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Which Pick Ups Do you Prefer For Your Stratocaster?
Poll ended at Mon Aug 18, 2008 6:22 pm
Standard 40%  40%  [ 10 ]
Fat 28%  28%  [ 7 ]
Tex-Mex 28%  28%  [ 7 ]
Hot Rails 4%  4%  [ 1 ]
Total votes : 25
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Post subject: Mexican Standard Stratocasters
Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 7:22 pm
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What Kind of Pick-Ups does yours have. Mine has Fender Custom Shop Tex-Mex Pick-Ups.[/b]


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Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 8:41 pm
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When I first bought my 94 mim new, I left the stock on for a year or so. Then I put some Lace Sensors on it - gold, silver, blue - in different combinations. When I got my 98 mia, I put the american pickups in the mim, and they're still on today.

My mia has been modded a lot, and now has a sd jb jr, silver lace, and blue lace. Very versatile and suits all the styles I play very well.


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Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 7:08 am
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Tex Mex & SD JB (SH-4) in bridge position.

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Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 2:08 pm
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The last MIM I owned was stocked with Lace Blue at the neck, Lace gold in the middle and a SD Lil Screamin Demon at the bridge.

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Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 4:15 pm
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I was thinking we would be talking about Mexican strats in here, not pickups lol

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Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 4:23 pm
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bss wrote:
I was thinking we would be talking about Mexican strats in here, not pickups lol


That was my first thought too.

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Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 5:33 pm
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A couple YJM's and a HS3


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Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 8:28 pm
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I tried out a MIM Standard Wednesday night. A colleague from work just bought one, his first electric guitar, and I helped him set it up. Then we tried it out through my Marshall Lead 12 (it was 9:00 PM, with kids asleep, so no firing up the 100 Watt Stack).

I gotta say, those stock MIM pickups sounded okay to me, with perfectly acceptable strat tones. In comparison, my late-2005 Highway One's alnico pickups sounded just a hair "smoother." Nothing a little twist of the amp's tone controls couldn't deal with.

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Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 9:18 pm
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I got Tex Mex pups in my MIM which are truly great. Those alnico-5's work so well with the guitar. But similar to Orvilleowner's post above, I was quite happy for a long while with the stock ones before I changed them out.

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Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 10:19 am
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I have three single coil ceramic MIM standard pickups just sitting around.

I was thinking about experimenting with them: if I removed some of the coil's wire wraps, to bring the DC resistance down about 5%, perhaps that would "smooth" them out a little bit.

If there's one thing I try to avoid, it's overwound single coil pickups.

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I have a DiMarzio set in mine:

Neck = Area 67
Middle = Area 58
Bridge = Area 61

Absolutely perfect combo for my needs. The DiMarzios sound phenomenal either by themselves or in any combination and there's no noise!

I also have it wired with a master volume and tone, a Super Switch and a megohm blend pot. I can get any combo of the pickups at will and the guitar looks totally stock.

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I like different pickups in different guitars, why would i want the same in all my guitars. They all feel different, i want em to sound different too.

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Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 11:58 am
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Lace Sensors :P

blue - neck
silver - middle
red - bridge


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