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Post subject: New pickips for squier?
Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2012 6:16 pm
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I was thinking about buying the Seymour Duncan Everything Axe Single-Coil Electric Guitar Pickup Set for my squier. I use amp modeling software such as Amplitube 3 and was wondering if replacing the pickups would improve anything significantly. Keep in mind that the current pickups I now have on it are stock.

Should I even upgrade them being that its only a squier and not a real strat?


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Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 5:20 am
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why would you say a squier is not a real guitar i have a squier vibe 50 telecaster and it plays and sounds real if you think squiers are not real then dont buy new pickup buy a new guitar :roll: :lol:


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Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 6:13 am
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Not a real Strat? They're not only licensed by Fender, but look and play exactly as any other "official" Strat does lol. Some professional musicians play Squiers. I've seen and heard luthiers make custom Strats that sound better than some of the American Strats and Teles. Don't let a headstock and a brand name fool you...

But anyway, make sure you know what you're buying before you buy it. If you're content with the sound, might as well go for it!

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Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 1:40 pm
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appetite4gnr wrote:
I was thinking about buying the Seymour Duncan Everything Axe Single-Coil Electric Guitar Pickup Set for my squier. I use amp modeling software such as Amplitube 3 and was wondering if replacing the pickups would improve anything significantly. Keep in mind that the current pickups I now have on it are stock.

Should I even upgrade them being that its only a squier and not a real strat?

sorry pal,but my 98 affinity series strat is EVERY BIT A FENDER.the squier line has the same WARRANTY,as the MIA,MIM,etc:who told you that your squier wasn't a REAL STRAT?i would imagine that whoever told you this is just another STRAT SNOB.why do you want to replace your pups?many squier owners will in time,make mods on the squier,thinking it would sound different.UNLESS you sign autographs,play your squier knowing that is INDEED a real fender.play on dude.


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Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 6:43 pm
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Replacing the pickups without replacing the pots, jack, and switch. Is a waste of money. For half the price of the SD's you can get a loaded pickguard from GFS or Dragonfire. If you really want the SD's wait until you can afford to upgrade everything or you will be disappointed. You might even find a preloaded pickguard with SD's on ebay for the same price you'd pay for the pickups alone


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Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 10:24 am
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Replacing the pickups without replacing the pots, jack, and switch. Is a waste of money. For half the price of the SD's you can get a loaded pickguard from GFS or Dragonfire. If you really want the SD's wait until you can afford to upgrade everything or you will be disappointed. You might even find a preloaded pickguard with SD's on ebay for the same price you'd pay for the pickups alone

I bought a set of GFS 60's HOT OVERWOUNDS and added some CTS pots with the orange drop caps, and WOW what an improvement! If you're going to upgrade your pups, give them a looksy. Also, you may want to look into shielding your cavity as well, since you'll have her open. If you're handy with a soldering iron, this shouldn't be tough to do on your own. I've rewired several of my own and buddies guitars, and it's cake! If you get into some trouble, there are tons of sites to help with diagrams!


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Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 10:50 am
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appetite4gnr wrote:
I was thinking about buying the Seymour Duncan Everything Axe Single-Coil Electric Guitar Pickup Set for my squier. I use amp modeling software such as Amplitube 3 and was wondering if replacing the pickups would improve anything significantly. Keep in mind that the current pickups I now have on it are stock.

Should I even upgrade them being that its only a squier and not a real strat?

I am like you and use digital modeling. I'll give you an answer as soon as i cover a few bases.
1)Never use the terms Squire and Not Real Fender in the same thread on the Squire side of the forum. It won't go well for you. As you can tell by some of the responses. It's a sore spot. I feel the same as they do but I understood what you meant.
2)Squires are extremely popular for modding or souping up. That said, you asked the question to a bias crowd. But, these guys know all the tricks to squeeze every ounce of sound out of your guitar.
3)In my humble opinion, changing out pickups makes a big difference in the analog, tube amp kinda world. In the digital world about the only difference you will notice is a boost in gain. If you know what your doing with your effects processor you can manipulate that signal to get any sound you want. I've just never found justification for the expense.

