Sweetwater, never stop supporting creators with projects like this. Videos like Landon's are the reason I finally dove into doing the work on my own guitars over the last few years. It has been the most rewarding thing I've done since I started playing. 🤘(p.s. The Chat Breaker sorry is kind of funny and turned out surprisingly good after a little human intervention)
I went down the pickup change hole years ago 😂 Yes each change was slightly different and a lot of work and parts. Then a great player I know showed me his equaliser pedal and how he could dial in every tone in seconds that took me hours of rewiring to do the same thing. Lesson learned. I don't change pickups unless their broke.
It's kind of funny when you see some players pedal board rigs and all the crazy pedals on it. Except one of the most important. The holy equalizer pedal. Most important pedal if you play different venues or rooms all the time.
I dig the tone, it's a nice hybrid of single coil, P90 and PAF, and if they came stock on a strat I'd consider it a great big plus. I also dig how they look. Very cool. But I can't justify the price. As a strat player I'm in between classic and modern, but not obsessive. I know all sorts of tricks to get the tones I need without breaking the bank.
I'm with you. There are so many simple things a player can do to change the tone of their guitar that don't involve changing the pickups. Pickup heights, picking location, attack, etc. can often do more to the tone than a pickup change will. And apparently, a lot of people don't seem to realize that those little knob things on the guitar and amp can actually be used to change the tone.
I agree, I had planned in getting a set of CuNiFe to replace the original ceramics in my '92 Mex Std Strat, until I saw the 350$ price for them. Finally took a look at a bunch videos on these pups to hear how they'd sound. Sounds good, BUT, to be honest methink it's not worth 350$ to get that tone. I can get alnicos that sounds similar for ~100$ less from Seymour Duncan, and ye could pay less for other sets from cheaper sources like China for under $50 (but ye generally get what ye pay for if ye go THAT route). For
@@norseman61 I always suggest working the tone knobs and amp settings first. I don't know what it is with modern players, but they seem to think those knobs are just decorative and would rather spend more money on crap they don't need. I'm old school. I once recorded an acoustic in a tiled bathroom because it had the right sound I was looking for in regard to that album, a very low budget demo. It sounded amazing, literally Floyd quality. I love reading about the recording process for my favorite classic rock albums. It's often so simple it's easy to overlook.
@@angusorvid8840 Exactly. Use that natural "bathroom reverb". As you stated, the legends we attempt to emulate used some ingenious methods to get tone, and often times it was accidental. My approach is to keep away from constantly fiddling around with knobs and buttons and just play the damn thing!
Once you got to where I realized you were replacing literally everything I was left wondering why not just get an empty pickguard and fill that instead, leaving the original assembly completely intact as a functional unit. I'm lazy though - I do work hard but I won't do it until I have to lol
Yes, that's the way to go. Use a "Quick Connect" at the Jack, and a whole loaded Pickguard can be swapped out in minutes without any soldering. Then you've got two different flavors of the same guitar. 😎
I was thinking the same thing. Then you have the stock loaded pickguard to replace into the guitar if you wanted to resell the guitar as stock and keep your custom loaded pickguard as a separate unit.
Hi Landon, Mike here from just north of you in North Bay. I kind of did the same thing with my CV 60's Tele, but instead of a high end Fender pups I opted for the Lindy Fralin Blues Special with ObsidianWire controls. Night and day changes and I'm really happy with them. Also added some locking tuners and shielding in the cavities....
Oh man, $350.00 USD! 😢 For what it's worth, I just assembled a parts caster and installed a $44.00 preloaded Amazon/Musicilly alnico 5 pickguard for convenience sake and I was was really impressed with them. I thought I'd be swapping them out for a Fender set of 57/62's that I have here but that's not happening anytime soon!
The best deal in the fender pickup line is still the alnico 5 Tex mex set. 100 dollars US and they sound great in both tele and strat versions. Get them.
Pretty soon I'm going to have to get a second job, just to watch all the expensive stuff,you feature on your channel, those cunife pickups really warm the tone up, massive difference, I like them enough to try a set.
From Leo: You did a great job, and it was a good demo. I do think the grounded metal trim bezel lowers the unwanted noise and changes the magnetic field. I played a lot with Jaguar pickups that have the metal teeth on them. Just curious, why not get a new pick guard and drop in the whole new assembly without scraping the old works? People will buy a complete loaded guard.
the stock pickups are pretty good on their own, but the cunifes are a bit more articulate and compressed, which is kinda nice. the only thing I like more stock is the bridge pickup.
