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The Fender Vintage Noiseless Strat Pickup Set can breath new life into your Stratocaster. Made with Alnico V magnets, custom magnet wire, and aged white covers with gold "Noiseless" logo. The 3 pickup set comes with 3 control pots. Fender Vintage Noiseless Strat Pickups are crisp, clear, and quiet.
I was pretty displeased with the sound of my new MIM strat. The ceramic pickups were extremely harsh sounding to the extent that it was painful to my ears. Since I love the MIM strat, I purchased these vintage pickups and I am incredibly impressed with the tone. I play through a Blues Junior most of the time and the thing that immediately struck me was the beautiful clear bell tone and natural harmonics. The made my guitar sound like a custom shop model. I am sure that some of the other reviewers may have gotten a bad batch or something, as I couldn't imagine a better tone from a pickup. The only caveat is that the wires are not long enough for the neck pickup to comfortably reach the switch. On that pickup, I actually had splice it with the existing wire. I am no electrical engineer, but it worked fine. Not sure why Fender wouldn't provide longer wires. Overall though, these pickups are remarkable. I would say that I am a blues/classic rock player and that I consider the pickups to match this style.
I recently bought these and put them in my Standard Stratocaster, all I can say is WOW! no more noise. I play through a Fender Champion 600 Reissue and this sounds amazing, they have slightly more gaint han my stock pickups and no more noise. They do lose some of the single coil chime that you heard a lot from SRV, so for Texas Blues I wouldnt use them, but for that Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck sound they are perfect. I even use them to play some Progressive Hard Rock like Rush, they can handle Distortion well. My only complaint lies with the Directions, Im good with electronics, but someone who isn't might get confused as it does not tell you to ground to the tremolo claw and body cavity from the volume pot. They also dont tell you where to put the .01cap and the resistor (btw, it goes on the center and left lugs of the volume pot, if you need to see go look at the data sheets of the American Deluxe Strat)
I bought these pickups to replace the ones in my squire affinity strat. They are a huge inprovement over my original pickups. They sound really great they really added tone and fullness to ny instrument, they were not too difficult to install, not many directions just a a wiring diagram it would have been nice to have a little more details about the wiring. I made it through O.K. These pickups do have a hum on my instrument I do not know if it is something I did during installing them or not, Maybe it is my instrument but they seem to picking up static from off of my pickguard. I am going to try and shield my pickguard. But overall I am pleased with these pickups they were a great improvement in my instrument it is like I have a whole new guitar. I would recomend these pickups for there great tone, the controls pots are a great added bonus with this set.
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