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Post subject: Installing Vintage Noiseless pickups
Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 12:05 pm
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Hi,

I've purchased a set of Fender Vintage Noiseless Pickups that I want to install myself on another pickguard and place in my MIM Strat I bought a couple of weeks ago.
The instructions that came with the pickups are kinda weak. I can follow the wireing locations but nothing is mentioned about the capacitors or resistor that came with the set.

I've downloaded the wiring diagram for the Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton Strats because I know they use Noiseless pickups. They kinda help. But what about the resistor?

Included with the pickups:
1 - 500k pot
2 - 1meg pots
1 - 22k capacitor
1 - 681 1kv capacitor?
1 - ? resistor

Can someone please help me wire this?
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Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 9:05 am
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Hello,

I'm not sure if you still need this, but this appears to be the diagram you may need. I got the same set of pickups and components (although LH)

http://www.fender.com/support/diagrams/ ... 02BPg2.pdf

Ironically, the Lefthanded version of the same model calls for a different combination of capacitors and resistors. Can anyone explain why that would be?

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Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 10:07 am
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Thanks Tom. The wiring diagram for the American Deluxe Strat worked great. The instrument sounds wonderful! I counldn't be more pleased. :D

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Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 9:16 am
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i ran into the same trouble when I got my vintage noiseless pups. the capacitors are not mentioned on the diagram. I asked my tech, and he said I needed one of them, but there was an extra one.

when he wired them up, he used different pots and capacitors anyways. the ones they gave me weren't conducive to the sound I wanted.


I advise that you ask a certified guitar tech about them.


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Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 3:11 pm
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I just unpacked my set of pickups, I got a diagram with mine similar to the one posted above. It however gives values for the pots. Here is where it gets wierd. It has "1-meg volume" with an arrow pointing to the volume pot. It has "1-meg tone" with 2 arrows coming off 1 pointing at each tone pot. The kit came with 2 1 meg pots and a 500k pot. I'm guessing 500k for the volume is that correct ?
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Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 3:50 pm
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Tonefight,

That's the way I used them. Works fine for me.

With the setup I used, the highs really starts to drop off (get low) when you get to about 3.5 on the tone knobs. That's when you really can tell a difference.

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Thanks aerobrooks, i just got eveything mounted on the pickguard, maybe after dinner I'll fire up the soldering iron. I got one of those cool touch ones a couple months ago and haven't tried it out yet ( it may end up in the garbage though )


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Post subject: Re: Installing Vintage Noiseless pickups
Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 11:57 pm
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the resistor and cap in parallel on the volume pot is a treble bleed mod. it keeps alot of the high end from bleeding to ground as you turn the volume knob down.


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