Trying out a Fender Telecaster with Seymour Duncan Telecaster Hot Rails through my POD X3 Live

[zschweitzer169]

telecaster from hell!!

[fruhotchiliman]

so did the hot rail pick ups really allow you to play heavier stuff with more distortion?

[n30l1nk]

@OakPark11MileRd Yeah, I'm sorry a mere 7 out of 8 minutes was only recorded in broad fucking daylight, I'll try to record in the middle of the woods at midnight or something next time. Good thing my ROOM LIGHTS THAT I TURN ON AT NIGHT are so goddamn powerful that they overpower my Macbook Pro's AMAZING 9001 MEGAPIXEL CAMERA and make it seem like it's dark, just how I like it.

[Jojo123hello]

im planning to by the mexican tele. should i get these with it?

[Inverted314]

this is badass. Being lefty kills my guitar choices, I really want a jim root but they dont make it in my orientation, and I love the look of a tele. I think Im gonna sell my schecter to get one of these.

[GasolineAndNails]

YOU HAVE CONVINCED ME TO GET A TELE WITH HOT RAILS THANK YOU SIR.

[nomadnomad666999]

thanks dude, this is exactly what i needed to hear. just got a tele and the distorted sound is shit - as expected. So I am deciding between hotrails and superdistortion.

[kalimoncho51]

im plannig to put a hot rails in the midlle position of my swamp ash strat

is the tone of this pick up independent of the position ( neck middle bridge)???

any advices thnks

[n30l1nk]

@kalimoncho51 You know, I'm not sure. ._. In every guitar with multiple pickups, the pickups tend to go from dirty in the bridge position to clean in the neck position. Might be for a reason, but I never thought about that. I'd look into that before acting.

[SALMEXORICANS]

what's the neck pickup

[DeadWhiteButterflies]

This pretty much shuts up the metal heads who always complain teles can't do metal, hahaha.

[hellsing1983]

thats on bad ass tele :D its a future plan of me to equip a 60's tele with hotrails:P maybe even with a bigspy, and probably I make the hotrails splitable:) and nice Ayreon riff there ;)

[FutureCities1]

Is that a fender mexx your playing? it sounds so good with the hot rails

[gloryglorytottenham]

Hey man it sounds awesome, have been considering it but they not sure if they to heavy for me...

[anonazero]

your axe sounds fanTASTIC!

[sghmonkeyboy]

I got these today for xmas! I've wanted them for so long and im WELL happy! haha..

My band plays post hardcore, hard rock stuff. And my tele with these suits the overall sounds brilliantly i think. I'll post a video up of them sometime too :) x

[xLesPaulGibsonx]

Shit i've gotta get this pickup for my tele

[brooklynstudio]

7:51 - Don't blame the guitar dude! Not even stage musicians play anything perfectly or like the recording, close to it though. Not my style of music but you displayed the hot rails in the tele really nicely I thought.

[murdoc111]

Does anyone know how it sounds clean?

[n30l1nk]

@murdoc111 Through the Hot Rails on the bridge? Like fucking shit. It sounds beautiful through the Tele's stock pickup, though.

[anonazero]

@n30l1nk i know right? switch down for heavy and up for blues. best of both worlds.

[Bierprofi]

@n30l1nk :

I got a bad English. Is the Hot Rails Clean Sound Good or Bad ?

And do you build a push Pull Poti in your Tele for Coil Splitting ?

[n30l1nk]

Hot Rails in clean? Eh... Generally, very very bad. You're supposed to use it with overdrive or distortion. As for the second question, I have no idea what you're talking about. By the way, it's not my Tele. It's in the vid description.

[fanofthemusic1090]

@n30l1nk

He means turning coil in the humbucker off, making it sound like a single coil.

[forgeinmind]

@n30l1nk wrong biiiiiiitttcchhh, they sound like cooing of a delicate little dove

[TheTangentUK]

@Bierprofi you can add your own pull pot for under a £10, just buy the pull pot and abit of wire, and look online for a diagram for the wiring, get your solder iron out and your their, pull pots are dirt cheap, and you can wire it up so when U hit the push pot it kills the guitar sound and gives some great david gilmore sounds

[eurabio]

yeah!!!

those bitches turns a tele in a fucking monster!

Im getting some hot rails too :D

[michelepolez]

beh! vediamola cosi, avere una Tele e avere un suono eslusivo ottimale per il funk potrebbe andare stretto per qualcuno, è un bel modo per versatilizzare lo strumento.. penso che monterò presto sulla mia Tele un HotRails.. ciao

[1Jammanguy]

that is fucking sick but i dont understand why you would want to play metal with a tele....?

[GrayXIII]

Tele's have that nice twang to them so I like palm mutes on them better. I think the guitarist for Iron Maiden used some sort of fender as well and the guitarist for Stone Sour uses one too.

[TheMusicPiper]

@GrayXIII Jim root has a beautiful guitar :D

[HugeFighter]

Yeah, why can't everyone just conform?

lol

[supahsekzy]

+1 so true!

