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Post subject: Pickups for american standard strat
Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 9:23 am
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My problem is that my FSR fiesta red american standard strat.it has sweet tone and everything problem is lacking OUTPUT so any suggestions which pickup im going to put in


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Post subject: Re: Pickups for american standard strat
Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 9:39 am
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why not just add a preamp?


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Post subject: Re: Pickups for american standard strat
Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 10:31 am
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well I want lots of distortion because i like a fender thats all rounded like the eric clapton strat


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Post subject: Re: Pickups for american standard strat
Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 10:35 am
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Distortion pedal?

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Post subject: Re: Pickups for american standard strat
Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 10:41 am
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I want my strat to be very high output with a beautiful tone without the effects.
I have a Fender Blues Junior III
But what do you think about vintage noiseless pickups.I mean everybody likes it


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Post subject: Re: Pickups for american standard strat
Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 11:03 am
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im prettysure clapton has a preamp of some kind built into his. you could probably get the specs off fenders site.


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Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 11:06 am
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If you want high output pickups then Vintage Noiseless don't really fit the bill. I've got a set in an ash bodied Stratocaster and they're really precise-sounding low to medium output pickups, not really overdriving monsters.

Have you considered Bare Knuckle pickups? BK Slowhands may be just what you're looking for.

https://bareknucklepickups.co.uk/main/p ... =slow_hand

Reminder: DC resistance does not directly equate to output level of a pickup.

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Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 12:41 pm
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The Clapton Strat has an onboard 25db pre amp built into the guitar. The Vintage Toneless pickups are pretty much useless things without that. They sound horrible. They don't sound that great with it.

If you want output, put a couple of EMG 89's in. If you want vintage tones put Bare Knuckle Slowhands, Sultans or Apaches in.
If you want versatility get a clean boost pedal and use that instead of wasting money on pickups. American Standard pickups offer as much output as any other single coil pickup aside from the ridiculously high gain affairs like the Dimarzio FS1 and Seymour SSL7

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Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 2:49 pm
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They sound horrible. They don't sound that great with it.


You're not using them right.

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Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 2:53 pm
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how about a boost pedal? Also are your pickups adjusted properly height wise?

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Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 3:36 pm
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I used em exactly right, I ended up taking the pole pieces out and using them as dummy coils for customers.

Horrible horrible vile worthless things that make a guitar sound like a synth doing a guitar impression. Squier ceramics sound better. Even with the midboost they're useless unnatural sounding paperweights

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Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 3:48 pm
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Mine sound fine to me. Maybe I'm using them wrong.

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Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 3:56 pm
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That much processing you can't hear em maybe?

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Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 4:03 pm
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I've had that pedal for two weeks, why would I still be using it?

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Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 4:30 pm
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GilgaFrank wrote:
I've had that pedal for two weeks, why would I still be using it?


Which one? The weeeeee....whhhhuuuuuuuuuurrrrr....bleeeeeeeb.....thunk one or the wiiiiiiz....bang........zooooooodle.......grzumf one?

I didn't like em, plenty do but to my mind they're a waste of unnatural resources. That plastic for instance could be better used as Lidl bags. The wire for Barbie doll hair and the magnets to help keep the shrapnel from Iron Man's heart.

Telling the truth and shaming the devil. I got usable results in the neck position. Put an SCN in the mid and a Dimarzio Fast Track2 in the bridge. Made for a bit of a monster with the mid boost. I had to keep the tone on the guitar around 2 when in the neck position. But ultimately, I just went to two humbuckers for that guitar and ditched the mid boost. If I want humbucker sounds I play a humbucker guitar. If I want singlecoil sounds, I use singlecoils and a very good noise suppressor wound right up. I like SCN's but don't use them anymore when I find a bog standard, cheap as chips singlecoil does a better job of sounding like a singlecoil. And they sound horrible in the bridge position too. I'm convinced there should be something in the Geneva convention about humbuckers doing an impression of singlecoils.

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Come on Winston, sling your pickups in there!

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