I just picked up a used 60th anniversary American Strat with custom shop fat 50s. Blew me away! I've never heard pickups this good in real life--only on records. So psyched to have this sound!
I got a 60 th Anniversary a few weeks ago too ….. I agree the fat 50’s are lovely . Loads better than the American Pro 2’s that I excqanged it for . Frets are better too 👍🏻
The chime on these things is insane! They're also very articulate for higher gain leads (that neck pickup ...). Love them. I've played a decent number of different strat pickups (not by any means an expert), but they are the best I've personally heard.
Recently fitted 2x Fat 50s in the neck and middle of my strat with a Dimarzio HS-2 wired in single coil in the bridge. The combination sounds wonderful.
I got this FSR as well and was similarly impressed when it arrived. Crazy value at the time, $1K USD. If you haven’t already, I can additionally vouch for the Nocaster set. I was blown away by the transformation on my 99 MIM Tele.
How funny. That’s exactly what I put in my Tele after seeing they put that set in the FSR range. Oddly they do this FSR strat in other colours but without the roasted neck. Same price though. Makes no sense
@@PherotoneStudios Baffling. The fretboard on mine has beautiful grain, absolutely gorgeous. It’s such a premium feature. I did the 4 way mod on my Tele and the 4th position is just awesome with the Nocaster set. I feel silly after learning you posted your Tele videos, I’ll have to check them out.
@@PherotoneStudios Hah, of course you ended up doing the 4-way mod. Your partscaster looks great! I’m really sorry for being redundant. You got a sub though!
I love the two post bridge! Plus, I have these pups as well. They are just extremely accurate in a narrow range of the sound envelope. Sure the Texas Specials, or 69s are nice, but in my eyes one-dimensional. You get those for sounding like SRV, or Jimi. But, these are great!!!
I personally like the '69s just a touch more than these. The '69 neck pickup has a bit more of that bell-like twangyness (very technical terms, I know) generally associated with Fenders.
My two best Strats both have 12 to 14 inch neck radius's (1989 Korean and a 2019 Compound Elite USA) and need unstaggered pickups. So, got the original low output vintage 4.5Kohm's in the Korean, and putting hot Deluxe Drives in the Elite partscaster to compete with a Pearly Gates bridge Humbucker. The Deluxe Drives are flat across . . . no stagger.
@@PherotoneStudios omg yeah, paired with the katana 50mk2 I got all I need is some reverb on the clean channel and I get lost for hours on this thing. Let alone playing unplugged is insane, the sound just bounces off the roasted maple, you can really feel the notes. Feels like something I should’ve payed wayyy more for, It’s a dream and truly the only guitar I’ll really ever need.
Little late to the game here but just picked this same guitar up in surf green at a GC in phoenix for 750. The fat 50’s are no joke, and as a bonus the fretwork on this guitar is phenomenal.
I've got this same model guitar in the same color. Love the pickups and really love the roasted maple neck. Also bought the LE Player Tele with the CS Nocaster pickups and a roasted maple neck, which is my profile pic.
Recently I bought an American Standart Stratocater 2009 with Custom Shop Fat 50's pickup. Love them. And actually Fender Strats (2000-2008) sounds exactly the same. But has a different set of pickups. I don't know exact model. According to Fender website - it's American Single-Coil Strat pickups
I picked up a set for my MJT body and Warmoth neck partscaster. Wow, they are FANTASTIC. My only problem is with the bridge only position. It really is a bit ice picky. I notice in the video you turn down the tone a bit which must help. The way my preloaded pickguard is wired the tone controls don't control the bridge . . . I guess I'll have to fix that as otherwise these pickups are Strat heaven.
Replace the second tone pot with a no load pot acting as a blender one...that way on 10 you have your stock strat tone but if you roll down a bit you start bringing a bit of neck (where bridge pickup is on) and round the sound up just the way you want it and the vice versa for the neck(bringing a bit of bridge) best mode out there that requires a couple of extra wires....
The fat 50s were designed for a vintage style neck with a 7.25 inch radius. Given that the player has a modern 9.5 radius, did you notice any difference in the volume of the strings? For example, the pole piece on the 2nd string is much lower on a 9.5 neck than it would be if the neck was 7.25.
