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

« Last post by darkbluemurder on March 30, 2026, 05:05:52 AM »

The Breed neck would be fatter than the FRED. Works well with a 250k load BTW. I have my main strat set up with one, with an Area 67 in the middle and an Area 61 in the neck.

The Breed bridge would be very dark with a 250k load.

Cheers Stephan

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

« Last post by darkbluemurder on March 30, 2026, 05:04:11 AM »

Injectors and Areas have the same connection wires - red, black, white, green and bare.

Cheers Stephan

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

« Last post by singleplayer75 on March 29, 2026, 10:20:11 AM »

What about the Breed instead of Fred in my HSS Strat, also 250K pots? Would it be fatter, more bass but not muddy?

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

« Last post by mmmguitar on March 28, 2026, 03:26:39 PM »

The "S-1" pots built for Fender by CTS are 4PDT switches that can be wired up for a ton of jobs.

The stock wiring for the Player II Modified Strat uses the S-1 switch to rout a jumper wire so that it connects the neck pickup signal terminal on the 5 way switch to the bridge pickup terminal. So you can solder basically any neck pickup to whatever terminal is common to the 5 way switch and S-1 switch, and retain that switching function.

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

« Last post by jim777 on March 25, 2026, 11:57:54 AM »

Thanks so much Are the Injectors and Area single coil sized humbuckers the same in regards to wiring?

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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?