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Post subject: american deluxe strat's SCN pickups
Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 10:12 pm
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What are these? I didn't do any research before buying my american deluxe as it was impulse buying :D How are they different from the usual standard strat pick ups and what does SCN even mean?


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Post subject: Re: american deluxe strat's SCN pickups
Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 6:28 pm
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mofemobile wrote:
What are these? I didn't do any research before buying my american deluxe as it was impulse buying :D How are they different from the usual standard strat pick ups and what does SCN even mean?


Samarium Cobalt Noisless:

In a nutshell, Samarium Cobalt is what the magnets in these pickups are made of, which is, ceramic. The Noisless aspect is the fact that they are stacked humbuckers. The design of these pickups were a collaboration between Fender and Bill Lawrence.

Most of the American Strats utilize mostly single coil (non-humbucking) pickups with Alnico magnets.

There are raging battles on many a guitar oriented forum comparing and contrasting ceramic vs. alnico magnets for pickups (and for speakers for that matter). The general concensus of opinion is that ceramic magnets make a pickup sound crisper, have more presence and can be a tad harsh, whereas alnico have a sweeter response with a more pleasing midrange and less "ice picky" highs.

As always, YMMV.


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