Little 59 Humbucker in my CV 60's Tele Opps!

tjnugent · 09-09-2010, 05:05 PM

I bought and had installed a Seymour Duncan Little 59 bridge pickup in my CV 60 Tele today. I got it home and boy was I mistaken. My tele no longer sounds like a tele. It is somewhere between a tele and a les paul. I don't think I like it. I can't take it back because I had it installed. Not quite sure what to do with it at this point. I either get a matching neck pickup and forget that it is a tele or take it out and use it in some other guitar or sell it.

What would you do? What pickups would you put in that guitar?

Sound off. Please.. lol

TJ

AllroyPA · 09-09-2010, 06:35 PM

Ah man sorry you had to go through learning the hard way. If I were you I'd get with some youtube videos about soldering and get a friend who has some experience perhaps and have a go at the repair yourselves. Once you know how to do it you can try pups til your satisfied. Personnally I like the Dimarzio Twangbucker or Fender Nocaster.

Teleblooz · 09-09-2010, 07:54 PM

I put a Lil '59 into my #1 some years ago to replace the MIM stock pup it came with, and I didn't like it either. It felt too harsh and shrill and I couldn't get a good balance between it and the neck pup. I ended up installing an American stock Tele pup, and haven't regretted it.

Oddly enough, I dug out that same Lil '59 and installed it into my other Tele, the one with the P-90 in the neck, and it seems to work for me there. Maybe it's the combination of the two I don't like. But in all fairness, that one doesn't really sound like a Telecaster anyway.

I figure there's a reason for the standard pickup set having lasted all these years - it just sounds good together.

tjnugent · 09-09-2010, 08:47 PM

I really like the Seymour Duncan Antiquity Pickups that I put in my Classic Vibe 50's Tele. That guitar sounds amazing. I should put a set like that into the CV 60's Tele as well. The other type I am looking at are Texas Specials. I don't particularly like the stock CV pickups. I think it is probably a good thing to spend a few bucks getting the right pickups and have fewer guitars.. lol GAS Ain't it a *****?

tjnugent · 09-11-2010, 07:35 AM

Last night I decided to try the CV Tele with the Little 59 in it for slide. I tuned down to D and it whales on slide... I think I am going to keep the humbucker in there after all. Now I need to find a neck pickup that is hot enough to balance out the 27k ohms that the lil 59 puts out. I always wanted a dedicated slide guitar and well,,, now I have one. lol Turn lemons into lemonade huh?

TJ