57/62 reissue stratocaster pickups. Clean/dirty
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- čas přidán 26. 08. 2024
- 50's Roadworn Stratocaster
Pickups changed out to 57/62 reissues. Middle pickup is reverse wound which means it is noiseless in position 2 and 4.
Clean & dirty sounds through '59 Bassman reissue
Dirty sound is a Boss Super Overdrive + Blues Driver, both just past halfway mark for drive
Recorded with a Shure sm58
What a great demo. Demos with world-class players are nice, but this video showcases the pickups in the context most of us play in 99% of the time. at home, playing blues licks.
The best pickup of fender. ❤
Nice demo. Those are the Stratiest of Strat pickups. I love the chime and sparkle, clean and the nice quack when they're dirty.
I can hear some of the tones hendrix got in these pickups. That classic strat sound that is like the best thing in the world.
I love these pups, have them in my Surf Green (beautiful color) 57 AVRI and they are incredible for factory pups. I just subscribed, so look forward to new vids.
Cheers!
Well they're a very close spec to what Jimi actually used in terms of low-output vintage pickups and same neck specs (7.25 radius). His guitars tended to be late 60s so a different bigger headstock (negligible difference.) You could put in 1969 spec pickups like the custom shop ones. They are a tiny tiny bit hotter from memory. (I have some in another guitar test on this channel.) But really they sound very similar. jimi didn't use special guitars. He used what was around. But he was special. So any strat with vintage specs. Of course with SRV there is his artist model guitar. I don't know the specs but they are online. He uses hotter pickups from memory. (sorry i answered this on my other channels ID but i posted this video)
SRV was using a 59ish Strat so definitely not hotter , he just used heavier strings and played harder .
This is so much better than any of the Fender ™️ videos. I have a 60s classic series and this just convinced me to get these lol
Your Classic 60s has custom shop designed 69 pickups if I’m not mistaken? Those are great pickups.
They sound so good
Sounds like a Strat should IMHO.
James Krys agreed, enough so I’ll think I’ll put them back in my one Strats
Totally agree, great guitar, great amp, the pickups arent wound hot, but are lower output. Imo those overwound pu's ( like Fs-1 or Ssl-5) just sound ' wrong' in a proper vintage style strat
Excellent video. Like the clean simple presentation of how the pickups sound.
Thanks Sir... Yeah, I never really get it when people do pickup-tests with lots of effects.
Exactly what I was looking for, thanks so much!
Awesome!!! Pickups, amp and obviusly, the player 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Thanks for the great demo!!!
I am going to get a set
I think I'm gonna buy these for my player strat
I think so too
@@gonzalogarcia9481 oh I actually changed my mind on that I love these and all but the ones in it are fine I just had to adjust the pickup heights
@@gonzalogarcia9481 me too...
@@inmemoryofgstringbender what are the heights of you don’t mind?
@@DavidGarcia-pi9wn I have no idea I don’t have them 😳
Sounds good! I've got these pickups, love them! Just wondering your tone settings for the first 15 seconds?
amp sounds amazing
would you know which has the most bell like clean glassy tone. this or the CS 69 or fat 50's/ I dont really care much if it has quack.
Hey nice demo, do u know the measurements of your pickup height for bridge middle and neck pickups?
I use 57/62 and still trying to find the sweet spot
Thanks. Those pups aren’t in guitar anymore so I can’t tell you but I tend to have them on the low side: The neck one only a mm or so from scratch plate on the bass side of pickup and a little higher on treble. The middle pickup higher and the bridge higher again do they are even volume. I feel you get a bit more of the guitars natural sound that way and the magnets don’t hamper the string vibration.
@@stratocaster_nerd7283 may i ask why you took them out?
Nice! You put them into your Road Worn Strat. I myself have the Classic Player Strat with these pups in it (factory) and also have a Road Worn strat with TexMex pups in it. Is there anything you didn't like about the TexMex pickups? Thanks for the video!
Because the guitar sounded a bit harsh in the first place I figured the high output pickups maybe weren't helping, so I changed to the lower output 57s. ( I had a set in the house. Since then I've put 69s in which are very close IMO to the 57s.) I think the T mexs are probably pretty fine - I didn't give them much of a chance to be honest. The more I muck around with pickups, the more I think the changes in tone are minimal. It was more changing the bridge that seemed to help my particular problem, which was more about buzzing/thinness anyway.
Whoa. I thought I like fat 50s but these sound even better.
These pickups are more vintage sounding than fat 50s
It depends on what your’re going for. Sometimes if a Strat is very Stratty like sounding like this one, it may in a subtle way sound like you’re trying to copy someone. If you’re trying to sound slightly more original, other pickups maybe be better
Are these the best ones for getting way huge JIMI SRV type tones? If not which ones would you recommend?
Can’t decide between 57/72 pickups and Custom Shop 69. Any thoughts?
