Fender Gen 4 Noiseless Telecaster Pickups

I've been playing for over 30 years. I own several telecasters and strats and have used quite a few 'noiseless' pickup. For comparison, I've used active systems (EMG), Fender SCNs, DiMarzio Area's and some of the smaller pickup builders. I like my telecaster to sound like a tele but with a little more output than a true vintage pickup. These pickups nail the tone and there is ZERO hum. The take overdrive really well, they have spank and sparkle like a tele should. I did have to enlarge the hole between the bridge pickup and control cavity, just a tiny bit off the bridge pickup cavity side. The pickups are well made, quite tall compared to other stacked noiseless. Nice thick lead wires, twisted from the factory. Overall, a fantastic value considering the price and tone!

You get what you paid for... I don't say that about much Fender stuff too :) Very nicely manufactured pickups. Installed fine and sounded great! My only complaint is with packaging... the clear box top lid sits right on the top of the silver capsule (neck) pickup and tends to mark up pickup cover during shipping, leaving scratched/abrasions on the silver capsule and can not be polished out. A simple plastic sheet cover over the pickup capsule should help immensely.

Modded a Tele Pro 2 with these so make it noiseless (the more expensive Ultra Tele line comes stock with these Noiseless Pups). These are truly noiseless, even with fuzz and OD pedals engaged. In a live band mix, the tone difference is indistinguishable from the V Mod 2 pickups the Pro 2 comes stock with. Recommended.

I put this set in my classic vibe telecaster. The pickups take up every bit of space your cavities will allow. Had to drill a lower hole in the bridge cavity to get wires out of the way and Dremel a bit of meat in the neck to do the same, not a lot but just a little. The neck pickup is high so there was no way to lower it, lucky for me the height was just right. With all that being said I still think it was worth while. These Generation 4 pickups sound more like single coil tele pickup than the Vintage noiseless do. Gen4 has better eq and overall tone, however a bit less bass and volume (no squish in the neck position). My only complaint about noiseless single coils size pickups are there’s no “quack” or “throaty” attack. But that’s what happens when you use opposing coils (humbucker), to produce no noise, it’s a trade off. These are humbuckers made to sound and look like single coils. I would rather have a full size humbucker that I love the sound of, rather than an okay single coils size pickup that never quite sounds like a good single coil or even a good sounding humbucker.

Bought pre-owned here, a great deal! Building a Partscaster modding a $178 KGD Tele, got these here for $170 - What a good deal, these are $320 new. Wonderful pickups, this was the modification I had desired! Fairly easy to install, I added copper shielding while inside, now this thing sings to me every day!

Got these for my 12 year old to improve his guitar. These were used in good shape. Thought I would save a couple bucks. You can see my old cheap one has resistance in the last picture posted. Sending back. Wish I would have checked them first before breaking the guitar apart.

I have a Vintage '52 Tele. I bought these hoping to improve on the hum situation. They do not disappoint in sound quality or hum reduction, but both pickups are taller than the originals, and the neck pickup is too tall for the cavity in my guitar, so it touches the strings when fretted above the 7th fret. I would need to mill about 5mm out of the neck pickup pocket to make it fit, and probably also replace the pickguard. I am not willing to make irreversible mods to this guitar to swap pickups. The description should note that these don't fit every Tele without cutting wood.

I installed these in my '05 Fender FSR Telly MiM, and they got perfectly. Wiring was dead simple, and the result is a more defined classic telecaster sound. Granted, a buzz/hum is still present, but this is undoubtedly a grounding issue as it was more apparent with the old pickups. Very pleased with this product. Although the wiring diagram included could be more detailed. 8/10, get it!

J'ai beaucoup de parasites environnants dans la pièce où je joue habituellement. Difficile de déterminer exactement la source du problème, l'âge de l'installation électrique est sans doute en cause, ainsi que la présence d'une voie ferrée à proximité. En jouant sur ampli, les parasites étaient très présents et n'étaient pas dus à une boucle de masse. J'ai opté pour ces micros afin de pouvoir limiter les parasites sans pour autant trop modifier le son avec des filtres. Mission accomplie après l'installation de ces micros sur ma Michael Kelly 1953 (type Telecaster avec sélecteur micros 4 positions) : les parasites sont largement réduits et c'est tout à fait jouable sans filtrer ou altérer le son. L'installation requiert quand même de savoir ce qu'on fait et de bien planifier, ainsi que savoir souder un peu (même s'il n'y a rien de compliqué en soi. Le son reste digne de celui d'une telecaster, sans altération. Parfait !

Bought these to upgrade my Squire Affinity telecaster. Wasn't sure if the taller pickups would fit in the 1.5” body, but i had no problem installing these. No extra routing or shaving wood at all. No noise at all and the tone is gorgeous. Would absolutely recommend these pickups.

I bought these noiseless tele pickups, and I wasn't disappointed no hum and a lovely warm sound on the neck with a great twang sound on the bridge, put them together and I love the sound of the brige and nexk together very happy Lee.

Leider ist der Bridge Pickup, wie bei so vielen anderen Rezensionen, defekt geliefert.

Me han encantado. Es cierto que suenan un poquito menos brillantes, pero casi imperceptible, si eres un nostálgico del siglo pasado es posible que lo notes un poco. Yo a pesar de mis 62 años no soy un nostálgico de Fender ni de Gibson. creo en la evolución de la música y las guitarras. Sonido moderno sin perder la esencia característica de Fender. Dinámica exquisita típica Fender, pero con la ventaja de la eliminación del hum. Calidad de sonido impresionante. Tengo una American Professional II Stratocaster (y otras guitarras) con pastillas single-coil V-Mod II, pero en mi opinión ahora mi Telecaster suena mejor. Esta guitarra completa mi paleta se sonidos de forma maravillosa. Genial!!!