(11) Replacing Old Cheap Ceramic Pickups With New Fender AlNiCo 2 Vintage Noiseless Pickups

Enjoy watching my local luthier, Sean, swap out the cheap ceramic pickups, that sound thin, and tinny, and shallow, with nice new Fender brand vintage noiseless pickups made with AlNiCo 2 magnets. Man, what a difference!

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I have the Squier Affinity Series FSR Telecaster Electric Guitar, Lake Placid Blue, Maple Fingerboard 250.00 USD ,or something, & the cheaper version is like 199.00 ,but it isn't string though the body hence maybe cheaper? I dunno . Anyway it is true in my opinion that which ever one we buy, it's best to change out the pickups ....the stock pick ups in my opinion sound OK, but nothing impressive. There are higher end models in the series that come with the AlNiCos in that 450.00 USD price range..

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Thanks for your comment, Mr. Phats. We obviously agree. Though the cheap pickups that came with my guitar, in isolation, were ok, clearly they were just that, just ok. There was an amazing difference when I put in decent pickups, to be sure. Take care!