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Post subject: Squier standard and Fender Samarium Cobalt Noiseless pickups
Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2010 4:35 am
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How should I go about changing SCN pickups on Squier Standard? Do I have to throw out any other electronics beside the pickups? Does changing a pickguard on it make any difference in sound?


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Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2010 7:59 am
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cocos wrote:
How should I go about changing SCN pickups on Squier Standard? Do I have to throw out any other electronics beside the pickups? Does changing a pickguard on it make any difference in sound?


Welcome.

If you mean is there anything special that you should know about installing a set of SCNs in your Squier, the answer is no. As to your changing a pickguard question, here too, the answer is no.

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Post subject: Re: Squier standard and Fender Samarium Cobalt Noiseless pic
Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 7:03 pm
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cocos wrote:
How should I go about changing SCN pickups on Squier Standard? Do I have to throw out any other electronics beside the pickups? Does changing a pickguard on it make any difference in sound?


Well...I don't want to discredit Martian's answer there at all...he's a smart dude, but I would like to expand on it a bit.

Since you're asking the question, I'm going to assume you don't have a lot of experience with changing pickups on a guitar so I would ask how much experience you have with soldering? While there's nothing special about putting in SCN's compared with most other pickups (not counting active pickups of course), there -is- some soldering involved...if you're not comfortable with your skills with a soldering iron, I would strongly recommend taking it to a tech instead. Soldering isn't hard for most folks but as with all other things, it -is- a skill and you don't want to screw up your guitar's switch if you don't know what you're doing. Of course if you do know how to solder, then please disregard that comment completely.

As far as the comment about the pickguard goes...no, changing the sound of the pickguard won't effect the sound of the guitar. Ok...there -are- a few daft folks who seem to think that doing things like removing the trem cavity cover makes the guitar sound different but the truth is that -if- something like a plastic cover or pickguard makes any difference at all, its something that can only be registered on extremely sensitive electronic measuring equipment. However do be aware that if/when you change those pickups, you -will- need to be aware of height adjustments...how close the new pickups are to the strings. I've never tried the SCN's personally but I'd suspect they probably have slightly stronger magnets than your stock pickups so they may not need to be as close to the strings as your stock pickups did.

Good luck and let us know how it goes!
Jim


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My brother has a black maple-necked Squier Silver Strat with a set of Gold Lace Sensors, an EasyGlider string tree and an American Series 2-point tremolo with stainless steel block saddles.

The guitar looked like a Clapton Strat without the active circuit.


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