This video is useful but also hilarious! The fact that I watched it at 1.5 speed may have added to the hilarity a bit. You didn't just make friends with a tele, you bonded like soulmates. It's almost like your friend was just sort of casually dating the person you knew you wanted to spend the rest of your life with, and you were just hoping and waiting for him to lose interest so you could swoop in and profess your love. ; ) I can't remember the last time I saw someone so happy to play a classic guitar, or at least someone who wasn't 70 years old.
Haha! The more I think about it, the more I’m convinced it’s accurate. ☺️ The funny thing is; I can feel that kinda love for more than one guitar. Am I a poly-guitar lover now? 😝
I concur. I’m still waiting for the right one to find me after 30 years of playing. Every time I go looking for one, I end up buying another Strat or Gretsch or a Gibson or an Epiphone.
Sounds Awesome. I bought a "Dog" Tele. It was a USA 2013 Transparent Red, Maple Neck. I picked it up in the Store (around 2016). The Strings were rusty, the chrome had started to spot tarnish. I asked the store guy why it hadn't sold for 3 years. He thought it was because of the Red Colour, and that it had "weird" pickups. I paid for a new set of D'Addario 9's to put on the guitar just so I could test drive it. Store said they would refund the Strings if I decided to buy. I played it, and was immediately "WOW!!". I offered them a $Low-Ball. They called the manager, he accepted. I still play it now, love the sound. Those "weird" pickups? "Custom Shop Broadcaster" Bridge, "Custom Shop Twisted Tele" Neck. Best Tele Pickups ever made.
The tele gradually became my fav guitar. I have modded mine to be a bit more versatile (SD SH1 neck-hot rail middle-baja tele pup for bridge), but the classic and the Custom 72 with the wide range in the neck are my total favs. The bridge pickup can't be compared to anything else and it pairs wonderfully with all pickup you can imagine.
My story with my Nocaster is almost the same as yours. I played it a long time ago and when the guy decided to sell it, I bought it. Even though I almost bailed out of getting it because it was such a step up pricewise for me that I was 100% I couldn't afford it. But I got it. Never selling it.
I just built a Telecaster that has that Magic you dream about, but it took me 2 years of selecting everything from hardware to paint scheme. designing the tone by materials & parts used, I went Mahogany to get a slightly darker tone, a Seymour Duncan Broadcaster Bridge and a Monty's Danish Pete DP51 Neck pick up, Locke Custom 78 Birdseye Maple Neck with Ebony Fretboard, MOP Dot inlays with a Wolfgang Profile into Schaller DaVinci Tuners, Fender LSR Roller Nut, Babciz Bridge and Alligator Pickguard in a Wicked Pearl Paint job. Guitar Growls, will try to get a sample online soon, but fighting cancer and just finished Chemo before surgery on 16th. Seems like Tele is perfect fit for you
So I played a Les Paul for about 12 years or so until I tried a Tele. I picked up a Mexican Nashville Tele and everything changed. Over the years upgraded to a US standard Tele with the CS Twisted Tele and Broadcaster pickups and it’s perfect! Would be really interested in what rig you are running it through and how you get your gain sound (amp / pedals?). Sounds superb and your playing is juicy. Love it.
Ha… I always hated everything about every Fender Tele/ tele stye any brand. Like you, they never felt right or sounded right in my Neanderthal brain. When the pandemic shut down the local watering holes I found myself watching too much youtube and I kept seeing this budget guitar brand Glarry. I thought 💭 what kind of crap do you get for $89 shipped to your door. When the postman unceremoniously dumped the box on my driveway with an audible thud I was positive I was sending it back the next day. Man was I surprised it survived the shipping considering the single box looked like it spent time with Ace Ventura pet detective. Wasn’t even sure there was a guitar inside, it was so lite. Opened the box and everything was as it should be. At that moment I felt this weird attachment to this ugly Tele that survived the USPS. Sure it had some flaws but for $89 what could I expect. Spent a couple hours setting up, filling fret ends, rolling the finger board, add a bone nut and roller string trees I had that I bought from the wish catalog ( to see the quality). When all was said and done I had this remarkable lightweight (under 6lbs) instrument that I didn’t hate and sounds good (to me) Way different than my Strat, LP, 335 etc… I drag this thing around everywhere behind the seat of my old pickup truck and a battery powered Blackstar SuperFly. My playing has gotten so much better because I can take it out and play with it whenever wherever ( at 60 yrs it’s my other option). I easily play 2 hours a day now. Show up to the job early and jam to whatever is playing on the trucks radio, at lunch, at the beach on the weekends… All because of a guitar style I never liked and found visually unpleasant. I guess my point is that just playing any type guitar is good for the soul. Enjoy your Videos
I love Haar. Great choice to try out. But you definitely found the right one. People wonder why Fender keeps making all these 50s reissues in butterscotch and this is why.
What a great sound. I saw several videos from your TH-cam. But I couldn’t find how did you get that sound #1 in this video ? What do you use (amp, pedal, etc.) ? I have a telecaster (Reissue 52) and I have a sound in my head without find the good material. And when I listen to you, I realize it was THAT sound I wanted. Thank you to tell me what do you use with your telecaster :)
My sons and wife bought me a Solar guitar that looks like a heavy metal version of a Telly with an wvertune bridge. It has been like a passionate furious relationship with a woman. I cannot wait to get my hands on her daily. It's the most amazing guitar and it's pure magic in my hands.
