Fender Pickups.

felix'apprentice · Post by **felix'apprentice** » Monday Jul 20, 2009

Thinkin about changing my pickups in my strat. Does anyone have the following pickups? Fender Vintage Noiseless Pickups

If so, how do they sound, whats your thoughts?

Right now i have the Dimarzio FS1's. Don't get me wrong, i like them. I just want that vintage fender sound. So.....thoughts, suggestions?

Thanks!

- Kayla

paul · Post by **paul** » Monday Jul 20, 2009

The noiseless pickups are cool but I would suggest Texas Specials if you want that vintage strat sound, I put a set in a strat of mine years ago. They smoked the factory pickups. Its all a matter of taste though.
Paul

Colton · Post by **Colton** » Monday Jul 20, 2009

I have vintage noiseless. Love'm.

bassist_25 · Post by **bassist_25** » Monday Jul 20, 2009

I can't speak to the actual tone of those pickups, but noiseless is the best way to go. I love the sound of single-coils, whether in a bass or a guitar, but I hate the noise that comes with them. I dropped a set of noiseless Bartolinis in my Jazz and it was the best thing I ever did for that bass.

MeYatch · Post by **MeYatch** » Monday Jul 20, 2009

bassist_25 wrote:I can't speak to the actual tone of those pickups, but noiseless is the best way to go. I love the sound of single-coils, whether in a bass or a guitar, but I hate the noise that comes with them. I dropped a set of noiseless Bartolinis in my Jazz and it was the best thing I ever did for that bass.

except that "noiseless single coils" are not single coils. They sound similar, but not the same.

tonefight · Post by **tonefight** » Monday Jul 20, 2009

I have one strat with vintage noisless and one with the hot noisless, The hot aren't much hotter. I like the vintage noisless because any amount of hum just drives me %^&* nuts. They are good for blues / bluesy rock but suck for hard rock or anything you really need a heavy sound for.

As meyatch said they are actually humbuckers, the second coil seems to be below the mounting plate. They sound enough like single coils to me and they are quite. So I like em.

I am probably going to change one of them out however and go back to humbuckers with some kinda split coil setup. I've been experimenting on my frankenstein to see what I want. I miss the drive of the humbuckers.

bassist_25 · Post by **bassist_25** » Tuesday Jul 21, 2009

MeYatch wrote:
except that "noiseless single coils" are not single coils. They sound similar, but not the same.

True, they are more of a stacked design, but companies have gotten pretty good at replicating the single-coil design with them.

felix'apprentice · Post by **felix'apprentice** » Friday Jul 24, 2009

made my decision. will soon be gettin everything all changed around. thanks guys! im gettin the reissue 62's texas style ... i think thats what there called lol.

- kayla

todd17063 · Post by **todd17063** » Sunday Aug 02, 2009

i had the same dilema about two years ago.. I tried a strat with Texas specials and one with vintage noiseless and went with the noiseless due to TS were too bright for my taste and would seem to limit what style of music it would limit my strat to. So i went with vintage noiseless and in my opinion i can do damn near any style of music from Jazz to Metal with my strat.. its all in the matter of how you eq your sound. A good eq pedal will go a long ways in shaping the tone of your strat.