Tele Pickup Comparisons | Lollar | Murray | Fender | Mojotone

Thanks again to Steve Selvidge and Hal Hawkins for their time, talents, and Teles.

A comparison of Murray Blackguard Bridge and Vintage Neck pickups to Lollar Special Ts, Mojotone Quiet Coil ’52s, and Fender Yosemites in fairly similar ash bodied Telecasters played through a restored ’66 Super Reverb.

Tele Style Pickups

Timeline:

00:00 Intro
00:20 My “Tele”
01:02 Murray Pickups
01:36 Blackguard Bridge and Vintage Neck
02:54 Good Compared to What?
03:37 Super Reverb speaker issue?
04:13 A bit more before the real playing starts
05:28 The Real Playing Tests
05:45 Lollar Neck
06:04 Murray Neck
06:22 Fender Neck
06:39 Mojotone Neck
06:58 Lollar Neck + Bridge
07:14 Murray Neck + Bridge
07:29 Fender Neck + Bridge
07:44 Mojotone Neck + Bridge
08:03 Lollar Bridge
08:23 Murray Bridge
08:43 Fender Bridge
09:02 Mojotone Bridge
09:22 Lollar Bridge
09:35 Murray Bridge
09:44 Fender Bridge
09:52 Mojotone Bridge
10:05 Lollar Neck
10:17 Murray Neck
10:31 Fender Neck
10:44 Mojotone Neck
10:57 Lollar Bridge
11:11 Murray Bridge
11:22 Fender Bridge
11:36 Mojotone Bridge
11:48 Lollar Neck
11:58 Lollar Neck + Bridge
12:15 Murray Neck
12:32 Murray Bridge
12:46 Fender Neck
13:00 Fender Neck + Bridge
13:10 Fender Bridge
13:28 Mojotone Neck
13:51 Lollar Neck
14:13 Mojotone Bridge
14:50 Murray Bridge
15:24 Fender Bridge

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Amp Tech Gear Used :

Hakko FX-951 soldering station
Weller SPG 80L soldering iron (chassis work)
Rigol DS1054Z digital oscilloscope
Thsinde 18B+ digital multimeters
Kester 60/40 solder
Techspray #4 No-Clean Desoldering Braid

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Microphones/Audio Equipment :

Guitar Amps : Royer R-10 Hot Rod and/or Shure SM57 (noted in videos)
Voiceover Bench : sE Audio sE8 (small diaphragm condenser)
Voiceover Streaming : Shure SM57 with shockmount and windscreen
Voiceover Mic Arms : Elgato Wave Mic arms
Guitar Mic Stand : Gator Frameworks short weighted base stand with boom
Mic Cables and Guitar Cables : Mogami/Neutrik
Mic pre : MOTU M2
DAW : Logic Pro X on MacBook Pro 16 running Sonoma 14
Plugins : No effects other than level matching/normalization unless a recording
specifically has reverb etc added in post (rare, various Waves plugins)
Monitors : Yamaha HS7s
Monitor Stands : Gator Frameworks Desktop Clamp-On Stands
Monitor Isolation Mounts : IsoAcoustics Iso-Puck Minis
Headphones : Beyerdynamic DT 770 Pro (main)
Headphones : Sony MDR-7506 (alternate)

Video Equipment :

Camera : Sony ZVE-10 with SmallRig Cage (main)
Lens : Sigma f2.8 18-50mm (main)
Lens : Sony ZVE10 kit lens (rarely used)
B Camera : Apple iPhone 13 Pro (rarely used)
Tripod : SmallRig 71” with SmallRig Fluid Video Head
Streaming Mount : Elgato Master Mount S with SmallRig Ballhead
Bench Light : SmallRig RC 120D
Bench Light Diffusor : SmallRig Lantern Softbox
Bench C-Stands (light and overhead camera) : Neewer Pro SS Heavy Duty
Streaming Light : SmallRig RC 120B
Streaming Diffusor : SmallRig Parabolic Softbox
Streaming Light Mount : SmallRig 148CM Wall Mount Boom with Triangle Base
Various Other Lights : Neewer LED Panels with Neewer Softboxes

Video Software :

Davinci Resolve 18
Paul Leeming LUTs
Adobe Illustrator 28
Adobe Photoshop 25
Ecamm Live (streaming software)