Vintage VS Modern Telecaster Wiring (demo)
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I know I’m a small voice in the crowd, but it is the neck pickup that really drives me to my Tele, not the bridge. That neck pickup is pure magic.
Il agree
As well!
Vote number 4, lol
Yeah, the neck has that unique character that even a Strat can't do. It's a very "nasal" sound.
I agree that is where the teli magic happens.
I own an original no-Caster that still has the original blend knob wiring and it is absolutely glorious in it's clarity and depth.
Nice that is a rare bird
I replaced my 3-way switch with a 4-way to get the pickups in serial and parallel. Great mod for my squier standard telecaster..
Two things I like:
1) guitar information;
2) free guitar stuff.
In no particular order.
Thanks DTT!
My '52 Reissue came with the version 2 wiring, which I soon had changed to version 3. Ironically I never use both pickups together these days ! I would love a video on Esquire wiring.
That’s the content I was looking for 😊 I’ve just bought a Tele recently, just stock Mexican Fender, and I’m planning to change all the hardware. So I was thinking about some custom options for wiring. What could it be and why and which configuration would fit my style. The funny thing here is that it’s my first Tele ever and I was always a Strat type w/Floyd Rose tremolo guy. And this history lesson is like a revelation to me. I could’ve never know about that kind of stuff if it wasn’t you who told me about that. I really appreciate what you do here on this channel because now I know and understand my gear better and I believe it’s not all I could learn.
telecasters are a favorite. thanks for explaining the different circuits.
I was not familiar with that dark circuit wiring. Learn something new every day.
This is how you say I have never played a vintage tele.
I didn’t know about this either, till I played one, and made a fool of myself.
Something I will never forget!
Lol
Just gotta stop by, and give props to Dylan. He is teaching and giving years of knowledge for free, cause he’s a cool cat. I learn something new every time he posts a vid. You just keep on keep’n on there Big D🍻
Loving the history lessons along with the how-to videos. I appreciate the research for accuracy and first-hand expertise. These are my favorite resource for builds and repairs because you aren’t afraid to share the knowledge-info. Thanks-Drew
I'm such a newbie that I can barely hear the difference between the tele switch settings! I have a Squier, and I love playing it. I love how little the strings hurt my fingers. I mostly just play unplugged so I don't wake up the wife and kids! Thanks for the great videos!
Thank You Dylan for the info I'm wiring another telecaster I have with 033 cap.Yoy and Yours be more blessed.
Just finished putting together a 1950-1952 Broadcaster wiring used with Fender Nocaster pickups. Now want to try black guard circuit. Thanks for info. Great as always.
My 52 reissue came wired Bridge, Neck, Neck with bass cap. And you could get Bridge and Neck together in the in between position. I eventually added a 5 way switch with a tone pot , Bridge, both in parallel, Neck, Neck with bass cap, and both in series (my favorite sound for lots of stuff). Took me quite a while to figure out the switch wiring 30 years ago. Another great vid Dylan!
Been playing guitar for 22 years and never knew about these circuits! Thanks for sharing this knowledge!
Great video Am rewiring my oak parts caster thank you, I’ve learned so much from your videos
Wow. I've been learning about the youtube algorithm and how likes and comments help, so whenever I watch one of your vids I like, comment (even if it's super short), and sometime share them. But there is nothing like a giveaway, apparently, to get people to like and comment. I see one dude commented 4 times (maybe thinking he'll increase his chances.lol). I hope your channel gets really popular, you make lots of money, but you break the mold and stay cool :)
I learn so much about the different style pickups and how they are wired how they were changed
Really appreciate the background info you give when making the videos. As a non-tech guy who just likes to play guitar it’s really interesting stuff. How much I manage to retain…well that’s another matter, my head seems more overloaded than ever!
That first wiring scheme sounds the most interesting and may be something I might want to do as a mod to one of my guitars. I like the idea of having a blend knob and having pseudo bass.
Great video and information....I'm getting ready to rebuild my old 30 year old Nocaster very soon
Love the series of pickup wiring and now tele wiring. Can't wait for the setup series. Thank you for all the hard work that i know goes into these videos.
Damn, I didn't knew about this dark circuit mode. Really awesome, loved the tone!
If you want to do mods next, I was thinking of something. How about a 4 way switch, having both pickups in parallel and in sieries. Then in the tone knob, there's a push-pull to invert the phase of the bridge position (making out-of-phase on the series config). I think I've saw someone doing that, but the real challenge would be to add this dark-circuit tone of the neck on the volume push-pull. Can it be done?
