1967 Fender Telecaster rw w. Theo Dahlem Pickups Part 1

Berlin's Michael Niedzwetzki demos his new Dahlem custom Telecaster style pick up on his 1967 Telecaster.

This particular bridge pick up is my own take on a pick up that combines a number of aspects usually not found in one single pick up. It is voiced to combine the nasal and powerful output of an early Broadcaster with the snappiness of a mid 50ies pick up jet to deliver smooth high end. No ice pick here. Instead nice warm mids and rounded off high notes. The high notes still have enough body. It's a staggered design w. white rope but can be done just you the way you prefer.

Due to the nature of the true non edited signal and the small 10" speaker of the Princeton the sound in this demo might come out a little too mid and high frequency scooped. So don't get fooled here.

Michael is known for his passionate love for old vintage guitars, especially for early Broad- No- and Telecaster guitars. He has been using a variety of Telecaster guitars since many years.
This man knows his stuff. I'm proud having made him happy w. one of my telecaster PU creations.
As he said,..

"For years I've been through every kind of boutique Telecaster pick ups you can think of, but for me this pick up is the real deal. When I say I like it, then be sure that this is exactly what I'm saying."

As a side note, the strings were nicked and worn from frequent experimentation and installing various bridge pick ups. We also detected that the string set up was less than optimum as the strings seemed to hit the frets with Michael's playing style. Unfortunately we realized things after the videos had been done and after Michael had already left the set. Anyway,I hope you will have fun anyway.

How it was recorded:

Unlike almost all other guitar and gear demos, Dahlem guitar pick up demonstrations are brought to you without adding any sound enhancing effects. This will provide you with the most authentic sound of the guitar with its' Dahlem pick ups.
However to some very little extend we decided to use a limiter for a more convenient Internet usable audio (see the listing below).

The tone signal is going through an early stock 70ies Fender Princeton Reverb amplifier w. its' stock. 10" speaker and with its' mostly original stock tubes. Therefore some odd harmonics and imperfections in sound might be heard here and there. We felt to leave the amp alone as it really has some nice chime and character even w. the old tubes.

Microphone:....MBC-608
Interface:.........Fireface 800
Logic Pro Recording Software
Final Cut Pro X
Wave L316 Limiter (level -2 db)

Special thanks to Berlin's video and audio recording artist Andreas Waldheim for being so kind to record and edit this little demo. Also very special thanks to all the great players that have purchased* my pick ups and helped to make these videos possible.

T.B. Dahlem

I'm not giving pick ups away. All players seen in my demonstration videos are happy followers.