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Originally Posted by Iceman0124
Really you gotta try a few and find what fits "you" . The pups in my classic vibes are keepers for sure, more so than the pups, changing the electronics, pots, switch, jack, caps, tear out the old cheap wire and put in nice cloth wire etc will really "wake up" whatever you have in there already.
You can put in "clones" of jimi's or SRV's, that doesnt mean you'll get their tone, what is it you dont like about the stock pups? i've found that outside the really cheap squires, the stock pups range from decent to very good.
I strognly urge you to rewire your guitar first, put in good pots and other components, then play around with hieght and angle of your stock ones before replacing them "just" because they are "stock", there are also lots of other "tone tricks" like removing the back trem cover (It makes a norticeable diff to my ears), to lossening the neck plate screws a 1/4 turn while the guitar is tuned to pitch, retune, and tighten the screws back, this helps get the heel of the neck tighter in the pocket improving tone and sustain, on some bolt ons it works wonders, on others it doesnt do much of anything.
Pups are only a small part of the tonal equation, what amp are you using? A nice lower wattage tube amp is really well suited for strats and teles to get that glassy smooth tone, you could take Stevies personal guitar, and run it through a solid state marshall, or even a big modern JCM tube marshall....and you wont sound like Stevie.....
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wow...iceman...thanks so much for the great info...
ok...right now...i will change & rewiring my electronic parts...
and set up my squier again...
but i do like my duncan design SC101 on bridge pickups...
its twangy sound,i love it...
thanks for the info bro...
ROCK ON...