[Zaspor]

Agreed, I could personally understand one for the neck though- it would be great for progressive or avent-garde

[christopheye]

The only thing that makes a tele a tele is its heavy wound single coil pickup. So a new pickup will make it another guitar! Mine has more sustain then a les paul. Im a little dubious about the whole set neck bolt neck thing... Ive got both guitars so its easy to make the comparison!

[wolfshine]

John 5. Plain and simple. Oh and Slipknots lead guitarist, though i forgot his name. Because tele's have a natural twang that even metalified help leads cut through. Note, no-one uses a tele for rhythm guitar, only leads.

[dante323MC]

Slipknot's lead guitarist's name is Jim Root. And his tele is ORGASMIC!!!!!!!!

[daveymurrayrules]

teles are amazing...tele +hotrails+ts9+orange rocker 30 = METAL!!!!!!! lol

[Superapeaholic]

Sounds pretty damn sweet man!

[WarlockFlo]

thats the tone a tele is made for xD

[nwils107]

u are the biggest fuck head around u tool

[RawrUberGamer]

WAZAAAAAA

[mattraisin]

Im happy with my punk/metal tone on the stock American pickups. Mine is a 2008 model so I don't know if its different for older models but the "delta tone" circuitry boost the bridge pickup giving a high enough output for a smooth but brutal metal sound. I think the standard tele is a much better metal guitar than people think...they just think blues and country and dismiss it but with a decent distortion pedal or Marshall amp it competes equals or betters my stratocaster as a metal guitar

[sunp]

its probably just me, but it never made sense to get one of these things in a tele, or almost any fender in that case. if a brutal metal sound is what your looking for, what're you doing with a tele in the first place? just my amateur opinion.

[n30l1nk]

It's like no one reads video descriptions. It's borrowed, I'm just trying out. You'd have to ask my friend.

[sunp]

im sorry i wasnt clear, that wasnt meant for an answer, just a general thought. sorry about the confusion.

[Superapeaholic]

I think its pretty cool...plus you get versatility ...metal with the bridge pickup..and a great lead tone..with the single coil neck pickup!..plus , at least you will have a different tone than all the players that use dimebags and jacksons

[sghmonkeyboy]

i dunno, ive got a gibson les paul and a pair of fender teles. and i love my les paul its awesome. But deep down the layout and feel of my tele is where my heart is. oh and i love the look ha! But my les paul goldtop's one sexy ass guitar too ;)

[MrBassDestroyer]

Hardtail bridge...American muscle = whatever sound you want...my opinion on the many,many,many axes I've had.

[bzablo1]

@sunp probably because they like metal, but like the body and looks of a telecaster. moron.

[maS10045]

dude thts epic, i want a tele now :)

[gloryofwar82]

I traded my old tele for a 52 RI, and the previous owner put one of these in the bridge position...

I couldn't wait to rip it out of there... I put the stock pup back in, and all is well with the world...

sorry, I'm just not a metal guy - I play post punk indie stuff.

[blindreaper064]

its amazing what humbuckers can do to a tele

[TakeItOfffff]

i have just bought a SDHR for my american tele... am going to put it in next week when i get time.. the guy in the shop said it will sound shit on clean!! how did you find it?

[n30l1nk]

It will sound mostly shit on clean, that's why you should balance it out with a good neck pick-up. And it says in my description that it's borrowed...

[H3lloSE]

LOL FUCKING METAL!!!!

[Haydenballvideos]

fuck that man. Get a hot rails for the neck pickup also so you will have a fucking brutal guitar. Then balance that out with a Jazzmaster for use on everything else!

[ultradust7]

IMHO the sound isnt 100% coming from the SDHR pickups and the guitar bcoz the PODXT digital processor isn't gonna let the natural tone of the pickups and resonant of the guitar to come out of your guitar amp or in any output source. The PODXT will process the signal from analog to digital then digital to analog... It means you can no longer hear the pure tone of your pickups / guitar due to the heavy processing done by your Digital Multi-effects.

[n30l1nk]

But there's a noticeable difference in chunkiness and heavyness between the SDHR pickup and my Ibanez Xiphos' Dimarzzio D-Activators or my Washburn X10's HSS's. (I think that's what they are.)

[n30l1nk]

And it's POD X3, by the way, the POD XT is the earlier version...

[EvanEli13]

kickass

[ultradust7]

To tell you honestly, I love the sound you get w/ the SDHR, it'll really make ur Tele scream metal!!! The sound is really huge, tight bottom, nice mids and has a lot of those harmonics. It cannot be had w/ the stock single-coil pickups.

[n30l1nk]

Yeah, it sounds balls-to-the-fucking-wall. By the way, if you think it sounds digital-ish or fugly, keep in mind it's going through USB processing, which clips a lot and doesn't sound so good on the Windows side of my Macbook Pro, then it's going through the sound compression of Debut, then it's going through the sound compression of YouTube.

[regenald510]

you mean have a single coil in the neck because of the tone difference?