Description
Before this pickup existed, Tele players had to choose between vintage snap and usable low end. Joe Barden fixed that by building this dual-blade bridge pickup with Danny Gatton himself on hand for every prototype, chasing a voice that kept the breed’s signature bite while filling out the frequency range top to bottom.
What you get is unmistakably a Telecaster pickup — that percussive attack and airy top end are all there — but the mids and lows carry real weight instead of thinning out under a pick attack or heavy chord work. Nothing about it sounds hyped or modern; it just sounds like a Tele with the tinny edge sanded off.
The bridge unit uses Barden’s staggered dual-blade construction, a design shared across the company’s single-coil-sized Strat and Tele pickups. Staggering the blades keeps the outer strings from getting buried or overpowered, so low E and high E ring with the same clarity as the strings in between.
Drop-in installation is the whole point: it’s sized for a standard Tele bridge rout, so there’s no routing or body modification required. Four-conductor shielded wiring is included, giving you the freedom to wire it for series, parallel, or coil-split configurations down the road. Wiring diagrams (downloadable) and mounting hardware come with it, so setup is straightforward whether you’re doing a full rewire or a simple swap.
- Dual-blade T-Style bridge pickup
- Vintage voice with expanded fidelity
- Authentic Tele twang and snap without the thin, tinny edge
- Balanced output across all strings via staggered blades
- 4-conductor shielded cable for flexible wiring options
- Includes wiring diagram download and mounting hardware
- Fits standard Tele body routs — no modifications needed
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