Do I need a Fender Telecaster to get these tones?

No. GuitarToneAdapt models how a Fender Telecaster shapes the sound and compensates so you can get close on your own guitar and rig — free, in the browser.

What songs used a Fender Telecaster?

Hotel California by Eagles, Every Breath You Take (Remastered 2003) by The Police, Hosanna by Hillsong UNITED & Brooke Ligertwood, Purple Rain by Prince & The Revolution, Creep by Radiohead, Duality by Slipknot, Pour Some Sugar On Me by Def Leppard, Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin, and more.

Fender Telecaster — Songs, Tones & Settings

Songs whose original tone used a Fender Telecaster. Don’t own one? GuitarToneAdapt re-creates the sound on the guitar and rig you actually have.

The Telecaster is twangy, bright and cutting — single-coils like a Strat but with a tighter, more focused bridge pickup that bites. Great for country, rock and indie. Being bright and lower-output, it wants more gain and trimmed treble versus a humbucker guitar to land on the same tone.

Hotel California — Eagles Every Breath You Take (Remastered 2003) — The Police Hosanna — Hillsong UNITED & Brooke Ligertwood Purple Rain — Prince & The Revolution Creep — Radiohead Duality — Slipknot Pour Some Sugar On Me — Def Leppard Stairway to Heaven — Led Zeppelin Heartbreaker — Led Zeppelin Planet Telex — Radiohead 七月、影法師、藍色、ロッカー — n-buna Step on Me — The Cardigans Beast of Burden — The Rolling Stones The Devil In I — Slipknot Let It Be — The Beatles Can't Stop — Red Hot Chili Peppers *Sobs Quietly* — Mom Jeans.*Sobs Quietly* — Mom Jeans.Wondering Why — The Red Clay Strays Deck Wine — Marietta All Too Well — Taylor Swift Gently — Slipknot Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) — Marilyn Manson Bckyrd — Hot Mulligan Incinerate — Sonic Youth Grace — Jeff Buckley Speaking With a Ghost — Citizen Cárcel, Hospital & Cementerio — Los Tres Dogs — Pink Floyd It Smells Like Fudge Axe in Here — Hot Mulligan Pretty When You Cry — Lana Del Rey Raise a Hallelujah (Live) — Bethel Music, Jonathan David Helser & Melissa Helser Visita — Enjambre Ichizu — King Gnu Sola skinner — Jokke & Valentinerne Telephones — Vacations How You Like Me Now? — The Heavy Killing in the Name — Rage Against the Machine Still Into You — Paramore That's What You Get — Paramore Ain’t It Fun — Paramore Before I Forget — Slipknot Wait and Bleed — Slipknot Sulfur — Slipknot This Charming Man — The Smiths There Is a Light That Never Goes Out — The Smiths How Soon Is Now? — The Smiths Like a Stone — Audioslave Cochise — Audioslave Show Me How to Live — Audioslave Plush — Stone Temple Pilots Interstate Love Song — Stone Temple Pilots Vasoline — Stone Temple Pilots Born to Be Wild — Steppenwolf Magic Carpet Ride — Steppenwolf Green Onions — Booker T & the M.G.'s Message in a Bottle — The Police Zombie — The Cranberries Dr. Feelgood — Mötley Crüe Kiss — Prince SPECIALZ — King Gnu Abnormalize — Ling Tosite Sigure Living Hope — Phil Wickham Sonifera Ilha — Titas LAventurier — Indochine Jai demande a la lune — Indochine Rooftop — N.Flying Hot Potato — N.Flying Linger — The Cranberries Sunday Bloody Sunday — U2 Sweet Home Chicago — Robert Johnson Hoochie Coochie Man — Muddy Waters Folsom Prison Blues — Johnny Cash Ring of Fire — Johnny Cash Take It Easy — Eagles The Devil Went Down to Georgia — Charlie Daniels Band Chicken Fried — Zac Brown Band Friends in Low Places — Garth Brooks Roxanne — The Police So Lonely — The Police Sittin on the Dock of the Bay — Otis Redding Your Hand in Mine — Explosions in the Sky Hallelujah — Jeff Buckley Start Me Up — The Rolling Stones Brown Sugar — The Rolling Stones Mud on the Tires — Brad Paisley Somebody Like You — Keith Urban Brass in Pocket — The Pretenders Mama Tried — Merle Haggard Guitars, Cadillacs — Dwight Yoakam Cissy Strut — The Meters

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Fender Telecaster — FAQ

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Fender Telecaster guitar tones

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Fender Telecaster — FAQ