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For my foray back into the 'world of guitars' a year ago I bought a fender telecaster, it is a 'Player' FSR model and apart from the nice finish it came with fender 'Noiseless' pick ups. Now, I can say that I haven't had any problems with noise, but the pick ups do seem a bit gutless.
Is this just me, are all single coils like this or is this a known side effect of these pick ups?
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Yes I know it's taken me a year to ask!
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Any experience with Fender Noiseless pups has been a bit disappointing for me. I was really surprised to find a deluxe Strat I played sounded thin and weak.
Nice tele though!
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Ah, assuming that it was affirmative, (that they are gutless) that was going to be my next question, should I fit something else?
Apart from the output are these likely to change the tone much?
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Hi Chaps,
Just visited Bare knuckle site, they seem to do "Vintage" and Hi-output "Vintage Hot" and the demos of both 'Blackguard' and 'The Boss' sounded good to me, do you need the 'extra' oomph from the "Hot" pick-ups?
Adam_MD I agree, there seems to be something missing, they feel a bit lifeless.
Have you got the hot or vintage noiseless - if you prefer the noiseless option I'm sure there will be a beefier sounding set out there, if noise isn't an issue then I'd get something from Oil City or Bulldog (both of the owners contribute here and seem like nice guys that care about guitars).
I'm not sure noiseless p/ups are needed anywhere near as much as they used to be with all the big old crt monitors when recording so you have a better chance of getting away with conventional pickups.
Until I bought the tele, my only guitar was an LP copy which had humbuckers, I had feared the prospect of noise in making the switch to tele so I reacted by getting one with noiseless pickups, probably an overreaction in hindsight.
I mostly play at home so noise probably isn't the problem I was led to believe it might be.
I have nothing to gauge them with other than the humbuckers, (I don't own any other single coil guitar) and they are much thinner sounding than that.
I'm guessing that a 'middle ground flavoured' offering from Bare Knuckle, Oil City or Bulldog would pep things up a bit, Non?
That sounds like a plan - welcome to the world of "is it quite as good as the sound in my head?"
That sounds like a plan - welcome to the world of "is it quite as good as the sound in my head?"
Or the world of " this sounds good but could it be better?"
Depends on whether you're used to a thin-sounding pup already. Personally I find all S/C pups thin, and a little weak, but I'm used to higher output 'buckers.
Doesn't mean they're bad, just different to what you know.
FWIW, I believe David Gilmour deliberately uses low-output pups so he can control the sounds coming from the speakers, rather than the pup's dictating what comes from the amp/speakers.
BTW, the pup's in Sarah, my Strat are not noiseless, and are Seymour Duncans and compared to my other guitars they sound thin and weak. In a band situation (Ie when @Bigjon played it) it sounded great
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Firstly, what a great looking Tele. As for the noiseless pickups I would echo the 'insipid' description. I bought an American Deluxe Tele a year or two ago and the first thing I did was replace the N3 noiseless pickups, hated them. I went for a set of Bare Knuckle flat pole 50's and at the same time removed the S1 switching and replaced it with a Callaham control plate with a 4 way switch.
I can't really tell from the pics if your Tele has the S1 switch but if it has I'd consider losing that as well as it has a reputation for 'sucking tone'.
As for the Bare Knuckles, they are great pickups. The only thing I would say about the Flat pole 50's is because the bridge pickup is high output you may find them a little unbalanced. I'm putting my Tele through a Marshall JCM 800 and it sounds huge.
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