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Post subject: Weird SCN pickup problem
Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 8:19 am
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I decided to swap out the stock pickups on my standard Telecaster and drop in some Samarium Cobalt Noiseless ones. I liked the ceramic stock pickups tone, but not the hum.

Unfortunately, the new Fender SCN set had a bad bridge pickup, so the guitar guy who sold em to me only put in the neck pickup, and back-ordered the other. The new neck pickup is great, sounds a lot like the old neck pickup, but no hum!

My old ceramic bridge pickup still sounds good. It is a fair bit hotter than the SCN, which I expected.

Here's the problem. The middle blade position no longer sounds like a Telecaster should. It is shrill, has no bottom, and is quiet. I'm really worried about this, as this is my favourite blade position.

Will it go away, do you think, when the other SCN goes in? Or did my guitar guy do something wrong?


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Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 2:37 pm
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could be the SCN was wired in out of phase with the bridge pickup. Wait for the new SCN, try it out and then try reversing it if it still sounds that way. Hopefully that's all that is wrong. Best of luck.


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Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 11:37 am
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in my experience its down to impedence differences. the bridge pickups stronger than the neck and lipstick pickups are less powerfull than singlecoils anyway, scn's are less powerfull than most stock pickups. what your getting is the power of the stock bridge pickup is bullying the neck scn and the impedence differences are giving a perculiar effect. i have experience of this when ive tried to fit humbuckers alongside singlecoils and im sure it will rectify itself when the bridge scn is installed.

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Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 5:22 pm
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It will all calm down once you get both SCN's in. I even put in an S-1 Switch which gives me even more options. You're gonna love it once you get them both in.


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