@@chrishyde1216 not really, is the lightest of all my teles. I got a 72 tele deluxe and it weights almost double. I got back issues so I usually take the Baja with me for live performances.
@@chrishyde1216 true, I've heard there are some heavy ones as well. Also, I had an issue with the S1 switch. A friend help me resolder some points to get rid of the issue and now it's perfect. Either way, it's a great guitar.
You play so damn good. Good job my friend. I just bought a telecaster recently and i love it. Im learning it. You didn’t name the song you played i wonder they are available to download?? I loved it what’s the name of songs?
I found an offset tele with roasted maple neck, brass saddles, locking tuners and a p90-sized jazzmaster pickup in the neck. By far my favorite guitar.
Never played a tele but i'd love to play/own one. I got my first single coil guitar (strat) a week ago and love it; It's been a lot of fun and sounds unique. Have a great day and what a beautifully dirty tele 🤘
How does the Tele sound to you? ;-) 0:00 - Intro 0:29 - Telecaster Sounds #1 1:19 - My desperate search for a Telecaster 3:34 - Telecaster Sounds #2 4:03 - I finally play a Telecaster I love (but can't buy it) 5:01 - Telecaster Sounds #3 5:24 - How I bought that Telecaster 6:37 - Telecaster Sounds #4 7:04 - The Specs of my Telecaster 10:44 - What do you think?
Sounds great, the Fender Broadcaster was the very first Fender guitar. Broadcaster pickups are basically repurposed steel slide guitar pickups. You should really try and play a Telecaster with Broadcaster control wiring, there is no tone control! Instead the tone control is a blend control used to mix the neck pickup with the Bridge pickup. Enjoy, glad you found your special Telecaster/Broadcaster. 👍
I think that the guitars that speak to you aren’t a particular type of guitar. I think they’re particularly good guitars. Meaning resonant or alive with sound. There’s no energy lost from the strings vibration. The wood works together in a rare way to exacerbate the acoustic properties of it. Which of course translates through the pickups.
you sound incredible! There's something about a tele... my nocaster relic is so resonant and rich, there's nothing like it. I have a great strat, but my playing style feels right without belly cuts or rounded shoulder. The tele just feels right, and speaks for me.
I have a limited edition channelbound tele with the same pickups and compensated saddles and it absolutely slays. The channelbound neck is a deep rosewood and has a flatter radius further up the neck. I traded another guitar for it and i have loved how this plays and sounded since i first laid hands on it. I will be buried with mine
after playing strats and lp's mainly for 30-40 years i am now a total tele nut , i sold my strat and lp and kept my tele wich is my only solid body guitar at the moment and for the future , together with my ES 335 and martin DM acoustic i am totally happy with these 3 guitars and have absolutely no need to buy another guitar , i only wish i had found this comby 40 years ago , it would have saved me a shitload off money , but hey better late then never 😛.
@@bushcry1 Hello , i have an fender american special tele with texas special pu's and an maple lindy frailin tele neck on it . The brigde pu is great for rock and the neck pu has an nice bluesy tone , i play in an classic rock / blues coverband so this tele fits really well soundwise and i really love the frailin neck , its an fat neck but it fits my hands .
You sound similar to me. I want to sell all the other stuff I own and just have a Telecaster and 335. Wish I went this route earlier too, but it’s all about the journey imo
That's a great sounding Tele 👍Of course, your playing isn't half bad either 😅 I was always a Les Paul player until I tried a decent Tele. Now my Telecaster has pretty much become my #1.But the Les Paul also does a thing that the Tele can't.
I used to HATE Teles, that is until I actually played one w/Humbuckers and now my fav axe is a Limba (Korina) Tele (Broadcatser) w/Duncan Antiquity HB's oh man thru a Marshall Origin 20 w/Bogner xtc pedal it is off the charts! Pure sonic euphoria!
Yeah…thought I just wanted to stick with a strat. Found a used 51 reissue because I knew I would like the neck and now I realize what all the fuss is about . That bridge pickup! Absolutely love that sound and everything else about this tele. Poor strat has just been sitting in the corner for weeks
I finally picked up a tele after years of being an on and off guitarist. Wow. My main guitars I played were my Strat and LP. I took a chance and picked up a 335 copy (epiphone) thinking I was done buying guitars. Then I stumbled across the Fender Telecaster Professional II. And while it needs a bit of TLC from my go to tech, I can’t believe I waited this long to own one
Great video. Similar spec to mine and love it, also never thought I’d be a tele player. You should compare with those vintage saddles - I went back and forth with the compensated ones several times and found the originals sounded the best. The compensated weren’t as full sounded and something was missing. Worth doing if you have both sets.
My favorite store tele has been a Fiesta Red Vintera. Love that fatter neck, and the note clarity was awesome. the first time I felt the neck on my Les Paul 50s tribute I felt like I had my soulmate! Love the versatility and growl of the P90s too. No pickguard, just the beautiful wine red color. Playing through my VOX Valvetronix AD20, I can play any sound I like. Just found your channel, love your playing and personality!
Yes! I have heard these are great. Problem: they never were available for lefties. And they are by far not the only cool models that never got available for us poor southpaws.
