Mojotone '58 Quiet Coil Strat® Pickups
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2024
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Hey I'm Andy with ProGuitarShop and ToneReport.com and today I'd like to introduce a revolutionary hum-canceling single coil from Mojotone, the Quiet Coil. Mojotone's new Quiet Coils are different from any other noiseless pickup you've heard. They are designed with one goal in mind, to sound, look and feel like classic single coils without the 60 cycle hum.
Mojotone's pickup engineer, David Shepherd set out to achieve the perfect single coil tone by adhering to tried and true ingredients used in vintage pickups; heavy 42 gauge Formvar wire, fiberboard bobbins, cloth covered leads and essential Alnico magnets. The Quiet Coil is also the only hum-cancelling single coil to have a side by side coil design, rather than the stacked coil types from the likes of Dimarzio and Kinman. The pure single coil sound is also maintained without the use of active circuitry, PCBs or any other noise-cancelling circuitry that you've seen before. These are one of a kind pickups that are sure to change the mind of those who think sacrifices in tone have to be made to avoid hum.
The pickups we're trying out today are the '58 Quiet Coils which amazingly stick to the same specs as genuine 50's single coils while eliminating the 60 cycle hum. You can also check out Mojotone's '67 Quiet Coils which contain the same sparkle and chime of the classic grey bottom pickups, complete with plain enamel and low gauss Alnico magnets. Best of all, you can find both in sets or in a preloaded pickguard for a fast swap into hum-free territory. Lastly, the unique design of the Quiet Coils ensures that you won't have to worry about string spacing issues, dead spots or the magnets pulling the strings out of tune. Quiet Coils never lose their focus with big bends and their vintage output is completely compatible with your favorite gear.
What we're doing today is comparing the Quiet Coils with some of the leading hum-cancelling products as well as some genuine Fender 57/62 pickups as a baseline. All the Strats feature alder bodies with rosewood necks and the amp is a 6V6 based Mojotone Mt. Pilot 15w combo that will remain untouched during pickup swaps.
Mojotone kills it with their pickup designs. They deserve much more recognition.
awesome comparison! much better video than just showing the pickups themselves, glad you compared them against other popular choices
You can definitely hear the clarity of the quiet coils over the Kinmans and Dimarzios. They sounded better than the Fender single coils too.
I am in love with my Tele Texas Specials neck pup. To have that voice with no hum is the dream.
The Mojotone sounded the best of all the noiseless single coils in this demo. I did hear a slight different between them and the Fender true singles but it was very, very subtle. Probably not unlike you could get with the variation in different single coil winds. So far I have liked them in every demo I have heard.
That's the thing that drives me nuts when people criticize good noiseless pickups. "It didn't sound exactly like that single coil in the demo!" Yeah, except the entire reason that companies sell a million different strat pickups is that they all sound a little different. Listening to this demo, there's no question that it's a strat being played. And that's all that should matter with a noiseless pickup. By the time you hear it in a mix, nobody can tell between a 5.9k A5 strat pickup and a 6.5k A2 strat pickup. I think I'm going to order a set of these, they have me convinced.
@@Mark-vv1dy these Mojo tone pickups still have that Strat snap, yet are not true single coils. These give a single coil feel with just a touch warmer of a punch it seems, how could that be a bad thing? I already have a Fralin pickquard, but I would be interested in these
I've always thought is funny how the solo for Another Brick in the Wall Pt 2 was recorded on a Gibson Les Paul Goldtop directly to the Mixing PA and most people usually think that is a Strat tone.
Nonetheless, awesome playing by Andy!
Well it was a p90 les paul,
I still kinda think its funny how i in my youth mimicked dire straits knopfler with a pick, but then again i never saw him finger playin nor hybrid pickin, noeadays ive seen on youtube youth tryin to play like him from the start and that will end up in tears, oh I DID some hybrid pickin now i recall: on the beginning of Communique by Dire Straits...maybe when our guitars die they ll all go to some mixing board an PA...keep your hearing sharp Mr Rodriguez, cheers, Kimmo : )
All of them sound compressed and dead next to the non noiseless Fender pick ups to me . Best comparison video on the subject I've ever seen. Andy is a Master at demonstrating. He needs to win some kind of award for something. Always entertaining but always doing his job like no other. I've picked up and used a few licks and riffs from him over the years. And that Fender banana pudding color Fender calls white is the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen in over 50 years of playing. I just had to say it. I don't care who likes it or plays one. I feel like I have to change it's diaper whenever I see it. Thank you Andy!!!!Another great video!!!!
You just keep getting better. Solid playing here Andy.
3:28 Kinman
4:01 Dimarzio
4:34 Mojotone
5:20 single coil
6:00 quiet coil
Love the tone of those pickups.
I’ve a couple sets of Mojotone pickups in both a Strat and a Les Paul, awesome pickups…great tone , power output and quite…..👍🏼👍🏼
anyone else think that the quiet coils came super close to the genuine fender 57/62 pups?
0:15 I dunno, that looks like it's on the bridge pickup to me.
