Tele for sure! I think the Tele has a wider range of tone. I have both Stats and Tiles and they both have their unique sound. Overall, if I had to pick on it wound be the Tele! Cheers!
I have an 🇺🇸 strat and just bought a 2018 butterscotch fender player telecaster in great condition. I like both guitars but the tele is awesome ‼️ I tried a budget guitar with a 12" radius neck and it's a good guitar for the money BUT I will take my Fenders ‼️ My dream guitar is a G,&L FULLERTON ASAT CLASSIC but my playing doesn't justify it yet ‼️ I checked out a professional 2 telecaster and it's nice BUT G&L IS A MUCH BETTER BUILT GUITAR THAN FENDER PROFESSIONAL 2 TELECASTER ‼️ So I will do G,&,L for my next guitar ❗
@@badbrad1) when I held the 🇺🇸G&L in my hands, I can feel that it was a better built guitar than F.ender professional 2 telecaster ,( which I played a few times,) 2 the MFD pickups are much more beef than the telecaster. G&L FULLERTON ASAT CLASSIC is a fender professional 2 telecaster on steroids 😅 And sadly fender has gotten too corporate ❗ G&L is still a company and hopefully they will stay that way. And yes I love my 2 Fenders ‼️ On the professional 2 telecaster the push knob has a 1/4 gap between the body and the knob , for $1700 fender couldn't put some washers to close up the space ⁉️
Strat for gigs, but own many of both. It's almost trying to pick between Porsche or (fill in blank). Gigs I bring a Strat. A "Superstrat" (HSS), and a Les Paul....if I had a road crew though...I'd surely throw a Tele in with the load!
I EXPECTED to like the strat neck pickup more, but I actually thought the Tele sounded much more expressive and dynamic. Great neck pickup on that tele!
To my ears, both sounded great. Tone wise, either guitar will do the job quite well. In terms of the pickups, I don't feel that one had a superior sound over the other. I've played on both instruments, but in don't own either one. So, I don't have a personal dog in this fight. Take your pick, it's the soup-of-the-day choice for neck pickup sound.
Nice backing track. Very Steely Dan. Well, it's the Telecaster for me. I have a nice one that has that tone and it's so nice through my Deluxe Reverb. Larry Carlton would be proud. Nice playing brother.
@@badbrad yes the tele came in 50 , the broadcaster but fender got in trouble for copying the name, then in 51 or 52 came the nocaster . Then came telecaster, same body different name Then 53 or 54 came stratocaster ‼️
I like both sounds....you have a great musical vocabulary so it would not matter which instrument you played so the instrument is subjective to a taste preferance
strat warmer and you seem to flow on it better than the tele .. looked like you were working harder to pull it out where the strat was like butter… my buddy Randy Volin has an original Dakota…..he loves that thang
I liked both though I would have liked to hear them at different pickup selecter settings. I have the Dimarzio shockwave system fitted to my Strat but I was thinking about putting some Lollars or EMG David Gilmour pickups in. I just can't make my mind up which ones. In the meantime I would have liked to put the original Japanese single coils back in but they seem to have disappeared.
I don’t know the difference in sound, but I know is Stratz tend to gravitate towards rock ‘n’ roll in telecasters tend to gravitate towards country guitar players it’s not always hard and fast rule, but it seems to be like that
I play both Strats and Teles and choose which one depending on what serves the song best. A Strat is a thinner and more nasal tone whereas the Tele is rounder and fuller. So at the neck pickup the Strat will cut through the mix a bit more. But it depends on what type of music is being played. The track you played over had more of a Jazzy feel and I always felt a Tele neck pickup with it's slightly more mellow tone suits Jazz playing very well. Both sound great but the Tele has a bit more of that Jazzy quality so for this song I'd say Tele wins. But if you were playing some SRV style Texas Blues or Jimi licks then obviously a Strat. It's all about context.
I like the tele. Dont know if it was up a tad beefier or just was beefier, but it sounds fatter, little more dirt. Never owned a tele, but i think they sound great
Both sound great..but we always have to take into account who is playing in this video. Brad is a pro. A real professioinal. You could give him a guitar that was strung with rubber bands and dental floss and he would make it work. I am not a strat guy..but in the hands of a great player, like Brad, you cannot deny that they sound great. I've never cared for the 'thin' sound of strats. But I know if is a sound thing..or if it is because that sound is very unforgiving to sloppy player...like myself. The strat sounds will expose a sloppy player. If you crank the gain to try and hide this..they get noisy. So I'll stick to my LPs.