119 euro for some pots and a switch. Ordering here in NL I’ll keep on soldering even though it is a battle at times. Practice makes perfect. It reminds me of that printboard in Gibsons. Replaced that with normal pots and wire. Have to say for a strat the guitar looks nice. I like those chrome edges of the pickups.
I absolutely love the way they look...but to be completely honest, I liked the sound of the stock pickups more. To my ear, the CuNiFe pickups just had too many high frequencies and the mids were too scooped. If I had a guitar with these installed, I would probably be constantly riding the tone control to rein in that top end.
The most exspenive fender pickups are the CuNiFe wide range humbuckers at $650 cad for the set. I was going to get them for my tele deluxe then i saw the price.
The CuNiFe feel brighter with less low mids, which make the stock pickups sound a little washed out. Feel like the CuNiFe would be great for the John Mayer type of sound, but take a little more effort to dial in with overdrive as they are very bright and poky. One suggestion to your videos: since humans have a "listening buffer" of only a few seconds, they tend to forget what things sounded like, so it would actually be best to cut the video in such a way as to have the comparison for each pickup individually right after the other. I know, this is even more work in the cut stage, but hey, I'm sure it'd be worth it. ;)
Yeah, Fender’s original wide range pickups with the CuNiFe magnets were designed by Seth Lover who is probably best known for designing Gibson’s PAF pickups
Nice video , good tones . Personally I think you , or anyone else , could save a ton of money by upgrading to a set of Tonerider pickups . Very underrated and only $100 USD .
Love the sound of the CV with those pickups! The CVs are fun to mod! I put a Solder-less electronics in my CV Strat, and I don’t think I’ll ever look back! I went with a different brand, but it made a huge difference. Made swapping out the pickups so much easier. (a solder Padawan, I remain. Much to learn, I have)!
Hey that guitar looks and sounds hot! And I'm not a Strat guy, I'm Tele and SG guy! I never really bonded with a Strat. I might get this guitar!! Thank you for sharing this video.
Opinion: CuNiFe has a great smooth mid-range, but muted highs.. the highs were crystal for the original SQ pickups. Overall I liked the new pickups.. but would I buy them.. I don't think so, they sound p-90-ish with distortion which I liked.. but I'd keep remembering those clear high on clean SQ. (Nice Radiohead and Pixies!! BTW)
I like the tones the CuNiFe pickups put out. They are not cheap at least they are a little cheaper than a new squire cv strat . I bought a squire cv starcaster and looked at CuNiFe pickups for it . They were more than i have in the guitar. If the price of these were reduced they would sell a ton of them.
Landon, are you pleased with the performance of the F-ONE Oil? Looking for the best conditioner for rosewood boards that isn't lemon oil or parafin and doesn't cost the price of Unicorn Tears.
Nice looking pickups for sure. Sitting here listening through a bluetooth earbud the tones were not bad. Not earth shattering by any means but ok. If anything the cunife were louder. Comparatively speaking, the ceramic pickups in my 2008 made in China Bullet strat sound close to both sets sampled here. Cheers!
Those pickups are almost as much as the Vibe! (with my discount, I can get the Vibe for $387 from Fender). Sounds is great and I like the look as well.
That's for a simple review. I like the look of this set and I'd like to try a set in person as I imagine the nuances would be noticed directly. I can't differentiate as much through my phone and the price of these are above several other considerations for myself.
I'm gonna be rewiring the hell out of a strat HHH pickguard this weekend when I get the parts. I wonder if I'll need a circular awl like that or something. Gonna try to wire it so each humbucker has a switch going between series, parallel mode and split/single coil. And I'm gonna make one of the positions neck+bridge to give you kind of a tele sound.
This one is a Squier pickguard, so it’s got smaller clearance holes for the smaller pots. I’d think you may be alright with an HHH guard, but a 3/8” drill bit will work instead of a special awl if not
@@garrettr2 we'll see if my stuff fits. My guitar is a Chinese Squier Bullet. And the fancy double throw 5 way switch I want to put in is listed as 2 mm deeper than I've read the space for it is. On the other hand, the bottom of it are connectors that can be bent. And I also got full sized pots to put in it.
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@@vincenticyfiregeetar7656I thought the pickups are filled with non newtonian fluid, and would have to be refilled with every string change whilst making down tuning impossible… must have misread that.
It's the player that makes the vast difference. Jack Pearson plays Squire's and uses the stock pickups. Expensive equipment doesn't make a difference for the novice to average player. Spend your money on extra lessons and spend hours and hours practicing.
