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Anyone familiar with late 90s Fender Noiseless pickups?

Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2022 9:57 am
by tobijohn
There's a Nashville set on Reverb that i was thinking about for a b-stock SX Tele I recently picked up. Anyone have any opinions or insite?

https://reverb.com/item/49325953-fender ... -1997-1998

https://www.rondomusic.com/product10446.html

I suppose I could post on the usual Tele sites but thought I'd ask here first. TIA...

Re: Anyone familiar with late 90s Fender Noiseless pickups?

Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2022 4:01 pm
by Partscaster
I dont know about those.

FWIW, I have just ordered an interesting noiseless set (neck/bridge) of a mini-humbucking, single coil-ish sounding, model made by an Australian winder called Mr Fabulous, or D'Urbano. Both the same guy. Those Phoenix have some good growl and a hum/single cross tone, IMO. I'll find out later.

He has good vids of his Phoenix minihumbuckers x3 in a strat, and x2 in a tele... if noiseless single coil sound is the aim.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKf2ClZaxXo

Also his Firebird pickups....made the right way ..sound good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5EcksJFPIk

His videos on his yutub homepage seem like good sounding pickups. Is on reverb, and has his business site.
I'm getting a couple sets including the 2xPhoenix set to put in a strat.

Re: Anyone familiar with late 90s Fender Noiseless pickups?

Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2022 7:54 pm
by golem
I don't love Fender's Noiseless Designs but I don't think they're unusable either. If you wanted something better for about the same price you could try Bill Lawrence's work:

https://www.wildepickups.com/

You could contact them for an atypical set like something that would work in a Nashville. They're a small shop and would likely accommodate you.

Re: Anyone familiar with late 90s Fender Noiseless pickups?

Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2022 9:40 pm
by slowhand84
tobijohn wrote: Fri Jan 14, 2022 9:57 am There's a Nashville set on Reverb that i was thinking about for a b-stock SX Tele I recently picked up. Anyone have any opinions or insite?

https://reverb.com/item/49325953-fender ... -1997-1998

https://www.rondomusic.com/product10446.html

I suppose I could post on the usual Tele sites but thought I'd ask here first. TIA...
They're perfectly decent pickups but when you're talking $150 for a set there are MANY sets I would choose for a tele instead.