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Post subject: switching from texmex pickups to duncan antiquity texas hots
Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2011 1:13 pm
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I'm just wondering if anyone has any idea what kind of differences i could expect switching from fender tex mex pick ups to seymour duncan antiquity texas hots. does anyone have any experience with the texas hots? i should really hope theres a difference if a whole set of the tex mex costs as much as one single antiquity pickup. thanks in advance.


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Post subject: Re: switching from texmex pickups to duncan antiquity texas
Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2011 2:35 pm
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There will be a difference, whether you hear it or not is another question. The cleaner you're playing, the more you'll notice. Relatively speaking, the Duncans are much hotter than the Tex Mex, they're handwound, and hand aged. The covers are aged, not molded to look aged. They use pushback fabric insulation like real vintage.
The output inpedence on Tex Mex bridge is 7.4K ohms (pretty hot, since the Area 58s from dimarzio are about 5.85, this is a reading I took after they were installed, so its after running to the switch, through the vol/tone pots.)
The Duncans are 9.7K, considerably high IMO for single coils, since the PAF humbuckers i use are 7.25/neck, 8.5/bridge. Again, this is areading at the guitars jack.

Whether or not the stated values for the Duncans and Tex Mexs are what you'll actually get depends on the jack, pots, resistors, and capacitors the signal runs through before it gets to the jack.

The advertised ratings are always the pickup alone, which is always higher than it ends up being when it leaves a guitar. Its like when car companies would advertise Horsepower or torque. the ratings were usually what the engine was putting out, but once it gets to the transmission, it drops, and when it gets to the power it drops even more. Which is why in car magazines lots of times they'll tell you H.P at the rear tire, etc.

If you plan on putting them in, and dont have much experience wiring this stuff up, remember that the colors of the wires for one company will not match those of anothers.

So if say a fenders Red wire is hot (just using arbirary colors here, dont jump on me), it may be the black wire on a set of dimarzios, or green on Fralins, etc./

Seymour duncans website is the best one Ive found for getting infomation on these matters. They usually will tell you what another comanies hookup wire color is relative to theirs.

You're amp will drive earlier, all controls being equal with what they are now. There's also a different "Q" frequency. You're going to notice more midrange in them, whereas avintage output pickup will have a more scooped midrange.


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Post subject: Re: switching from texmex pickups to duncan antiquity texas
Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2013 9:36 am
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I have a set of Seymour Duncan Texas Hots in one of my Strats. They don't sound as hot (Sonically) as I anticipated. One: the TH are constructed with A2 mags (Softer mag strength, and slightly rounder tone). They are articulate, but don't have that A5 jump and chime associated with Strat PU's. The TH's are quality, vintage toned PU's. But you loose just a touch of the chime, due to the mags being slightly deguassed (To create the tone of a aged component) but don't have the same vibe as an A5. I would say the difference between the two, tonally, would be if you compared a Texas Special against a Squire stock pick up. The both have there place, but upon purchase, I was hoping the Seymour Duncan's Texas Hots would put me in simular ball park as the Fender Texas Specials. Now the Texas Hot bridge PU is rated at 9.1, and it does give a sweet midrage injection and slightly adds bass responds. Now this doesn't mean you can't tweak it to be more pronounced. Just fiddle with your EQ setting just a little, and you can get those PU to sing the way you want them to.

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Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2013 9:57 am
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While I haven't used the Antiquities, I do use the SD APS1's. I love the tone of them much better than Texas Specials, Tex-Mex, American Standard, Mexican Standard, Noiseless, Vintage Noiseless, and SCN Noiseless. Just seems to have more of an SRV tone to me, retaining the clarity but adding the bite I need.

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Post subject: Re: switching from texmex pickups to duncan antiquity texas
Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2013 10:30 am
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DetroitBlues wrote:
While I haven't used the Antiquities, I do use the SD APS1's. I love the tone of them much better than Texas Specials, Tex-Mex, American Standard, Mexican Standard, Noiseless, Vintage Noiseless, and SCN Noiseless. Just seems to have more of an SRV tone to me, retaining the clarity but adding the bite I need.


1+. I have some SD APS1's in one of my Strats also. I has a rounder tone that say the SD SSL1's. I have mine in a FSR Ash body. The APS1's do well in Ash, and are like an Antiquity TH just aged. Seymour Duncan uses the A2 mags in the Ant's because they are easier to get a PU to a point in which it seems to have less grit than a A5. When I A/B'ed the two, I found I had to tweak the Ant's to get a little more of the highs out of it as opposed to the APS1's. Nothing major that could not be remedied with tweaking the eq a little. Now when I through some overdrive on that TH bridge PU, it just freaking kick-butt. I don't know how it gets such girth (When clean, they fact that they're degaussed, the PU don't sound as if they would give out such tone, but they have a mid-ranger and fullness about them when driven). Now it's been forever since I heard a Tex-Mex PU, but from what I read in the stats, the Duncan Texas Hot's might be what you could go with, if in fact your TM's PU sound thinner than the TH. Just a thought... Ne more thing; the TH are visually more over wound than what Fender calls for.

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Post subject: Re: switching from texmex pickups to duncan antiquity texas
Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2013 1:26 pm
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I never liked the Tex Mex. why didnt you just go Texas Specials? Just asking...

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Post subject: Re: switching from texmex pickups to duncan antiquity texas
Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2013 9:39 am
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I had a Road Worn '50's Strat with Tex mex pickups and I replaced them with Duncan Antiquity Texas Hots......now, I didn't get the custom wound bridge pickup, just the regular one, but I was really happy with the pickups. I sold the guitar recently to make room for a new AVRI '56 Strat but that Road Worn '50's Strat with the Duncan Antiquities was one of the best sounding Strats I had. I half way regret selling it but you know how it goes.......I just had to have that '56 RI...

But for me personally, I really liked the Antiquity Texas Hots......and I really don't think "Texas Hots" are a good name for them. They're supposed to be a '50's style pickup with the option of buying a specially wound hotter bridge pickup, but '50's pickups aren't exactly supposed to be "hot".


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