The Fender pups don't sound better to me, just louder, leading me to think the og pots are 250k and the new ones are 500k. Ergo you could get the same results by just upgrading the pots. Btw whaddya doing with the stock og pups?
Your tones on your video are better than the tones on the Fender video. I like CuNiFe pickups but when I heard the demo from Fender I was not interested. Bright and the clarity is great.
Well, at least the bridge pickup is only 10.5k. . . . . . . . . . . Which is still almost double that of a real Strat pickup. I'm pretty sure any of us who are familiar, probably dig the Wide Range pickups. However, the pickups in the Classic Vibe guitars aren't exactly sucky. I have a Classic Vibe 50's Tele & very much dig the pickups. Yeah yeah I know, "Think outside the Strat." Which of course I did myself A LONG time ago by putting a 10k rail pickup, in a Partscaster. But I still want the around 6.6k pickups in the other positions. Wait, position that is as I kinda Tele'd that guitar by removing the middle pickup & using a three way switch. Cunife huh? Question, who's hearing a 60 cycle hum over bass & drums?
The cobalts sound great more compression on neck but position 2 was real chime, and a bridge pickup you could actually use its quite tamer. It’s a new tone to have for sure. But, Im not sure its worth it unless you just dig the tone. I personally dig ceramics. Thats a good vintage tone for a great price. I just buy a good American that sounds and plays good and leave it stock. I don’t upgrade much anymore. But its a new tone we have available and its hard to be mad about that eh?
I don’t get why you unsoldered the original pickups first. If you are replacing the pickups AND the tone stack wiring, why not just unsolder the bridge and cavity ground leads and then remove the original assembly in one piece? That way you just need to reattach the ground leads if you ever decide to switch it back to factory original.
CV 50 has Surfari Tone riders, 60 is equiped with Pure Vintages Tonerders but Fender put his name on them, a case of marketing trick, and in my humble opinion they are so good, that Cunife seems to be completely MUDDY , that probably good for Metal, but what is realy necesary on Clasic Vibes, is to upgrade the hardware, and keep the Toneriders, alnico 3 in CV 50 and alnico5 in CV 60. greetings from Chile
Hey Sweetwater, I like free stuff too. I'd even film myself talking about how much I love my new Telecaster that I got for free from Sweetwater. ;) ;) ;) ;)
I have a 1976 i think tele custom that I inherited, thing is microphonic (you can hear the STRAP movement), tiny frets, the neck can move in its socket if the screws are not super tightened (needs a side-shim).
That's the problem with CBS era fenders in a nutshell...they're not all crap, but some left the factory that never should have, and will need serious work to make them proper workhorses...at least you didn't shell out thousands just to find out it was a lemon
@@jasondorsey7110 it is still playable just not satisfying, where I live there aren't many luthiers if any, if I could find a decent one I would have it worked on though. We have a Long & McQuade but they don't even do most work besides basic setups, they would ship it out and I don't want to trust that, since it still has sentimental value (and real value even if its not a fine specimen).
Thoughts? Well quite frankly, this just shows that the pickups on a CV are just fine and dandy stock. And that Cunife only truly comes into its own when used in WRHBs. Couldn't hear any major sound difference on this video. I have the Cunife WRHBs on a Fender Japan Jazzmaster and they sound really good - but what they do is give a more single coil type sound with a humbucker, just with less hum. On a single coil type pickup, this (to me at least) seems like a pointless exercise.
So the neck is 9.5k and the inductance is 3 H? That's quite a bit more than a vintage single coil which could be 5.5k and 2H. I think the point of these was to put them in humbuckers so that you wouldn't need a bar magnet.
Hey Landon, I’m trying to find an Obsidian wire harness for a '69 Tele thinline by Harley Benton. Can't seem to get anywhere at their website. Do you know if there is such an animal for a '69 Thinline? Thanks. The guy from London Ontario.
I did like the new pickups.. but at the end.. what is worth the price? over the last 25 years.. i always been "MEH" after switching pickups almost to a point where it is a lost of money. my new thing these days.. try the guitar. you like the tone.. keep it intact. unless it is really an undertone guitar ( rare these days ). and last.. have you try the new FSR Strat in British racing green? it has a set a SD quarter pound and a trembucker.
Difficult for me to tell what changed the sound...the pickups ore the pots. 🤷🏻 there is a tone change yes and they sound good..but for that price i like the stock pickups more. If i change my pickups in my CV strat i would go with fat 50s, fat 60s ore an SD ssl-1. That are the tones i prefer more. 😉
You're using a pick to remove the knobs. You mean you don't have a $95 StewMac knob puller made specifically for the Classic Vibe Strat? I'm sure they have one for every model of guitar.