@@badbradI've got a Fender '83 tele (elite) and a '63 Gretsch Firebird. When it comes to tone... Can't find anything to compete with my vintage Gretsch and stock '60s pups. Not particularly Rock 'n' Roll..... But hey, I live in Brooklyn-- home to Gretsch and Topps baseball cards!
My favorite tone is a strat neck pickup with the tone rolled back, not necessarily all the way into “woman” mode, but just enough to give it that warm bite.
@@badbrad I forgot to say, picking on the neck, at about the 20th fret, adds to the neck pickup - rolled back tone magic. Keith Richards knew that, that’s why some of his guitars had craters dug into the upper bout.
What comes around goes around... Bro, you picked up on my "delimma"! Synchro af! You also looked a bit like Johhny Ramone, if he could actually play.😅 For that vynl project I knew id have to get out & support in some capacity. Thought id rather go electric electric, rather than acoustic electric & prefer to play with fingers. That's when i discovered shitty lil pickups on epiphone LP i had tucked away wouldnt cut it. Thats also when i discovered the beauty of the Mona Lisa of guitars, THE TELECASTER!😅 She ugly, but finest piece of work they is imo!😅 My "rig" consists of roller suitcase can fit 2 battery amps in, a mic with stand, cords, etc & a backpack guitar case. Can walk to corner & get anywhere i wanna go. Thats as technical as i am. Goin' Guthrie in 21st century, mofos!😅 Well, i gave epiphone away with lil amp i had to somebody who would actually use it to learn to play. Since I quit for 7 yrs I'd forgotten my covered nightstand was actually a brand new double speaker tweed Fender reissue tube amp i still had.😅 Will be excellent for recording. Bought it on somebody's credit card about 20 yrs ago for $800. But was huge, had no wheels, & i used pedals back then so plugged in a couple times, said fuk that & turned into nightstand. Then i bought my first tele, a cheap squire surf green. Loved the feel but turned out looking baby blue. Figured at $200 go ahead & get another/sunburst before realized the surf green was 60's model cheap pickups & sounded as bad as cheap epiphone. Figured I'd upgrade both. Then i also discovered Harley Benton! Po man's "Lisa"😅, & got a killer lil "'64 tele" with pickups sound as good as a Mexican Fender Tele for same price as shitty squires! 3-D printing is causing a revolution in "cheap guitar" world, friend. Then another friend was struggling to get by. I knew he had a degree in electronics so told him id gladly give him $100 to pop some tex-mex pickups in my sunburst, & $100 to put some $200 Fender noiselss pickups in my surf green. Could've got them both done for less from my boy in Berry Hill. I was set! But i only need a good guitar with good backup. I dont need more. That's when another friend's mother recently died. Knowing he'd always admired me & wanted to learn to play, i gave him sunburst & a battery amp to get his mind off things. Thought, cool. Helps him, helps me. Too much junk. Well, so much for that. Universe wouldn't have it!😅 Somebody just gave me an actual Fender sunburst Mexican strat.🙄 it just sat there for about a week in its case & I hardly looked at it. I wanted to reject it.😅 I'm 1000% a tele man anymore,...i thought. But this a '54 Buddy Holly fukn strat & plays like a DREAM!😅 Picked it up yesterday & haven't been able to keep my hands off it. Needles to say, my other Lil Lisas are not happy!😅 Oh well, will hopefully now be able to pass on another before long? Thats just me friends. Collecting art is a beautiful thing. May your collections bless you & yours! Take care, Brad. See ya. Rock On! 🤘🌎❤️
Both were great, Brad, but the Strat was so smooth and tasty it gets the win for me.
Right on!
Tele for sure! I think the Tele has a wider range of tone. I have both Stats and Tiles and they both have their unique sound. Overall, if I had to pick on it wound be the Tele! Cheers!
Right on! I love em both.....
Both sound awesome !
Thank you!
If forced to choose, I would go with the Tele
understood.
