Pickups straight to the jack

[Onioner]

The bridge in my Telecaster died recently. Had to pull it out and I'm sending it in. Figured in the meantime I'd use just the bridge. I've heard of folks wiring directly from the pickup to the output jack (famously only Neil Young), and I'm nearly always a fan of shorter signal paths, so I thought I'd give it a go.

The pickup is a Zhangbucker Bell Tone, and it's probably not the very best choice for wiring straight out, as I nearly always have the tone rolled back from at least nine on down. Had to really adjust the amp to get anything that wasn't blarringly hot and bright. The articulation was great though. Took some good EQ to really get it going, but it was pretty cool.

Just wonderin' what others have tried. I'm thinkin' I might play with this concept a bit more. Why have controls on a guitar at all? Your amp EQs. Maybe your pedals do too. Need easy volume control? Pedal does that too. All the while you get a hotter, fresher signal. Seems a decent trade-off. 'Course, I guess you gotta use the right pickup, and you gotta only want a single pickup or combination. Telecasters seem especially well suited, but I'm sure there are other cases too.

Now, just gotta get that little Tweed workin'...