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I know the anti-wood brigade will roll their eyes, but it really is... some guitars just don't resonate well and it doesn't really matter what pickups you put in, they will never sound right. It's not a "tonewood" thing - it can be a guitar made from perfectly well respected wood species, just that the exact pieces chosen just don't sound good. Or the opposite - some cheap guitars made from supposedly inferior wood sound amazing.
If you've got a dead-sounding guitar, I would consider EMGs - contrary to some opinions I don't think they sound 'sterile', but they do have their own distinctive sound and are more unaffected by the guitar than passive ones in my experience.
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I’m so bored I might as well be listening to Pink Floyd
Or Q-Tuners. I liked them in my Parker, and they're pretty.
Filtertrons!
Sustainiac!
I'll stop eventually.
Piezo bridge for spank?
All of this may take a while but it'll stop you fucking around with pickups!
Just joking, I'm not being flippant - maybe normal tele pickups just don't work for the OP in this guitar?
I'd recommend trying some kind of blade or a P90-type pickup:
Joe Bardens:
https://jbepickups.com/products/gatton-and-modern-t-style-pickups/
or maybe the Kinman P90 styles:
https://kinman.com/model-products.php?pid=5&products=Telecaster&linegroup=yes&modelid=6&model=Bridge+Blaster&group=Single Pickups
I think he still uses the EMG guitar for Shine on you crazy diamond.
I would recommend getting the active EQ, either the DG-style EXG/SPC set, or active bass and treble
One I've had for years is my partscaster Thinline, which although it looked nice (surf blue/blue-green with a pearlescent scratchplate), never really floated my boat soundwise , until some recent tweaks which have transformed it from a hangar queen, to one of my favourites.
The original standard pickups were okay, but not great, so I'd swapped them for some Wilkinson ones, but they didn't bring it to life either. Thus I recently decided to do a more radical change to it...
Off came the maple Tele neck and on went a maple large Strat style headstock with abalone block inlays, on went some grover tuners and wide range humbuckers, necessitating a larger bridge plate to fit the humbucker as well as some body routing and scratchplate cutting and reshaping, plus the need to drill it for stringthrough because of that different bridge.
Of course I'd expected doing all that to alter the sound, but what I hadn't expected, was how much it would transform it into something which I now really love playing. I'd always liked how it looked, and now it looks even better but it never really inspired me to play it until that recent revamp, which has really made it come alive sonically to the extent that it is now a favourite.