Heavy Telecaster Tones: 3 Secrets to make a Tele sound MASSIVE
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- Опубликовано: 13 янв 2024
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"How do you get such Heavy Telecaster Tones?" is one of the most frequently asked questions I get on my channel. Partly, that is because my Telecaster has a special tone. To make it sound heavy, however, I don't just use high gain. When you turn up the gain on a guitar like a Telecaster, it often sounds gnarly or undefined. Here are 3 Secrets to make a Telecaster sound heavy, huge, and maybe even like a metal guitar. 
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Jimi Hendrix's first studio album came blasting out with Purple Haze, played on a Telecaster. It doesn't get any more massive than that!!!
That was one of the most monster sounds I've ever heard from a Tele. VERY impressive.
Well, your tele sounds rad for one obvious reason - the guitar faces you make when you play - they cannot produce any weak or thin stuff - ever, best stuff Joey!
you can't get to 11 without the face
@@27JASKO exactly
Jeff Beck could always make a Tele sound extremely heavy not just distorted but "clean" as well. The Guitar shop album has some great rocking tele (and strat tones).
Just got my first Telecaster after 40 years of playing. Kicking myself for not getting one sooner. The combination of versatility, tone and simplicity doesn't come with any other guitar. My only gripe about it is that it's not the most comfy guitar. But it's still more comfy than a LP or 335. The clarity/beef combination of the bridge pickup was something I'd never really experienced before, either. It's amazing.
Regarding light strings...I had 9's on my Tele for a while as an experiment and it actually messed up my hand and I immediately went back to the 10s that I'm used to. 9's are all fine and good if you never play clean and have a light touch, but I don't like them. I need some punch in my clean sound and I want strings that respond when I hit them hard. I can get better action with 10's too. That's how I messed up my hand, I couldn't get the action comfortable with 9's. Lighter strings require higher action and more neck bow.
2:22 you are just killing us with these faces, man! Solid playing!
Just wait until Bruce Springsteen stumbles across this video.
How you found this tone is just incredible. It sounds heavy and clear at the same time. It's massive.
I have no clue about technical stuff but I love your sense of melody
Hey, Joey! You're one of the best out there! You're playing is on another level! Great tips, too!
Thank you 🙏🏻
I have to say, I hate the twang of a Stratocaster! But the way you play and setup the tone on that Tele, woah, sounds amazing! And I'm a huge Les Paul double humbucker sounding fan. You have changed my mind now! This is my favorite guitar sound and tone ever! And dude, your playing is pure soul food! As technical as you probably could be, you play with pure feel and a great ear! Love your stuff man. Hopefully, you release a bunch of tracks soon and for ever! Wanna hear more!
Been using a Telecaster with a few of my fuzz pedals and an Orange amp with similar results. Great to see it put so well in this video. And yeah, nines are where it's at. I'm thinking about putting some on my Les Paul as well, just to make life easier for myself.
I have long been a superstrat player ... so bridge humbuckers all the way. Well a few months ago I stumbled across a great deal on a thinline tele with a standard single coil tele bridge and a PAF in the neck and since I'm a cheap MFer I bought it and it's quickly become my favorite axe and I've noticed much of what you've pointed out here.
Other than a little 60 cycle hum (which you don't notice the instant the pick hits the strings) it still rocks. And I've noticed that I get a hair more treble cutting through the mix than with the high output HBs I'm used to (makes me think that a pair of P90s would make this rig rock even harder ... makes me think P90s have been ignored for too long, but I digress). The nice advantage of a thinline tele is its also fun to play out on the couch in the living room sans amp (but I'm not gigging with the thing so feedback is a non-issue).
agree!
Great tips dude! I myself play a Telecaster and heavy music with my band.
I have a Marshall Silber Jubilee which is a darker sounding amplifier and the combination of those two is twangy yet thick as hell!
Keep up the Tely love 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
Not saying your tone isn’t distorted, but your “super heavy” demos seem to have a bass track running behind them. I almost subbed.
well, if you don’t love bass tracks, this channel isn’t for you anyway.
You can put like a Xotic EP boost in front it thickens your sound also.
