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Re: old fender pickup question (long post)

8/25/1999 1:15 AM
JohnC	Re: old fender pickup question (long post) YES. I agree with that. That's why I installed a SD hotrail on the bridge and de-installed it after a couple of days. (And I don't mean it may not be a good p/u, only that I couldn't "feel" them from the begining) My final decission (made by heart, as I could not hear them before buying) was a set of Fender's '50 Custom Shop pickups. I like them. Actually a lot. I didn't realise that what I was looking for was a real traditional strat sound. The neck p.u is so nice. I made a mod with a SPST (sp.?) switch that allows me to use neck & bridge in positions 1 & 5, and the three pickups at the same time in positions 2 & 4. Very simple to make that mod. Just conecting the two lugs corresponding to p.u's bridge and neck in the selector, to one lug each at the two-lug-SPST-miniswitch. <--- A bit up in the left window if using frames, there's a thread about Barden p.u's. And that takes me to a point I never understood; that is: why some (all?) manufacturers offer their pickups power by measuring resistance and things like that that they don't mean really much? I'll try to explain myself. Those on my other american made Fender are suposed to be old, weak and relatively "vintage", but are the only single coil pickups I've tried that are capable to clearly make that chuiiinnk sound when you pick&twist hard on a string. The Seymour Duncan Hot Rail, for example, couldn't do it at all. Nor the Texas Specials or American Standards I tried in a shop... except the ones on that chinese Squire I mentioned on my other post. And the CS '50's are also suposed to be low-powered-vintage p.u's -you know, the average 5 to 6Kohms-, and clearness and loudness apart, I think they deliver more usable "volume" than some other p.u's I tried, suposedly more powerfull. I know, talking of power about vintage fender p.u's - or vintage RI's- is not the word, but beside all their qualities, I only took them as an example. jc

8/25/1999 1:15 AM

JohnC

Re: old fender pickup question (long post)

YES. I agree with that.

That's why I installed a SD hotrail on the bridge and de-installed it after a couple of days. (And I don't mean it may not be a good p/u, only that I couldn't "feel" them from the begining)

My final decission (made by heart, as I could not hear them before buying) was a set of Fender's '50 Custom Shop pickups.

I like them. Actually a lot. I didn't realise that what I was looking for was a real traditional strat sound.

The neck p.u is so nice.

I made a mod with a SPST (sp.?) switch that allows me to use neck & bridge in positions 1 & 5, and the three pickups at the same time in positions 2 & 4. Very simple to make that mod. Just conecting the two lugs corresponding to p.u's bridge and neck in the selector, to one lug each at the two-lug-SPST-miniswitch.

<--- A bit up in the left window if using frames,

there's a thread about Barden p.u's. And that takes me to a point I never understood; that is: why some (all?) manufacturers offer their pickups power by measuring resistance and things like that that they don't mean really much?

I'll try to explain myself. Those on my other american made Fender are suposed to be old, weak and relatively "vintage", but are the only single coil pickups I've tried that are capable to clearly make that chuiiinnk sound when you pick&twist hard on a string.

The Seymour Duncan Hot Rail, for example, couldn't do it at all. Nor the Texas Specials or American Standards I tried in a shop... except the ones on that chinese Squire I mentioned on my other post.

And the CS '50's are also suposed to be low-powered-vintage p.u's -you know, the average 5 to 6Kohms-, and clearness and loudness apart, I think they deliver more usable "volume" than some other p.u's I tried, suposedly more powerfull.

I know, talking of power about vintage fender p.u's - or vintage RI's- is not the word, but beside all their qualities, I only took them as an example.

jc

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Mark Hammer "That's why I installed a SD hotrai... -- 8/25/1999 3:29 AM