Drive Pedals That Preserve the Classic Telecaster Tone

tone1

Greg Koch plays tele's and he had a lot to do with the Gristle King pedal

monquixote

Another vote for the Liquid Sunshine

Beexter

RAT

FretKing

Rockett Blue Note & Chicken Soup, Nobels OD1, XTS Imperial & Precision Multi-Drive

are all stellar with a tele - trust those Nashville guys 

Graeme.

capo4th

Xotic BB or a Timmy

therose789

What amp do you use? 

I have found that having my map on the edge of break up and just using a boost to push my amp breaks it up really nicely on the 'both pickup' selection on my guitar.

if thats not an option i would say either a BB or RC booster 

Voxman

This may seem an odd suggestion but I've been playing my Tele this week and really liked the break-up I've been getting with my Marshall Guvnr 2. With gain turned down to the lower half of the pedal its surprisingly transparent in all pup positions, and still sounds good as you raise the gain if you want more.

gjonesy

not_the_dj said:

exocet said:

Liquid Sunshine is on my acquisition list - are there significant tonal differences between the different versions e.g. MK1, MK2, MK3 etc or are they all good? 

I've had the Mk2 and Mk3. I never had both at the same time though, but I think I preferred the Mk 2, it's slightly lover gain compared to the Mk3 and on the Mk2 you have two gain controls that interact, takes a bit of playing with. The Mk3 is a bit simpler to use, with the empasife control (a fancy tone control really).

picked up a 2nd hand Mk3 recently and I can agree with all thats said here. Keep the gain low and it just gives more of your original sound.

ellandroadhero

Soul Food.

JMP220478

not a tele player yet but as a cheap way to check the xotic tone look at the mooer pure n flex boosts  - translate into xotic RC and AC boosts apparently :-)

Ive got both and theyre in mooer ( sorry couldnt resist that ) exotic company on my board n really do deliver .. 

 ( pure )

( flex )