Anyway, congrats on the video. There's no one on TH-cam that explains things better than you, or in such deep details. Keep on rocking, man!
I have wired my Strat for N+B (neck and bridge in series, same polarity) and N+B- (neck and bridge in series, reverse polarity) on two of the positions of my 5-way switch. I thought I’d let you know my results.
*Just a note on my wiring terminology. X+X is two pickups in series, and X/X is two in parallel. A minus sign (e.g. X/X-) means one of them is REV polarity.
Series same polarity wiring largely hides each of two pickups’ sound. I do not hear anything like a sum of the two. Mostly a louder and warm (boring) output. The reason for this disappointing result is that the pickups are too far apart for cancellations to be in that interesting frequency band. Series REV polarity does yield a brand new tone which some describe it as “squawk”. I find myself using N+B- often, and N+B rarely.
I still get the classic N/M and M/B. I personally have no use for Middle by itself. The wiring to accomplish this with no appearance change took me a LONG time to figure out. Eventually, I went with a pull switch on the middle control and this availed to me a very special M+B-. Again, the series wiring takes away some of the extreme cancellation I’d get from M/B-, a good thing in this case. Having played with these sounds for a while, I plan to replace N+B with N/B.
I hope all of this might help you.
I like that first switching that you showed with no tone control. Very interesting.
Please do the modern wiring video for the Tele., cross wiring, out of phase, series...etc. All your stuff is awesome 👍
It would be great to have an all star list of popular tele wiring diagrams. It could be easy, just list out each diagram and what each one accomplishes. You could name it The all time top Tele wiring diagrams of all time.
My first tele was a brand new 1967 blond with the maple slab board fingerboard. It had the blackguard circuit. I rewired it myself!!! I needed the 2 pickups together.
I have a strat middle pickup wired to its own volume (added 3rd pot) goes to Jack and master tone (.0017 tone cap, actually it took 2 caps to get that value.) When middle pickup is off, its just a tele with 3 way switch...but then I can bleed in that start quack...and can even use all 3 pickups together for a 3rd quack sound. By bleeding in, the level of quack can be fine tuned
Thanks Dylan. So cool to learn about the versions of Tele wiring. Removes all confusion about earlier Tele's.
I love the way you compare old an new, also how you kill old myths.
Thanks Dylan,just finished my John Mayr Black one relic build and want to do a blonde tele Brad Paisley build next. digging the 3rd wiring choice!
I have a '52 reissue... tossed the ultra heavy baseball bat ash body for pine... now I can play it all night without any discomfort... and contrary to your tonewood debate, I think pine sounds better, warmer, fuller, and doesn't detract from what a Tele does.
When I got it it came with extras.
1. An extra-crappy 6 barrel bridge
2. A 1 Meg volume pot
3. A capacitor to use as a treble bleed w/o a resistor.
When I bought it, I was clueless about wiring, but from my slot car days, knew how to solder. For some reason, the 1meg pot and bleed intrigued me, so I switched them out, put them in per included instructions.
Miraculously, it worked out, with the exception of the bridge... which I replaced with a Gotoh Strat saddle bridge... nice, but it sucked some of the classic Tele twang, which as I aged, became more important since I took up Country, after decades of Rock/Blues.
All I added since was a varistor in the bleed so I could tune it. Now this instrument, with the exception of the bridge, is perfect...
Folks are amazed at how tonefully bright the guitar is... ice pick tones w/o being painful.
I just built a Strat. I would appreciate a video like this one, including the history, of Strat wiring. I am having issues... mostly because I'm a non-conformist, and experimenting.. it's time to swallow my pride and start anew.. but would like your input for a traditional Strat. There are tones I'm chasing, and not getting.
My only guitar is acoustic my true time playing is less than 2 months yet I love your videos. Of course I have a highly addictive/OCD personality as evidenced by my bass fishing golf and now music "hobbies". I just tell my wife it's better my college age "hobbies"
OMG a maintenance kit is so what I need right now!!!
And that 2nd dark wiring was cool. I never heard about the Fender vintage wiring before.
I have never even heard of that first arrangement! Blend, then neck only, the dark neck! That is so damn cool. I have never enjoyed playing bridge only on any guitar or bass that I have played. If I had a tele, I would definitely try that out!
I particularly like the wiring explanations and tips. I get the best and most versatile tones with a 3-way switch and tone knobs. The more complicated the wiring/options, the more unwanted bleed from various sources there seems to be.
