FenderTex-Mex Strat Pickups

These pickups are great for upgrading my squier strat. they made a big difference in the sound I also changed the pots cts and CRL5 way switch.they are alnico magnets and have a higher ohm's bridge pickup 7.5 and less than 100 bucks compared to some of hundreds of over priced pickup people selling the same pickups let's face it you can spend a fortune chasing the perfect tone but the player has a lot to do with it not the pickups 🎸

Rewind 3 years ago...i bought a custom shop 1960 reissue strat. The original pickups were the very best strat pickups I've ever heard. They were exactly what I wanted a strat to sound like. I didn't like the thin neck on the guitar though, so I got rid of it.I've been playing strats for 25 years professionally; I've tried Don Mare, vintage noiseless, somarian cobalt noiseless, custom shop 69, seymour duncan, among others.Recently, I bought a used MIM road worn strat which I like very much. They have the Tex Mex pickups in these guitars. I love the way they sound. Just to compare, I decided to switch them out with some pickups I had laying around.First, the Fender Texas Specials. Tex Mex blows these out of the water. Texas Specials were very generic sounding in comparison. Kinda dead sounding, very ehh, not inspiring.Next, Fralin Vintage Hot. These were a little better than the Texas Specials, but they sounded like just regular run of the mill strat pickups to me. I guess if you were looking for a guitar that is a Jack of all trades, master of none, these might be good. No shimmery, stratty, glassy bell like tones.Put the Tex Mex back in... Wow these sound fantastic! They sound just like those custom shop'60 reissues. Super stratty, shimmery, warm, glassy and bell like clean. With some gain, they dirty up really nicely, retaining all the above qualities, but when you dig in they can get thick and sustained and make me want to play for hours. Buddy Holly cleans, Very Gilmourish when pushed with gain and fuzz.Very impressed!

I am blown away! I bought a $70 Donner (including a small amp lol) as my first mod project. I sanded, stained, and added these pickups. I changed nothing else but the pickups, leaving everything else original besides cosmetics, and I couldn’t believe the difference it made in the sound ! And not just a difference, this is the twang I’ve been looking for. The 5 pickup settings all have a completely different tone to them, I can even get a banjoish sound while picking out! :)My expectations have been exceeded, these will be my go to pickups anytime I mod an SSS configured guitar from here on out!!Thank you Fender, I love you!!!

Nice, classic pickups for stratocaster. They are perfect for blues, rock, country. They were relatively easy to solder up and sound great. They have a lot of top end and are pretty high output. Great Stratty tones, especially the in-between sounds.

Excellent pickups.They sound great!

I replaced the pickups in a Squier Strat with these. The Squier pickups were OK, but these do sound better and are completely different construction. I had to return the first set because the Bridge pickup was wrong. The bridge pickup was actually a middle pickup with yellow & black wires installed to make it look like a bridge pickup. Clearly a factory screw-up and probably not the only time they've done this. The fact that these made it out of the factory speaks to the lack of quality control. It sounded very wrong in switch position 4 (bridge + middle) because the polarity was backwards. I verified by measuring the pickup resistance with a DMM and the magnetic polarity with a compass that the bridge pickup was in fact a middle pickup. When the second set arrived, I checked the replacement pickups *before* installing them. The new set sounds great. The bridge pickup is noticeably hotter than the other two. I wired the pickups in the Dan Armstrong blend configuration (see Guitar Player magazine Feb 1987) and installed a TBX tone pot. I'm pleased with the results, but the tone control might need some tweaking. Five stars for great price, great sound; minus one star for having to return the first set.

The Tex-Mex pickups are the best $100 I've ever spent on guitar stuff. I tossed them in a junky old low end Squier Strat and they sound fantastic! Jangly. Springy. Quacky. All the things I love about that signature Strat sound. I hate to say it but I like these better than the sound of the pickups in my Strat Ultra and may well order another set to replace those.The wiring diagram that came with them was wrong for the Squier but it's no big deal - when replacing pickups I like to draw my own diagram of how everything is wired and also take a couple pictures. Whenever I have done that I've never had any problems with things not working right

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