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The CS69 has more dynamic range and is more open. The SCN (I have this EXACT guitar) is more compressed and less expressive. I own this exact guitar so I can immediately hear what I'm used to. The CS69 is a breath of fresh air heard back to back. Still, for the benefits it offers, sometimes the SCN is very nice.

What a sound man.. love this

Excelent !!!

Mam w fenderze scn świetnie grają a przedewszystkim jest cisza

Great comparison, thanks for uploading! Can you confirm if the bridge pickup came pre-wired to the second tone knob on the CS69 prewired guard? I can’t find an answer online.

I have a 50th Anniversary 2004 Deluxe in Amber with Rosewood fretboard looks similar to yours. It has SCN’s with the S1 switch in the volume control. The neck pickup has died and finding replacements is not easy. Purchased CS69 pre wired which is in transit. Keen to hear them in the flesh. Great comparison and beautiful playing. Love the sound of both but leaning towards the CS69 in this comparison mainly P5 but they are very close. I might regret not getting noiseless replacements. I’ll keep an eye out for pre-loved SCN’s to keep this guitar in original condition.

wonderful comparison!

The fender CS were better, but not by a whole bunch. They had that “extra”, dunno how else to put it. More bite and clarity maybe. For this close you can make the 69 CS quieter but not silent.

Honestly, I think you have a sort of dead sounding guitar. The 69's have almost no chime to them at all. I've played them both and the 69's should blow those noisless pickups out of the water. It isn't even a contenst. You should be able to hear a huge difference and like most people are saying, they sound alike.

Super test❤

Great job thank you for the comparison

69s sound amazing

Best comparison ever.

☝️La 69 le yace mamar gallo

I used to dismiss all noiseless strat and tele pickups as inferior, but I think they sound very similar to the CS69 set. In fact, I'd say the SCN is just a hair better on overdrive tones than the cs69, but cs69 has a SLIGHTLY clearer, more bell-like clean tone for rhythm. These are VERY subtle differences, though, and the SCN set is noiseless!!! I just bought a loaded scn pickguard for my thinline strat relic build after seeing this.

Noiseless sounds compressed almost. It’s super nice to fit into the mix. Custom shops sound great for standing out in a mix

Those SCNs are the only strat pickups i've enjoyed playing, and the Tele SCNs are among my favourite tele pickups as well. Bill Lawrence was a genius. I really hope the other Wilde pickups are as good as the SCNs, since they stopped producing those.

Beautiful playing dude! Just picked up the same pre-wired CS 69 pups to drop into a 70s Japanese Ibanez Strat copy. Probably won't sound this good but looking forward to the result anyway.

I used to own both sets and sold them all. CS69s sounds great, but are too noisy. SCNs are noiseless, but sound bland. I end up with Kinman Impersonator 54's, best of both worlds, they sound amazing and are quieter than most humbuckers I ever played with.

Great video. They both sound great however, the 69’s just bite a little stronger to me.

Hi Chris, nice review. What do you think is it make sense to put to the bridge Duncan rale humbucker pickup, and the noisless single for neck position? Do these two will fit the sound each other when you will switch the position while playing, or rale humbucker will be too noisy? Thanks.

Awesome video. I have a strat with SCNs, definitely keeping them.

Fantastic playing and great comparison video. Thanks so much for your time and effort. This was great. Love both but really love the the 69s.

I love your guitar play! Well done!!

Noise less sound to soft but cleaner . Make mine Custom Shop '69 please !

This would make a great gospel jam. Not religious myself, but gospel musicians have some serious chops

I liked both but sincerely, I think that the 69s are better. I can see that you set them quite high, by the way. I think this is good as these pickups have very little output and yet high capacitance so being close to the strings is a good idea as long as you don't get Wolf notes.

Some sections where they were very close.. But listening through some nice Skullcandy headphones the Cobalts pulled many areas where they were clearly fuller and richer to my ears... More pleasing to me.

I frickin love that song! Great job playing also

Cs 69 <3

Both are in the zone to me. Single is slightly brighter. But if you gain up like I do, you need noise reduction.

Noiseless by far

I choose 69 🤟

I have had a set of CS 69s in one of my Strats since 2009. I have always loved them. But there is one thing those pickups do that no other singlecoils I've had can come near. They have the most unique voicing in positions 2 and 4 with the tone rolled off. They get a more musical midrange woman tone like no other. I also do not have a tone control wired to the middle pickup. I promise I'm not plugging my own crap. I do have a video showcasing that. But also I have a video with all my strats with these pickups, CS69's, Klein jazzy cats, Vintage Noisless, Suhr V60lp, and mojotone 59 clones. They are all great. But damn the vintage noiseless in my EC strat have some serious beef with dirt. th-cam.com/video/zvU-nONqMF4/w-d-xo.html

Strings that you use ?

I honestly don’t hear that much of a difference!! So to be able to have noiseless pickups sound this good is incredible! I was just about to order the CS69. Now I’m looking for the SCNs thanks for this!

Nice comparison! I have the CS'69 pickups, too. Really love them! Esp. the neck position. Thanks for sharing! 👍

Beautiful playing! Both sets sound great but your demo convinced me to pick up the 69s, as that is the sound that I’m chasing after. Is this an original composition or is based on another song? It is beautiful and I would like to learn it!

Hi, sorry for the question, maybe I lost the info, but... Wich noiseless did you use here, Vintage or Hot? (or Gen4, N3)?

Using Bowers & Wilkins monitors I hear a slight difference but not much and whether it’s a positive or negative difference I dont know. Certainly not enough difference to lose the noiseless feature on the SCNs. I’d go noiseless since they sound similar.

GREAT VIDEO to show the difference of the PICKS. And nice TONE SETTING. IT helps me much to know what i prefer. THX

To my ears SCN by far..good job ;)

Great video and playing. I own a 2012 American Deluxe Strat with the noiseless N3s that originally came in it, but bought a set of the CS 69’s to put in there. Did you notice a big difference in hum/noise when playing with the CS 69’s in different places?

🤤🤗Fender

Great player

Great comparison. I like 69’s but was surprised how good the SCN’s sounded. Especially when they had a bit of overdrive. Thanks for making the video

Yess !! Happy to see you here !!

Awesome vid - CS definitely brighter on the neck and warmer in the bridge. Tbh it’s a great sounding guitar and both sound good to me in different ways. Thanks for posting.