this video was so helpful for me! I wanted to know what are your amp settings? When I play with the neck or middle position I usually have the treble in 7 or 8, but when I play with the bridge I have to change it to 5 because it sounds too bright. Sry about my english.
You really need to be in Open G tuning to capture the Keith Richards sound, especially for Brown Sugar.
Another underrated Tele feature that I always have on mine is the tophat for the pickup selector. I don't know why but it just looks and feels right!
I’ve 9 Teles and they all have 3 tones each! Even the Esquires!
I love my ‘99 American Standard Tele. Your “Misty” version was amazing. Thanks for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it, thank you!
The best thing about a Tele Deluxe for me, is not even the Wide Range Humbuckers (which, TBH, are kinda my favorite pickups, way above regular PAFs), but just having 2 separate volume knobs, and 2 tone knobs, which makes a HUGE difference, and much easier to esculpt and find the tones that I like, and I'm looking for.
A well-versed guitarist. Playing so many styles so well. Spot on!
Very kind. Thanks
Wow...very impressive tone and style demonstration. The video was actually artful in itself. Very nice work indeed,tx.
The Telecaster is the transit van of the guitar world 🎶👍😎
Ha! Nice analogy. I think the modern world would fall apart without transit vans. Or telecasters for that matter.
You made my day when you started into Toejam and Earl for your funk demo, well done sir! I have a classic vibe Esquire that I initially modded to have no switch and 50s wiring, but eventually I put the switch back in when I installed a DiMarzio Chopper T in the bridge and wired it up for series/split/parallel options off the 3 way switch. It’s become such a fun guitar now that I basically get 3 great bridge pickup options off of one pickup. Series is like a mini humbucker sound, parallel is like a p90 and split take you back to classic tele bridge land. Anyways, great video. Loved it!
Great! Yeah I played a lot of 90s computer games as a kid before I started playing guitar. A lot of the music stayed with me. Sounds like a cool wiring setup you've got on your Esquire.
I have Les Paul's, SG's, Strats and Teles. So many people overlook the Telecaster, and that is a shame. They are very versatile, unique and easily moded to your individual performance tastes. If you want to get in cheap to test the waters, a classic vibe with some pickups of your choice will get you there. I own and have made my share. My go to is a Tele with a Seymour Duncan 59 in the neck and a Dimarzio Pre B-1 in the bridge, (reverse the leads on the bridge PU), this will give a sweet out of phase sound in the middle position. Balance out the pickup heights and you are good to go.
If someone shows you their guitar collection and you don’t see a telecaster just walk away you cannot be friends with such a person.
My Telecaster has P90 on the neck and traditional bridge pickup, and it sounds awesome 🔥🔥🔥
Mine has a humbucker neck and a normal bridge pickup, it's also as light as a feather. My favourite guitar out of my four electrics.
I'm a 90s kinda guy with my telecaster. I get most of that tone on the bridge pup through a Rat into a Fender 65 Deluxe Reverb. You are right on point with this.
Well the TELE is just a true rough guitar, which is right for me .I once owned a Gibson LES PAUL 20 Anniversary with a really clear sound, but that's not my guitar when I first played a vintage 60ties black guard red Telecaster a very good one that talked to me the right way.....