The guy can play. Tele for sure. Nice bite.
Thank you!
I have an 🇺🇸 strat and just bought a 2018 butterscotch fender player telecaster in great condition.
I like both guitars but the tele is awesome ‼️
I tried a budget guitar with a 12" radius neck and it's a good guitar for the money BUT I will take my Fenders ‼️
My dream guitar is a G,&L FULLERTON ASAT CLASSIC but my playing doesn't justify it yet ‼️ I checked out a professional 2 telecaster and it's nice BUT G&L IS A MUCH BETTER BUILT GUITAR THAN FENDER PROFESSIONAL 2 TELECASTER ‼️ So I will do G,&,L for my next guitar ❗
Let me know how you like the G&L.
@@badbrad1) when I held the 🇺🇸G&L in my hands, I can feel that it was a better built guitar than F.ender professional 2 telecaster ,( which I played a few times,) 2 the MFD pickups are much more beef than the telecaster. G&L FULLERTON ASAT CLASSIC is a fender professional 2 telecaster on steroids 😅
And sadly fender has gotten too corporate ❗ G&L is still a company and hopefully they will stay that way. And yes I love my 2 Fenders ‼️
On the professional 2 telecaster the push knob has a 1/4 gap between the body and the knob , for $1700 fender couldn't put some washers to close up the space ⁉️
Thanks Brad !
You bet!
Both sound so good it dont matter
Thank you!
For that Jazzy song the Telly wins hands down!
Seems to be the concensus
Strat for gigs, but own many of both. It's almost trying to pick between Porsche or (fill in blank). Gigs I bring a Strat. A "Superstrat" (HSS), and a Les Paul....if I had a road crew though...I'd surely throw a Tele in with the load!
I’m with you hss and I’m good.
Two colors on the palette of a great painter.
You got to have 'em.
Well, that was a humble reply to a compliment!
I like the Fender, dude digging the solo , nice
Thank you!!
Both very cool, I’m sitting here with both right next to me, I think the you made that tele “growl” a little more than you made the strat “twang”.
Thank you, I like that.
I EXPECTED to like the strat neck pickup more, but I actually thought the Tele sounded much more expressive and dynamic. Great neck pickup on that tele!
I do like that Tele.
To my ears, both sounded great. Tone wise, either guitar will do the job quite well. In terms of the pickups, I don't feel that one had a superior sound over the other. I've played on both instruments, but in don't own either one. So, I don't have a personal dog in this fight. Take your pick, it's the soup-of-the-day choice for neck pickup sound.
Well said!
I think the Strat. The Tele sounds more Twangy. The Player makes the Difference and your a Great player so both was Good.
Thank you!
Nice backing track. Very Steely Dan. Well, it's the Telecaster for me. I have a nice one that has that tone and it's so nice through my Deluxe Reverb. Larry Carlton would be proud. Nice playing brother.
Man thank you so much!
Which one did Leo design first? That's the one I like the best. Really enjoyed your playing.
Thank you. I believe the Tele came first.
@@badbrad yes the tele came in 50 , the broadcaster but fender got in trouble for copying the name, then in 51 or 52 came the nocaster . Then came telecaster, same body different name
Then 53 or 54 came stratocaster ‼️
I prefer Strats and their neck pickups, but here I preferred the Tele neck pickup.
Standard Tele beats a Custom Shop Strat!?🤷🏼♂️
That is saying something...
Now I’m thinking that all maple neck on the Tele may have skewed this comparison and given the Tele an unfair advantage.
Quite possible
Got to say the strat on this take and particular guitars used here wins . But not saying the strat wins overall. Liking the channel Brad !
Thank you Dr.
Nice demo Brad.. you could hear the “cluck” on the strat and less so on the telecaster. That’s exactly how the roll…
Indeed.
If I had not been watching the video I would not have known when you changed guitars. Both sounded like BB! TRUTH
Both would have looked cool rocking on stage.
Thank you so much!
I like both sounds....you have a great musical vocabulary so it would not matter which instrument you played so the instrument is subjective to a taste preferance
Thanks bro!
strat warmer and you seem to flow on it better than the tele .. looked like you were working harder to pull it out where the strat was like butter… my buddy Randy Volin has an original Dakota…..he loves that thang
Yeah a Strat is more in my wheelhouse the Tele makes me work harder. Wow an Og Dakota Red...amazing!
