Jimmy
Joined: Oct 28, 2012
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Posted on Aug 09 2013 11:07 AM
I have tried an endless number of noise cancelling Fender replacement pickups in the last 30 years ( since they came out ) and maybe with the exception of Fenders vintage noiseless they pretty much all sound like poop !. I have not tried Kinman's and have heard good things about them. Being a studio owner you end up getting way to anal about noise and hum BUT ' things go full circle and i have once again learned to embrace " single coil hum " if it means getting the holy " bell tone ". After all the noise didn't bug me as a kid LOL ! any thoughts ?
Jimmy
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derekirving
Joined: Nov 03, 2011
Posts: 660
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Posted on Aug 09 2013 11:12 AM
Yea it seems that all the noiseless pickups I've heard suck the soul out of the pickup.
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crumble
Joined: Sep 09, 2008
Posts: 3158
Guildford England
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Posted on Aug 09 2013 11:34 AM
Has anyone tried the Lace Alumitone Pickups. I like the looks of them and they are getting some thumbs up on youtube.
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Jimmy
Joined: Oct 28, 2012
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Posted on Aug 09 2013 11:53 AM
Those are just plain weird crumble ! LOL ! I would want to try em before buying !
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CrashHardtop
Joined: Jun 14, 2012
Posts: 152
Meridian, Idaho
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Posted on Aug 09 2013 01:22 PM
Holy Art Deco, Batman! Those are some cool looking pickups. Look like they would be right at home on some big-bodied jazz guitar.
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Jimmy
Joined: Oct 28, 2012
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Posted on Aug 09 2013 04:03 PM
I just realized those are my kitchen drawer handles ! and my house was built in 1927. It IS art deco LOL !
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Guitar_Guy
Joined: Jun 25, 2013
Posts: 20
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Posted on Aug 09 2013 04:40 PM
Dimarzio injectors are really good sounding ones. But they don't sound perfectly stratty, but definitely not poop.
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LeeVanCleef
Joined: Oct 05, 2011
Posts: 744
France
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Posted on Aug 09 2013 05:35 PM
crumble wrote:
Has anyone tried the Lace Alumitone Pickups. I like the looks of them and they are getting some thumbs up on youtube.
I've been watching Youtube demos for quite some time and those Alumitone pickups sound quite interesting to my ears, but not interesting enough to justify spending more than $300 (not counting shipping & import duty) on a set for a Strat just to see for myself. For that price I'd rather go with a set of Novaks or Lollars.
The technology looks quite interesting:
— Old punks never die... They just become surf rockers.
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crumble
Joined: Sep 09, 2008
Posts: 3158
Guildford England
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Posted on Aug 10 2013 05:11 AM
LeeVanCleef wrote:
crumble wrote:
Has anyone tried the Lace Alumitone Pickups. I like the looks of them and they are getting some thumbs up on youtube.
I've been watching Youtube demos for quite some time and those Alumitone pickups sound quite interesting to my ears, but not interesting enough to justify spending more than $300 (not counting shipping & import duty) on a set for a Strat just to see for myself. For that price I'd rather go with a set of Novaks or Lollars.
The technology looks quite interesting:
Three P/Us @ £160 GBP on ebay UK. If you only need two of them then even better. I'm little suspicious of ceramics in pickups though, Hey, art deco kitchen draw handles and ceramics.. what's going on here!
Another one I've read about is the G&L Magnetic Field Design Pickups.
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bluez
Joined: Jul 11, 2010
Posts: 135
Norway
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Posted on Aug 10 2013 07:30 AM
Have you tried other measures like extra shielding, replacing fluorescent light. different amps?
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Jimmy
Joined: Oct 28, 2012
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Posted on Aug 10 2013 01:31 PM
Oh Yeah Bluez ' a single coil is a single coil ' one of my strats has these horrible Duncan hot rails. The great thing is us dudes here don't use high gain amps and a lot of dirt ! so that tames it down to a usable level.
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thomasd
Joined: Aug 17, 2012
Posts: 94
Eugene, Oregon
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Posted on Aug 14 2013 08:55 PM
I've been using Bill lawrence PUPs for a long time. They were the precursors to the SCM Fender PUPs in the Deluxe Strats. They are very quiet, but they don't exhibit much quack.
I've been thinking about switching to the Seymour Duncan Antiquity PUPs.
Anyone use those??
— Rock
A Man from S.U.R.F.
http://menfromsurf.com
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wooza
Joined: Apr 24, 2006
Posts: 1618
Ithaca, NY
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Posted on Aug 15 2013 08:42 AM
Jimmy, sounds like my experience was the same, though I've only tried one set. My strat came with Vintage Noiseless pickups in it, and they were awful. That was the first electric I ever bought so at the time I didn't know any better - I actually thought they sounded pretty good at first. But after a while I was continually frustrated with my tone and thought they might be the problem. They just sounded really crappy, no life to them at all. I think someone on the forum coined the name 'Vintage Lifeless' for them and it fits.
I swapped those out for Fender 57/62's and it made a world of difference. There's no way I could recommend noiseless pickups in good conscience. 
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Bob_Kennedy
Joined: Feb 27, 2012
Posts: 316
Mesa, AZ.
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Posted on Aug 15 2013 11:11 AM
thomasd wrote:
I've been using Bill lawrence PUPs for a long time. They were the precursors to the SCM Fender PUPs in the Deluxe Strats. They are very quiet, but they don't exhibit much quack.
I've been thinking about switching to the Seymour Duncan Antiquity PUPs.
Anyone use those??
Which Bill Lawrence p/u's are you using? I use his Keystones & the sound very "stratty" to me. Plenty of "quack" & the clarity is fantastic.
— Otto & The Ottomans
Kennedy Custom Guitars
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thomasd
Joined: Aug 17, 2012
Posts: 94
Eugene, Oregon
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Posted on Aug 15 2013 12:27 PM
Bob,
Thought I had a purchase receipt for the PUPs, but I can't find it. Found a hand written wiring diagram and note from Becky thanking me for the purchase. I'd have to pull the pick guard and look.
DaveT
— Rock
A Man from S.U.R.F.
http://menfromsurf.com
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Crawdad
Joined: Apr 17, 2013
Posts: 23
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Posted on Aug 19 2013 12:20 AM
i play too many venues where single coils have nasty hum, so I am forced to use noiseless (or hum canceling) pickups.
I am looking for a set for my Jazzmaster. Fralin makes a set for $180, Curtis Novak has a pair for $260, and Manluisguitar.com has a set for $170 a pair. Then, there are the Kinman zero hum Jazzmaster pickups at $290.00 per set.
Very few demo samples out there--one for Fralin and a few on the Manlius page.
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Crawdad
Joined: Apr 17, 2013
Posts: 23
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Posted on Aug 19 2013 01:21 PM
Joe Barden also Makes a set--$325 for the pair
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