Seymour Duncan STL-3 Quarter Pound Lead Bridge Tele Guitar Pickup

The output is enough to pair with a Gibson p90 soap bar on the neck position, which is why I bought it. However, at least 20-30% of the twang was lost. My guitar is a Squire classic vibe '50s, the Chinese butterscotch one. Its pickups are not bad, they have the twangy side, but kind of low output. After a 4-way mod with those two PUs, it's probably the best, most versatile sounding guitar I have ever had. I can play jazz, rock, blues AND country, but it did lose some of the twang in the middle position. Position 1 (bridge) is not like the tele anymore, but hot in a good way. This SD pickup is not for twang.

I recently aquired a Squire Thinline Telecaster with a bit of body damageMy plan is to replace bits from time to time and end up with a guitar configured to my specHopefully I'll have all the original bits in a box and I'll put them together again and have another guitar (can't have too many)I think the first place to start with an entry level guitar is the pickups, hence the Quarter Pounder.If you're OK doing a bit of soldering it's fairly easy to fit, I did both pickups (already had a QP for the neck)The output is a bit higher than normal tele pickups, not quite humbucker but getting there.If you back off the volume a little bit the tele sound is still there so it gives a good range of sounds.I've done pickup upgrades before with an Epiphone 335.The quality of entry level guitars is amazing these days (way better than the rubbish I started with years ago) but a pickup upgrade really lifts the guitar to a different levelI've never had a problem with a Seymour Duncan pickup and would recommend this if you want a better sound from an entry level guitar or just a different sound (as long as you're OK with taking it apart and doing a bit of soldering)Seymour Duncans web site has plenty of sample sounds of all the different pickups so have a listen before picking 1.10 out of 10 to Amazon and their supplier Schneider Music for very prompt order processing and delivery

I put this pickup in a Squier classic vibe '70s telecaster deluxe custom. This is a very powerful sounding pickup that's much fatter than the normal telecaster bridge offering. The thin twangy sound (which I also love, which is why I have a few tele's) has been replaced with a thick and heavy almost P90 like sound. It's a really hot pickup and turned my Tele into a rock monster! Fantastic stuff.

Put it in my telecaster and wow what an improvement.

I swapped this, along with the bridge version into one of my telecasters to replace a set of Fender Texas Specials (iirc at least!); as I wanted to add a little punch to my telecaster, whilst still keeping the single coil sound and these really deliver. Unlike more 'vintage' tele pickups which can be have more dynamic 'twang' but tend to be lower output and more mid-high focused, these are are quite well voiced and give a nice rounded tone (with a slight mid scoop) but add a bit extra bass end punch (due to the quarter inch poles - hence the name!). Essentially it makes the Tele a little less country/blues, and a little more Springsteen! Add a bit of overdrive and distortion, and these get up near to the growl of a P90 (although keep the dynamics a bit more)Also dead easy to fit - literally a couple of wires to solder & well documented with diagrams, so accessible enough even for more inexperienced guitarists to solder in. All in all, same great products and experience from SD as always.Personal suggestion - if swapping pickups, buy some conductive copper tape at the same time to ground out your faceplate and body. It's not a miracle cure, but does take a little interference away when cranked up loud!

Right. I play in a punk band and I always loved teles. My bro bought me one last year and I couldn’t wait to play it. Took it to practise and guitar was perfect for rhythm however we are just a 3 piece band so leads lines were a bit flat and not punchy enough. I bought a Seymour Duncan hot rails to replace the stock bridge which fattened up the leads but the sound was too ‘metal’ and ‘fuzzy’ for what we play. I thought I’d give the quarter pounder a try and I am happy to say I like the sound of it. Much better than the hot rails. Managed to retain a bit of the stock single coil/ tele sound while having fatter leads which works great for me. Don’t normally do reviews n stuff but felt I needed to cos when I was researching, no one seemed to be playing the same style as me. So to clarify this pick up will retain some telecaster sound with tone/ volume controls but most of all fatten up those lead lines. Really happy 😁

Purchased this to replace Seymour Duncan Hotrails i had fitted to Fender 52 Tele, I play in a boogie blues band and was looking for a bridge pick up with same punch without the muddy distorted sound at the lower end the hotrails had delivered, this quarter pounder is punchy but retains brighter tele like tones at lower end, stumbed on this model by accident after hearing it was the last bridge pick up used by one of the best british exponants of "12 bar blues rhythm guitar" in a much photographed white and black late 50s Tele, wiring simple on this non this tapped version.

A fantastic pickup it has a wonderful tone & power it suits my style which is a 70's / 80's rock/metal style, i didn't want to install a humbucker in a newly acquired tele so opted for this incredible pickup to say im impressed would be a understatement! Highly recommended 👍