After the before? only you can phrase it that way. 😂😂😂😂 I like the after the before demo, I thought the before the after was good before I heard the after the before!
there's a guy who plays acoustic guitar at restaurants on tenerife island. i want to go there just to hear him play. oh wait, it said cunife. nevermind.
CuNiFe are clearly better ! these indonesians classic vibe guitars sound tiny and thin ans highs. the CuNiFe gives more "body" to the sound and clearly more volume. Very big thanks for the demo !!
I personally love the chrome surrounds. I think they would look very sharp in my Cyclone. I don’t really feel the need to change the pickups because I do like the sound of the stock ones, but these visually look awesome to me.
I'm glad to see that the wiring diagram for those pickups wasn't in cuneiform.
stop making up words…hahahaha😂
Punny
The ancient Sumerians would be proud.
Don’t be an old stick in the mud.
@@sgt.grinch3299 I like that one!
Sweetwater, never stop supporting creators with projects like this. Videos like Landon's are the reason I finally dove into doing the work on my own guitars over the last few years. It has been the most rewarding thing I've done since I started playing. 🤘(p.s. The Chat Breaker sorry is kind of funny and turned out surprisingly good after a little human intervention)
I went down the pickup change hole years ago 😂 Yes each change was slightly different and a lot of work and parts. Then a great player I know showed me his equaliser pedal and how he could dial in every tone in seconds that took me hours of rewiring to do the same thing. Lesson learned. I don't change pickups unless their broke.
there's a pickup change hole! gross 😝
@@Mr_TurtlewizardLove this.
I hit that a year after playing. Lol. The marketing is crazy these days. Lol
Yes, the EQ pedal is gold.
It's kind of funny when you see some players pedal board rigs and all the crazy pedals on it. Except one of the most important. The holy equalizer pedal. Most important pedal if you play different venues or rooms all the time.
Surprisingly, the original pickups sounded much better to my ears.
Great work on your channel. Thank you!!
They sound like the older ceramic pickups
@@tjukkv apparently they're stock alnico pickups in the classic vibe, but I agree that they don't sound great.
I mean the CuNiFe pickups sounded like they were the ceramics
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@@tjukkv Agree - to me the cunife pickups sound sharp and brittle, the originals sound softer and more subtle.
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always!
how do you say CuNiFe?
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0:00 - the intro and disclosure
2:25 - CuNiFe pickup specs
2:53 - fighting 60 Cycle Hum @60CycleHumCast
3:55 - Pickup installation
4:52 - Neck oiling
6:12 - Obsidianwire kit install
8:15 - Tone samples
8:33 - Before Clean
9:14 - After Clean
10:03 - Before + Revv Chat Breaker
10:49 - After + Revv Chat Breaker
11:18 - After + Marshall Shredmaster
11:35 - After + Ts mini & Joyo SweetBaby & Fender Delay
12:20 - my thoughts and summary
"Copper-nickle-iron"?
I dig the tone, it's a nice hybrid of single coil, P90 and PAF, and if they came stock on a strat I'd consider it a great big plus. I also dig how they look. Very cool. But I can't justify the price. As a strat player I'm in between classic and modern, but not obsessive. I know all sorts of tricks to get the tones I need without breaking the bank.
I'm with you. There are so many simple things a player can do to change the tone of their guitar that don't involve changing the pickups. Pickup heights, picking location, attack, etc. can often do more to the tone than a pickup change will. And apparently, a lot of people don't seem to realize that those little knob things on the guitar and amp can actually be used to change the tone.
I agree, I had planned in getting a set of CuNiFe to replace the original ceramics in my '92 Mex Std Strat, until I saw the 350$ price for them. Finally took a look at a bunch videos on these pups to hear how they'd sound.
Sounds good, BUT, to be honest methink it's not worth 350$ to get that tone. I can get alnicos that sounds similar for ~100$ less from Seymour Duncan, and ye could pay less for other sets from cheaper sources like China for under $50 (but ye generally get what ye pay for if ye go THAT route).
For
@@norseman61 I always suggest working the tone knobs and amp settings first. I don't know what it is with modern players, but they seem to think those knobs are just decorative and would rather spend more money on crap they don't need. I'm old school. I once recorded an acoustic in a tiled bathroom because it had the right sound I was looking for in regard to that album, a very low budget demo. It sounded amazing, literally Floyd quality. I love reading about the recording process for my favorite classic rock albums. It's often so simple it's easy to overlook.
