Squire Paranormal Series Offset Telecaster Routing and Pickup Swap

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Hey, my name’s Emily and you’re watching get offset. And today I’m going to talk about the first modification I’m doing to my Squire paranormal series offset Telecaster. So a few years ago, I plan on building a Telecaster. Never did it. I think a lot of people can relate. So I bought this Lollar royal T pickup.

[00:00:28] Which is supposed to give it more of a Stratocaster sound. and it also has, if you count them one, two, three wires. So what does that do? It gives you the option to do a four way a Telecaster switch. So I reached out to my friend, Sean at Gunn street wiring, and he sent me. This little care package with a new out put Jack, but that’s not the most interesting thing.

[00:01:13] Brand new wiring harness for my offset Telecaster.

[00:01:20] So he sent some instructions. And I feel pretty confident that I can do this. I’m going to wire up two pickups, both pickups and the output Jack, which has a little bit more than I’ve done. a statically they’re different barrels. Can’t really see, this has kind of the more square edges and this is more rounded edges.

[00:01:49] So it will be, Very slight aesthetic change. In addition to just the pickup pull pieces on the, on the Lollar royal T being visible. So I’m going to wire that up. If you want to hear how it sounded before, or please check out my original demo of the Lollar royal T. I’m probably going to be running it through essentially the same pedals.

[00:02:13]after I get this thing installed. All right. See, y’all in a bit.

[00:03:13] All right. So I’ve got my new royalty pickup in the neck here, and I got a switch that does one, two, three, four clicks. so this was pretty, a little bit more than I’ve done recently. still easier than wiring up the star caster because wow. It’s hard to wire up. Semi hollow body guitars. So let’s talk about the switching.

[00:03:42] We have this first position over here. This is the a series, which is louder, fuller. It’s cool. This is just the neck, which is the, now the Lollar royal T, which I think is quite handsome, then it’s the parallel. So that’s the bridge. And the neck and parallel and then just the bridge. So that is the ins and outs.

[00:04:07] So when I was wiring this up, if you watched the video, which I’m assuming you did, you saw something pretty, pretty, pretty cool. It’s that this is wired in the neck could be a humbucker and they also love space in the middle. If you want a middle pickup, like the Nashville style wiring, which is, I think what that’s called.

[00:04:24] Cool. So let’s check this out. I just tuned. But the thing about this. You know, new strings and actually I just reuse the old strings, but I didn’t have to make some trust. Rod adjustments

[00:04:42] also big, thanks to Sean from Gunstreet wiring for helping me out. I did have some questions during the process and I sent him a little audio file of me playing, just saying, does this sound like it’s supposed to sound? He’s like, yeah, that sounds great. So

[00:05:01] So, this is just, my milkman, the amp running about as clean as it can run. Let me adjust this camera there. So I have basically the volume up and the gain down just clean sounds.

[00:05:27] so that was in the series. Now let’s listen to just that Lollar royal T on its own.

[00:05:42] the adjust one thing really quickly.

[00:05:59] Parallel.

[00:06:27] And just the, the bridge, which hasn’t changed at all. So she sounded approximately the same as it sounded before.

[00:06:52] Alright, I forgot to do the M series with that list.

[00:07:11] So series is louder than parallel. you can read up on that. See why that’s the case, but yeah. Basically they’re going separate their own separate ways. Let’s add some, a distortion and I’m going to add a little bit of a plate reverb and a series.

[00:08:00] let’s just compare that to parallel.

[00:08:29]if you’re curious, what that I’ve been playing a lot in demos is it’s alien with a sleep mask on by rat boys. Let’s add, let’s just do the Halberd for a little bit of. Actually let’s let’s do, just the neck pickup with a distortion.

[00:09:14] I love everything I’ve ever gotten from Lawler. So yeah, that sounds good to me. Let’s sign with him. Heavy distortion.

[00:09:45] that wasn’t serious. Let’s go to parallel.

[00:10:14] let’s just do the neck.

[00:10:37] let’s do some lead stuff and, series

[00:10:51] I should have mentioned that the, distortion is from the dieting bells, but bookworm effects, both all the dirt I’ve done in this demo so far is so that was in series. Let’s do parallel

[00:11:12] and just the neck.

[00:11:23] and the bridge

[00:11:37] cool. A little more dirt and little try, some more lead stuff.

[00:12:04] That was in series.

[00:12:23] I’m also waiting for someone to tell me what solo that is. No, one’s guessed it yet. It’s a fun solo now, just the neck

[00:12:50] and the bridge.

[00:13:52] all right. Well, that was a quick look at the new wiring harness and the Lawler royalty pickup with a four way switching mod that only costs about 10 extra dollars on the Lawler website. I know people can do it themselves with existing pickups, but I recommend spending the extra $10 because if you get the royalty and you do that, Modular yourself.

[00:14:18] You void your warranty and voided warranties. Fuck. Yeah. So, yeah, it’s just an extra 10 bucks to have that mod added. Sean at gun, a gun street wiring sent me this wiring harness and included the plate. I don’t know if you can really see, I’ll get up real close here. You can’t really tell, but I had a, this plate was a little bit bigger with Sean warned me.

[00:14:43] Was likely. but I just had to shave down the edges of this pit guard, the smidge, and it didn’t, it wasn’t really that hard. It didn’t really take that much time. It wasn’t really that frustrating. It was far from the most frustrating part of my, day doing this, which is to say it wasn’t really frustrating at all.

[00:15:05]again, I didn’t take the bridge off to see what was underneath there. I will have to do that when I, put a big SPI on this guy, so that’s going to happen. and I’m going, and I’ll post pictures, on the Instagram. When I do that. This, I really am pleased with the smart, I’m pleased with how easy it was.

[00:15:25] I am pleased with how it sounds. I didn’t really like the neck pickup out of the gate on this guitar, which is fine. I mean, it’s a Squier Telecaster. I love the bridge pickup. I’ll probably keep that for a while. Unless somebody wants me to demo a bridge, pick up a, so I liked that I liked this.

[00:15:45] Royalty a lot. I, I, and I’m a big Prince fan and Prince had a Telecasters with a Stratocaster pickups in it. So yeah, that’s kind of why that appealed to me. So I, I like it. If you like it, I recommend getting it. I recommend getting it from Lawler. I think this was 120 or $130. I got it a couple of years ago, so I don’t quite remember.

[00:16:10] But, thanks for watching. Thanks for understanding, please like comment, review, subscribe, whatever, check out the podcast, yada yada yada until next time. Goodbye