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Post subject: Replacement pickups
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 8:00 pm
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I just bought my third MIM strat, by choice not circumstance :-), and plan to switch out the pickups. Since my styles are so diverse, I'm thinking that I'll probably put a seymour duncan hot rails in the bridge. I use my other pickups for more mellow stuff (with the only exception being that I use the neck pickup for some heavy rhythm sometimes). Anywho, the hot rails humbucker sounds best with a 500k tone pot. Fender single coils use a 250k (so you can see the issue here already). So, my questions are:

1. If I put the hot rails in the bridge, does anyone know of a nifty way that I could wire it all up? (I've heard that I can use one 500k tone pot for the bridge and keep in the other 250k tone pot for the neck and middle pickups)...basically I want my guitar to be a barn burner AND keep that 'classic fender tone' with the other pickups.

2. If I DON'T use the hot rails, which replacement pickups could you recommend, where I'd have a barn burner and could keep that classic fender tone (I play everything from classic rock, more mellow stuff, and some harder rock music, too)?...Anybody tried Fender vintage, Fender hot, Kinman (AVN Woodstock), or any of the other pickups out there with good success?

Thanks all and keep rockin'!


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Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 2:41 pm
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Yes you can do that. Do a seach for a thread titled "Modify tone control?"

I personally LOVE the dimarzio Area 58 pickups. They may not give you what you what you are looking for in the bridge, but it you want a hum canceling pickups with a classic strat single coil sound, they will give it to you.

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Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 3:15 pm
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i love kinmans! i doubt that it has the "barn burner" tone that you're looking for, but, they are probably the best noiseless vintage pickups anywhere! (maybe even of traditional pickups too) i would recommend the aVn-69 for that "heavy rhythm" since it's modeled after a hendrix-era pickup

(i'm probably only muddying the water, sry) :wink:


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Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 4:13 pm
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you can go with a seymour duncan jb in the bridge and a 59 in the neck, and a replacment seymour duncan strat style pickup in the middle, that is if your not afraid of humbucking pickups and 500k pots

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Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 7:22 pm
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I ended up keeping the hot rails in the bridge and will run it with a 250k push/pull coil split pot.

For the neck and middle pickups, I got a great deal on ebay for two Strat Samarium Cobalt Noiseless Pickups. I've read some good reviews on them (and for $40 a pup, I couldn't go wrong).

My new MIM strat recently arrived from musicians friend. I was leery about buying without trying, but the fit, finish, action, etc., of this guitar are SWEET! I'm loving the medium-jumbo frets so much more than my old vintage...bends are much easier, and I don't need to dig into the fretboard nearly as much. So, I'll be hot-rodding that guitar with the Samarium Cobalt in the neck and middle and the hot rails in the bridge. That should give me my barn-burner, while still optioning out some classic fender tone. Bottom line - I've got a kick-ass guitar for under $600 bucks...and I'd put it up against just about any American made.

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Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 9:13 pm
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I put a Seymour Duncan Lil Screamin Demon in my old MIM and it was a screamer for sure

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