@@TheGhostGuitars Duncan and DiMarzio make some decent stacks. I would go for the lower powered sets because they have more natural quack on 2 and 4.
@@angusorvid8840 Exactly. Use that natural "bathroom reverb". As you stated, the legends we attempt to emulate used some ingenious methods to get tone, and often times it was accidental. My approach is to keep away from constantly fiddling around with knobs and buttons and just play the damn thing!
It's night. I'm half cut and I really enjoy the music that you played while you installed the pickups 👍🤘
Rock on!
would love to see each channel compared each switch position instead of 5 and 5 in future endeavors like this
Once you got to where I realized you were replacing literally everything I was left wondering why not just get an empty pickguard and fill that instead, leaving the original assembly completely intact as a functional unit. I'm lazy though - I do work hard but I won't do it until I have to lol
Yes, that's the way to go. Use a "Quick Connect" at the Jack, and a whole loaded Pickguard can be swapped out in minutes without any soldering. Then you've got two different flavors of the same guitar. 😎
I was thinking the same thing. Then you have the stock loaded pickguard to replace into the guitar if you wanted to resell the guitar as stock and keep your custom loaded pickguard as a separate unit.
Hi Landon, Mike here from just north of you in North Bay. I kind of did the same thing with my CV 60's Tele, but instead of a high end Fender pups I opted for the Lindy Fralin Blues Special with ObsidianWire controls. Night and day changes and I'm really happy with them. Also added some locking tuners and shielding in the cavities....
Shielding is a must, that's one area where squier is notorious for cutting corners
Oh man, $350.00 USD! 😢 For what it's worth, I just assembled a parts caster and installed a $44.00 preloaded Amazon/Musicilly alnico 5 pickguard for convenience sake and I was was really impressed with them. I thought I'd be swapping them out for a Fender set of 57/62's that I have here but that's not happening anytime soon!
More than anything else I think it looks really cool 😂 thanks for another great video Landon, and sponsors.
The best deal in the fender pickup line is still the alnico 5 Tex mex set. 100 dollars US and they sound great in both tele and strat versions. Get them.
Best is best when it's best
@@landonbaileyIt’s fantastic!
The original sounded better. I did not like the cunife at all. Stock pickups sounded ok but i would go for another pickups
Pretty soon I'm going to have to get a second job, just to watch all the expensive stuff,you feature on your channel, those cunife pickups really warm the tone up, massive difference, I like them enough to try a set.
😱🎸👍
Kunefe(often pronounced as kunafah) is a traditional turkish dessert made with very thin shredded pastry stripes, full fat cheese butter and syrup.
From Leo: You did a great job, and it was a good demo. I do think the grounded metal trim bezel lowers the unwanted noise and changes the magnetic field. I played a lot with Jaguar pickups that have the metal teeth on them. Just curious, why not get a new pick guard and drop in the whole new assembly without scraping the old works? People will buy a complete loaded guard.
Cuz it's about the video and not he money though if it was me,I'd probably sell the pickups I was sent after using em
the stock pickups are pretty good on their own, but the cunifes are a bit more articulate and compressed, which is kinda nice. the only thing I like more stock is the bridge pickup.
I was wondering about these pickups. Thanks Sweetwater for sending these to Landon for review.
I think those pick ups look so good
Man I have been mulling this setup for the past week
Mull a few more 👍🎸
Great video man 😎👍
Been waiting for this.😁
Your guitar looks and sounds too cool😃👍👍
A keeper I'd say.
😎✌👍❤🖖
119 euro for some pots and a switch. Ordering here in NL
I’ll keep on soldering even though it is a battle at times.
Practice makes perfect.
It reminds me of that printboard in Gibsons. Replaced that with normal pots and wire.
Have to say for a strat the guitar looks nice.
I like those chrome edges of the pickups.
CuNiFe always makes me think of that Turkish dessert künefe
I absolutely love the way they look...but to be completely honest, I liked the sound of the stock pickups more. To my ear, the CuNiFe pickups just had too many high frequencies and the mids were too scooped. If I had a guitar with these installed, I would probably be constantly riding the tone control to rein in that top end.
The most exspenive fender pickups are the CuNiFe wide range humbuckers at $650 cad for the set. I was going to get them for my tele deluxe then i saw the price.
lol that’s absurdly high eh
I put the Telecaster set in my own build, and the resulting Telecaster is my favorite.
