Telecaster Shootout!

This is a comparison video of 6 Telecaster and T-Style guitars from Fender and other makers.

I'm playing 2 phrases on each pickup of each guitar into the same amp and recording exactly what comes out. No processing, no Tube screamers, no chorus pedals - just one guitar, a cable and a Two Rock Classic Reverb with reverb.

The guitars are:

1: A Broadcaster replica Partcaster with Monty's Broadcaster set of pickups
2: A Fender custom shop Nocaster with Seymour Duncan Antiquity neck humbucker and Fender Nocaster bridge pickup
3: A 1955 T-style Partscaster with Seymour Duncan Antiquity neck pickup and Monty's Broadcaster bridge pickup
4: An SC Relics (Golden Era Guitars) '60's style with rosewood fretboard, 3 ply guard and Monty's proto '53 Telecaster pickups
5: A 2017 Fender custom shop Telecaster thinline in Blue Flower with Texas Special neck and Nocaster bridge pickups
6: A Fender custom shop '72 Telecaster custom with Fender CuNiFe humbuckers and Nocaster bridge pickups

I include timestamps so you can jump around and have an immediate idea of any differences.

Maybe there are none? is it all in the mind? Are those humbuckers overpowering?

The Telecaster form I think relies on the big thick body, bolt on neck and most importantly, the bridge plate. Now, the pickup in the bridge plate can be copper or copper plated steel as in the Broadcaster pickups and it can be adjusted by springs or fiddly wee rubber tubes. The plate can be microphonic or not and it certainly acts or is acted upon by the pickups magnetic field but it definitely makes a difference. All these guitars have the bridge plate and if a guitar doesn't have one, it's not a Telecaster in my opinion.

Listen in 1080p for best results.

I recorded my Two Rock amp through a Two Rock 2x12" cabinet with stock speakers and 2 microphones on the lower one: a Rode NT1-A and an SM57. Just off axis and on the edge of the dustcap.

I play 2 phrases per pickup position; some chords and some single note stuff.

00:00 Intro
01:12 Broadcaster Intro
01:40 Broadcaster Neck pickup
02:24 Broadcaster Both pickups
03:11 Broadcaster Bridge pickup
03:56 Nocaster Intro
04:22 Nocaster Neck pickup
05:04 Nocaster Both pickups
05:46 Nocaster Bridge pickup
06:29 '55 Style Intro
06:59 '55 Style Neck pickup
07:39 '55 Style Both pickups
08:17 '55 Style Bridge pickup
09:01 60's T-Style Intro
09:32 60's T-Style Neck pickup
10:11 60's T-Style Both pickups
10:52 60's T-Style Bridge pickup
11:31 '68 Blue Flower Thinline Intro
12:12 '68 Blue Flower Thinline Neck pickup
12:54 '68 Blue Flower Thinline Both pickups
13:36 '68 Blue Flower Thinline Bridge pickup
14:20 '72 Tele custom Intro
15:35 '72 Tele custom Neck pickup
16:18 '72 Tele custom Both pickups
17:00 '72 Tele custom Bridge pickup
17:41 Conclusions?

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