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Fender Vintage Noiseless Strat vs Seymour Duncan Custom Shop Pearly Gates for Strat Middle/Neck

Fender Vintage Noiseless Strat
bridge Strat single-coil
low confidence

We found no spec differences between them worth calling out.

Specs side by side

differs marks specs where they part ways
SpecFender Vintage Noiseless StratSeymour Duncan Custom Shop Pearly Gates for Strat Middle/Neck
DC resistance9.8k9.8k
Inductancenot measurednot measured
MagnetAlnico 2Alnico 2
CoilHum-cancellingHum-cancelling
Slotdiffersbridge Strat single-coilStrat single-coil
Traitshigh output, soft & warm, noiselesshigh output, soft & warm, 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
100
DC resistance (no inductance for one of them)
Magnet
100
both Alnico 2
Coil
100
same coil type

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

Videos

No videos for either pickup collected yet.

What players and reviewers say

On the Fender Vintage Noiseless Strat

“They're actually designed by Bill Lawrence, and I really like his noiseless Strat pickups (they don't really sound vintage-y, but very clear and articulate)..”
ratherdashing · 2007-01-19Seymour Duncan forum ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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