Compare
Fender Vintage Noiseless Tele vs Seymour Duncan Custom Shop BG1400
Fender Vintage Noiseless Tele
neck Tele pickup
56 match
low confidence
Seymour Duncan Custom Shop BG1400
neck Tele pickup
Compared with the Fender Vintage Noiseless Tele, the Seymour Duncan Custom Shop BG1400 has hotter output and an Alnico V magnet (punchier, more aggressive).
Specs side by side
differs marks specs where they part ways| Spec | Fender Vintage Noiseless Tele | Seymour Duncan Custom Shop BG1400 |
|---|---|---|
| DC resistancediffers | 12k | 29.2k |
| Inductance | not measured | not measured |
| Magnetdiffers | Alnico 2 | Alnico 5 |
| Coil | Hum-cancelling | Hum-cancelling |
| Slot | neck Tele pickup | neck Tele pickup |
| Traits | high output, soft & warm, noiseless | high output, 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
0
DC resistance (no inductance for one of them)
Magnet
55
Alnico 2 vs Alnico 5
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 Seymour Duncan Custom Shop BG1400
“For example you'd think the bg1400 (30k DCR) SD makes would be all mids and darker than a chalkboard covered in shoe polish but by all accounts it still sounds like a telecaster pickup..”