How do you boost your tele bridge pu?

[OrangeAD30TC]

I just got a great Big Tex tele. I believe it has lollars in it. To get a more aggressive and fat rock sound out of the bridge I have started using a ge-7 to bump the mids. The mix of mid range and tele high end are really cool together.

How do you guys fatten up a tele bridge?



Edit: I just realized this maybe better suited for effects given the nature of the answers.

[kludge]

I have a Prescription Electronics Germ, which is a two channel pedal. First channel is a straight clean boost, and it's ALWAYS on. The second channel is a germanium overdrive... it's a pretty mild drive and tends to fatten rather than grind or fizz. I have it set somewhat louder than the clean boost side, and can use it for a general-purpose "11", as Nigel Tufnel would put it. It fattens a Tele bridge very nicely.

[Sean French]

If I want to fatten up my Tele I kick in a Fulltone Fat Boost V1 set for a clean boost.
Since I play humbuckers too I don't set my amps up to have muck low end.
That's what's so great about the V1 FB.It adds the girth without messing up much else.

[captain_bob]

I had an SD Little 59 put in mine and love it.

[kenneth]

I had the SD JD Lead pickup in a tele at one point, I thought that pickup was great for lead tones. From mild to pretty heavy distortion, using the typical tube screamer kinda of overdrive. Tight, with balanced midrange.

That was the pickup and boost I found worked best for me.

[phoenix 7]

Klon for clean boost, Plimsoul (very fat) for overdriven sounds. Both give my Teles a perfect amount of girth.

[Deadduck]

I use a Timmy and a Hotcake.

[bbrunskill]

I like the EP booster. It's got a little extra low mid grunt

[bluesbreaker59]

To my ear, its awfully tough to beat a flatpole style Tele bridge pickup into a Crowther Hot Cake into a warm sounding tube amp.

For more of a clean only boost, I really dig the Z Vex SHO.

[theruley]

danelectro TOD with the gain all the way down gives a sweet boost that you can eq to suit the guitar

[OrangeAD30TC]

Thanks for the responses guys. To be clear no way I am changing out the pickups. They sound great in the neck and bridge and together. I am using the bridge by itself and then sometimes using the ge-7 to get a little more midrange heavy humbucker sound.

[dughaze]

I use either the amps overdrive, a cheap Digitech overdrive I only have at the moment, or both... depends on the amp or sound I want. The bottom line is, even with a cheap gig worthy overdrive a Tele bridge puickup with the tone control rolled back a little can sound like a chunkier Tele and we all know how good that can be.:JAM

I got away from using overdrives for a while because my amps hahave enough distortions and boosts that I quit messing with them but lately I have been "getting back into them". The circle of life baby!!

I think I need a Barber Direct Drive

[Average Joe]

My default setup with a tele through a clean amp is a RAT for rhythm drive and then kick in either a Zendrive or a TS for a midboost for the solo

[Hippiebus]

I just got a great Big Tex tele. I believe it has lollars in it. To get a more aggressive and fat rock sound out of the bridge I have started using a ge-7 to bump the mids. The mix of mid range and tele high end are really cool together.

How do you guys fatten up a tele bridge?



Edit: I just realized this maybe better suited for effects given the nature of the answers.
Excellent post, Orange, you said it all.

[guitar mangler]

For rock or metal, I use a ts 10. For clean boost, an rc booster. But, I always turn my volume and tone a touch on the guitar before the boost. The way it gives me a bigger sound, and if I need more bite and just roll the controls up some more

[OrangeAD30TC]

Good advice on the tone knob, the more I play the more I find myself doing that

[Chas]

I use a MXR 6 band EQ and push the low end freq. up. Also the tone dial on the Tele does great things. With the bridge if the dial is all the way up you are punishing people's ears. I turn down to about 50% and that gives the bridge pup some fullness.

[roknfnrol]

I like the BMF Effects Purple Nurple for fattening up my tele. It stacks great with other pedals too.

[Troubleman]

Really depends upon the amp I'm using.
Super Chili Picoso, Xotic RC, Swart Atomic Boost, or a TS-9 with the gain all the way down and the level all the way up...

peeeeese!!!

jb

[Steven]

Bearfoot Honeybee is a great pedal for the bridge p/u on a Tele. And dont forget touse the tone control on the guitar. Timmy also works great.

[Help!I'maRock!]

there's a couple of things i do.

first, i ride the knobs. setting up the amp with your volume and tone on 7 gives you a little more flexibility. next, i have a 4 way switch to throw both pickups into series. so there's a bit of a boost right there. if i do need a solo boost, i run an EHX LPB-1. along with the volume, it adds the tiniest amount of girth and grit.

[rust_in_peace]

I use the Comp Boost on my M9 for a clean boost and a BD-2 to add a little dirt.

[kludge]

Good advice on the EHX LPB-1. They're dirt cheap, good pedalboard citizens (small, standard power, true bypass), and sound great.

I rarely have the knobs up all the way on my Tele. Tone is almost always backed off a bit if I'm on the bridge, and volume is usually backed off a bit. I rely on downstream gain to size things back up, and use the tone controls as just that - tone controls.

[travesty]

Believe it or not.... Try the Seymour Duncan Pickup Booster.. It will do wonders for your Tele. The boost goes from 6db to 25db. Give it a try... It also has a three-way switch to change the resonance.

[Singin' Dave]

Raise bridge pup?

[ReddRanger]

For rock or metal, I use a ts 10. For clean boost, an rc booster. But, I always turn my volume and tone a touch on the guitar before the boost. The way it gives me a bigger sound, and if I need more bite and just roll the controls up some more
This is what I do with my RC Booster. I don't like controls wide open and I often roll back the tone about half way before dialing the amp.

The RC actually delivers a cool tweed like tone with the gain turned up.

Raise bridge pup?
Works well too. There's definitely a sweet spot with my Nocaster bridge pickup. I had it set too close and didn't like the feel. The bass became too thick, boomy, and undefined. Backed it off a little and the cool tones I wanted came back.

[Andygee]

I second the RC Boost; AC Boost with it for more grind.

Really, there is so many great solutions out there to fatten up a Tele and have it keep it's character.

[Chas]

MXR 6 band EQ