Noiseless pups really noiseless?

chromeface · **Posted:** Tue Dec 06, 2011 8:13 pm

bluesky636 wrote:

Fender also announced (earlier this year, I believe), a noiseless version of their 50's style pickups, but I have never seen them in the market place.

The new Fender noiseless pickups you're talking about are none than the Super 55 split-coils, which supposedly emulate the classic vintage single-coil tone of an original 1955 Strat pickup without the hum. Fender had already plans for including these new hum-cancelling babies in their American Deluxe series in 2012.

bluesky636 · **Posted:** Tue Dec 06, 2011 10:07 pm

chromeface wrote:

bluesky636 wrote:

Fender also announced (earlier this year, I believe), a noiseless version of their 50's style pickups, but I have never seen them in the market place.

The new Fender noiseless pickups you're talking about are none than the Super 55 split-coils, which supposedly emulate the classic vintage single-coil tone of an original 1955 Strat pickup without the hum. Fender had already plans for including these new hum-cancelling babies in their American Deluxe series in 2012.

You're right! Here they are:

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/accessor ... pickup-set

bluesstrattone · **Joined:** Fri Jun 20, 2008 11:08 am **Posts:** 2265

bluesky636 wrote:

chromeface wrote:

bluesky636 wrote:

Fender also announced (earlier this year, I believe), a noiseless version of their 50's style pickups, but I have never seen them in the market place.

The new Fender noiseless pickups you're talking about are none than the Super 55 split-coils, which supposedly emulate the classic vintage single-coil tone of an original 1955 Strat pickup without the hum. Fender had already plans for including these new hum-cancelling babies in their American Deluxe series in 2012.

You're right! Here they are:

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/accessor ... pickup-set

interesting set of pickups,
i would love to hear them.
but how do they work?

bluesky636 · **Posted:** Tue Dec 06, 2011 11:00 pm

bluesstrattone wrote:

bluesky636 wrote:

You're right! Here they are:

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/accessor ... pickup-set

interesting set of pickups,
i would love to hear them.
but how do they work?

If you enlarge picture #4, you will see that each pickup consists of two single coils. It works on the same principle as the P-Bass pickup. It is a humbucker with separate coils for E/A/D and G/B/E set end-to-end instead of side-by-side like PAFs or stacked like Vintage Noiseless pickups.

bluesstrattone · **Joined:** Fri Jun 20, 2008 11:08 am **Posts:** 2265

Thanks

chromeface · **Posted:** Wed Dec 07, 2011 12:21 am

I suppose the Super 55s is Fender's response to the Lace Holy Grails.

Lace has developed the Holy Grails after an original 1954 Strat pickup set. He stated that the Grails faithfully reproduce the '54 Strat sound without the noise.

Yet the Holy Grails came with a hot bridge pickup, which makes me thinking seriously if the Super 55 is also available with a hotter output as well...

archmal · **Joined:** Wed Dec 07, 2011 2:08 am **Posts:** 2

less noise!!!

KatyTXBluesMan · **Joined:** Sat Jun 13, 2009 5:30 pm **Posts:** 62

lungimsam wrote:

1. Really noiseless?
2. How do they do it? Humbuckers?

Just wondering because I am thinking of getting them for my blue flower stratocaster. To replace the "noisemore" pups that came stock in it.
Switching from positions 1-5 sounds like "EEE-mmm-EEEE-mm-EEE"
Thanks for any help.

Just from my own experience I'd recommend the Hot Noiseless set. Fender collaborated with Jeff Beck on those. I personally like them best from the noiseless series. I found them to be both hot and noiseless relative to other single coil pickups.

chromeface · **Posted:** Wed Dec 07, 2011 9:22 am

The Hot Noiseless pickups were also available as a standard feature on USA Deluxes made between 1998 and 2003.

The SSS models featured a Hot Noiseless pickup in the bridge for more punch and sustain, as well as harder attack; the neck and middle pickups were primarily designed to achieve a better balance with the Atomic humbucking bridge pickup (American Deluxe Strat HSS/HSS LT).

maller · **Joined:** Sat Dec 13, 2008 4:48 pm **Posts:** 96

chromeface wrote:

bluesky636 wrote:

Fender also announced (earlier this year, I believe), a noiseless version of their 50's style pickups, but I have never seen them in the market place.

The new Fender noiseless pickups you're talking about are none than the Super 55 split-coils, which supposedly emulate the classic vintage single-coil tone of an original 1955 Strat pickup without the hum. Fender had already plans for including these new hum-cancelling babies in their American Deluxe series in 2012.

Is Fender definitely replacing the N3's for 2012 with these? Will the change happen right away?

bluesky636 · **Posted:** Thu Dec 22, 2011 8:37 pm

No idea.

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