+Robin Lee Yep
+Robin Lee The Fender pick ups weren't noiseless.
I think they're referring to the rhythm part using the bridge/middle.
@@SRHMusic012 "Neck pickup distortion", and the pickup selector is pointing down. Rhythm part is clean and selector pointing down.
@@lassivaatamoinen5468 Hmm. I guess I was looking at the next text around 0:22... In any case, I was referring to the rhythm part, not either lead part (one uses bridge, one uses neck). The rhythm part is either bridge or bridge+middle. Cheers.
The Mojotones do sound good. But choose the Kinman AVn MKIII? These are "aged vintage" tone. The unaged sets are the The Scoop, Impersonator 54, Impersonator 56, Impersonator Fat 50 would probably given a better comparison. From Kinman:
Aged Sound - typically denoted as AVn & SCn (Southern Cousin noiseless),
sounds and performs like gracefully aged pickups with softened attack,
no high end brittleness and slightly lowered dynamic range (low peak)
which results in earlier breaking into crunch yielding a thick &
creamy distortion when over-driven and a sweeter treble when played
clean.
Non-aged sound - typically denoted as the Impersonator and Scoop series.
Like new vintage pickups, resists crunching under heavy pick attack.
Sounds brighter with less midrange coloration and more snappy attack
with lots of dynamic range and performs like new pickups.
Hello, thanks for your comment. I actually carefully chose the pickups we compared to and made sure they were as close to the Mojotone Quiet Coils in regards to specs. The MKIII's were the closest spec. Our Quiet Coils do actually represent an "Aged" strat pickup tone with lower Gauss vintage formulated Alnico magnets. Here are some features you may not know about...
Quiet Coil Design Features...
-Consistent scatterwound coils for that handwound tone, sensitivity, and clarity.
-Vintage formulated Alnico magnet cores with lower Gauss levels like an aged vintage strat pickup.
-Vintage cloth covered leads for easy push-back soldering.
-Matched resonant peak frequency, inductance, and resistance of a vintage single coil.
-Vintage staggered polepieces for a traditional strat pickup look.
-No routing modifications are required to fit shallow vintage routs like the taller stacked hum-cancelling designs.
-Less than 10 parts are used to build the Quiet Coils. Like a vintage strat pickup, they are SIMPLE!
Thanks for the additional information, I will have to try these out.
in true PGS tone info first form!! another great gear comparison. great demo !
nice sounds!..
how hot is the bridge?.. like a humbucker for warm leads?
wowwww..so nice..
can i also a sweet warm lead tone overdriven with the bridget?😮
Best demos on the planet, and the galaxy as we know it.
Hey thanks so much, you're too kind! Hope to also see you on my current channel.
-Andy
@@AndyDemos "Current channel"?
0:14 Mojo - Nk disto
0:23 Mojo - Br+Mid
1:05 Mojo - Nk OD
3:28 3:50 Kinman - Mid
4:02 4:23 DiMarzio - Mid
4:34 4:56 Mojo - Mid
5:20 Fender 57/62 - Nk
5:59 Mojo - Nk
6:40 Mojo - Nk+Mid
6:59 7:11 Mojo - Br
Thumbs up for op. Vote up if useful.
There's a Brazillian boutique noiseless pickup from Sergio Rosar wich is amazing. I've been using on the neck of a alder yamaha pacifica and it sounds great. 100% single coil, zero noise. Quieter than the bridge regular humbucker.
@@ianbarcelos eu usava o vintage, na época o hot ainda não existia
I was JUST thinking about "Workin' For MCA" for an Andy demo!! Spooky.
Working for MCAAAAAAAAAAA!
Good stuff; MT's are DEFINITLY more 'matter of fact' than 'jangly', sure was wider bandwidth.
Mojotone makes a lot of good stuff.
Mojotone is deeper and sounds amazing with overtones ans harmonics, I have a lot of dimarzios, fenders noiseless, and kinman. I will try mojotone now.
Did you test them already? How do they compare?
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Invalid test... the guitars have different colour paint and pick guards. Ok I’ll shut up now.
Bill Gross was he even using the same pick?
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Guys, when you do compare...play clean fgs.
Yep...all comparison like this is useless..sounds like a fart in a spacesuit...
Anyone tried the dimarzio cruisers? If you can get past the dual blade look of them, they sound (in my opinion) like some of the fattest single coils ever made! Listen to Andy Timmons' clean tone... I prefer that over a thin, glassy tone any day.. Cuts through a mix better too. Ive tried tons of hum cancelling strat pickups, including the Area 58's and didn't like them, but the Cruisers sound fantastic. Like a Strat pickup, but even better!
Fantastic demo ! Thank you 👍 personnally I found the MT to sound the best. Btw which is that song you played with the MT quiet58 at 6:40? Have fun, and be safe. Blues on!
Thanks! The jam has a little nod to Funk 49 but just having fun 👍
Dave is the man
I still thought the Fender non-noiseless sounded the best.
+lolmont Me too!
+lolmont Me too.
Agreed.