@@badbrad
7.5 inch radius baseball bat neck is difficult to play well, especially bends. They tend to want to fall off.
@@Acemechanicalservices You know it.
Tele for me. Tele/SG is my go-to setup
Understand. They are awesome both of those.
Skunky!!!!
Thank you
Either one.
🫡
@@badbrad lol. I just cut to the chase.
I liked both though I would have liked to hear them at different pickup selecter settings. I have the Dimarzio shockwave system fitted to my Strat but I was thinking about putting some Lollars or EMG David Gilmour pickups in. I just can't make my mind up which ones. In the meantime I would have liked to put the original Japanese single coils back in but they seem to have disappeared.
The case of the missing pickups...I have been there.
I don’t know the difference in sound, but I know is Stratz tend to gravitate towards rock ‘n’ roll in telecasters tend to gravitate towards country guitar players it’s not always hard and fast rule, but it seems to be like that
It generally does but they can both play other styles...
Look into how many rock classics were actually recorded on a telecaster through a low watt Fender amp
true!
I play both Strats and Teles and choose which one depending on what serves the song best. A Strat is a thinner and more nasal tone whereas the Tele is rounder and fuller. So at the neck pickup the Strat will cut through the mix a bit more. But it depends on what type of music is being played. The track you played over had more of a Jazzy feel and I always felt a Tele neck pickup with it's slightly more mellow tone suits Jazz playing very well. Both sound great but the Tele has a bit more of that Jazzy quality so for this song I'd say Tele wins. But if you were playing some SRV style Texas Blues or Jimi licks then obviously a Strat. It's all about context.
Solid bro! 😎
I like the tele. Dont know if it was up a tad beefier or just was beefier, but it sounds fatter, little more dirt.
Never owned a tele, but i think they sound great
They do indeed.
I liked both 🎸 🎸... the Stratocaster has a thinner, sharp, clear, precise tone... the Telecaster has a nasally honk with harmonics galore...
There ya go!
I do want remove the dark circuit on my Tele so that the neck pickup is full volume.
Yeah that works good for Jazz but not so much everything else.
I prefer the neck pickup on a Strat and the bridge on a Telly ,both guitars have their own unique tone
They do indeed!
Which is better? The guy playing.
Thanks you much!
The Tele's tone sounds so much better to me. The Strat sounded great too.
It's all about the sound you are looking for.
Tele!
Right on!
Both sound great..but we always have to take into account who is playing in this video. Brad is a pro. A real professioinal. You could give him a guitar that was strung with rubber bands and dental floss and he would make it work. I am not a strat guy..but in the hands of a great player, like Brad, you cannot deny that they sound great. I've never cared for the 'thin' sound of strats. But I know if is a sound thing..or if it is because that sound is very unforgiving to sloppy player...like myself. The strat sounds will expose a sloppy player. If you crank the gain to try and hide this..they get noisy. So I'll stick to my LPs.
Man you are too kind. Thank you sir. I bet you and that Les Paul sound great.
Nice...
We need more of this sort of thing from you.
Maybe ACROSS the brands....
Do I see an SG sitting in the floor rack behind you...?
Nice.
I’ve got lots of SG videos in the archives.
@@badbradI've got a Fender '83 tele (elite) and a '63 Gretsch Firebird.
When it comes to tone...
Can't find anything to compete with my vintage Gretsch and stock '60s pups.
Not particularly Rock 'n' Roll.....
But hey, I live in Brooklyn-- home to Gretsch and Topps baseball cards!
@@850mph I bet that Gretsch sounds incredible.
I play a lot of Jazz the strat sounded to me it had more Honey in it.
More Honey please!
tele all day for me. Other than body contours i prefer teles for the layout and sound.
Do you like teles with body contours.
Tele. Good work, Brad.
Thank you kindly!
Were you playing through the Kemper Profiler Player?
Yes!
I know rockers like his Springsteen plays a telecaster. I don’t know which country music styles play the Stratocaster.
Keith urban plays a Strat from time to time...
Ok
Dude, you almost gave me a heart attack when you bumped those beauties together a couple times!!!!