I ADORE my Baja Telecaster! Especially the parallel/phase options with the pickups! I added brass compensated saddles for a better intonation & stability, installed a Tusq nut, locking tuners, & it is amazing! The only issue I had, was the fretboard would never go straight! So I got it as close as I could, then did a fret leveling, crowning & polishing. It was a bit of effort & I was scared, but now the action is exactly where I want it, & the sound is already incredible. I don't think I'll ever part with it. That silly old guitar grew on me like no other could. ❤️❤️❤️
You’re an amazing player, but I can’t judge any guitar based on how it sounds through overdrive/distortion. Gotta hear all three positions clean to give you an honest opinion 😎
I had felt the same way, that maybe Tele’s weren’t for me. But I just played one at a music store that changed my mind. I’m pretty sure I want one now… lol
Over 50 years a bassist, casual guitar fan and tech. Worked on a trashed ‘57 Tele when I was a teen, and it was awful. Also, I thought Tele’s were for country. Started listening to Tim Lerch a few years ago, and decided to give them another chance. Had a few close calls w/Baja Tele’s, before deciding that I wanted a big neck on a 69 Thinline body, and built my own. Squier CV mahogany, 1.75” BGP 54 profile neck, Wilde microcoils, 4-way switch, Gotoh cutdown bridge. Finishing touch was a Piezo One saddle set and a stereo output jack. Done.
Wie immer, ganz großes Kino! Doch letztendlich könntest du auf einem Besenstiel spielen und es würde fantastisch klingen. Just my two cent you mileage may vary.
I Have a Core USA PRS Custom 22 - I don't jell with that. I have a Gibson Less Paul Standard - I don't Jell with that. I have seven Fender Tele's - I jell with all of them. I have five Fender Stratocaster's - i jell with all of them too! I have a Martin HD28 - I love it. I also don't jell with my - Gibson Less Paul JR - My Gretsch 6120 - my Gibson SG 1961 reissue - I think thats about it.
Squier classic vibe 50s tele , The best tele , rolled fret edges , great feeling neck , maybe another bridge pickup ( taste ) . I played more teles and they felt ( indeed ) too "stiff" . Could have saved a lot of money .
I love Teles, came to them later in my playing life and wondered why the heck I hadn't done so before. I have three that I play most, none of them made by Fender funnily enough. Incredibly versatile guitars and if I were forced to sell all my guitars except an acoustic and one electric - the electric would be a Tele. No question of it.
Good video. Tele sounds great! A mexican tele heavier than a les paul?, ... i guess its possible. Twisted tele and Broadcaster pickups ... good ones. 9.5 radius, good choice, but unusual for 52.
The same here with the teles, and also with some cheap brands. I have many Guitars and now my favourite is a cheap Squier telecaster CV. I didnt know that it Would be my main guitar today. Man you are one of my favourite reference artist right now! keep on rocking. Saludos desde España 😊
A Tokai Breezysound found me. Medium Jumbo's and 9.5' radius. Perfect! And weirdly enough it happened to be a Pink Paisley which I wasn't looking for. Into the Kemper, for me a Tele is Kempers best friend. ❤️
I'm going to add to this and say that I think to some extent you're right that people felt the guitar sounded special... but I think it is more so that YOU sounded special with it. You don't sound like a typical tele player and thus what people are hearing you do with a tele is not what they expect a tele to sound like. Which also maybe speaks to why it was so hard for you to find one you wanted, as the right tele for you was far from the ordinary tele!
I personally have never found a 335 I gel with, hollow body is good solid body is good, semi hollow just never really feel right with the way they respond . My tele has been modded like crazy but recently at a gig I got a lot of compliments about my tone and playing, so a good tele makes expressing your voice easier
Yeah it sounds like a vintage Tele should. Having said that, it came with a Custom Shop pricetag and that's the part i can't hang with. I tell people all the time, Teles are the one guitar no one needs to spend a lot of money on because you can make one yourself in your garage or basement if you have some time and patience. I have made a few over the years and the last one I'll ever need or play I made during the pandemic from Warmoth body and neck, components of my choosing and hand wound pickups that blow away anything Fender sells. You just need to commit to it and anyone can have the smoking hot Tele of their dreams.
For me it's not so much about the type of guitar, or even the wood species of the guitar. I use the term "soul" when I talk about guitars now. You know it your soul finds its counter part in the guitars soul. Then magic happens. I too was not a Tele fan for well over half of my life and then I found my soul mate in a heavily relic'ed, Daphne Blue Tele. For the last 12 years its all I want to play when I'm playing electric
The telecaster was originally called the Broadcaster,but there was a copyright issue,as I think Gresch already had a guitar called Broadcaster.So if the guitar you have is based say 1950,broadcasters would of been there then hence the Broadcaster pickup. Bruce Springsteen plays a Broadcaster,I think they only had 1 pickup.
@joeyjooones i was mostly referring to the audio. I'm so far behind in the understanding of the audio processing anymore. I hate computers, i can never find my files after i unpack them.
my 2013 american standard tele has this pickup combo, the neck is ok but i dont like the broadcaster bridge, especially with overdrive, it doesnt drive very well, the notes dont sing or sustain, it doesnt have much output, the bridge split sound on my ibanez AZ has more grunt to be honest, but maybe im expecting it to do something it wasnt meant to do, yours however sounds great, are you using compression on your lead tone?
