Tim Lerch - Lollar Charlie Christian Bridge Middle and Neck Demo

[BasementShopGuy]

Damn, that was nice.

[bluegrasstraders]

Your demo is so very useful and professional. Outstanding and thank you! 

[disavowed101]

that bridge pickup is ridiculously warm and clear!

[veitchy88]

Good God Man! Amazing playing and tone for days! Do you record in a group or play for fun?

[boowannabe]

Tim, I just put a Lollar CC in my spruce/mahogany custom tele, and it sounds great! Is it normal to be noisier than the stock singlecoil tele pickup? Also, what gauge strings do you use? Does it depend on which tele you are using, or does one size fit all? Thanks.

[telebasher]

@boowannabe The CC is a bit noisier than a standard tele single coil, it;s more like a P90 in that regard. On this guitar I'm using 12-52 strings on my other CC tele I use 11-50. Thanks for listening hope you have a great time with your new CC set.

[boowannabe]

@telebasher Thanks, Tim. I'm using 11 RW's on my "jazz" tele, but am thinking of moving up to 12's. I normally use 10's on my "rock/blues/country" tele's, but I really prefer a meatier string for jazz. I hope Jason is paying you well for your endorsement, 'cause that's the reason I bought my CC! Your beautiful playing and thorough examples sold me. (and probably a lot of other people!) God Bless!

[WoWintosh]

@telebasher

Damn, how do you bend that well on 12's? I can barely handle 11's...

[RockaRollaZombie]

Hey Tim,

I was thinking about getting the humbucker mount for my Gibson Flying V's neck position. It sounds great on your Tele's, but then again that's with alder or most likely ash.

You got a good idea on if it'll sound good in this case?

[beampowertetrode]

This is honestly just about the best pickup demo I've seen.

[jhamnett]

Great video. These are definitely some interesting pickups. Just got a Tele and it sounds like a CC in the bridge would definitely mellow out the twang in the bridge.

Pretty pricey for a single pickup, but the sound seems to be worth every cent!

[petermelton]

excellent. just ordered them for my tele

[vantagestudios]

Dude. I came here to hear Lollar pickups over a month ago and have returned again and again to listen to you. I am humbled by your ability.

Dude. Teach me!

Do u give lessons online??

[theot71]

Based on your video demos, I put a lollar CC humbucker in my epiphone super nova and a lollar imperial in the bridge. The tone is amazing, I was thinking of selling this guitar earlier, but now it's so good to play. I have another guitar with stacked P90s which do not excite me, I am thinking Lollar P90s, again based on your demos. To get the 3 CC set up are there any tele models that have the body for these pickups or will you need to do a mod on the body? I like the 62 Japanese reissue.

[telebasher]

@theot71

whether its for  P90s or CC's you need to make a P90 size route. there may be some universal routed teles but I don't think that would be deep enough. so plan on doing some cutting.

[Rhodes73]

Hi, is the bridge pickup in the video the one called Lollar B.S. for tele?

[telebasher]

@Rhodes73 Yes it is the BS, i got it before they named it.

[jmeintn]

Can't imagine Lollar finding a better salesman than you. Hope you don't work cheap, or there will be no gigs for the rest of us!

[ambilevous]

hi tim: thanks so much for your pickup demos and wonderful chord melodies. i recently put a CC pickup in my nocaster, altho i did'nt go with Lollar as they were a little too pricey for me. besides lollar and vintage vibe, do you know of anyone else who makes 'em? they one thing i don't like about it, is it's too damn noisy. thinking of doing the erlewine extra cap trick. your thoughts?

[telebasher]

@ambilevous yeah they are a bit noisy, seems to be the price of such a rich open tone. What is the Erlewine cap trick?

[yearofrolling]

Nice playing, what an understatement,

but nice playing.

[iamhenderson]

Aw man, you must listen to Ted Greene. You can just hear it. Beautiful playing! I was just listening to his (only) album earlier and now I stumble across this.  What luck!

[Scrootie]

I'm going through all of your demo videos, and I want to say that your approach is great, I like how you give us a good sense of how everything comes together, and we hear several styles of playing. You're doing it right man! I can appreciate the work you've put into being as clean a player as you are, I hope I get there someday, it's my goal also.

[HoSucWang]

The big reason I don't like bringing up the topic is because it's complicated and there's so much that goes into the actual sound including whether it's wired in parallel or series, the resistance of the circuit and especially the capacitors in the tone pot. Not to call someone's engineering right or wrong but I generally am in the Bill Lawrence camp, which does mean that I don't agree with the thicker gauge wire, but all that aside I think it sounds pretty. (Warmth here is due to resonance)

[HCHguitar]

Fantastic sound and even more fantastic playing!!

[telebasher]

Thank you very much.

[wungabunga]

All I've got to say is they look fantastic!

[Penguinwithatowel]

But here's my non-educated guess. What determines output could be the actual mass of wire on the coil, while resistance is determined by the number of turns on that coil, therefore if thick wire is used, there is still a lot of mass of wire on the coil, but less turns are used.

[HoSucWang]

It's more complicated then that, and it's generally not something worth ever discussing on a forum or on youtube. You're right if we used out high school physics of V=IR but at the same time the inductance matters and is inflated by increased size of wire but also by turns in the wire. The change in inductance over the entire circuit also therefore changes our resonance peak which is essentially the natural tone of the pickup or guitar. How the pickups are wired obviously matter as well.

[Penguinwithatowel]

Cool man! I was hoping someone would set me straight :-)

[HoSucWang]

Hey, what's are the impedances of the pickups?

[Penguinwithatowel]

Well, I think the bridge is 4.4k and the neck is 3.2, but they are wound with really thick wire which means they are about as loud (and will drive an amp) as a PAF humbucker.... or so I've been told.

[HoSucWang]

not sure on the physics of that, haha but it certainly sounds nice.

[Penguinwithatowel]

yeah I certainly don't understand a lot of that stuff, but I trust Mr. Lollar as he seems to know what he's talking about.

[telebasher]

penguin got it right.

[midibob]

beautiful playing Tim... long live Ted Greene

[occupiedbytim]

I would be satisfied with even JUST a CC in the middle position. All three of them sound amaaazing. My favorite position would probably be the bridge and middle combo. Beautiful.

[occupiedbytim]

Wow, Even that bridge pickup is completely warm. Love it.

[hezzart]

Wonderful playing! Sounds good and the pickups look attractive visually too!

[anitadavideduo]

I really like your Ted Greene sound!!!!

[telebasher]

Thank you Davide, Ted is a powerful influence.

[anitadavideduo]

Tele + 3 C.C. + a great player = great music!!

[tedheaberlin]

Tim-

Great playing, great tones!

[jayers000]

Great picking Tim...Thanks for the demo.