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Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 3:18 pm
by SKC Willie
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.
Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 3:20 pm
by Bacchus
I suspect the pickups are quite good. The ones in the 50's and 60's Strats are excellent.
Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 10:02 pm
by lorez
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
Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 1:18 am
by paul_
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.