@@joeyjooones yeah, perhaps i need to give myself more, however one thing it does very well is clean up when you roll off the volume, thats very useful and one of the reasons teles are so versatile, theres no guitar that can do so much with so little
That Tele sounds absolutely fantastic! What kind of Amp/Speakers, and signal chain were you playing and recording through? That is a huge part of the sound, and you certainly found the right combination for your Tele. Congrats 😎
Deine Tele gehörte wohl Kuddel von den Toten Hosen :) steht ja auf deinem Koffer. Und da Kuddel auch LH ist, denke ich mal, besitzt du jetzt seine. WOW 😮
Teles are great but mine sounded too thin at first so I added a 4 way swich (in series possission was added ). Something about the mod changed it the potshad way more range even the tech said it sounded great. The guitar started life as a squire cv thinline 60s only one mod was needed to make it better.
back in my band days I used to play my 2013 Gibson Les Paul Trad II, and I loved the thing... but I also had a Mexican tele which I secretly enjoyed playing more than the Les Paul... fast forward a few years, I no longer own a single Les Paul, I got 2 tele's though... congrats on finding "the one"
@@joeyjooones hahaha... nothing wrong with that! I have a G&L Bluesboy (semi-hollow), and I just got my "it" guitar - a MIJ '62 reissue custom tele in candy apple red, and I named her "Lindy" because I put Lindy Fralin pickups in it... man... what an absolute beast!
@@joeyjooones I don’t think anything will top your custom shop tele (especially because you tried a lot until you found the unicorn), but the Japanese teles are still a work of art. Japanese craftsmen take so much pride in their work, I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone complain about these guitars.
A broadcaster was the first name for the guitar before the Telecaster. The broadcaster was already a copyright, so Fender had to change it and the Telecaster name was born
i think you would sound great on any tele .... id like to hear you on a squier sonic through same equipment.... bet there is not $2000 difference in the sound... but good for you
Im in the opposite boat you used to be in. I have a S-Style guitar i like, and a Telecaster that i love, but needs some work, but i dont have a humbucker i like. I do have a PRS SE Custom 24, but i really dislike its pickups, so i dont count it. Haha. I do want to put a humbucker sized P90 into the PRS, so it will fix my p90 itch and then get a LP or 335 type of guitar for humbuckers.
Talks about how much they love the way the guitar sounds. Proceeds to play the guitar with so much distortion that it could be any guitar. I feel like this video doesn't really show off how unique telecasters sound. Once the saturation and compression level go beyond a point, you lose a lot of what makes a guitar sound special.
That is the thing, it doesn't really sound like a Telecaster, it just sounds like an very overdriven electric guitar. I wouldn't be able to pick this guitar out without the video.@@joeyjooones
This video is useful but also hilarious! The fact that I watched it at 1.5 speed may have added to the hilarity a bit.
You didn't just make friends with a tele, you bonded like soulmates. It's almost like your friend was just sort of casually dating the person you knew you wanted to spend the rest of your life with, and you were just hoping and waiting for him to lose interest so you could swoop in and profess your love. ; )
I can't remember the last time I saw someone so happy to play a classic guitar, or at least someone who wasn't 70 years old.
Haha! The more I think about it, the more I’m convinced it’s accurate. ☺️ The funny thing is; I can feel that kinda love for more than one guitar. Am I a poly-guitar lover now? 😝
@@joeyjooones Oh definitely, this afflicts many people!
Hmmm, I tried 1.5 too. OK then.
I’m gonna rewatch at 1.5x now
I played it on .5x speed and broke out a doob
You don't find a telecaster. You have to wait until the telecaster finds you.
Could be the moral of this story for sure!
I just turned 36. When do I get my telecaster? 😂
@@CarlstedtPlays You get your telecaster with the money you get from selling all of your other guitars.
@@telecasterbear damnit!
I concur. I’m still waiting for the right one to find me after 30 years of playing. Every time I go looking for one, I end up buying another Strat or Gretsch or a Gibson or an Epiphone.
Sounds Awesome. I bought a "Dog" Tele. It was a USA 2013 Transparent Red, Maple Neck. I picked it up in the Store (around 2016). The Strings were rusty, the chrome had started to spot tarnish.
I asked the store guy why it hadn't sold for 3 years. He thought it was because of the Red Colour, and that it had "weird" pickups.
I paid for a new set of D'Addario 9's to put on the guitar just so I could test drive it. Store said they would refund the Strings if I decided to buy.
I played it, and was immediately "WOW!!". I offered them a $Low-Ball. They called the manager, he accepted.
I still play it now, love the sound.
Those "weird" pickups? "Custom Shop Broadcaster" Bridge, "Custom Shop Twisted Tele" Neck. Best Tele Pickups ever made.
Thank you for sharing the specifications of your Tele, and for listening to the requests of the subscribers, greetings!
Pleasure!
That tele. That sound .. you sound amazing. Love this. You need to make an Instrumental album !!
This guy plays with an energy and sound that blows me away. Holy ####!!
The tele gradually became my fav guitar. I have modded mine to be a bit more versatile (SD SH1 neck-hot rail middle-baja tele pup for bridge), but the classic and the Custom 72 with the wide range in the neck are my total favs. The bridge pickup can't be compared to anything else and it pairs wonderfully with all pickup you can imagine.
My story with my Nocaster is almost the same as yours. I played it a long time ago and when the guy decided to sell it, I bought it. Even though I almost bailed out of getting it because it was such a step up pricewise for me that I was 100% I couldn't afford it. But I got it. Never selling it.
