If you’re looking to get a little more grit out of your Telecaster, then you need Rabea Massaad’s new Nomads pickup.
Nomads build on the same foundation of Alnico III powered bridge and Alnico V neck coils as the Triptych Strat set – The bridge coil is flat magnet profile with a thicker ’50s style copper-plated steel baseplate and a hot wind of 43 AWG plain enamel wire, designed to deliver a combination of muscular output, plus masses of dynamic headroom. A special neck coil design allows for superb balance of output with the bridge, whilst delivering both weight behind single notes and a hollow snappy tone, again hand wound with 43 AWG PE.
“I’ve always loved using Telecaster tones on my recordings,” said Massaad. “They have an aggressive mid range that just brings that extra bit of gnarliness to heavier guitar tones and they also add wonderful clarity to clean and mid-gain tones. When designing the Nomads I wanted to create something more controlled and powerful that would cater to my heavier sounds just as much as the ambient and cleaner side of what I do.
“The Nomads can get super heavy without any unwanted spikiness, but also respect the original early ‘50s tele tones for all the lower gain chime and spank that I love. I really couldn’t be happier with these pickups!”