I'm a strat player but I really want to get into a tele. I'm not really a fan of the dark circuit type wiring, I'm more of a neck-middle-brigde fan, but I do also like a out of phase tele tone as well. Thanks for the video, I really enjoy learning about all the things you talk about in your videos
I dig that first mode with pickup blend, it gives you like end-less possibilities ;)
I would like to see more about modifying telecaster wiring. I fine your videos very interesting. I also think you are correct on dc resistance measuring of pickups because AC resistance changes with frequency. Thank you fore sharing this type of info with us.
That tone you demonstrate at 8:00, I immediately thought of the opening lick of Reelin' in the Years. Thanks for all the great content, learning a lot from your videos!
Great video. I'm really enjoying the telle these days. Love it.
I wish all guitars came with that dark circuit. Seems like it'd be really fun to play with.
My problem is at 68 years old, and after 5 strokes, my brain and my fingers have fights. I've been playing since the early '60's and know which strings and notes to hit, but my brain has cut out that knowledge. After the strokes, I now have weight limitations, and can no longer carry my AC30. That and the brain short outs, make the pleasure of my playing, more work (that I have to work really hard at!). I have (throughout the years of my career), I have many friends, who I don't like to name, but you would recognize the names. Touring and recording, My favorite combination is my Tele, and a VOX AC30. Now, after living in Colorado for 10 years, I only have myself to please.
I enjoyed the video. I'm kind of new to the Tele game, so it was good to hear some more Tele history. I'd like to hear more about the Esquire, and how that is wired.
Very timely video, as I'm building a Tele and just need to decide on the pups and wiring, have everything else. Lots to think about. Thanks!
excellent video. I did not know as much about telecasters.
I am not sure whether 1 or 2 is more interesting, but I guarantee that on my first tele build(happening soon, I hope), that I will play around with them.
Great information for another beginner telecaster player! All the best )
Yes, please do that video on parallel/series wiring 👍
When Leo left the company is that when the wiring we know today started? As in bridge. Both and neck?
Interesting video, never knew about the evolution of the telecaster circuit
loved this video, very informative
Yet another great video.
Love to see lots of tele video's.
Thanks Dylan
Great stuff as always TY! I’d be really interested in a vid about Les Paul 50’s Les Paul wiring for Telecaster... From what I’m learning elsewhere, it seems really interesting... Also, I really like it when you actually demo the guitars after mods 🤙
I love the tone of that first wiring style with the blender, I always keep my tone knob dimed anyway.
12:51 ( (begin my comment) ) Terrifically stated point, mr Dylan🎩 what we heard you explain about the Fender design and construction in specific respect towards the emphasis of 'by availability' variable regarding timeline specifics. Possibly my favorite video so far today, because of the intellectual entertainment⭐🎸👍
I’m so happy to see you unambiguously debunking the myths about insulation and capacitor formulation differences to tone. I am an electrical engineer as well as a lifelong guitarist and have endured more bs on these topics than I care to remember. These things are aesthetic issues only. The truth is that an electric guitar is just a fantastically uncritical application for such things as connecting wire, resistors, and capacitors. None of these items is used to even a thousandth of a percent of their capacity, nor are their values critical to any serious degree. Thanks for speaking truth on these issues.
Yeh, I need a tele. Sounded great
First Time I hear about that specific topic. Cool vidéo.
I want to see an Esquire wiring video. I plan to rip my tele apart and make it into a hot rodded Esquire!
Cool video. Would love to see the equire video also.....
Great info, thanks! The one mod I do on all my Tele's is plate reversal to be able to get at the volume easier. Other than that they're all different.. thanks again!
Really like all three versions. However, if a choice has to made it's version 3. Thanks Dylan,
I have been doing some awesome wiring experiments with resistors and capacitors in my T-style guitar. (Many reasons I'm not using a true Tele.) Push pulls with some odd stuff and a 5 way switch. Some positions there are parallel circuits running together to make some weird ambient sounds along with clean sounds that really come out with certain effects. I have literally 20 different possibilities with 2 single coil pickups just to experiment. There are some really cool tones and it is really fun to do something different. Soon I will be producing some handmade instruments to test out the waters. This comment is to catch some questions as well as for the chance at that kit, if I understood you right!
Very interesting. I am intrigued by the dark wiring. I personally like the neck tone more than the bridge for most of my playing.
I really enjoyed this video and really all your recent videos about pickup types. I’m looking forward to the Esquire wiring explanation. A Tele mods video would be awesome too.