The CuNiFe feel brighter with less low mids, which make the stock pickups sound a little washed out. Feel like the CuNiFe would be great for the John Mayer type of sound, but take a little more effort to dial in with overdrive as they are very bright and poky. One suggestion to your videos: since humans have a "listening buffer" of only a few seconds, they tend to forget what things sounded like, so it would actually be best to cut the video in such a way as to have the comparison for each pickup individually right after the other. I know, this is even more work in the cut stage, but hey, I'm sure it'd be worth it. ;)
Seems like they finally made their own version of S500 pickups from G&L lol
I like the way the Cunife pickups sounded with dirt quite a bit more than regular Fender Alnico or Ceramic single coils sound to me
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I like the OG pickup in the Squire, they sounded more glassy and clean.
Yeah, Fender’s original wide range pickups with the CuNiFe magnets were designed by Seth Lover who is probably best known for designing Gibson’s PAF pickups
Thanks for the info!
Bridge CuNiFe sounds like a P90, that's neat.
That Shred Master sounded pretty cool.
Cool demo. I wish Fender offered these individually. I have a few guitars where I would drop one of these in the middle position with two humbuckers.
Be cool as a middle pickup on a Tele too. Extra boost and no hum.
Nice video , good tones . Personally I think you , or anyone else , could save a ton of money by upgrading to a set of Tonerider pickups . Very underrated and only $100 USD .
That guitar 🎸 looks and sounds badass!!!!
Love the sound of the CV with those pickups! The CVs are fun to mod! I put a Solder-less electronics in my CV Strat, and I don’t think I’ll ever look back! I went with a different brand, but it made a huge difference. Made swapping out the pickups so much easier. (a solder Padawan, I remain. Much to learn, I have)!
@@DMSProduktions This is the way!
Just ordered a set of Bootstrap Vintage 54 Sparkle pickups to cram into my Candy Apple CV 60's strat. Although the stock pickups are damn good, too.
Hey that guitar looks and sounds hot! And I'm not a Strat guy, I'm Tele and SG guy! I never really bonded with a Strat. I might get this guitar!! Thank you for sharing this video.
Where is my mind???
Opinion: CuNiFe has a great smooth mid-range, but muted highs.. the highs were crystal for the original SQ pickups. Overall I liked the new pickups.. but would I buy them.. I don't think so, they sound p-90-ish with distortion which I liked.. but I'd keep remembering those clear high on clean SQ. (Nice Radiohead and Pixies!! BTW)
Thanks water of sweetness!
Any time!
I like the tones the CuNiFe pickups put out. They are not cheap at least they are a little cheaper than a new squire cv strat . I bought a squire cv starcaster and looked at CuNiFe pickups for it . They were more than i have in the guitar. If the price of these were reduced they would sell a ton of them.
Landon, are you pleased with the performance of the F-ONE Oil? Looking for the best conditioner for rosewood boards that isn't lemon oil or parafin and doesn't cost the price of Unicorn Tears.
ya I've used a couple bottles, and no complaints
Excellent 👍👍👍
I love these pickups, now I guess I'm going to have to do the same and install several of them in my many Squiers...
Go for it!
Nice looking pickups for sure. Sitting here listening through a bluetooth earbud the tones were not bad. Not earth shattering by any means but ok. If anything the cunife were louder. Comparatively speaking, the ceramic pickups in my 2008 made in China Bullet strat sound close to both sets sampled here. Cheers!
Those pickups are almost as much as the Vibe! (with my discount, I can get the Vibe for $387 from Fender). Sounds is great and I like the look as well.
Nice job Landon…that music nomad tool kit is handy, ain’t it?…I use mine all the time👍
I love it!
@@landonbailey ….I use the blue handle screw driver to go over a guitar and snug up everything up…so convenient!!!!
That's for a simple review. I like the look of this set and I'd like to try a set in person as I imagine the nuances would be noticed directly. I can't differentiate as much through my phone and the price of these are above several other considerations for myself.
Copper Nickel Ferum (CuNiFe)
Aluminum Nickel Cobalt (AlNiCo)
Cucumber Nitrus Oxide Iron is the best thing ive ever heard
I'm gonna be rewiring the hell out of a strat HHH pickguard this weekend when I get the parts. I wonder if I'll need a circular awl like that or something.
Gonna try to wire it so each humbucker has a switch going between series, parallel mode and split/single coil.
And I'm gonna make one of the positions neck+bridge to give you kind of a tele sound.