Yep. I have same pickup on American standard which are 9.5 radius. I notice too the volume of each string not balance especially the 3rd string is much louder than the other.
I ended up replacing the pickup with a Fender Ultra Hot noiseless pickup. Maybe one day I will buy a fender made in Japan with a 7.25m radius and replace it with a CS Fat 50, which I already had.
Dude, those pups sound incredible. My orange rocker 15 terror gets here tomorrow, I’ve waited months for it because they were back ordered and I’m very excited, I just randomly clicked found your latest video tonight and hadn’t seen your channel for a while, you’ve got a killer setup right now and I’m stoked to see that rocker 15 sitting behind you. It sounds glorious, good thing I’ve got a couple of custom Warmoth Strats to play through it. Cheers!
Thanks ate. Absolutely love the Rocker 15 terror. Let me know what you think when it arrives. One thing I've found is that a boost pedal pushing the clean channel to overdrive often sounds nicer (or different) to the dirty channel. Obviously the clean sound is wonderful
@@PherotoneStudios Dude, glad you asked....It's everything I ever dreamed of in a bedroom tube orange monster. I've been playing the hybrids and solid state oranges for so long, and they sound great too, but I had forgotten what a real tube amp sounded like, especially on the clean channel. It's just that gooey texture that's hard to describe. And then there's the dirty channel, holy shit man, so I have a pretty decent pedalboard rig nowadays that I use for plugging into various amps and I have a joyo UZI distortion onboard that I combine with a timmy and/or a tube screamer to mimic a high gain tone. I can get the pedals close but there's just that response and saturation that the Rocker 15 has that can't be perfectly matched by pedal circuits. I love having the board for versatility and jamming with my brother but the Rocker 15 is like my tone cathedral. I havent got to play it or crank it but a few times since we got a new puppy a few weeks ago, but last sunday I did build a new 2x12 cab for the head. put a vintage 30 and a celestion neo cream-back in it. All in all, it's great man. Just got home from work so I can watch your new video. I left a like but didn't get to watch it yet. Cheers brother!
“Tone cathedral” - epic phrase! Did you build the cab yourself? Nice speaker choice. Nothing really beats a 2x12” vibrating your body A little too for the rocker: put it on a clean channel and use a boost pedal to push it into drive territory! Sounds wonderful! Thanks for the like, hope you enjoy the fretless series. There will be some interesting parts to it.
Those are great! I have those in my daphne blue 1963 because they sound way better then the stock ones. I believe they even sound better whit a maple neck! I do recommend those they do the job well. Best regards from Sweden 🇸🇪
@@stephandelaney4097Hi do you think WITH 9's strings would sound about the same? In large scale guitars I can use Up to 9s, what do you think ? I Will apreciate your opinion, thaks in advance! Great guitar and great playing as well. Cheers, take care
To be honest, I can't tell the difference from here for sound BUT those 22 frets, roasted neck, and well polished frets is really something for an FSR. Quality build. Worth keeping.
@@PherotoneStudios well, I used to own MIJ 62 reissue. Such vintage tone, I can get it pretty close to SRV style somehow, BUT, I must say its clean on Bassbreaker compared to yours in this: yours better man!! Those fat and warmth of tone, I understand better why 5 way is what makes a Strat is versatile. I mean, even on bridge, you still sound so punchy without ice picky harshness.
I wonder if that’s because I’m using an Orange amp so it’s not as clean as a Fender amp. I don’t have a really clean amp to try it through but I will experiment. How’s the 62 reissue?
@@PherotoneStudios Probably, Orange can be bassy but it could be the fat 50's as well because my 62 is really that low output and skinny sounding. But, it's as I excected, still spaghetti logo, slimmer (kind of C shape) neck, rosewood fingerboard, kluson tuner. Plays nice and sounds okay to what it's worth. Always had issues with middle pickup though, gets in the way of my picking movement.
