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Forum Ringside => Players => Topic started by: Supernaught on July 15, 2009, 05:29:45 PM

Title: Brown Sugar vs Fender Vintage Noiseless
Post by: Supernaught on July 15, 2009, 05:29:45 PM

Hi guys, first post here.  My Brown Sugars arrived this morning, so before I put them in I thought Id make a vid so I could A/B test the Fender Vintage Noiseless against them.

The amp was left the same for all clips, only the volume pot was used for dirty/clean so as to make it an accurate A/B test.

Excuse the playing, I always have trouble thinking of thinks to play for these type of things!

To my mind the Brown Sugars have more of an "air-y" quality to them, with a bit more space and fullness.  Like the differnce between a dynamic mic and a condenser.

Let me know what you think...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aargCcGCcsc (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aargCcGCcsc)

Title: Re: Brown Sugar vs Fender Vinatge Noiseless
Post by: Plexi Ken on July 15, 2009, 07:24:27 PM

Hi, welcome to the BKP forum  :)

It's tough to do sound comparison with YouTube clips as they compress the audio too much, losing fidelity. From my own experience with Fender Noiseless p/u, BKP sound more 'alive'. The Noiseless p/u is more 'processed' & 'sterile'.

What kind of tele is that? MIM 50's Classic?

Title: Re: Brown Sugar vs Fender Vinatge Noiseless
Post by: Supernaught on July 15, 2009, 10:17:05 PM

Thanks for the welcome.  :)

The point of the vid wasnt so much to show how good/bad the pups are, just as an A/B test between the two.   I think youre right about how the Noiseless sound, and it showed straight away in the vid.

The guitar is just a bog standard MIM Tele from 2006, with the 60th Anniversary stamp on it.    I swapped the bridge for a vintage style one, although Ive now decided I want brass saddles in it as well!

Title: Re: Brown Sugar vs Fender Vinatge Noiseless
Post by: gwEm on July 16, 2009, 11:06:08 AM

good stuff Supernaught. the default fender doesn't sound bad, quite like it - even if the Brown Sugar sounds much more natural.

Title: Re: Brown Sugar vs Fender Vinatge Noiseless
Post by: gingataff on July 16, 2009, 03:34:39 PM

Thanks for the clip, it was really informative.
My opinion is that the Fenders sound more compressed (they're stacked humbuckers right?) and I think that sound would probably work well in a big band with keyboards or horns where the guitar needs to cut through. The Brown Sugars sound looser and more open, I could really hear that Stonesy vibe. In a smaller band they would help fill out the sound in a really nice and natural way.