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Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 10:13 am
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cullenszoo wrote:
I am like you and use digital modeling. I'll give you an answer as soon as i cover a few bases.
1)Never use the terms Squire and Not Real Fender in the same thread on the Squire side of the forum. It won't go well for you. As you can tell by some of the responses. It's a sore spot. I feel the same as they do but I understood what you meant.
2)Squires are extremely popular for modding or souping up. That said, you asked the question to a bias crowd. But, these guys know all the tricks to squeeze every ounce of sound out of your guitar.
3)In my humble opinion, changing out pickups makes a big difference in the analog, tube amp kinda world. In the digital world about the only difference you will notice is a boost in gain. If you know what your doing with your effects processor you can manipulate that signal to get any sound you want. I've just never found justification for the expense.

i have to agree with cullens with regasrds to digital modelling, but if you were playing through an amp just upgrading the pots and cap can make a difference to the clean tone of your guitar, 250k pots and maybe experimenting with different value caps


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Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 11:09 am
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alfunkz wrote:
cullenszoo wrote:
I am like you and use digital modeling. I'll give you an answer as soon as i cover a few bases.
1)Never use the terms Squire and Not Real Fender in the same thread on the Squire side of the forum. It won't go well for you. As you can tell by some of the responses. It's a sore spot. I feel the same as they do but I understood what you meant.
2)Squires are extremely popular for modding or souping up. That said, you asked the question to a bias crowd. But, these guys know all the tricks to squeeze every ounce of sound out of your guitar.
3)In my humble opinion, changing out pickups makes a big difference in the analog, tube amp kinda world. In the digital world about the only difference you will notice is a boost in gain. If you know what your doing with your effects processor you can manipulate that signal to get any sound you want. I've just never found justification for the expense.

i have to agree with cullens with regasrds to digital modelling, but if you were playing through an amp just upgrading the pots and cap can make a difference to the clean tone of your guitar, 250k pots and maybe experimenting with different value caps

I'm with al, plus it's a lot less expensive to change a cap and or pots than it will be for another set of pups.
By the way al, are these capacitors you could pic up at radio shack or do we have to get them at a special place?

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Post subject: Re: New pickips for squier?
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 2:32 pm
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cullenszoo wrote:
I'm with al, plus it's a lot less expensive to change a cap and or pots than it will be for another set of pups.
By the way al, are these capacitors you could pic up at radio shack or do we have to get them at a special place?

regular radio shack ones should be fine, some people would say that paper in oil are the only ones you should use, or sprague orange drops (personally i use these), but RS ones are far cheaper and if you get a few of different value then you can play some will make a more noticale difference than ohers


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Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 1:45 pm
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alfunkz wrote:
cullenszoo wrote:
I'm with al, plus it's a lot less expensive to change a cap and or pots than it will be for another set of pups.
By the way al, are these capacitors you could pic up at radio shack or do we have to get them at a special place?

regular radio shack ones should be fine, some people would say that paper in oil are the only ones you should use, or sprague orange drops (personally i use these), but RS ones are far cheaper and if you get a few of different value then you can play some will make a more noticale difference than ohers

you wanna throw a couple of suggestions for caps and value out there.

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Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 2:00 pm
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cullenszoo wrote:
alfunkz wrote:
cullenszoo wrote:
I'm with al, plus it's a lot less expensive to change a cap and or pots than it will be for another set of pups.
By the way al, are these capacitors you could pic up at radio shack or do we have to get them at a special place?

regular radio shack ones should be fine, some people would say that paper in oil are the only ones you should use, or sprague orange drops (personally i use these), but RS ones are far cheaper and if you get a few of different value then you can play some will make a more noticale difference than ohers

you wanna throw a couple of suggestions for caps and value out there.


.022uF, .033uF, .047uF, 0.1uF. the differences being .022 will let more of the higher tones through and each one from there lets less through, smoothing out the tone a little bit as you go up, i use .047's myself in all my single coil guitars


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Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 6:15 pm
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Cool, I'm about to start a recording project with some new gear and may need to adjust that if one of my guitars doesn't give me what I want. I'm guessing it works the same for double hummers?

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Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 11:29 pm
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cullenszoo wrote:
Cool, I'm about to start a recording project with some new gear and may need to adjust that if one of my guitars doesn't give me what I want. I'm guessing it works the same for double hummers?

i would assume so, but i think most bucker based guitars have .047's fitted as standard, i'm no expert just going on what i have seen on another forum


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Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 12:39 am
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DiMarzio makes a couple of prewired pickup sets for strats that replace all the electronics as well as the pickups AND they're solderless, and easy to put in. If I had an Squier SSS strat I'd probably go with the prewired Area set.

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