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Post subject: Pickup Change questions
Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 8:35 am
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Hello,

I have a question, I'm thinking about replacing the neck & middle pickups on my American Deluxe HSS Strat, swapping them out for some Texas Special or CS 54 not sure yet. I find the SCN not bad but especially the neck pup does not sound enough 'Fender' to me.
Since I have the HSS model and want to keep the hb I don't want the bridge pickup, maybe sell it?
And also, because I have an American Deluxe Strat with the S-1 switching is that a problem for the wiring? can I still use it?
And last but not least, the pickups are only available in white, but the bridge pickup en the knobs on my strat are vintage white wich I like. Is it possible to change the white pickup covers for 2 vintage white covers? So that they will match with the bridge pickup in my strat.

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Post subject: Re: Pickup Change questions
Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 4:54 pm
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There's two ways to look at what to do with your bridge pickup:
1) Sell it if you have no use for it.
2) Hang onto it just in case you want to sell the guitar and need the original pickup to help make the sale.

You can use the wiring if the pickups are replaced with what you are considering. However, the results may not be very pleasing as you will have non-humbucking pickups where on certain settings, the hum will be even louder than that of what you would experience with a 'regular' Strat's wiring. This is true even if you do get a RW/RP pickup with your new set.

On the up side, yes, you can change the pickup covers.

Frankly, if I were you, I'd look into some kind of stacked humbuckers such as DiMarzio's Area series or Kinmans.


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Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 6:16 pm
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I know what you're saying but I would not do it myself.


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Post subject: Re: Pickup Change questions
Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 9:44 am
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Martian wrote:
There's two ways to look at what to do with your bridge pickup:
1) Sell it if you have no use for it.
2) Hang onto it just in case you want to sell the guitar and need the original pickup to help make the sale.

You can use the wiring if the pickups are replaced with what you are considering. However, the results may not be very pleasing as you will have non-humbucking pickups where on certain settings, the hum will be even louder than that of what you would experience with a 'regular' Strat's wiring. This is true even if you do get a RW/RP pickup with your new set.

On the up side, yes, you can change the pickup covers.

Frankly, if I were you, I'd look into some kind of stacked humbuckers such as DiMarzio's Area series or Kinmans.

In case I weren't clear enough, I'm keeping the original Humbucker pickup in my strat. The only question is what to do with the new bridge pup wich will be a single coil. And I don't get it why it should give me even more buzz than normal? I have 2 single coils in my strat right now, there noiseless though so I know I should experience more buzz but why even more than a regular strat?

RW/RP you mean rear winded or something?

thanks. (sorry for bad English, I'm from Holland)


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Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 9:53 am
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RW/RP you mean rear winded or something?


It means reverse wound/reverse polarity. Many Stratocaster style guitars are equipped with a reverse-wound, reverse-polarity pickup in the middle position and a 5-way selector switch that allows the middle pickup to be used in parallel with either the bridge or neck pickup. This arrangement is similar to that of a humbucking pickup and noise is effectively cancelled.

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Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 1:32 pm
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RW/RP you mean rear winded or something?


It means reverse wound/reverse polarity. Many Stratocaster style guitars are equipped with a reverse-wound, reverse-polarity pickup in the middle position and a 5-way selector switch that allows the middle pickup to be used in parallel with either the bridge or neck pickup. This arrangement is similar to that of a humbucking pickup and noise is effectively cancelled.

O yeah, that is exactly what I meant thanks.

But that still leaves the questions?:)


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Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 6:42 am
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bump (A).

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You can use the wiring if the pickups are replaced with what you are considering. However, the results may not be very pleasing as you will have non-humbucking pickups where on certain settings, the hum will be even louder than that of what you would experience with a 'regular' Strat's wiring. This is true even if you do get a RW/RP pickup with your new set.

Still don't really get why I would get more hum because I'm swapping 2 single coils for 2 single coils..
Ofcourse I will experience some buzz cause the original pups were noiseless but why more than in a regular strat?


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Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 3:13 pm
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still looking for answers(A)


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What about the Alumitones from Lace or the Holy Grails... 54' sound less the noise!


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Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 10:12 am
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I don't really care about the noise, I've got noiseless right now and they will go in my yamaha strat after I got new pups for my strat :).

I really want this guitar to be the player, as it's with a lsr roller nut and humbucker it's not a traditional looking guitar anyway.

But the talk about more noise than a regular strat is incorrect, right?


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