Gen 4 Noiseless Telecaster 2-piece Pickup Set Review

Fender Gen 4 noiseless Telecaster pickups

I love these things!!! I've had Fender noiseless pickups in Strats before and they were ok but these in the Tele are just great!! They still maintain the single coil feel and sound but no hum.

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Fantastic sound but one small (very small) grumble

Sound is fantastic, huge improvement on the original pickups fitted to my 2019 made 2020 bought MIM Tele.I fitted the Mojo Tone solder-free 4-ways switch mod at the same time, and here is my tiny tiny grumble. For $... you think they could have made the wires a couple of inches longer!The wires, as supplied, weren't quite long enough to reach the terminal block on the Mojo Tone… read more kit. I solved this (my way, your method may vary) by simply UN-soldering the original wires and soldering on new wires from my own supplies.Oh.One other thing.If you buy the genuine Fender 4-way switch and try and fit it, beware the instructions! They don't properly cover pickups with the extra ground, and if you follow the instructions they DO provide you'll end up with an odd switching arrangement, where the Position 4 is actually Position 2, and Position 2 is actually Position 4. Or at least I did...

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Ño more hum!!!!!

I bought Fender hot noiseless pickups for my 1996 Fender strat plus and they work great .after I saw how good they worked,I bought the Gen 4 noiseless pickups for my MIM Telecaster.thier fantastic.they sound loud and very clean with no hum even when I use my compressor.this guitar is going to sound beautiful on my next gig.before places I played,had neon signs,dimmer switches .this… read more is going nice No Noise !!!!

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Impressive upgrade for my 2013 MIM FSR Telecaster

My 2013 Fender FSR MIM Tele came with some hot ceramic pickups, I liked them, but the neck pickup was too muddy and the bridge lacked a little bit of twang for me (they were great with a little bit of gain tough). I already had a Fender Deluxe Player's Stratocaster with vintage noiseless pups (wich I love) so I decided to get the Gen 4 Noiseless for my tele, plus some locking tuners… read more and a better string tree.The Gen 4 Noiseless Pickups sound great! They sound very rich and are really versatile. I'm completely satisfied (although they are a little bit more complicated to setup comparing to other single coil pickups).

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A little less twang and warmer and more full

I put these in a 10 year old black guard am vintage tele with old school single coils and vintage style wiring. That setup had just a little too much twang and too brite. Put these in with modern wiring and orange drop capacitor and the difference is amazing! Still a tele, but warm and almost no noise! I have a lot of lights and wiring that attracts hum, so i also shielded all… read more cavities with copper tape. Now is dead quiet! Note: these are really a double stack humbucker and they are tall, had to rout out some material on the tele to make them fit. Worth it though!

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