This one is a Squier pickguard, so it’s got smaller clearance holes for the smaller pots. I’d think you may be alright with an HHH guard, but a 3/8” drill bit will work instead of a special awl if not
@@garrettr2 we'll see if my stuff fits. My guitar is a Chinese Squier Bullet. And the fancy double throw 5 way switch I want to put in is listed as 2 mm deeper than I've read the space for it is. On the other hand, the bottom of it are connectors that can be bent. And I also got full sized pots to put in it.
It’s a reamer! Works so well vs using a drill
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Injected?
@@allenmitchell09Yeah, you know… just like my Sire T7 is injected with locking tuners.
@@allenmitchell09yeah, pickups are pretty fuel inefficient so yamaha is experimenting with a pickup injection system so you can get better gas mileage
@@vincenticyfiregeetar7656I thought the pickups are filled with non newtonian fluid, and would have to be refilled with every string change whilst making down tuning impossible… must have misread that.
I like the background MUZAK selection
LANDON , I DID NOT CARE FOR THOSE NEW PICKUPS . I LIKED THE LOOK BUT NOT THE SOUND. I DID LIKE THE NEW WIRING !! KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK . 🎸
The new pickups sound nice and clear clean and sound great with the shred master! 😂 on the 60 cycle hum joke haha
now you know Steve's secret!
Those sound really good. I have to say though if you never tried Custom Shop 69 pickups yet you should, they are hard to surpass.
Lets not forget the 57/62s as well!!!!
It's the player that makes the vast difference. Jack Pearson plays Squire's and uses the stock pickups. Expensive equipment doesn't
make a difference for the novice to average player. Spend your money on extra lessons and spend hours and hours practicing.
The Fender pups don't sound better to me, just louder, leading me to think the og pots are 250k and the new ones are 500k. Ergo you could get the same results by just upgrading the pots. Btw whaddya doing with the stock og pups?
The pickups in my 2022 Squier CV 50’s Strat are extremely good IMHO.
I’m not likely to change them out.
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Your tones on your video are better than the tones on the Fender video. I like CuNiFe pickups but when I heard the demo from Fender I was not interested. Bright and the clarity is great.
great video, sounds great and love the candy apple red! i play one in my videos
Well, at least the bridge pickup is only 10.5k. . . . . . . . . . . Which is still almost double that of a real Strat pickup. I'm pretty sure any of us who are familiar, probably dig the Wide Range pickups. However, the pickups in the Classic Vibe guitars aren't exactly sucky. I have a Classic Vibe 50's Tele & very much dig the pickups. Yeah yeah I know, "Think outside the Strat." Which of course I did myself A LONG time ago by putting a 10k rail pickup, in a Partscaster. But I still want the around 6.6k pickups in the other positions. Wait, position that is as I kinda Tele'd that guitar by removing the middle pickup & using a three way switch. Cunife huh? Question, who's hearing a 60 cycle hum over bass & drums?
Copper Nickel Iron Pickups sound great
@LandonBailey One of My Favorite Guitar RUclipsr!! 🇨🇦 💪 Enjoy everyone of your videos! Thanks For Sharing 🎸 🎶
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The cobalts sound great more compression on neck but position 2 was real chime, and a bridge pickup you could actually use its quite tamer. It’s a new tone to have for sure. But, Im not sure its worth it unless you just dig the tone. I personally dig ceramics. Thats a good vintage tone for a great price. I just buy a good American that sounds and plays good and leave it stock. I don’t upgrade much anymore. But its a new tone we have available and its hard to be mad about that eh?
Pickups that cost more than my Vibe 60's! Doh!!
I don’t get why you unsoldered the original pickups first. If you are replacing the pickups AND the tone stack wiring, why not just unsolder the bridge and cavity ground leads and then remove the original assembly in one piece? That way you just need to reattach the ground leads if you ever decide to switch it back to factory original.
Because it’s what I did
Maybe cause he able to keep the cunife pickups and doesn’t have to change it back
Obsidians are nice but not for left handlers. I wonder if they’ll ever come out with a left handed kit? Use your power Brandon!!!
I believe his name is pronounced Lailey.
Spell check got me. Landon
CV 50 has Surfari Tone riders, 60 is equiped with Pure Vintages Tonerders but Fender put his name on them, a case of marketing trick, and in my humble opinion they are so good, that Cunife seems to be completely MUDDY , that probably good for Metal, but what is realy necesary on Clasic Vibes, is to upgrade the hardware, and keep the Toneriders, alnico 3 in CV 50 and alnico5 in CV 60. greetings from Chile
Hey Sweetwater, I like free stuff too. I'd even film myself talking about how much I love my new Telecaster that I got for free from Sweetwater. ;) ;) ;) ;)
I'm confused. isn't the aura around getting a classic vibe is how it sounds? Isn't that they are the best squires?
