Fender Noiseless Pickups

[jhale667]

I think I'd go for the Woodstock plus set...

[ELVIS]

No, I don't care for extra hot pickups...

The regular Woodstock set is already way way hotter than my main HS-3's...

[jhale667]

I like a hotter bridge pickup, but that's about it. I based my (split-second) decision on the sound files...just liked the way they responded in both clean and dirty settings...:D

[ELVIS]

Pretty good sounding, huh ??

[jhale667]

Originally posted by ELVIS
Pretty good sounding, huh ??

Yeah...like I said, I totally want to A/B them against the Virtuals now...still looking around on the site, but haven't seen yet whether you can mix and match or you have to buy the sets?

No, not looking like they're sold individually... Only possible downside I'm seeing...

[ELVIS]

Hmmm...

I don't know...

Check eBay though, I've seen alot of single Kinmans on there...

[ELVIS]

This just went for $175 the other day and I missed it...

Woodstock regular set...

[jhale667]

...Missed it by THIS much. Don't you hate it when that shit happens?

[GAR]

Originally posted by ELVIS
IChris Kinman knows what he's talking about...

That would be - mostly about himself!

"I.." this. "I.." that.

I read half his site thru that link you gave, and still can't understand why his pickups are any different than anything else.

He doesn't specify anything he does differently than a stock strat pickups' sound in a clear, technically concise nor in even the simplest engineering terms that would initiate me to buy one set or one pickup.

I know I've seen that guy around NAMM but never talked to him, and since he puts down active electronics in his ignorance I'm in no hurry to do so either.

[GAR]

Re: Fender Noiseless Pickups

Originally posted by Cato
any users here? how useful? how noiseless? worth buying?

No, I don't recommend them. I've talked about my reasons why before here and the main reason is that besides the fact the magnet's strength is too hot (killing the spin of the string vibration=magnetism damping) the wire is wound to tight.

I know the winding machine, I know the man that designed it, the one that built it, and the dummy who designed these pickups. If you really want a hum-free stack pickup, rewind a stock Strat pickup in two half sections loosely using #45 gauge magnet wire to about 3800 ohms each half-section.

I first did that in 1981 in my garage and it works, just buy some broken Seymour Duncan Vintage Staggered Strat pickups and play with em using #45 or call Duncan Custom shop and request it be done.