I just built a Telecaster that has that Magic you dream about, but it took me 2 years of selecting everything from hardware to paint scheme. designing the tone by materials & parts used, I went Mahogany to get a slightly darker tone, a Seymour Duncan Broadcaster Bridge and a Monty's Danish Pete DP51 Neck pick up, Locke Custom 78 Birdseye Maple Neck with Ebony Fretboard, MOP Dot inlays with a Wolfgang Profile into Schaller DaVinci Tuners, Fender LSR Roller Nut, Babciz Bridge and Alligator Pickguard in a Wicked Pearl Paint job. Guitar Growls, will try to get a sample online soon, but fighting cancer and just finished Chemo before surgery on 16th. Seems like Tele is perfect fit for you
And tele’s are a breeze to maintain, been playing them since 1966!
So I played a Les Paul for about 12 years or so until I tried a Tele. I picked up a Mexican Nashville Tele and everything changed. Over the years upgraded to a US standard Tele with the CS Twisted Tele and Broadcaster pickups and it’s perfect! Would be really interested in what rig you are running it through and how you get your gain sound (amp / pedals?). Sounds superb and your playing is juicy. Love it.
thanks!
It is a KILLER telecaster! I know my favorite telecasters are SO different from one another. All of them have different features.
Totally man. Which one is your favorite?
Ha…
I always hated everything about every Fender Tele/ tele stye any brand. Like you, they never felt right or sounded right in my Neanderthal brain.
When the pandemic shut down the local watering holes I found myself watching too much youtube and I kept seeing this budget guitar brand Glarry. I thought 💭 what kind of crap do you get for $89 shipped to your door. When the postman unceremoniously dumped the box on my driveway with an audible thud I was positive I was sending it back the next day. Man was I surprised it survived the shipping considering the single box looked like it spent time with Ace Ventura pet detective. Wasn’t even sure there was a guitar inside, it was so lite. Opened the box and everything was as it should be. At that moment I felt this weird attachment to this ugly Tele that survived the USPS. Sure it had some flaws but for $89 what could I expect. Spent a couple hours setting up, filling fret ends, rolling the finger board, add a bone nut and roller string trees I had that I bought from the wish catalog ( to see the quality). When all was said and done I had this remarkable lightweight (under 6lbs) instrument that I didn’t hate and sounds good (to me) Way different than my Strat, LP, 335 etc… I drag this thing around everywhere behind the seat of my old pickup truck and a battery powered Blackstar SuperFly.
My playing has gotten so much better because I can take it out and play with it whenever wherever ( at 60 yrs it’s my other option). I easily play 2 hours a day now. Show up to the job early and jam to whatever is playing on the trucks radio, at lunch, at the beach on the weekends…
All because of a guitar style I never liked and found visually unpleasant.
I guess my point is that just playing any type guitar is good for the soul.
Enjoy your Videos
I love Haar. Great choice to try out. But you definitely found the right one. People wonder why Fender keeps making all these 50s reissues in butterscotch and this is why.
What a great sound. I saw several videos from your TH-cam. But I couldn’t find how did you get that sound #1 in this video ? What do you use (amp, pedal, etc.) ? I have a telecaster (Reissue 52) and I have a sound in my head without find the good material. And when I listen to you, I realize it was THAT sound I wanted. Thank you to tell me what do you use with your telecaster :)
My sons and wife bought me a Solar guitar that looks like a heavy metal version of a Telly with an wvertune bridge. It has been like a passionate furious relationship with a woman. I cannot wait to get my hands on her daily. It's the most amazing guitar and it's pure magic in my hands.
i got a Telecaster Baja with the same pickup combination. Its my favorite guitar and those pickups sound awesome.
Is it heavy though?
@@chrishyde1216 not really, is the lightest of all my teles. I got a 72 tele deluxe and it weights almost double. I got back issues so I usually take the Baja with me for live performances.
@@mavhunter4053 I was interested in a Baja but the couple I tried were too heavy for my liking. So good to know lighter ones are around.
@@chrishyde1216 true, I've heard there are some heavy ones as well. Also, I had an issue with the S1 switch. A friend help me resolder some points to get rid of the issue and now it's perfect. Either way, it's a great guitar.
Best sounding tele I've heard in years.
great sound and playing!!! what string gauge were you using here??
You play so damn good. Good job my friend. I just bought a telecaster recently and i love it. Im learning it. You didn’t name the song you played i wonder they are available to download?? I loved it what’s the name of songs?
I found an offset tele with roasted maple neck, brass saddles, locking tuners and a p90-sized jazzmaster pickup in the neck. By far my favorite guitar.
Never played a tele but i'd love to play/own one. I got my first single coil guitar (strat) a week ago and love it; It's been a lot of fun and sounds unique.
Have a great day and what a beautifully dirty tele 🤘
Thank you man. My turn: what are you playing through right now?
How does the Tele sound to you? ;-)
0:00 - Intro
0:29 - Telecaster Sounds #1
1:19 - My desperate search for a Telecaster
3:34 - Telecaster Sounds #2
4:03 - I finally play a Telecaster I love (but can't buy it)
5:01 - Telecaster Sounds #3
5:24 - How I bought that Telecaster
6:37 - Telecaster Sounds #4
7:04 - The Specs of my Telecaster
10:44 - What do you think?
Like a proper Tele should!
Sounds great, the Fender Broadcaster was the very first Fender guitar. Broadcaster pickups are basically repurposed steel slide guitar pickups.
You should really try and play a Telecaster with Broadcaster control wiring, there is no tone control! Instead the tone control is a blend control used to mix the neck pickup with the Bridge pickup.