Thanks for the video! I've a Strat Player ltd edition with those pickups, and I was wondering if it was this Strat I should buy...I get the answer now 🙏🙏
cant keep up with you rich people LOL I just recently got the cheapest Squire from Amazon and just for fun decided to upgrade it. After going to all reviews and listening to various pickup combinations (I was thinking of Texas Specials) and listening to a few comparisons I came t the conclusion that Fat 50s were more to my liking. So the search for a deal begun. Well I got lucky, Sweetwater had Fat 50 prewired pickguard on sale, only the black pickguard qualified but that was on by me eben though the guitar had white, when I ordered they were out of stock, guess everyone jumed on them as they were like $100 US off I still placed the order, so my sales engineer calls me to apologyze and after seeing what he could do he offered me a tortoise shell or aged white for the same deal. I eas tickled pink and of course I went for it. CAn't wait to have it installed on ths cheap a** Squire, maybe it'll fro fender wings.
Those toasted maple necks tho! I genuinely feel Fender would sell loads more cheaper model if they just did darker necks!!! We like dark necks fender!!!
Come on , he knows the guitar is out off tune, if that stops you to apreciate a great guitar with good pickups you chose the wrong hobby or job, stop bullying the guy. He's not going to shoot the entire video for that
I prefer the 57 handwired fender pickups I only like the fat 50 middle pickup the neck pickup isn't that great my 2 least favorite pickups from fender is the fat 50's and fat 60's dislike them both try the 57 pickups from custom shop you'll never want fat 50's again
@@rygdoomed442 that's nonsense lol one pickup needs to be reverse wound reverse polarity to cancel the hum with single coils. The fat 50s have a RWRP middle pickup so the answer is, Yes, position 2 and 4 are hum cancelling.
not all. only reverse polarized ones have this feature. vintage pickups and some of the vintage imitations (such as cs '54) dont have this feature. in cs fat 50s case they make them reverse polarized like modern pickups@@rygdoomed442
I’ve got some in a brand new vintera road-worn strat .they sound crap in it .can’t balance the things for a toffy .the heights have been moved in mm increments from near the strings to right down level with the pick guard as low they’ll go .but they still sound muddy and the bridge pickup doesn’t sound like it’s not with the middle full time even though when when you tap the middle pickup in that position ,it’s not live ,but still sounds like it is on with the bridge pickup slightly ..
I just picked up a used 60th anniversary American Strat with custom shop fat 50s. Blew me away! I've never heard pickups this good in real life--only on records. So psyched to have this sound!
I got a 60 th Anniversary a few weeks ago too ….. I agree the fat 50’s are lovely . Loads better than the American Pro 2’s that I excqanged it for . Frets are better too 👍🏻
The chime on these things is insane! They're also very articulate for higher gain leads (that neck pickup ...). Love them. I've played a decent number of different strat pickups (not by any means an expert), but they are the best I've personally heard.
It has a good chime. However, the neck pick up can also have a nice dark chocolatey tone depending on the rig or the settings
Recently fitted 2x Fat 50s in the neck and middle of my strat with a Dimarzio HS-2 wired in single coil in the bridge. The combination sounds wonderful.
That's a great idea
Similar to Eric Johnson setup.
I got this FSR as well and was similarly impressed when it arrived. Crazy value at the time, $1K USD. If you haven’t already, I can additionally vouch for the Nocaster set. I was blown away by the transformation on my 99 MIM Tele.
How funny. That’s exactly what I put in my Tele after seeing they put that set in the FSR range.
Oddly they do this FSR strat in other colours but without the roasted neck. Same price though. Makes no sense
@@PherotoneStudios Baffling. The fretboard on mine has beautiful grain, absolutely gorgeous. It’s such a premium feature. I did the 4 way mod on my Tele and the 4th position is just awesome with the Nocaster set. I feel silly after learning you posted your Tele videos, I’ll have to check them out.
@@PherotoneStudios Hah, of course you ended up doing the 4-way mod. Your partscaster looks great! I’m really sorry for being redundant. You got a sub though!
I love the two post bridge! Plus, I have these pups as well. They are just extremely accurate in a narrow range of the sound envelope. Sure the Texas Specials, or 69s are nice, but in my eyes one-dimensional. You get those for sounding like SRV, or Jimi. But, these are great!!!
I personally like the '69s just a touch more than these. The '69 neck pickup has a bit more of that bell-like twangyness (very technical terms, I know) generally associated with Fenders.
