I hope you all had a great holidays and that Santa brought you some nice new gear toys maybe a Telecaster? If so, heat up your soldering iron, because this month, we will take a closer look into the Telecaster circuit and the possibilities to expand its tonal palette. To start, I would like to ask you a question: how many things can you name that are still built today exactly the same way as 60 years before? The Telecaster is one of them! Without any doubt, Leo Fender was one of the great masterminds in musical history. Almost 60 years ago, he constructed an electrical guitar that remains a landmark today. The Telecaster is a guitar with very complex primary-tone physics, but on the other hand, is electronically very simple. If your Telecaster has a good primary tone, it will benefit from the following mods and you can maximize your tonal possibilities. A General Electrical Update Many guitars suffer from poor components that can turn into trouble within a short time; following Murphy´s Law, your troubles will most likely happen in the middle of a solo, live on stage. To make your guitar road-worthy, I highly recommend completely replacing all external components with a 'made in the Far East' quality. This can also cure a dull sounding guitar and the virtual 'blanket over my amp' syndrome. A fresh and matched set of high quality CTS pots, a good CRL 3-way switch, a new Switchcraft or Neutrik output jack, all connected with good cable and solder plus a top-notch tone cap can do magic to your tone. Having said that, let's look at the standard Telecaster wiring that is used in almost all Telecaster guitars today. Through the years, the values of the pots and the tone cap changed several times, so I didn´t name it in the drawings. We will talk about this subject later. Changing Pot and Cap Values As a guideline you can say the higher the resistance, the warmer the tone. This is valid for both the pots and the tone cap. For a very bright sounding guitar, I recommend 250k pots to get rid of the penetrating highs; vice versa, you can use 500k or even 1Meg pots on guitars with not so sparkling high-end sizzle to bring out more of the top-end. Of course, this all is personal choice, and is dependent on the pickups you use. The standard value of the tone cap is 0.047uF, but for most of us this is almost overkill, because when you use your tone control the tone will get clinically dull and liveless. If you don´t want darker tones like this, I recommend changing the tone cap to a much smaller value (e.g. 3300pF, up to 6800pF). This will guarantee that your tone will always be defined and full of life and color, even when you completely close the tone control. You can dial in numerous different tone colors with this simple and inexpensive mod, and it´s a good field to experiment on your own. Personally I use selected 3300pF Orange Drop caps and 250k pots for a classic, vintage Telecaster tone. Pickup Swapping I bet the number of good replacement pickups available for Teles has never been bigger than today. An often discussed subject is the Telecaster neck pickup, as it seems to divide players into two different parties: you either love it or hate it. For full disclosure, I´m lean more towards the 'I hate it' camp and usually replace this pickup in all of my Telecaster guitars because the standard pickup is too 'boxy' sounding for my tastes. CAPP 204 18 APRIL 2013 3 Preface This pamphlet will prepare members for the responsibilities of a Civil Air Patrol (CAP) Professional Development Officer (PDO). Established Since 1950 FROM THE AMATEUR TO THE PROFESSIONAL MIBRO HAS YOUR PACK or s% 'r 'Jean 's. Camera Case - Lens Cleaning Kit - UV Filter - Wide Strap - Film - Lens Caps - Lens Winder - Gadget Bag - Bounce Flash - Lens Cleaning Kit - UV Filter' Lens Shade -Wide Strap Lens Caps - Film ' 2x Tele. Telestream Closed Captioning: CaptionMaker and MacCaption allow you to easily author, edit, encode and repurpose video captions for television, web and. You can also import many professional caption interchange formats such as CAP, TDS, ULT, PAC, and EBU-STL for editing and conversion to CEA-708 captions. Fender is guided by one clear, simple directive: make life better for musicians. While the original Telecaster certainly did that (and then some), we weren't content to rest on our laurels. Our team of mad scientists examined every component in near-microscopic detail. If we were able to improve it with a new design or modern.
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