Hi confused, I’m Landon!
Would also be nice if they had black pickup covers and black chrome.
I have a 1976 i think tele custom that I inherited, thing is microphonic (you can hear the STRAP movement), tiny frets, the neck can move in its socket if the screws are not super tightened (needs a side-shim).
That's the problem with CBS era fenders in a nutshell...they're not all crap, but some left the factory that never should have, and will need serious work to make them proper workhorses...at least you didn't shell out thousands just to find out it was a lemon
@@jasondorsey7110 it is still playable just not satisfying, where I live there aren't many luthiers if any, if I could find a decent one I would have it worked on though. We have a Long & McQuade but they don't even do most work besides basic setups, they would ship it out and I don't want to trust that, since it still has sentimental value (and real value even if its not a fine specimen).
Thoughts? Well quite frankly, this just shows that the pickups on a CV are just fine and dandy stock. And that Cunife only truly comes into its own when used in WRHBs. Couldn't hear any major sound difference on this video. I have the Cunife WRHBs on a Fender Japan Jazzmaster and they sound really good - but what they do is give a more single coil type sound with a humbucker, just with less hum. On a single coil type pickup, this (to me at least) seems like a pointless exercise.
So the neck is 9.5k and the inductance is 3 H? That's quite a bit more than a vintage single coil which could be 5.5k and 2H.
I think the point of these was to put them in humbuckers so that you wouldn't need a bar magnet.
Hey Landon, I’m trying to find an Obsidian wire harness for a '69 Tele thinline by Harley Benton. Can't seem to get anywhere at their website. Do you know if there is such an animal for a '69 Thinline? Thanks. The guy from London Ontario.
I don’t know. You should email their contact info and ask. Cheers!
I couldn’t find an email icon….I will try again. Keep up the great Canadian humour in all your videos, I get a kick out of'em….
it's under Product Support
Found it, thanks…
I bet these would compare well to g&l pickups output wise at least
I did like the new pickups.. but at the end.. what is worth the price? over the last 25 years.. i always been "MEH" after switching pickups almost to a point where it is a lost of money. my new thing these days.. try the guitar. you like the tone.. keep it intact. unless it is really an undertone guitar ( rare these days ). and last.. have you try the new FSR Strat in British racing green? it has a set a SD quarter pound and a trembucker.
Thanks Sweetwater
Hi! What is the Hendrixy music playing in the background?
The biggest difference is when you put some dirt on them. They really sound articulate and clear.
I like them. Sounds good...
They did sound pretty good but i love the way the cv sounds stock so i doubt id mod one at all...
I buy a lot of stuff from sweetwater. My neices and nephews really like the bag of candy with my shipments.
Difficult for me to tell what changed the sound...the pickups ore the pots. 🤷🏻 there is a tone change yes and they sound good..but for that price i like the stock pickups more. If i change my pickups in my CV strat i would go with fat 50s, fat 60s ore an SD ssl-1. That are the tones i prefer more. 😉
Fender should sell these pre installed on a pick guard.
You're using a pick to remove the knobs. You mean you don't have a $95 StewMac knob puller made specifically for the Classic Vibe Strat?
I'm sure they have one for every model of guitar.
2 picks! 🎸😁
Good? Yeah they are but are they good enough to play some Trooper?
Oh, & as mentioned below, the price? FD!
Nice background music 🎵
If you're giving this Candy Apple Red Squier strat, sign me up!
They look kind of cool. I’d buy a set if they were available in black. I don’t want all that white on my all blacked out guitar :/
After the before? only you can phrase it that way. 😂😂😂😂
I like the after the before demo, I thought the before the after was good before I heard the after the before!
there's a guy who plays acoustic guitar at restaurants on tenerife island. i want to go there just to hear him play. oh wait, it said cunife. nevermind.
Nice demo. They seem a bit "boomy" or too heavey on the bass strings for my tastes, not very balanced. May be just my ears... They do look cool.
I need to adjust them a bit possibly
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CuNiFe are clearly better ! these indonesians classic vibe guitars sound tiny and thin ans highs. the CuNiFe gives more "body" to the sound and clearly more volume.
Very big thanks for the demo !!
hate the look of the chrome surround on them, would copper tape around the inside of the pickup cover or around the bobbin do the same?
I personally love the chrome surrounds. I think they would look very sharp in my Cyclone. I don’t really feel the need to change the pickups because I do like the sound of the stock ones, but these visually look awesome to me.
I hate hate
OK I dislike the look of them!