My two best Strats both have 12 to 14 inch neck radius's (1989 Korean and a 2019 Compound Elite USA) and need unstaggered pickups.
So, got the original low output vintage 4.5Kohm's in the Korean, and putting hot Deluxe Drives in the Elite partscaster to compete with a Pearly Gates bridge Humbucker. The Deluxe Drives are flat across . . . no stagger.
This guitar is unbelievable. I wonder how it would sound with a more overdriven amp and a tube screamer.
Best Stratocaster bridge tone I have heard in ages.
Indeed !
Got this guitar back in March, first guitar I ever bought and it’s just beautiful
Wow. What a first guitar! We’re you stunned by how good the pickups sound?
@@PherotoneStudios omg yeah, paired with the katana 50mk2 I got all I need is some reverb on the clean channel and I get lost for hours on this thing. Let alone playing unplugged is insane, the sound just bounces off the roasted maple, you can really feel the notes. Feels like something I should’ve payed wayyy more for, It’s a dream and truly the only guitar I’ll really ever need.
@@Potbrownienoah good to hear your thoughts. I’m buying a new rig. (Had to sell mine during pandemic) and considering this guitar and the katana
Same! Got it on sale for $700 and can’t believe my luck… custom shop pups and roasted maple on fiesta red? Fender decal and all for $700? Yes pls!
Little late to the game here but just picked this same guitar up in surf green at a GC in phoenix for 750. The fat 50’s are no joke, and as a bonus the fretwork on this guitar is phenomenal.
Yea, I'm sold on this axe now. That neck is to die for. Great playing, too!
You’ve got your positions backwards…. 1 is bridge and 5 neck…. Just an FYI. Beautiful guitar, pretty melodies, sounds great!! Peace!
I've got this same model guitar in the same color. Love the pickups and really love the roasted maple neck. Also bought the LE Player Tele with the CS Nocaster pickups and a roasted maple neck, which is my profile pic.
Recently I bought an American Standart Stratocater 2009 with Custom Shop Fat 50's pickup. Love them. And actually Fender Strats (2000-2008) sounds exactly the same. But has a different set of pickups. I don't know exact model. According to Fender website - it's American Single-Coil Strat pickups
I have the same MIM guitar in surf green, you are right about the necks and pickups, this guitar sounds great.
I picked up a set for my MJT body and Warmoth neck partscaster. Wow, they are FANTASTIC. My only problem is with the bridge only position. It really is a bit ice picky. I notice in the video you turn down the tone a bit which must help. The way my preloaded pickguard is wired the tone controls don't control the bridge . . . I guess I'll have to fix that as otherwise these pickups are Strat heaven.
Replace the second tone pot with a no load pot acting as a blender one...that way on 10 you have your stock strat tone but if you roll down a bit you start bringing a bit of neck (where bridge pickup is on) and round the sound up just the way you want it and the vice versa for the neck(bringing a bit of bridge) best mode out there that requires a couple of extra wires....
that's the nicest type of pale sky blue cloud Stratocaster colour I've seen
It’s sonic blue I think. Daphne blue might be a hair darker.
@@williamdevlin366Sonic blue was the colour of the Kurt Cobain Jaguar. Daphne is more like a baby blue or sky blue.
Looks & sounds great dude! Nice playin’. Thanks!!!
The fat 50s were designed for a vintage style neck with a 7.25 inch radius. Given that the player has a modern 9.5 radius, did you notice any difference in the volume of the strings? For example, the pole piece on the 2nd string is much lower on a 9.5 neck than it would be if the neck was 7.25.
Yep. I have same pickup on American standard which are 9.5 radius. I notice too the volume of each string not balance especially the 3rd string is much louder than the other.
@@DdumoChannel interesting
I ended up replacing the pickup with a Fender Ultra Hot noiseless pickup. Maybe one day I will buy a fender made in Japan with a 7.25m radius and replace it with a CS Fat 50, which I already had.
Dude, those pups sound incredible. My orange rocker 15 terror gets here tomorrow, I’ve waited months for it because they were back ordered and I’m very excited, I just randomly clicked found your latest video tonight and hadn’t seen your channel for a while, you’ve got a killer setup right now and I’m stoked to see that rocker 15 sitting behind you. It sounds glorious, good thing I’ve got a couple of custom Warmoth Strats to play through it. Cheers!