Absolutely!
Sounds awesome!
What playing, what sound! Thx Joey!
Killer tone as always.
Thank you for showing us this. I just began playing guitar in 2020... but I use a Spark 40 modeling amp or the Zoom MRS 8 for all of my effects. So all this info is very interesting and new to me. It sounds awesome!!!
Killer demo, playing and tone!
Tele + TS pedal + Mesa Rectifier (raw or vintage mode) - surprisely great tone, in my opinion
Merci bien Joey !
Depuis le temps que j’attendais ça 😅
J’adore ton jeux et t’as façon de produire en MAO 🤘🏻👌🏻
I've heard some recordings do this and didnt know what was going on. So, cheers
Great suggestion re parallel compression! So easy to do on my Helix.
i almost traded my Tele for an Epi SG...not anymore, thank you so much!
Nice video mate! Rather timely for me as I am just getting started with Telecasters and my single coil fling since I got a LP Jr with a P90 and then I knew I had to have a Tele. (even though I still have a baritone that I am trying figure out too.) So I just got the tele last week and I am definitely shopping around for sounds to make with it. It's a glass cannon and I love the jangle and I just don't like to turn it into mud with pedals. I've had fair results, but nothing over the top. The parallel distortion hit home. I have a few fuzz box/distortion pedals, but not with a clean mix channel. So thanks for that one especially. Good playing too btw. Comfortable fun. :)
thanks!
Why am I even wanting a metal guitar for? This is tops
10-46, Klon type or Rat type, and an EVH amp sim. Never occured to me that this were good combinations.
Klons have a much bigger amount of gain on tap than most people realize
Massive intro jam
Yeah, light strings are the way to go for a heavy single coil sound. Tony Iommi used 'em in Sabbath!👍
Hey Joey im so glad I’ve found your channel.
Love your Playstyle and Agility….you deserved definitely more subs 🎉
Exited to listen to your new Single tomorrow. ❤️
Welcome aboard!
Dimebag would be proud.
This video made me buy a tele again
I've been playing too much Baldur's Gate 3
I'm seeing that pendant and thinking here we have a Cult of the Absolute acolyte!
100% correct. 👍
For me a Tele is my favourite guitar into the Kemper.
Btw, fantastic guitarist, love listening to Joey. 👋👍
Great Sound! The bigger Problem is fighting the feedback. Not in a Studio but in a rehearsal room or on stage.
Your tele has a Twisted Tele neck pickup. It's hotter than the average. Your Tele has the same pickup combination as the Vintera '50s Modified and the Baha Tele.
JHS should pay you, just got a moonshine V2 because of this vid 😅
What a fantastic video have a wonderful day Joey ❤😊
Talking of darker sounding, i just got my first set of flat wound strings and it has been a revelation 👍
10-48 in c#
mega! Probably super jangly and loose. I love that.
Wow! Nice tones.
Cool tips, cool riff, Joey! Compressor with tube screamer works well with singles as well. Teach me how to do the solo runs like 0:50 or 2:30 or 10:10
There are currently plans to add some educational products to my shop. I'll keep you posted. ;)
Dimarzio Super Distortion tele humbucker that fits in the stock single coil hole..... add a 5150/6505, ts9, and drop D...done!
I play a the J Mascis Tele primarily, if you can play it, you are really good. Love it.
Awesome i love my Tele !! I ROCK IT HARD AND HEAVY AT GIGS A LOT OF DUDES DON'T BELIEVE ME TIL THEY SEE ME OUT GIGGING
Another recommnendation: Buy left-handed tele. It has more massive tone than the right-handed tele. Just kidding. Great video!!! I will try your recommendation on my tele with my Helix floor.
Wow. Great tone and playing. Thanks for the tips. I will try these out - certainly 1 & 2. I have a Quad Cortex, so will look for the darker sounding amps… and for the parallel distortion, I assume I can create a side chain with the Distortion on it… thanks.
yup, you can! ;) have fun experimenting!
Holy shit, this is what I needed so bad, thank you!
