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I converted my HB Tele into an Esquire and was looking for a replacement bridge pickup. This is a stacked humbucker that does all the noise cancelling you'd expect but still retaining a lot of Tele character in the sound. Although it's call a "Hot T-Stac", this is medium output pickup, so don't expect it push your amp.
It takes off a bit of the biting screech you find on a regular Tele bridge pickup when the tone is up which is nice. It is also a little bit warmer. But other than that it preserves the same response and character of a Telecaster pickup.
Overall a very practical replacement for hum cancelling without requiring any routing in your instrument.
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A serius upgrade to stock pickups
ateb 25.01.2019
Not a classic Tele sound, a lot beefier with a lot less annoying ice-picking overtones, no hum. A much more usable sound to my ears, blends much better with neck pickup and I am very pleased with it, it's not going anywhere.
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laut, hell, gut!
tarkus 19.01.2012
hab mir das hot-stack gekauft, weil ich riesen jeff buckley fan bin und dieser pu aufgrund des coolen designs (mal was anderes ;) leicht an seiner tele zu erkennen ist.
vorsicht: zu beginn kam mir der pup extrem hell/bright vor (hab eine rd. 3 kg schwere ash tele). hier muss man viel mit der pup-position und dem tone-knob experimentieren. wenn man sein persönliches set-up mal gefunden hat (hab den pup relativ weit von den saiten) ist der pup echt ein cooles teil. reichlich eier bei der distortion (hier hat er mMn v.a. seine stärken) aber auch clean nicht zu verachten, wenn mans raus hat. reagiert super auf anschlag und volume!
hab ihn zusammen mit einem twang king verlötet und hier gefällt mir auch die mittelstellung. aller erste sahne. ev. hab ich falsch verdrahtet...die push/pull option bringt bei mir nur minimale klangveränderung!
fazit: beim hot stack geht trotz des höhren outputs im vergleich zur klassichen single coil der twang nicht verloren (v.a. bei voll aufgedrehtem volume und tone) und wenn man ihn mal richtig eingestellt hat, ist es ein super bridge pu für classic rock mit super definierbarem sound (use your knobs ;)
für metal würd ich nach was anderem suchen!