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The Pickup Place / Re: Replacing Fender noiseless with Injectors while keeping S1 intact

« Last post by darkbluemurder on March 24, 2026, 11:05:51 AM »

Hi Jim,

The Fender Noiseless pickup are two wire pickups with one extra ground wire - basically the same as the Injectors (if you ignore the combined black and white wires). So the Injectors should work with the S1 switch.

I also found an article about the general S1 wiring options here: https://www.fender.com/articles/setup/how-the-s-1-switch-gives-you-more-tonal-options

It seems like all switching options only require pickups that have two signal wires and a separate ground wire, confirming my impression that the Injectors should work in this application.

Cheers Stephan

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The Pickup Place / Replacing Fender noiseless with Injectors while keeping S1 intact

« Last post by jim777 on March 23, 2026, 01:37:02 PM »

Hey Folks,

I have a recent Fender Player II Modified Strat with the noiseless pickups and S1 internals. I like the S1 stuff, but the pickups seriously need to go. I've had great luck with the Injector pickups in my RGs and Jems, so want to go in that direction. I recently bought a P90 from Bootstrap pickups after reading how he had worked one for a Tele player so that it would work with the Tele's S1 switch, so I'm curios if anyone know if the Injectors would work with the S1? I'm guessing they would as the Fender noiseless are dual coils (as far as I know) but wanted to be sure, and see if anyone else had done something similar.
Thanks in advance
jim

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The mini bar (off topic & misc) / Re: The Trading Post - Clearing Action

« Last post by darkbluemurder on March 19, 2026, 06:26:45 AM »

WTB posts from before 2021 are also removed. Next removal run will remove anything before 2026.

If you feel that I deleted relevant posts please feel free to repost as we all can then be sure it is still relevant. Thanks.

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The Pickup Place / Re: Super Distortion or the Super 3

« Last post by darkbluemurder on March 12, 2026, 11:56:36 AM »

Indeed - the 36th anniversary bridge is in the hot PAF category whereas the other DiMarzios mentioned are high output. JB,  Norton and Breed are between those in output. In this group, JB and Breed are midhyped whereas Norton leans more towards a hot PAF.

Cheers Stephan

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The Pickup Place / Re: Super Distortion or the Super 3

« Last post by gregr on March 11, 2026, 02:15:10 PM »

There is a massive gap between a 36th Anniversary and the other two pickups you just mentioned. Why not a Norton or The Breed for example?

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The Pickup Place / Re: Super Distortion or the Super 3

« Last post by D20 on March 11, 2026, 01:40:43 PM »

Many thanks for breaking that down for me! The more I keep reading the more I get torn. I’m kind of narrowing it to the Super D, the Titan, or the PAF 36th Anniversary.

I’m very used to alnico 5 pickups but would like to maybe get something with a little more output.

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The Pickup Place / Re: Super Distortion or the Super 3

« Last post by darkbluemurder on March 09, 2026, 01:29:28 PM »

To be more specific on the differences between a JB and a Super D:

- Super D has more output and punch
- JB is a mid-hyped pickup, Super D has mids but more in the lower range. In some guitars it can take on a rather dark midrange color
- JB has smoother highs, Super D can sound fizzy or brittle in the high end if the guitar accentuates that. If this occurs, this can sometimes be countered by bringing down the load on the pickup from 500k to approx. 380k (i.e. adding a resistance of 1.5 meg to 1.6 meg to ground).

Cheers Stephan

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The Pickup Place / Re: Super Distortion or the Super 3

« Last post by darkbluemurder on March 09, 2026, 05:08:34 AM »

I have never played a Super 3 but I played both the JB and the Super Distortion and can confidently say that those two pickups are very very different.

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The Pickup Place / Super Distortion or the Super 3

« Last post by D20 on March 06, 2026, 06:08:04 AM »

Hey everyone,
I've used some Duncans in the past and Dimarzios. I've tried D Activator, Crunchlab, Liquifire, and X2n from Dimarzio. Mostly with Duncans I stick to JBs or Thrash Factors. I want to try a Super Distortion because I never have, but I was reading that they Super 3 is a Super D but with more mids and maybe less high.

Coming from a JB I wanted to see what everyone thought here. Would I be better off with the Super 3 or just go with my initial Super Distortion I was going to get?

For reference I play mainly in drop C and write music like a heavier 311/old SCIENCE era Incubus. Mostly reggae mixed with rock/hard rock.
I daBble in metal, heavy metal as well.

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Everything you wanted to know about .... / Re: FRED

« Last post by darkbluemurder on March 03, 2026, 03:50:36 AM »

I noted that the FRED is very guitar sensitive and load sensitive. The upside is that it is very tweakable as a result. In a recent project (an alder bodied guitar with maple/rosewood neck and a floyd rose trem) it was close with 500k and spot on with a 2m2 ohms resistor to ground to make the total load approx. 410k. The middle position benefitted as well (neck pu is a Duncan Full Shred neck).

Cheers Stephan