Thanks ate. Absolutely love the Rocker 15 terror. Let me know what you think when it arrives. One thing I've found is that a boost pedal pushing the clean channel to overdrive often sounds nicer (or different) to the dirty channel. Obviously the clean sound is wonderful
@@PherotoneStudios I will certainly be plugging in my board full of overdrives and distortions and giving her a test run, I’ll report back :)
How’s the amp?
@@PherotoneStudios Dude, glad you asked....It's everything I ever dreamed of in a bedroom tube orange monster. I've been playing the hybrids and solid state oranges for so long, and they sound great too, but I had forgotten what a real tube amp sounded like, especially on the clean channel. It's just that gooey texture that's hard to describe. And then there's the dirty channel, holy shit man, so I have a pretty decent pedalboard rig nowadays that I use for plugging into various amps and I have a joyo UZI distortion onboard that I combine with a timmy and/or a tube screamer to mimic a high gain tone. I can get the pedals close but there's just that response and saturation that the Rocker 15 has that can't be perfectly matched by pedal circuits. I love having the board for versatility and jamming with my brother but the Rocker 15 is like my tone cathedral. I havent got to play it or crank it but a few times since we got a new puppy a few weeks ago, but last sunday I did build a new 2x12 cab for the head. put a vintage 30 and a celestion neo cream-back in it. All in all, it's great man. Just got home from work so I can watch your new video. I left a like but didn't get to watch it yet. Cheers brother!
“Tone cathedral” - epic phrase!
Did you build the cab yourself? Nice speaker choice. Nothing really beats a 2x12” vibrating your body
A little too for the rocker: put it on a clean channel and use a boost pedal to push it into drive territory! Sounds wonderful!
Thanks for the like, hope you enjoy the fretless series. There will be some interesting parts to it.
Great video mate! They sound great. That neck is gorgeous!!
Great video, made me buy these pics ups! May I ask what your pick up height is? It’s surprising how much of a difference the height seems to make
Those are great!
I have those in my daphne blue 1963 because they sound way better then the stock ones. I believe they even sound better whit a maple neck!
I do recommend those they do the job well.
Best regards from Sweden 🇸🇪
Better than original 1963 pickups? Want to sell them? Lol
Totally awesome. Totally agree. Thanks. Cheers.
What gauge of strings do you use for that Stratocaster?
10
@@stephandelaney4097Hi do you think WITH 9's strings would sound about the same? In large scale guitars I can use Up to 9s, what do you think ? I Will apreciate your opinion, thaks in advance! Great guitar and great playing as well. Cheers, take care
To be honest, I can't tell the difference from here for sound BUT those 22 frets, roasted neck, and well polished frets is really something for an FSR. Quality build. Worth keeping.
out of interest, what did you listen through? Such a wonderful guitar
@@PherotoneStudios well, I used to own MIJ 62 reissue. Such vintage tone, I can get it pretty close to SRV style somehow, BUT, I must say its clean on Bassbreaker compared to yours in this: yours better man!! Those fat and warmth of tone, I understand better why 5 way is what makes a Strat is versatile. I mean, even on bridge, you still sound so punchy without ice picky harshness.
I wonder if that’s because I’m using an Orange amp so it’s not as clean as a Fender amp. I don’t have a really clean amp to try it through but I will experiment.
How’s the 62 reissue?
@@PherotoneStudios Probably, Orange can be bassy but it could be the fat 50's as well because my 62 is really that low output and skinny sounding. But, it's as I excected, still spaghetti logo, slimmer (kind of C shape) neck, rosewood fingerboard, kluson tuner. Plays nice and sounds okay to what it's worth. Always had issues with middle pickup though, gets in the way of my picking movement.
