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SKC Willie · Post by **SKC Willie** » Tue Jan 26, 2010 3:18 pm

How are the pickups?

With my old Squiers, they generally played okay and sounded alright at low volume but if you turned them up they were terrible. And to me, I just really didn't want to pay as much for pickups as I did a guitar, so I never bothered with changing them.

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Tue Jan 26, 2010 3:20 pm

I suspect the pickups are quite good. The ones in the 50's and 60's Strats are excellent.

lorez · Post by **lorez** » Tue Jan 26, 2010 10:02 pm

portugalwillie wrote:How are the pickups?

With my old Squiers, they generally played okay and sounded alright at low volume but if you turned them up they were terrible. And to me, I just really didn't want to pay as much for pickups as I did a guitar, so I never bothered with changing them.

Reading reviews and forums apparently the pick ups are really good. They are AlNiCo V single-coil pickups, some people were going to upgrade them but when they got the guitar decided that it wasn't necessary

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Wed Jan 27, 2010 1:18 am

I actually liked the pickups in my standard Squier tele (not the cheapest, which is the affinity), they're alnico too. They use 500k pots on them but they sound pretty classic... I actually prefered it to the sound of MIM standard tele pickups, and the control plates are pre-wired at the same asian factory for Squier teles and MIM standard teles so all the other electronic components are the same.

I bet the CV tele is fine straight out the box, but like the others you have to watch for crap fretwork when you're trying one out.