That was very interesting Dylan! My favorite was the second wiring. The dark one.
Got it installed on my '69 Thinline, just as Leo would have wanted ...
cool video, I love the history aspect.
I built a tele with stacked pickups that i can switch out with a push/pull on the volume. Sounds ace but I really like the idea of the blend knob. I'll have to look into that one a bit further!
Yes, definitely do more vids on the other wiring variation mods for the Tele. Maybe adding a blend knob in addition to the typical setup. 4 way switch mods etc.
Yes, please, ALL the Esquire options.
Great informative post. I loved that fuzz sound, it's very reminiscent of revolution by the Beatles.
That sounds like a super prize, it's something that I would never buy, getting by with a slightly damp cloth on the body and when the fretboard gets smeggy, a tiny amount of lighter petrol. Good man for going world wide, not many do.
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Love the videos!! I’d like to see the modern tele wiring video! Thanks
Interesting that the first two-coil tele had a blend pot, but they've fallen out of favor. My Dean HH has a custom wiring job which adds a couple of fixed resistors so that in one of the switch positions, the tone knob affects the neck pickup much more than the bridge. My tuning uses two bass strings and four treble, and I have mutes on the upper four strings of the bridge pickup, so the effect is that the two bass strings have almost wide open tone while the treble strings can be set darker. Interestingly, for better or for worse, the tone pot also ends up affecting the balance between the bass strings and the treble strings, somewhat like a blend pot, but the ability to have the guitar sound like two instruments with very different timbres is pretty cool. Such a thing would probably have worked out pretty nicely with something close to that original tele wiring if the darkening circuit were attached to one of the coils, before the blend pot.
Interesting video. Makes me think about changing some wiring on my Tele’s. Lol
Great channel. The tele is the guitar i know the least about
I like the bass circuit, the second one
Thanks for the continued information. I always learn
Never knew that you could once blend in the neck pickup while on the bridge position. I think that's super cool. Hell, I think that should be the standard middle position wiring for any double pickup guitar.
Tele mod? Hmmm.. how about putting a vari-tone style rotary switch on a tele to select different caps.. kinda like what you get on BB King's Lucille.
This was a great video, Dylan...you did your homework well on this one. Years ago I had an 1986 made 62 custom Esquire reissue that I converted to a Tele and tried all those historic Tele wiring that you covered... I even did a series-parallel plus set-up using a 5 way switch but in the end the basic regular post 1967 Tele wiring was the most practical and my favourite.
Thanks for your videos mate, really enjoy them. Be interestied in modern Tele wiring
Wow! I did not understand how the “dark position “ work. Thanks for the great education!
I'd call that 'dark/mud' circuit, the STRANGLE switch! LOL! I can see WHERE Clapton got his 'woman' tone from as he WAS a Tele player in the Yardbirds!
Modern is my fav. Would love the kit to learn the setup with you.
Great video, keep more comming.
The "original" wiring sound amazing! Please do another video with other mods, I even have a suggestion: take the original writing and add a active circuit with a bass boost to see how close it sounds to an actual bass
Really glad to be subscribed here. Dig that "dark circuit" 52-67 had
I like the idea of a kit guitar I've been thinking of trying to do one myself. I think it would be cool to build my own guitar
Would love to see a video on the wiring for Andy Summers' Tele. Preamp and knob, phase switch.....
All the wiring and history of changes is great. Keep going!
I love and share your videos. I have learned so much about the science of the guitar. I am penciling out my next tele kit build and this information is helpful for figuring out what I want it to be.
Dark circuit! Never fail to learn something important here. Thanks D.
I appreciate the sound demos. Next serial and other mods for tele?
There are places in the world where that maintenance kit is illegal? Boy I'm glad I don't live there. Nice video!
For modern playing lol . Great vlog as always . Thanks
Definitely make a video about various Esquire wirings🥳😎
My friend is building a guitar for me and I'd like to see the modern wiring ideas for the T-style for some inspiration. Cheers!
I actually love the blend option with the first wiring. However I use a 5 way switch wiring that does series and series with a darkening cap as well as bridge, bridge/neck, and neck pickup with volume and tone pots. Very usefull to throw to series when soloing and lots of tones to mess with betwixt the rest of the settings! Love to see more modern Tele wiring to get me inspired... That blend is really nice... Also a nashville tele setup and wiring is daunting, cause my other mistress is a HSH strat... I just love to fiddle tones..
Do you have a wiring diagram?
This guy’s the real deal