Enjoy, glad you found your special Telecaster/Broadcaster. 👍
Your playing is incredible! Great video
I think that the guitars that speak to you aren’t a particular type of guitar. I think they’re particularly good guitars. Meaning resonant or alive with sound. There’s no energy lost from the strings vibration. The wood works together in a rare way to exacerbate the acoustic properties of it. Which of course translates through the pickups.
you sound incredible! There's something about a tele... my nocaster relic is so resonant and rich, there's nothing like it. I have a great strat, but my playing style feels right without belly cuts or rounded shoulder. The tele just feels right, and speaks for me.
I have a limited edition channelbound tele with the same pickups and compensated saddles and it absolutely slays. The channelbound neck is a deep rosewood and has a flatter radius further up the neck. I traded another guitar for it and i have loved how this plays and sounded since i first laid hands on it. I will be buried with mine
after playing strats and lp's mainly for 30-40 years i am now a total tele nut , i sold my strat and lp and kept my tele wich is my only solid body guitar at the moment and for the future , together with my ES 335 and martin DM acoustic i am totally happy with these 3 guitars and have absolutely no need to buy another guitar , i only wish i had found this comby 40 years ago , it would have saved me a shitload off money , but hey better late then never 😛.
Yup, it’s a process… and sometimes that just takes a while. ☺️
Which Tele model did you keep?
@@bushcry1 Hello , i have an fender american special tele with texas special pu's and an maple lindy frailin tele neck on it . The brigde pu is great for rock and the neck pu has an nice bluesy tone , i play in an classic rock / blues coverband so this tele fits really well soundwise and i really love the frailin neck , its an fat neck but it fits my hands .
You sound similar to me. I want to sell all the other stuff I own and just have a Telecaster and 335. Wish I went this route earlier too, but it’s all about the journey imo
Beautiful Guitar. How much does it weigh?
Who are your influences? You sound so good
That's a great sounding Tele 👍Of course, your playing isn't half bad either 😅 I was always a Les Paul player until I tried a decent Tele. Now my Telecaster has pretty much become my #1.But the Les Paul also does a thing that the Tele can't.
Close to the same boat. Les Paul amd Tele is my setup. Each does stuff the other can't. Best way I can describe is Les Paul roars, Tele screams.
@@ferox965LP is Tele on steroids
I used to HATE Teles, that is until I actually played one w/Humbuckers and now my fav axe is a Limba (Korina) Tele (Broadcatser) w/Duncan Antiquity HB's oh man thru a Marshall Origin 20 w/Bogner xtc pedal it is off the charts! Pure sonic euphoria!
Yeah…thought I just wanted to stick with a strat. Found a used 51 reissue because I knew I would like the neck and now I realize what all the fuss is about . That bridge pickup! Absolutely love that sound and everything else about this tele. Poor strat has just been sitting in the corner for weeks
I finally picked up a tele after years of being an on and off guitarist. Wow.
My main guitars I played were my Strat and LP. I took a chance and picked up a 335 copy (epiphone) thinking I was done buying guitars. Then I stumbled across the Fender Telecaster Professional II. And while it needs a bit of TLC from my go to tech, I can’t believe I waited this long to own one
Great video. Similar spec to mine and love it, also never thought I’d be a tele player. You should compare with those vintage saddles - I went back and forth with the compensated ones several times and found the originals sounded the best. The compensated weren’t as full sounded and something was missing. Worth doing if you have both sets.
My favorite store tele has been a Fiesta Red Vintera. Love that fatter neck, and the note clarity was awesome. the first time I felt the neck on my Les Paul 50s tribute I felt like I had my soulmate! Love the versatility and growl of the P90s too. No pickguard, just the beautiful wine red color. Playing through my VOX Valvetronix AD20, I can play any sound I like. Just found your channel, love your playing and personality!
Pretty much a standard '52 Tele with a smaller neck profile. Honestly, that would be also my perfect Tele combo. Beautiful sounding guitar. Cheers!
I never wanted to play guitar until I picked up a BAJA Tele! 9.5 radius and a soft v neck shape.
Yes! I have heard these are great. Problem: they never were available for lefties. And they are by far not the only cool models that never got available for us poor southpaws.
They have same pickups or the original ones did
I ADORE my Baja Telecaster! Especially the parallel/phase options with the pickups! I added brass compensated saddles for a better intonation & stability, installed a Tusq nut, locking tuners, & it is amazing!
The only issue I had, was the fretboard would never go straight! So I got it as close as I could, then did a fret leveling, crowning & polishing. It was a bit of effort & I was scared, but now the action is exactly where I want it, & the sound is already incredible. I don't think I'll ever part with it.
That silly old guitar grew on me like no other could. ❤️❤️❤️
You’re an amazing player, but I can’t judge any guitar based on how it sounds through overdrive/distortion.
Gotta hear all three positions clean to give you an honest opinion 😎
Fair enough ;-)
Your telecaster is amazing, it has better sustain than most telecaster model that I've tried. Typical issue of a single coil and bolt on I presume.
Telecasters are great! You can play absolutely every style using telecaster.
I had felt the same way, that maybe Tele’s weren’t for me. But I just played one at a music store that changed my mind.
I’m pretty sure I want one now… lol
You sure need one buddy 😅
Over 50 years a bassist, casual guitar fan and tech. Worked on a trashed ‘57 Tele when I was a teen, and it was awful. Also, I thought Tele’s were for country. Started listening to Tim Lerch a few years ago, and decided to give them another chance. Had a few close calls w/Baja Tele’s, before deciding that I wanted a big neck on a 69 Thinline body, and built my own. Squier CV mahogany, 1.75” BGP 54 profile neck, Wilde microcoils, 4-way switch, Gotoh cutdown bridge. Finishing touch was a Piezo One saddle set and a stereo output jack. Done.