😧 😬 😮
You and me both.
Tele ftw!
I hear you!
Both sounded great, but I'm going with the Strat. It had that "juicy" thing going on.
Yes indeed.
Strat !!!
Check
My favorite tone is a strat neck pickup with the tone rolled back, not necessarily all the way into “woman” mode, but just enough to give it that warm bite.
That is a killer tone.
@@badbrad
I forgot to say, picking on the neck, at about the 20th fret, adds to the neck pickup - rolled back tone magic. Keith Richards knew that, that’s why some of his guitars had craters dug into the upper bout.
Tape or glue?
Velcro.....I have the best wig in the biz. I remove it in this video....th-cam.com/video/xvr4jQmzWCk/w-d-xo.html
Strat hands down
Salute!
Hard to choose, but for what I play, the Strat wins.
I hear ya!
To my ears, the Tele was much more expressive and dynamic on this tune.
Thank you!
What comes around goes around...
Bro, you picked up on my "delimma"! Synchro af! You also looked a bit like Johhny Ramone, if he could actually play.😅 For that vynl project I knew id have to get out & support in some capacity. Thought id rather go electric electric, rather than acoustic electric & prefer to play with fingers. That's when i discovered shitty lil pickups on epiphone LP i had tucked away wouldnt cut it. Thats also when i discovered the beauty of the Mona Lisa of guitars, THE TELECASTER!😅 She ugly, but finest piece of work they is imo!😅 My "rig" consists of roller suitcase can fit 2 battery amps in, a mic with stand, cords, etc & a backpack guitar case. Can walk to corner & get anywhere i wanna go. Thats as technical as i am. Goin' Guthrie in 21st century, mofos!😅 Well, i gave epiphone away with lil amp i had to somebody who would actually use it to learn to play. Since I quit for 7 yrs I'd forgotten my covered nightstand was actually a brand new double speaker tweed Fender reissue tube amp i still had.😅 Will be excellent for recording. Bought it on somebody's credit card about 20 yrs ago for $800. But was huge, had no wheels, & i used pedals back then so plugged in a couple times, said fuk that & turned into nightstand. Then i bought my first tele, a cheap squire surf green. Loved the feel but turned out looking baby blue. Figured at $200 go ahead & get another/sunburst before realized the surf green was 60's model cheap pickups & sounded as bad as cheap epiphone. Figured I'd upgrade both. Then i also discovered Harley Benton! Po man's "Lisa"😅, & got a killer lil "'64 tele" with pickups sound as good as a Mexican Fender Tele for same price as shitty squires! 3-D printing is causing a revolution in "cheap guitar" world, friend. Then another friend was struggling to get by. I knew he had a degree in electronics so told him id gladly give him $100 to pop some tex-mex pickups in my sunburst, & $100 to put some $200 Fender noiselss pickups in my surf green. Could've got them both done for less from my boy in Berry Hill. I was set! But i only need a good guitar with good backup. I dont need more. That's when another friend's mother recently died. Knowing he'd always admired me & wanted to learn to play, i gave him sunburst & a battery amp to get his mind off things. Thought, cool. Helps him, helps me. Too much junk. Well, so much for that. Universe wouldn't have it!😅 Somebody just gave me an actual Fender sunburst Mexican strat.🙄 it just sat there for about a week in its case & I hardly looked at it. I wanted to reject it.😅 I'm 1000% a tele man anymore,...i thought. But this a '54 Buddy Holly fukn strat & plays like a DREAM!😅 Picked it up yesterday & haven't been able to keep my hands off it. Needles to say, my other Lil Lisas are not happy!😅
Oh well, will hopefully now be able to pass on another before long? Thats just me friends. Collecting art is a beautiful thing. May your collections bless you & yours!
Take care, Brad.
See ya.
Rock On!
🤘🌎❤️
Man you are awesome. Love reading your posts. Best to you on your musical journey.
I own gretsches, gibsons and teles. Never had a strat. I never considered them because i dont like the way they look.
They are not for everyone...
They sound close. No radical difference. The harder you picked on the Tele, the more it sounded like the strat to me.
Truth Beckola
Les Paul sounds better.
ok
Les Paul sounds better.
ok