Thanks for the video! I've a Strat Player ltd edition with those pickups, and I was wondering if it was this Strat I should buy...I get the answer now 🙏🙏
cant keep up with you rich people LOL I just recently got the cheapest Squire from Amazon and just for fun decided to upgrade it. After going to all reviews and listening to various pickup combinations (I was thinking of Texas Specials) and listening to a few comparisons I came t the conclusion that Fat 50s were more to my liking. So the search for a deal begun. Well I got lucky, Sweetwater had Fat 50 prewired pickguard on sale, only the black pickguard qualified but that was on by me eben though the guitar had white, when I ordered they were out of stock, guess everyone jumed on them as they were like $100 US off I still placed the order, so my sales engineer calls me to apologyze and after seeing what he could do he offered me a tortoise shell or aged white for the same deal. I eas tickled pink and of course I went for it. CAn't wait to have it installed on ths cheap a** Squire, maybe it'll fro fender wings.
Fat 50s are my personal favs
2:16 nice riff btw, did you come up with it? I had to recreate it and just had a 30 min impro session with it looping in the background
I think I'll get some . Thank you. Sounds very good. Kinda knophler sounding
5:55 is that a song? if yes name please :)
It’s a song named Sex & Alcohol by The Pony Never Stops : ruclips.net/video/cOym6n-J_t4/видео.htmlsi=BiuEJA88PmDboF5t
This is fender player stratocaster with roasted maple neck?
Yes but FSR model
Love this sound.
Hi, that strat sound fantastic...!!! Have you got no load tone circuit on it? Cheers!
I’m certain there isn’t one as it’s stock but I will double check tomorrow
Very nice tone , I surched. which amp You use ?
Thanks mate. It’s an Orange Rocker 15 terror
thank You so much!
Awesome sound the maple neck is awesome pick ups sound mint 🎶🎶🎸🎸
The fat 50s came in My 2015 American Standard Stratocaster
What do you think of the sound?
@@PherotoneStudios oh I love them!
@@PherotoneStudios seems like they can handle a lot of different styles ,even some metal and it still sound like a strat supposed to. My opinion
Epic. I’ll have to try some heavier bits on it
Those toasted maple necks tho! I genuinely feel Fender would sell loads more cheaper model if they just did darker necks!!! We like dark necks fender!!!
I don't, I think they look dirty.
I like the color too
I was looking to buy this guitar from guitarguitar, seems like a really good deal. And that sound... I guess i'll eat potatoes for a long time !
It’s so good! Honestly. The feel and sound! Everyone comments on how good it is
Great!!! Amazing!!!
Come on , he knows the guitar is out off tune, if that stops you to apreciate a great guitar with good pickups you chose the wrong hobby or job, stop bullying the guy. He's not going to shoot the entire video for that
Yes......yes they are the best
I prefer the 57 handwired fender pickups I only like the fat 50 middle pickup the neck pickup isn't that great my 2 least favorite pickups from fender is the fat 50's and fat 60's dislike them both try the 57 pickups from custom shop you'll never want fat 50's again
I kept hearing a squeaky mouse in between chords
A roasted player Strat. That sounds like the guitar for me.
I just hope I’m not over qualified.
wow...that doesn't look like a MIM strat, I've owned a really really good player series before also
Ohhh dude your vibrato is sooo beautiful. Wow that sounded really gay.
Is there hum cancelling in positions 2 and 4?
2 pickups cancel out humming, so in a way yes. But all guitars do this, that’s why humbuckers don’t have any humming, at least not as much
It depends on the wiring, google out of phase hum cancellation
@@rygdoomed442 that's nonsense lol one pickup needs to be reverse wound reverse polarity to cancel the hum with single coils.
The fat 50s have a RWRP middle pickup so the answer is, Yes, position 2 and 4 are hum cancelling.
not all. only reverse polarized ones have this feature. vintage pickups and some of the vintage imitations (such as cs '54) dont have this feature. in cs fat 50s case they make them reverse polarized like modern pickups@@rygdoomed442
Yep, sounds like a Strat….
57/62
I’ve got some in a brand new vintera road-worn strat .they sound crap in it .can’t balance the things for a toffy .the heights have been moved in mm increments from near the strings to right down level with the pick guard as low they’ll go .but they still sound muddy and the bridge pickup doesn’t sound like it’s not with the middle full time even though when when you tap the middle pickup in that position ,it’s not live ,but still sounds like it is on with the bridge pickup slightly ..
Guitar is out of tune man
Every guitar is😅
Demo would be better if it wasn't out of tune.
Strat pickups to tini.emg 81 85 the way to go .but good video