They do sound better but the whole point of the Noiseless pickups is to reduce hum, not to sound better than single coils.
Great video. Not the same but closer than any I've heard and that's a lotttttttt!
Lace Holy Grails are wound side by side.
Last riff was beauuuuutiful, what was that one Andy? Sick playing!
On the Fender 58/62s I meant
Hi. I ordered the mojotone 58 quiet coil with hot bridge pickguard. Did you have any problem with volume difference between clean and drive presets? When I change to a clean preset there is a loss of gain in about -6db
Odd that you didn't include Fender N3 pickups.
Fender pups are Dull. N3 and n4 are very modern sounding. Not vintage
great shootout
I wished I could hear how little the noise it generates while not playing with full of gain. I'm sure the pups sounded great with dirt,as long as listening to the video, but Andy's playing has no pause.
Its difficult to compare pickups when they are in two different guitars, but if the guitars are similar then the real single coils sound way better. Great playing, btw.
I would have loved to see Lindy Fralin Split Blade in this comparison.
Imo, nothing beats Zexcoil. There are plenty of noiseless pickups, but only the Zexcoil pickups can achieve true vintage tones without any compromise
True. I tried many noiseless pickups... Kinmans, DiMarzios, Fenders, GFS, Joe Bardens and many many more (love singlecoils, hate the hum). All of 'em sounded pretty solid (except for Fenders, they are toneless), but they weren't quite in the singlecoil territory. I also tried the Fishman fluence and they are really close tonevise, however they lack the dynamics of singlecoils and feel more like active pickups. Among all these the Zexcoil wins. They sound just like singlecoils and they feel like singlecoils. They are pricey, but totally worth the money. They're win win for me!
Kinman Mk IIIs > Dimarzio Area 58s
Those Mojotones sounded really close to the true Fender 58/67 sparkle!
62*
i just ordered these pickups..awesome tone..
what is the backingtrack ?.. so nice😊
Happy to hear the demo was helpful! The backing was just your average free MIDI track but I replaced the bass and drums with better VST instruments. Thanks,
Andy
I had the mojo quiet pickups, did not like them, the string to string volume of the strings drops off considerably on the thin strings.
adjusted and tweaked pickup heights for weeks finally gave up, never could get it to sound right. replaced with fender eric johnson set, noisy, but gorgeous tone.
how is the bass string response? I've always thought the bass string sounds mushy with noiseless pickups.
David is the mid-January availability accurate? Is pre-order the only way to go?
+Brazos Arts Music School Hi, yes we are only accepting pre-orders until the release at 2016 NAMM on January 21st. Then we can ship all orders. Happy New Year!
I thought that the Fralin Split Blades are also a side-to-side design? They had been out for a few years prior to this demo
True...but the Fralins are almost double the price too. I mean Fralin is the best maker there is, But if you wanna save the money for very little difference, I’d go mojo! I have them in my strats and love them!
@@patrickgesner2991 You might want to check the prices of both again. The Fralins are not nearly twice. Love pickups from either maker.
I might be overthinking this, but are they silent here where there is 50 cycle hum? I mean, selling it like that makes me think: haha! We fooled you! It doesn't! It only cancels 60 cycle hum.
IMO, although noisy, the Fender originals PUs still sounds better than the noiseless ones.
Quiet neck pickup distortion 1958...coil! omg! ( not emg...!), dowwana, but tech is wonderful!
Song at 6:40? Is it an Andy arrangement/original? I think I hear some Funk 49 mixed in there.
Josh Neilson that's skynynd working for MCA
The Fender non-noisless sounded better. I think the best pickups are always a little bit microphonic and noisy.
Can you please do a proper clean demo. I want to hear what the pickup sound like, not the breakup of the amp or some fuzz/distortion. I mean that it's fine to have a totally fuzzed-out or distorted demo. But, please, do proper demos that demonstrate what these pickups sound like in all settings played with the cleanest amp settings. Nice playing, Andy.
Love me some Andy but that Floyd solo only sounds right on a Les Paul to me. And yes, Gilmour nerd assault force, I am well aware David's weapon of choice was a strat, but on that particular solo, it's a Les Paul. Look it up. Then listen again. And if you can play it, and own both an LP and a Strat, do a side by side. Anywhooo... thanks as always Andy. You are a human jukebox of guitar goodness and your gear knowledge is vast and mighty. Merry Christmas.
However it was recorded with the goldtop LP which was loaded with P90s p'ups.
Mt. Pilot amp ?
+Ken Mickey - Amps will be available soon. Officially launching at Winter NAMM 2016
looking forward to hearing
The red strat sounded best to me...wait maybe it just looked best.
something weird about the overtones on these..
I bet everyone here has better hearing than the monsters in A Quiet Place
nice cover song
not enough mojo !!!!!!
sounds just like another noiseless pickup.
ZEXCOIL > Mojotone.
Check 'em out for yourself and see.
Gotta agree, they sound just like real singlecoil strat p'ups. Love 'em!
Gotta disagree on those, sounded weird to me.. especially when bending strings, sold them after 2 weeks