Wie immer, ganz großes Kino! Doch letztendlich könntest du auf einem Besenstiel spielen und es würde fantastisch klingen. Just my two cent you mileage may vary.
Man you're good!!
Keep it up and you will be like John 5 who is now in MotleyCrew.
Earned my sub!
Guitar toaaan : Yihaar!
Playing : Noice... 🤨👌
Banter : Entertaining 🤷♂️
Sounds Great Joey ..... Your playing has a lot to do with it . I can feel the feeling you to on the instrument ....
Thank you!!
Is this same guitar an easy find? Where from?
What Is this song ?? It's beautiful ! I'm trying to catch it, but too speed for the details !
I Have a Core USA PRS Custom 22 - I don't jell with that. I have a Gibson Less Paul Standard - I don't Jell with that. I have seven Fender Tele's - I jell with all of them. I have five Fender Stratocaster's - i jell with all of them too! I have a Martin HD28 - I love it. I also don't jell with my - Gibson Less Paul JR - My Gretsch 6120 - my Gibson SG 1961 reissue - I think thats about it.
Squier classic vibe 50s tele , The best tele , rolled fret edges , great feeling neck , maybe another bridge pickup ( taste ) . I played more teles and they felt ( indeed ) too "stiff" . Could have saved a lot of money .
Outstanding tone and playing!
What amp/pedals are you playing? The guitar sounds awesome and your playing is incredible! I am a Tele fanatic and enjoyed this very much🤘🏽
I love Teles, came to them later in my playing life and wondered why the heck I hadn't done so before. I have three that I play most, none of them made by Fender funnily enough. Incredibly versatile guitars and if I were forced to sell all my guitars except an acoustic and one electric - the electric would be a Tele. No question of it.
It certainly has a great sound and your playing is excellent
Good video. Tele sounds great! A mexican tele heavier than a les paul?, ... i guess its possible. Twisted tele and Broadcaster pickups
... good ones. 9.5 radius, good choice, but unusual for 52.
The same here with the teles, and also with some cheap brands. I have many Guitars and now my favourite is a cheap Squier telecaster CV. I didnt know that it Would be my main guitar today. Man you are one of my favourite reference artist right now! keep on rocking. Saludos desde España 😊
Gracias! 😊
A Tokai Breezysound found me.
Medium Jumbo's and 9.5' radius. Perfect!
And weirdly enough it happened to be a Pink Paisley which I wasn't looking for.
Into the Kemper, for me a Tele is Kempers best friend. ❤️
Came for the tele. Stayed for the playing. Just insane!
I'm going to add to this and say that I think to some extent you're right that people felt the guitar sounded special... but I think it is more so that YOU sounded special with it. You don't sound like a typical tele player and thus what people are hearing you do with a tele is not what they expect a tele to sound like. Which also maybe speaks to why it was so hard for you to find one you wanted, as the right tele for you was far from the ordinary tele!
Good point! Never thought about that. Thanks for the kind words ❤️
Please what do you think about telecaster player?
Your guitar playing is exceptional, my favourite IG guitarist for sure...and your Kemper tones are pure thick gooey honey. 🙂🥂
I personally have never found a 335 I gel with, hollow body is good solid body is good, semi hollow just never really feel right with the way they respond . My tele has been modded like crazy but recently at a gig I got a lot of compliments about my tone and playing, so a good tele makes expressing your voice easier
Yeah it sounds like a vintage Tele should. Having said that, it came with a Custom Shop pricetag and that's the part i can't hang with. I tell people all the time, Teles are the one guitar no one needs to spend a lot of money on because you can make one yourself in your garage or basement if you have some time and patience. I have made a few over the years and the last one I'll ever need or play I made during the pandemic from Warmoth body and neck, components of my choosing and hand wound pickups that blow away anything Fender sells. You just need to commit to it and anyone can have the smoking hot Tele of their dreams.
For me it's not so much about the type of guitar, or even the wood species of the guitar. I use the term "soul" when I talk about guitars now. You know it your soul finds its counter part in the guitars soul. Then magic happens. I too was not a Tele fan for well over half of my life and then I found my soul mate in a heavily relic'ed, Daphne Blue Tele. For the last 12 years its all I want to play when I'm playing electric
First: you are a very finely skilled guitarist 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Second: the tone of that Telly kicked my ass very hard. Extremely good purchase. 👍🏼👍🏼💪🏼💪🏼
Alter... aber 1:21... Was für ein Sound! Und geil gespielt!
so how much is the price of that Tele? I am also looking for a great Tele, did not find it yet
The telecaster was originally called the Broadcaster,but there was a copyright issue,as I think Gresch already had a guitar called Broadcaster.So if the guitar you have is based say 1950,broadcasters would of been there then hence the Broadcaster pickup. Bruce Springsteen plays a Broadcaster,I think they only had 1 pickup.
What pedals or platform were you playing thru?
What a fantastic video have a wonderful day
Linda guitarra y buen guitarrista! Respecto a la amplificación?
Great sound but even better chops, man. I like your choices.
I wish I knew how to makes videos. I would be playing my beauty of a Tele!
