I am looking to replace the pickups in my tele...I like my tone right now I just want a little more beef on the bridge, without losing the twang...

I have heard good things about nocasters...I tried out a guitar at GC today with nocasters. I liked the bridge but the neck pickup sounded like it had a frickin towel between the strings and the pickup. Is this the normal nocaster sound? The guitar was a fender custom shop thing with brass saddles...but surely that wouldn't make that big of a difference.

Is that normal for nocasters? If it is what would you suggest for a tele pickup with jut a little bit more beef than standard MIM pups?

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http://www.billlawrence.com/Pages/Pi...troduction.htm

L-280TN for the neck
L-290TL for the bridge

noiseless. bridge PU still has Tele twang; neck pickup hugely more dynamic

can't beat the price

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Guitars:
Gibson SG Classic; 1986 MIJ Telecaster, Custom '62 Reissue w/Bill Lawrence pickups; Epiphone Wildkat; Martin D-1; Takamine EG140SGC acoustic-electric; Yamaha C40 classical; and an old Applause acoustic-electric I use for slide

Pedals:
MXR Dyna Comp; Crybaby Wah; Boss TU-2; Ibanez TS-9; Boss SD-1; Electro-Harmonix Small Stone; Boss TR-2; Ibanez DE-7

on the shelf: MXR Micro-Amp; EHX Double Muff; Frantone The Sweet; Ibanez CPL (can't figure out how to make it help me...)

Amps:
Laney LC30-II; Harley-Benton GA5 (Epi VJ w/EQ knob!); Fender Princeton Chorus; Roland MicroCube

It is normal for traditional Teles. The switching goes like this:

1. bridge
2. neck
3. neck with treble cut

It changed in the late 60's to B/B&N/N

I have nocasters in one of my teles and they rip. The neck gives that great warm tele tone, responds well to all sorts of gain, and cleans up nicely. I can't reccommend the Nocasters enough.

Go back to that store and play the 2nd position to hear what the neck can do.

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Thanks!!

I figured there had to be something like that going on. I didn't use the middle position because I was trying to listen to the individual pickups. I'm headed by a guitar center tomorrow.

I knew I was missing something...

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