Fender noiseless tele pickups any good ?

[Loganloveguitar]

do they still have that signature tele sound on the neck mostly and the bridge ?

[backporch guy]

I have them in 2 Teles. I like them. Sounds like a Tele to me.

[el cheapo]

I have a new set of Fender Vintage Noiseless pickups in my BSB partscaster. I'm still tweaking the guitar a little, but the pickups sound fine to me. I was playing a little "Folsom Prison Blues" through them the other night on the bridge pickup. These pickups nailed the tone. Nuff said.

[Textele]

Speaking on the Fender Vintage Noiseless (not Samarium Cobalt or the newer N3's)....

The neck Fender Vintage Noiseless pickup is truely a thing of beauty! Clean or dirty it is a great pickup that responds to volume knob changes very well. Maybe a bit Stratty but with that wonderful "Tele style muscle" and no 60 cycle hum. Great clarity, no mud and dead quiet, even more so than a G style bucker. A lot of grunt and snarl the harder you hit it, back off the attack and it sparkles. I use the stock 250k pots with it.

The bridge pickup sounds a bit thin when played clean (probably great for country chickin' picken') but too shrill for my ears. I had to cut my tone knob on my tele a bit below half to get any warmth from the bridge and it still sounded thin. I dont play country style stuff though I bet it would cut through the mix like a knife. I did however find it to sound very good with moderate gain from the amp though. I eventually took my bridge pup out and went with a Duncan.

That neck pup is going nowhere though, I love it.

[H. Mac]

Originally Posted by Loganloveguitar

do they still have that signature tele sound on the neck mostly and the bridge ?

Yes. I have an SCN (Samarium Cobalt) set from a 2006 Deluxe Ash Tele, and they have the classic Tele sound. The neck pickup is warm, punchy, and crystal clear, and so is the bridge pickup. They're really quiet, although they sound so good I wouldn't care if they if they were as noisy as P90s. They're at least as good and as Tele-sounding as my Nocaster pickups.

[bradpdx]

I had the Fender Vintage Noiseless for a couple of months, then took them out. While they worked OK, the overall effect was thin and cold compared with my old school VanZandt Tele set. They just weren't working for me at gigs, and rendered my DRRI (a bright amp) nearly unusable.

I still need noiseless, and so opted for the Seymour Duncan Little 59, which differs from a stock Tele in the opposite manner - instead of being cold and brittle, they are super fat and Gibson-like. For now, that's more fun. Very organic and natural sounding, but not much native twang.