Yosemite Telecaster 2-piece Pickup Set - Black/Chrome Review

Neck Pickup Specs Are Wrong

I recently purchased a set of these pickups. When I put thm on my meter, the rear pickup measured 7.0. The front measured 6.16. I was concerned as everywhere I looked the front should be in the 7.3 range. So, I contacted Fender customer support. I received a email today verifying that my pickup is correct and that the information on there website is INCORRECT. This is the email… read more that I got from Fender: ________________ Hello Mick, Your pickups are actually correct. The neck pickup should be between 5.7k and 6.3k, and bridge pickup is between: 7.6k - 8.2k. So they are within tolerance. The spec information on our site is incorrect and will notify our Fender web team to make the correction. Apologies for the confusion. ________________ The email was sent to me by Mr Carlos Hernandez, Gear advisor, Fender Musical Instruments Corporation The fine folks at Fender have always been a great help to me over the years and have once again solved a puzzle for me.

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Sound great

I put these pickups into my Mexican telecaster. I don't think that they don't necessarily sound better than the old pickups, but they sound more like a telecaster should sound. The bridge pickup is very twangy and the neck pickup is round and full sounding. They are a little less output than the Mexican pickups. The Yosemites just sound like what I expect a telecaster to sound… read more like. I also did the 4-way switch mod on my tele, and these pickups made that easy. The neck pickup has the three required wires for that (some have only two), so I didn't need to solder an extra wire. The bridge and neck in series rocks!

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Future classics?

Can't say enough- these sound great in my Partscaster! Definite vintage sound, but with all the output I need.

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Great pickups for the money

excellent pickups but also excellent customer service fro Sweetwater as always

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Gave my Squier Tele new life.

Looking to replace the cheap microphonic pickups in my Squier Affinity Telecaster(that i kind of made worse trying to mod with a 4 way switch). Since swapping them, my Tele is the guitar i usually pickup to play, because these pickups are fantastic. Theyre great for everything from jazz to metal. And of course, Sweetwaters customer service is the best ive ever seen.

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