pickups for mustang

[sb^]

hi guys - my first ever post.

i did a search to see if this had been covered before but nothing really came up. i have a japanese reissue fender mustang that i want to upgrade. i really like the guitar, it's nice to play and i weighs almost nothing, but the pickups are cr@p. they're really low in volume and have a kind of thin, grating "brittle" sound. i don't know how to describe it.

from reading around, i'm told that any strat pickups will fit a mustang - i've had the scratchplate off and it seems like they're the same. what do you recommend? i'm looking for a clean but not quite clean rhythm sound like on "lucky" by radiohead, that breaks up into a nice blues-type lead. nothing really high-gain.

for an amp i'm using a tonelab (the desktop verion). and sometime a little valvestate.

cheers!

[gwEm]

tim recommened me Slow Hands for my Cyclone, and he also recommened them for Brow's Music Master.

so obviously they sound good in that style of guitar, can't speak in detail for the actual tone myself. However, Tim described them as being vintage-hot, with a very British sound.

Gareth

[Brow]

tim recommened me Slow Hands for my Cyclone, and he also recommened them for Brow's Music Master.

You are correct sir :)

I have a set of Slowhands with series/parallel wiring in my 1976 Music Master based on Tims recommendation. The bridge pickup also has a base plate on it, which (to my ears atleast) seems to lower the treble slightly and thicken the tone up.

The pickups sound very fat, and full in the midrange, and the neck pickup is very smooth sounding.

[sb^]

thanks for the idea guys.

unfortunately, i've had to decide i can only justify bareknuckles for one of my guitars, so i don't think the mustang will be getting slowhands. shame, but i think it would be better to put a piledriver in my tele, than put 120 quids worth of bks in a mustang that only cost 190 quid in the first place...