Fender Pickups Test - Neck: CS 54, CS 69, CS Fat 50s & American Vintage Strat

Fender pickup shootout!!! Decided to try out different pickups on my guitar to see what they sounded like and select the ones to keep. The guitar is the same on all the clips (replaced the pickups for each clip), a Fender American Vintage 57 Reissue strat, vol and tone to 10, and factory recommended settings. The amp is a Fender Deluxe Reverb Reissue with a 12F150 Weber speaker, and RCA and Mullard tubes set at vol 2.5, Treb 4, Bass 4 and on the Vibrato Channel although no Reverb or Vibrato is used. These settings are the same for all the clips. Recorded using a Behringer C-1 thru a BOSS BR-900CD.

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Music

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• Fender
• Pickup
• Shootout
• Custom
• Shop
• CS54
• CS69
• Fat
• 50s
• Vintage
• Strat
• Stratocaster
• 57

[gugusfu]

@mjmb581 I see... mmm well what about twangyest ones? hehe

[mjmb581]

@gugusfu the Fat 50, specially the bridge one...

[gugusfu]

@mjmb581 and the Fat 50s has more output than the texas special??

[mjmb581]

@gugusfu Haven't tried those...

[gugusfu]

Wich of these has more output!? I'm trying to give a classic sound to my "pop-punk" rock band!

[mjmb581]

@gugusfu That would be the Fat 50s...

[justcrappy1]

0:44 American vintage

1:59 CS fat 50s

3:09 CS 54s

4:15 CS 69s

[strinxx]

I can`t hear any ifferences !

[wuwei5150]

i pick the 54. has more of bell-like tone from what i'm hearing here

[UKToneKing]

Pickups in a usa std to me are good enough and changing them is a pure waste of money unless u are after a really hotter overwound pickup which will take some of the treble out and give it more bite, but changing a normal wound pickup to another normal wound one is crazy if u ask me, I did all that years ago and learnt the hard way £££, a usa std is fitted with vintage pups anyway, so fitting cs69s is pointless if u ask me, I understand why people change alnico2s for 5s, but 5s for 5s is mad

[UKToneKing]

@Juralano trust me I have had the highend pickups over the years in some of my high end strats & ended up putting the stock pickups back in them, usa fender std pickups r just as good quality as their custom shop, their is no difference man, usa std starts r fitted with vintage pickups anyway, so changing them to cs69s will sound very similar, changing them to a overwound strat pickup will give u the biggest change in sound, as it will have more bite, but beyond that u r chasing nothing mate

[UKToneKing]

@Juralano To be totally honest with u mate I have tried loads of pickups over the years and I can put my hand on heart and tell u it is one big racket, a good set of std usa fender pickups are as good as any other out their, no need to spend £200 on some fralins mate as they will sound no different to a good set of usa std pups, u pay for handwound, when a machine will do a better job anyway, and the handwound ones are still wound round by a machine, just a human holds the device, its a pure con

[Uz2Brockstar]

only ones I remotely like are the fat 50's. to my ear the 54's and 69's are very similar. I tried a set of 69's, decent in rosewood, shrill in maple and noisey buggers, all 3 pickups are identical spec and no reverse middle wound. Nice test thanks.

[L3JuuZ]

american vintage pickups are 57/62, no?

[StaplerFace123]

At 1:20, there is a picture of a strat on that box. Does anyone know what color that strat is?

[riccardosolimena]

CS54 win :)

[ThebSharpsBAND]

@SaypheZonE .. but in hendrix's day.. the stock pickps WERE the 69s!!