Great tips. I never heard about the parallel pedals before. I think a good analogic distortion pedal will work well as well. I have the Fire Ultimate Distortion that sounds KILLER with single coils. A cheap pedal. Unlike the Fire pedal, the Boss DS-2 don't sounds great with my tele, because the clean signal is just killed by the pedal.
Very best tone!!! The two songs in this video are very good. I search the tab in your shop.
Jeez man that is just awesome .. you rock ! Thanks for the tips .. incredible player !
God, I might actually like playing through a Marshall… with a Tele.
great video and playing, so I imagine you are using the "AMP" from your Kemper, so which Amps are you using in this video? thanks all make sense, I thought you were using a clone
Great sounds. Very impressed. Can i ask what tuning youre at?
Any guitar can sound heavy. Just crank the dirt and ask your bass player to double everything you play.
Amazing tone i would love to see you do the same with a strat
This kind of video is for people without dads, or a Big Brother program in their community.
Next: how to land a big fish using 5 mil line, using a piece of chewing gum for bait.
sounds amazing. what’s the base tone kemper profile??
Teles are killer guitars
Better than strats really
Hello Joey,. what profile do you use on your Kemper? 🙂
Well, you can certainly play! Good tips.
His guitar faces = me when I try to take a shit… very holy moments 😂
Holy c*ap, Mr. Jones, awesome.
I have the previous version of moonshine and it doesn’t have clean knob. Would it be like the new one with the clean knob all the way down?
What city are you in? Do you guys gig?
Wich String gauge do you User for the tele ?
R.A.T.M
Tom used a tele drop D..
Wooowww! You made me a Tele addict!
Hey can you suggest such pedals with a clean knob? Is there a name to such pedals?? Thanks
I love the wet/dry, but I'm a stereo guy myself!
how can you not be
Hi @Joey! Great video. My new tele is on the way. I wanted to ask whether you can provide any further details on how to set up the moonshine v2 with a tubescreamer (or any darker sound pedal) - how would you connect them to make such sound? Wanna experiment and find my own sound, but this is an amazing starting point! Cheers!
Biggest Tip = Goofy Faces.
it works
Hi Joey,
downtuned to b with 9s? 😮
10s in that specific case. But yeah, why not. 😁
9:52 what song is this? That’s one hell of a riff
Hello Joey, could you please recommend me some cool amp for bedroom practice (preferably with headphone out) to get at least close to your tele tone? I know you mentioned the original silver jubilee but that is too loud. Cheers and thank you for your content! :)
i tune my guitars to d standard. 10s on my eclectic and 11s on my acoustics.
I play a tele into a Vox ac15 I don’t think I can sound heavy even if I wanted to lol.
So basically a wet/dry mix option on a pedal, yes?
yes!
OMG. It's finally the best video about this subjet around youtube. Really man. Thx!
One question : I'll gonna take one tele to play metal in drop B tunning. The Baritone telecaster seem to be one good choise, notably to put thin string. What do you think about that ?
Record track with a super strat or lp, then carefully place audio over tele vid
Jk
Which would be dark sounding amps? (Like in the 300 usd range)(obviously not valves)
Really interesting
Super cool vidéo ! Super bon jeu 😮✨️
4th secret: you put it in drop B. 😆
Pantera!
Why don’t you do some lessons bro or tell me artists likewise you r awesome
Rockin brother very impressed
what exact tele is that! great video! just discovered u!!!
Does it work for a right handed Tele as well?
Musicians today 😅 👌
Nice video. Listen to the song Beautiful Death by Wintersun. There you have pure Tele's twang smashing your face!
9 guage strings are lite .....bro
Add emgs
Wow so awesome 🤩 perfect sound
Challenge #1 : play 30 secs without making faces !
Amazing video 👌 will definitely try these tips…. Which sets of pickups are best for telecaster. I have affinity series of tele and thinking to upgrade pickups
guh.
👏👏👏👏✌🏻😎
That's a RATM tone really, it does rock and sounds great and all, but I wouldn't call it heavy metal by todays standards.
Face it, you can't make single coils do metal very well. Yngwie Malmsteen insists on trying and his guitar tone - particularly the rhythm tone - sounds like dogshit.
malmsteen was never metal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!