assortment of pups?

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I'm looking at getting a strat but will most likely replace the pups. I'm considering putting in 1 fender fat 50s, 1 Fender custom 69 and 1 fender vintage noiseless. I'm not sure which to put where or if this would even work/ give me good tones. Any thoughts or suggestions for better pups than those? Any advice is greatly appreciated! Thanks!
 
mcl116 said:
I'm looking at getting a strat but will most likely replace the pups. I'm considering putting in 1 fender fat 50s, 1 Fender custom 69 and 1 fender vintage noiseless. I'm not sure which to put where or if this would even work/ give me good tones. Any thoughts or suggestions for better pups than those? Any advice is greatly appreciated! Thanks!
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Depends on your styles of course, if you need noiseless or if you want the old strat twang or more modern sounds etc etc...

I got some premium vintage alnico pickups from GFS a while back and I think they sound pretty nice, and were nice and cheap (they also make some bad really cheap ones too, so go for the high end).

You could also look at Kinmans too...

The pickups you've listed are good - and would work - but they kinda work out strat pickups in sets, so maybe go for a whole set of vintage noiseless or whatever, they'll match each other in output much better.

If you pick 3 different pickups, they'll all sound different which is cool, but the output difference might be a bit annoying, or they might have polarity differences (not just phase differences), so I'd get a set. Personally.
 
slowmotion said:
Depends on your styles of course, if you need noiseless or if you want the old strat twang or more modern sounds etc etc...

I got some premium vintage alnico pickups from GFS a while back and I think they sound pretty nice, and were nice and cheap (they also make some bad really cheap ones too, so go for the high end).

You could also look at Kinmans too...

The pickups you've listed are good - and would work - but they kinda work out strat pickups in sets, so maybe go for a whole set of vintage noiseless or whatever, they'll match each other in output much better.

If you pick 3 different pickups, they'll all sound different which is cool, but the output difference might be a bit annoying, or they might have polarity differences (not just phase differences), so I'd get a set. Personally.
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yea i really wasn't sure if I could even get them separately but I figured if I could and it would work it might be kind of cool. Out of those three which would give me a nice mix of that class clapton sound but also be able to get a gilmour-type sound? thanks
 
IMHO only you can answer that question - you have to know what you want, what sound you're going for. each pickup you choose - you should understand why you're choosing it. True, reading textual descriptions is not the same as hearing, but you'll have to make a leap of faith at some point. But do your homework, read Harmony Central and other reviews, figure out what's different about each pickup (magnet type, number of windings, thickness of wire, overall "output" i.e. impedance) and how it translates into sound, then decide.

this type of a deliberate approach will give you the best feeling.
 
mcl116 said:
I'm looking at getting a strat but will most likely replace the pups. I'm considering putting in 1 fender fat 50s, 1 Fender custom 69 and 1 fender vintage noiseless. I'm not sure which to put where or if this would even work/ give me good tones. Any thoughts or suggestions for better pups than those? Any advice is greatly appreciated! Thanks!
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First of all, buy better pickups. Fender pickups are lame. Or at least, they are not better than mediocre, and if you're going to bother replacing your pickups, buy great pickups. Lindy Fralin, Kinman, Seymour Duncan, and Dimarzio (along with a great many others) make killer pickups. Fender makes bland pickups these days.

I have two strats, one with a set of Hot Rails, and one with a set of Seymour Duncan Classic Stack Plus pickups. The one with Hot Rails has been waiting for me to get it a new neck for the last few years (it needs a refret, and I want to get rid or the Explorer headstock I got when I was thirteen, and I want a rounder radius on it), but the one with the Classic Stack Plus' has been in my hands all but non-stop for the last six months or so since I finished the guitar. It sounds as though you are looking for a more moderate output pickup, so I highly recommend the Classic Stack Plus set. Killer pickups.



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