Item # 101390599 | Customer Ratings: 
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This little beast delivers a warm, smooth tone, reminiscent of an old '59 Patent Applied For humbucker mixed together with a healthy dose of beefed up Tele twang. The ST59-1 Little 59 lead pickup has a 4-conductor cable.
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First off, I have an american standard tele that I was getting tired of the hum and lack of clarity in the stock pickups. I was a little skeptical of this pickup and the sound I would get out of it. I wanted to add some punch to the mids, but also wanted to quiet down the hum from the single coil. I was considering getting some of the noiseless pickups, but as these are not really any "hotter" than the stock PUs I went with this pickup. I was very very happy with this decision. the Lil'59 was installed in the bridge position and it changed the whole sound of my guitar. The middle selection (bridge & neck) sounds much cleaner and still has twang to it, while the bridge only selection sounds more like a gibson humbucker. Did I mention the guitar is much quieter now? the bridge and neck combined and bridge only selection are virtually noiseless now, and the neck only pickup was pretty quiet to start with so +++++. I would definitely recomend this pickup if you are looking to give your tele some added punch without losing the twangy bluesy sound we all buy tele's for.
the pickup is pretty easy to install and definitely sounds different than the stock tele bridge, but I expected it to have more clarity. If you are looking for clarity don't go for this pickup, if you want a hotter high gain pickup for your tele then definitely go for this one. Sounds ok in OD with much higher mids and no hum which is nice. overall I gave it a 3 because I thought the clarity would be there, but it is quite muddy sounding at high volumes.
Good pickup, easy home installation. The only problem is that you have to use your own style of standoffs for the pickup. The stock springs set off an ungodly amount of microphonic feedback when you use overdrive or distortion, and the supplied tubing ones arent long enough. I cut my own out of small rubber plant irrigation tubing and they work great. Just get the pickup tight and you won't have too much problems with it. The sound is NICE. Real good Led Zep feel if you ask me, with distortion. Clean, I think it could have some improvements. But overall it's good.
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