A smartphone is technically all you need… :)
@joeyjooones i was mostly referring to the audio. I'm so far behind in the understanding of the audio processing anymore. I hate computers, i can never find my files after i unpack them.
That tele sounds so beautiful man
Hi so what pickups and strings please did not see them on list cheers
my 2013 american standard tele has this pickup combo, the neck is ok but i dont like the broadcaster bridge, especially with overdrive, it doesnt drive very well, the notes dont sing or sustain, it doesnt have much output, the bridge split sound on my ibanez AZ has more grunt to be honest, but maybe im expecting it to do something it wasnt meant to do, yours however sounds great, are you using compression on your lead tone?
Not a compression pedal per se, but my lead tone in this video is pretty driven, so yeah lots of compression going on from the amount of gain alone.
@@joeyjooones yeah, perhaps i need to give myself more, however one thing it does very well is clean up when you roll off the volume, thats very useful and one of the reasons teles are so versatile, theres no guitar that can do so much with so little
Your friend's mission in life is now complete . 🎸
Yep, Broadcaster bridge. First Esquire and "Tele" pickup, should measure around 9.2-9.4K.
That Tele sounds absolutely fantastic! What kind of Amp/Speakers, and signal chain were you playing and recording through? That is a huge part of the sound, and you certainly found the right combination for your Tele. Congrats 😎
Thanks for the kind words! I have covered my signal chain in another video, but in short: I plug straight into a Kemper. ☺️
Those facials...was you chewing a wasp?!
This Tele is a hole life marriage in your Hands. Your perfect Guitar, I guess
The frets caught my eye first thing
Deine Tele gehörte wohl Kuddel von den Toten Hosen :) steht ja auf deinem Koffer.
Und da Kuddel auch LH ist, denke ich mal, besitzt du jetzt seine. WOW 😮
@@danielscherf good research ;)
@@joeyjooones 😎 thx man! Love your Style of playing. Just thinking about getting your soloing course
Love the worn look of that tele and your a lefty like me
I'll sub. Telecasters are my favourite guitars ever.
Teles are great but mine sounded too thin at first so I added a 4 way swich (in series possission was added ). Something about the mod changed it the potshad way more range even the tech said it sounded great. The guitar started life as a squire cv thinline 60s only one mod was needed to make it better.
lipsink in the beginning?
back in my band days I used to play my 2013 Gibson Les Paul Trad II, and I loved the thing... but I also had a Mexican tele which I secretly enjoyed playing more than the Les Paul... fast forward a few years, I no longer own a single Les Paul, I got 2 tele's though... congrats on finding "the one"
I fear this might happen with me as well 😅 what Teles do you have?
@@joeyjooones hahaha... nothing wrong with that! I have a G&L Bluesboy (semi-hollow), and I just got my "it" guitar - a MIJ '62 reissue custom tele in candy apple red, and I named her "Lindy" because I put Lindy Fralin pickups in it... man... what an absolute beast!
@@candyCode I've been hearing about the Japanese models and how great they apparently are.... gonna check Reverb now bye :D
@@joeyjooones I don’t think anything will top your custom shop tele (especially because you tried a lot until you found the unicorn), but the Japanese teles are still a work of art. Japanese craftsmen take so much pride in their work, I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone complain about these guitars.
LOVE my Mod Shop Tele…LEFTY!!❤
This is how a tele should sound: signal chain, keeper profiles, etc… 😊
A broadcaster was the first name for the guitar before the Telecaster. The broadcaster was already a copyright, so Fender had to change it and the Telecaster name was born
This one of all your guitars sounds the best in my flavour
i think you would sound great on any tele .... id like to hear you on a squier sonic through same equipment.... bet there is not $2000 difference in the sound... but good for you
Ich hab eine Tele in Minzgrün die ich auch liebe aber mir fehlen einfach die 2 stellungen der strat und vor allem für live das whammy
Im in the opposite boat you used to be in. I have a S-Style guitar i like, and a Telecaster that i love, but needs some work, but i dont have a humbucker i like. I do have a PRS SE Custom 24, but i really dislike its pickups, so i dont count it. Haha. I do want to put a humbucker sized P90 into the PRS, so it will fix my p90 itch and then get a LP or 335 type of guitar for humbuckers.
Try a Semi Hollow first! I’ve often seen that Fender guys get along best with a semi hollow guitar. ;-)
@@joeyjooones cool man, thanks for the advice. There is something special and unique about hollow bodies that catches my attention
I’ve had 3 sold 3, I’m still looking. I don’t think I’ll ever find one.
My main guitar for years now
Hej Joey 👋👋👋 i just went on a dream with your first " telecaster sound #1 ".... omfg!!!.... whats the songs name? It is beautiful❤❤❤
doesn't have a name yet... that might change soon. ;)
@@joeyjooones you shoud do that,at least an ep.....Youre from Holland? Living there now?
@@joeyjooones also....do you have the whole song? Its awesome!
Talks about how much they love the way the guitar sounds. Proceeds to play the guitar with so much distortion that it could be any guitar. I feel like this video doesn't really show off how unique telecasters sound. Once the saturation and compression level go beyond a point, you lose a lot of what makes a guitar sound special.
I agree a little. Only a little though. Because it still sounds like a Tele and it still sounds awesome.
That is the thing, it doesn't really sound like a Telecaster, it just sounds like an very overdriven electric guitar. I wouldn't be able to pick this guitar out without the video.@@joeyjooones
Killer sounding Tele, but I'd say your hands have a lot to do with it as well!