Teisco Del Rey, QUALITY AUDIO with ET-200 Tulip

Here's my late 1960's Teisco Del Rey ET-200, before new pickups and parts. Hear it with ProTools audio before the upgrades (and then check out the final video to hear a Teisco with P-90 pickups!) Read more about trhe guitar and the video, and see a high quality version at http://CloudyProject.com. Backing track: "Nothing is Worth Losing That" by Telefon Tel Aviv. Recorded with an SM57, directlyinto the Panasonic DVX 100b XLR inputs.

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Music

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• Teisco Del Rey
• Teisco Del Ray
• ProTools
• DVX 100b
• ET-200Tulip

[XmyAssYTmofo]

Whatever suits ya bro. But some of the purists would say you ruined that Teisco.

I just scored one of those ET-100 biatches and it's being shipped. Having the Teisco Del Ray badge is the coolest, but I've got Kent, Silvertone, Kingston, and Kimberly ones that are just different Jap badge marks for different dept store chains. Though I think only TDR used this cool floral pick guard.

[cloudyproject]

@XmyAssYTmofo Hey, I can't get too torqued up about "ruining" an $80 guitar (besides, swapping pups ain't really permanent - and I do own two of the tulips). Myself, I think those pups on the Tulip are a really limiting sound. Can't see using it often, not very articulated and the distortion isn't really "pleasant". I see it more like keeping some heavy spices in the kitchen to use judiciously. But with the P90's, it's a go-to guitar. (I do love the same pups on my hollow Teisco though...)

[XmyAssYTmofo]

@cloudyproject Not doggin' ya bro, it's all good. I wish I had the money and skill to change pots n pups and wiring harnesses man. I'm still waitin' for my single pup ET-100 to arrive from Tacoma and will be lucky if it sounds half as good as your pre upgrade 200. With cheap USPS I got it for $132.95 and am red-faced embarrassed I spent that but I had to have a classic other than the quality Harmony Strats from '74 - '82. No way First Act beaters will ever be considered cool unless pimped out.

[cloudyproject]

@XmyAssYTmofo I dig the little Teisco's, and love the fact some beatles-freak kid probably started on one in the 60's. They're great guitars to learn soldering with. There's tons of how-to-solder tuts on the net, and plenty of good guitar repair pages, or books from Amazon and StewMac.com. It's pretty tough to actually destroy anything, but good to know how to fix a pot. Give it a shot, with these old guitars it can be pretty necessary! (And I'm wanting to hear a Teisco with a phase switch!)

[cloudyproject]

Sheila, those are the original pickups. Which sound like ass compared to the P90s I later added.

I can understand that year after year of being brutally raped by your uncle and his drinking buddies has left you some gender confusion (and probably a distended sphincter). But just because they call you "little girl" until you passed out from the pain doesn't mean that it's an appropriate name for other men.

[MIchigan4x4]

the original pickups are better you little girl

[XmyAssYTmofo]

@cloudyproject Deude I did it!

I put the electronics from my nephew's screwed frets popping out Starcaster in my Teisco Del Rey ET-110. I'm editing the unveiling video of it now.

I even managed a pigtail that deleted the middle tone and switched it to bridge by golly.

Even after all the wood I removed it went from 4.2 pounds to 5 pounds weight after I added the 3 heavy single pole Starcaster pick-ups. That old Teisco pick-up weighed no more than an empty sardine can omg.

[XmyAssYTmofo]

@XmyAssYTmofo Whoops I mean the ET-110.

[cloudyproject]

@MrScrewdriver96 - Both of my "tulips" were about $100 each; just have to keep an eye out. My hollow body was more like $200, other Teiscos can get up there. But the ETs seem pretty plentiful - though I haven't looked at prices in the last year or so.

[MrScrewdriver96]

@cloudyproject Sounds pretty cool :) My only problem with obtaining one of these lovely old axes is that they tend to be pretty expensive, which is a bit silly considering how cheap they are :P There's a lovely one on ebay at the moment that comes with an original Teisco stack amp. Now THAT would be something!

[cloudyproject]

@MrScrewdriver96 - look in my videos for "motherless child" - it's this ET with surface mount P90's, which to me sound luscious, complex, cool - but very hard to play when you raise the action to clear those big pups. I now have 2 ET-200's and I plan on routing the body & pickguard for humbucker-case P90s. I have all the parts, just no time! Should be cool when I get around to it.

[MrScrewdriver96]

Please post another video showing the finished guitar! I've been meaning to do a project like this for some time now :)