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Fender Hot Noiseless Strat vs Seymour Duncan Little '59 (SL59-1)

Fender Hot Noiseless Strat
bridge Strat single-coil
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Compared with the Fender Hot Noiseless Strat, the Seymour Duncan Little '59 (SL59-1) has hotter output.

Specs side by side

differs marks specs where they part ways
SpecFender Hot Noiseless StratSeymour Duncan Little '59 (SL59-1)
DC resistancediffers10.4k11.78k
Inductancediffersnot measured7.89 H (measured, 2 readings)
MagnetCeramicCeramic
CoilHum-cancellingHum-cancelling
Resonant peakdiffers—4.6 kHz (Seymour Duncan's own test load)
Bass (tone chart)differsno chart6 / 10
Mids (tone chart)differsno chart5 / 10
Treble (tone chart)differsno chart7 / 10
Slotbridge Strat single-coilbridge Strat single-coil
Traitshigh output, tight & aggressive, noiselesshigh output, tight & aggressive, noiseless

How close on each spec

100 means identical on that spec. The score weighs these, and counts anything we couldn't compare as a typical difference. How scoring works

Output
82
DC resistance (no inductance for one of them)
Magnet
100
both Ceramic
Coil
100
same coil type

Not compared: brightness, mids, bass (a spec is missing for at least one of them).

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Seymour Duncan Little '59 (SL59-1)

Fender Stratocaster - Seymour Duncan Little '59
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What players and reviewers say

On the Seymour Duncan Little '59 (SL59-1)

“In this particular guitar, the little 59 is hollow sounding, bright and lacks output..”
MrDan666 · 2010-03-29Rig-Talk ↗ (opens in a new tab)
“I like the 59 too, but the SL seems to punch the mids out there a little more, and it's still slightly warmer, maybe due partially to the nickel cover.”
Stevo · 2004-05-09Seymour Duncan forum ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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