Which pickups are these exactly? They sound great! I see you mention reissues, but you mention the middle being reverse wound. The only Fender 57/62 ones I can find are not RWRP. Did you have someone make them for you?
No there are some reverse-wound ones! They are out of a 50 Classic PLAYER guitar where they did the reverse middle. In fact you can hear them back in that guitar if you go to my channel and look at the review I just did called '50s classic player'. I also did another video with different not-reversed 57/62s in a sunburst 62 AVRI with rosewood neck.
Ok, thanks! I'll check that out.
Funny... I have a 62 reissue with the 57/62's and a 50's road worn and I like the stock road worn pickups quite a bit better than the 57/62's. My guess is the 57/62's probably sound best on a maple neck guitar. They're a bit less lively and inspiring paired with a rosewood.
I have the same guitar, 50s RW Strat and im thinkin about a pickup swap for a 57/62 set. Are these pickups a huge upgrade compared to the stock TexMex pickups? The TM sound fine but im a tinkerer and i always end up upgrading pickups lol. Thanks!.
mmm... hard for me to say as I didn't have the texmex in for long. When I got the guitar I didnt like the thin sound and buzzing it had so I swapped out the bridge for a steel callaham and swapped the pickups at the same time. Now I've even swapped the neck out since and released that was part of the thin sound mine had. (I think I just got a very light body and light neck which could just be my guitar. ( is yours light?) I seem to remember the texmex seemed hotter. 57/62 definitely low output mellow sound. I should try tex mex in them again now I've changed so much else.
@@stratocaster_nerd7283 Thanks for the reply! I have two Road Worns, a sunburst 08' 50s and a 15' 60s in olympic white. The 50s is lighter than my 60s, about 400g less. Im about to swap both TexMex sets in those two guitars. The stock pickups sound great but i would like having two distintict Strat sounds. Maybe 57/62s in the 50s RW and PV 65 in the 60s RW. Decisions...
Fender vintage strat pickups
is it just me that the low freq coming from the amp's rather overwhelming here... position 2 & 4 didnt sound like it supposed to.
Bought these in a loaded pickguard to replace w a set of Fat 50s. Decided to give them a try before replacing them and they ended up being my preferred set.
Anyone else deal with more than usual hum when playing on these?
How do you get it to go through all five pickups when you only have three
Oops. Good point. Typo. Should have said pickup positions.
They sound alot like the CS '69 pickups. Great amp.
I love CS 69s. I did another test on my channel with them later, dropped into exactly the same guitar above.
@@stratocaster_nerd7283 Which set did you like better, the 69s or 57/62s??
*a lot. It's two words, not one.
@@QS-si3cq Correct
@@QS-si3cq "All in all you're just a... nother brick in the wall. Teacher leave those kids alone!"
what is the song
Just made up ramblings...
Has anyone compared this 57/62 to the Fender Custom Shop 69 Prewired Pickguard?
@Bryce Barnes Seymour Duncan Custom site has a set called, Psychedelic, that nails the 60s Strat sound. The main Seymour Duncan site has a reissue of the original Strat pickups he wound for Jimi '68. He also sells them on a Prewired Pickguard. There is no doubt that they are Jimi's sound. He has the story of them on the site. The Jimi pups are definitely the Psychedelic set modded and both nail their respective eras even better than Fender's reissues, to my ear.
Bryce Barnes *they're
Anyone know if these are rwrp??
What do you like? This or cs69?
That’s what I’m looking for. Do I pull the trigger on these or the 69s. You might be able to offer insight, I play dire straits, hendrix and cream sorta music. So fuzz and wah, but I also like to play the doors, blue oyster cult, van halen and led zeppelin. These are going in a bullet Stratocaster from squier, I love the way it feels and looks for some reason so I don’t want to replace the actual guitar and I’m pretty handy with a soldiering iron so this is my ‘second guitar’ if you will.
strings 0,10?
Long time ago - 9s most likey.
What is the recommended pickup height that u use
Hi Paulo, as with all pickups - it depends on a lot of factors and so what is right for one person won't be right for another. My advice is to get the neck pickup how you want it - which could take a while - and then set the others to it. Fender can give you the recommended heights and I think they are on the box anyway, which is a good starting point.
He is certainly no eagle on guitar, but the pickups sounds good though.
pbstratocaster And what was the constructive value in commenting about his playing like that? Nothing.
@@QS-si3cq My point being that most of the tone depends on the player. So if a better guitarist played this strat, it would go from good to amazing.
@@pbstratocaster I disagree, the guy in the vid produced, imo, an amazing guitar tone, regardless of what he did or didn't play. Lots of other players on youtube decide to play in a different style ( maybe a more fast technical style, or lots of BIG chords, etc, etc), but, very few have as good of a tone, imo, as this guy imo. 59 bassman reissue doesnt hurt either, but to me this is one of the better strat sound I've heard on youtube.