Pickup Shootout - Fender Noiseless Vs. Fender Custom Shop '69 pre-wired pickguard.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ส.ค. 2020
- A direct comparison between Fender's Samarium Cobalt Noiseless pickups vs Fender Custom Shop '69 prewired pickguard.
American Deluxe Stratocaster (Alder)
Fender Princeton '65 Reissue (Vol. 5, Treble 5, Bass 5)
UA Ox Box (2x12 Deluxe, SM 57, Royer 121)
FabFilter Pro-R in post.
No other EQ or processing. - เพลง
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
I have a set of the noiseless, they are OK, but I will say this off the bat, They sound great when you run them through Modern gear or more expensive gear where you have EQ options and such, but a great example is running them through a Orange Micro Dark Terror which is a hybrid tube it is terrible and doesn't take the gain well, where as my Vox Micro Superbeetle they sound great. Pedals are the same certain Overdrives like the Nux Horseman and Gain like the Gokko Sonic Fire Plus it doesn't take well, I have yet to run them through a Ibanez mini tube screamer though.
To be honest I would rather shield the cavity and drop in the 57'62' custom shop pickups, but its a vintage styled guitar so it makes more sense to have that config, I more expect Noiseless pickups to be in Modern fender configs.
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.
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.
Nice comparison! I have the CS'69 pickups, too. Really love them! Esp. the neck position. Thanks for sharing! 👍
Thanks K.C.!
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!
Hey Joseph! Thanks for the comment! I was surprised too at how good the SCN were in comparison. I ended up keeping them and sending the CS 69's back.
The neck pick up on the CS69has a higher output. It’s a creamy, warm but with your pick attack the tone gets a little more driven. Mine pushes 6k in the neck
Great video. They both sound great however, the 69’s just bite a little stronger to me.
GREAT VIDEO to show the difference of the PICKS. And nice TONE SETTING. IT helps me much to know what i prefer. THX
Glad to help!
I love your guitar play! Well done!!
I frickin love that song! Great job playing also
Awesome video. I have a strat with SCNs, definitely keeping them.
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.
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.
What a sound man.. love this
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.
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.
Best comparison ever.
wonderful comparison!
Great job thank you for the comparison
Yess !! Happy to see you here !!
Hey Gui! Yeah, been bored during the lockdown. Decided to start making some videos. Any ideas?
Please make more, I love your style! 🧡
Noiseless sounds compressed almost. It’s super nice to fit into the mix. Custom shops sound great for standing out in a mix
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.
Super test❤
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.
69s sound amazing
Great player
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.
Both are in the zone to me. Single is slightly brighter. But if you gain up like I do, you need noise reduction.
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.
Hey Brent! Thanks for the comment! Yeah, they both have their ups and downs and are both totally usable. I ended up staying with the SCN's.
This would make a great gospel jam. Not religious myself, but gospel musicians have some serious chops
Hi, sorry for the question, maybe I lost the info, but... Wich noiseless did you use here, Vintage or Hot? (or Gen4, N3)?
Hey Fabio! The noiseless are the Samarium cobalt noiseless.
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.
Noise less sound to soft but cleaner . Make mine Custom Shop '69 please !
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.
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?
Hey Patrick! Thanks for the nice response! Yes, huge difference in noise. I cheated and removed it in post using RX on the video, almost unwieldy, especially with drive.
So wait - CS pickups are almost unusable because of hum and noise? That’s really surprising!
@@krishawkins6173 you dont think you ought to mention this in the description? its pretty much the most important thing Ive read here whilst considering new pickups - clearly I dont want install the single coils if they’re a nightmare to live with. great playing though, sounds sweet.
@@jonw8uk1 dude, it was for the tone. Any half decent player should be able to manage. We've done it for decades.
Excelent !!!
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!
"Dancing in a Burning Room" by John Mayer.
Hey Michael! It's an original track pulling some influence from a John Mayer-ish kind of thing. It's pretty easy. The chords are: C min 7 / C min 7 / Ab Maj / Eb Maj / Bridge section goes to F min 7 / F min 7 / Eb sus2 / Bb /
I can see about uploading the instrumental if you're interested.
@@krishawkins6173 thanks very much! I have your video saved and I’ve been playing along to it and trying to learn it. Great playing! I would be interested in hearing the instrumental track for sure. Also, I installed the 69s in my strat a few weeks ago now and I really love them. They brought my strat to life!
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.
To my ears SCN by far..good job ;)
Thanks for the comment! I was actually pretty surprised myself. Returned the CS 69’s.
Mam w fenderze scn świetnie grają a przedewszystkim jest cisza
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.
I choose 69 🤟
🤤🤗Fender
Cs 69
Strings that you use ?
Hey Zen! Thanks for the comment. I'm currently using the ernie ball hybrid 9 - 46.
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
Do you get higher output from your neck position?mine is pushing 6k+. I like the tone at about a 4 the volume between the 6&7 so I can have that extra to drive the amp in the Neck.
@@robertestrada9643 yes they do. But honestly that is the case with virtually all vintage type single coil sets. Still to this day I love CS69.
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.
I had a similar thought, but the guitar doesn’t sound dead with the other set. I think the pickup heights are just wonky. Pup height can easily be a make or break tone situation. Those CS69s sound dark af here for some reason
Noiseless by far