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Post subject: Yet another noisless PUP question
Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 10:55 pm
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I just got a Fender FSR Standard Stratocaster w/Vintage Noiseless pups. Everything sounds great so far, but I have no way of controlling the tone on the bridge pickup. It seems stuck rolled forward to 10, or bright. Rolling the tone knob back and forth does nothing. This guitar came ostensibly direct from the factory, so I'm kinda baffled. Any ideas? A bad pot? Mismatched wiring? I was hoping for some pointers before I have to trash my new strings and remove the pick guard to investigate. Thanks!


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Your Strat is wired the way all Strats were traditionally wired -- IOW, it's correct.

Many players (myself included) modify this configuration by adding a jumper wire to the switch in order to control the tone of the bridge pickup using the bottom tone control. It's an easy mod and you should be able to find the wiring diagram in the "support" section of this site.

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Thanks for the information. I have an American Standard and can control the bridge pup with the lower tone control. I guess I incorrectly assumed that all Strats had independent tone control for the bridge pup. I'm not much with electronics, so I had some '69 Custom Shop pups installed in that guitar right after I bought it. The luthier who did it for me must have included that mod in the installation, huh?


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TimboStrat wrote:
The luthier who did it for me must have included that mod in the installation, huh?


Not necessarily, Timbo.

Some modern Strat versions include this wiring mod as standard.

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TimboStrat wrote:
Thanks for the information. I have an American Standard and can control the bridge pup with the lower tone control. I guess I incorrectly assumed that all Strats had independent tone control for the bridge pup. I'm not much with electronics, so I had some '69 Custom Shop pups installed in that guitar right after I bought it. The luthier who did it for me must have included that mod in the installation, huh?


Bridge tone control is standard in the American Standard:

http://support.fender.com/diagrams/stra ... 02CPg2.pdf

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bluesky636 wrote:
Bridge tone control is standard in the American Standard:

http://support.fender.com/diagrams/stra ... 02CPg2.pdf


I suspected that might be the case -- thanks for the confirmation, Bill.

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Retroverbial wrote:
bluesky636 wrote:
Bridge tone control is standard in the American Standard:

http://support.fender.com/diagrams/stra ... 02CPg2.pdf


I suspected that might be the case -- thanks for the confirmation, Bill.

Arjay


But it's not standard in the Standard Strat. :lol:

http://support.fender.com/diagrams/stra ... 02DPg2.pdf

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