Which Quarter Pounds for a Mustang?

[Rampant Pony]

Hey, folks, long time reader first time poster.

Anywho, I've got a Fender Mustang (basic 3 position switch) and I'm toying with ditching the stock pickups in favor of some SD QP's. Should I go this route, do I just get 2 of the SSL-4's, or do I get one SSL-4 and a SSL-4 reverse wound? Thanks in advance for any help you might be able to provide.

[Clint 55]

Re: Which Quarter Pounds for a Mustang?

Welcome to the forum!

I had this setup before and really liked an ssl4 in the bridge and an ssl6 in the neck. The neck has more cut and they balance better that way. You can get 1 of them rwrp if you want.

[ItsaBass]

Re: Which Quarter Pounds for a Mustang?

Mustangs have by design had one RW/RP pickup, since their inception. That said, since you have a normal Gibson-style 3-way switch, you aren't getting the usual/classic Mustang switching options anyhow, so it's not super critical. You will get noise cancelation in the middle position if you get one pickup RW/RP, but I'm not sure if you want that when you've got both single pickup positions humming away anyhow. It's your call. Personally, if both single pickups were humming, I'd rather have the middle position just go ahead and match in terms of noise. If, however, you mainly live in the middle switch position, you might want to make it noise free.

[Rampant Pony]

Re: Which Quarter Pounds for a Mustang?

Welcome to the forum!

I had this setup before and really liked an ssl4 in the bridge and an ssl6 in the neck. The neck has more cut and they balance better that way. You can get 1 of them rwrp if you want.

Any reason you opted to mix and match rather than just running 2 QP's? and any thoughts on the SSL-4 flats vs the SSL-7 staggereds?

[Clint 55]

Re: Which Quarter Pounds for a Mustang?

I prefer the sound and the look of flat poles. I liked mixing because the ssl6 cuts a little more in the neck and they balance better volume wise, you don't have to crank the bridge up and the neck down.

[Rampant Pony]

Re: Which Quarter Pounds for a Mustang?

I prefer the sound and the look of flat poles. I liked mixing because the ssl6 cuts a little more in the neck and they balance better volume wise, you don't have to crank the bridge up and the neck down.

Thanks for the info, in your opinion is it worth forking out the extra money for a RW/RP?

[Clint 55]

Re: Which Quarter Pounds for a Mustang?

No prob. Rwrp isn't really necessary to only gain 1 position of hum cancellation. A cool trick you could do with 1 rwrp is replace the tone with a blender knob. So if you're in neck position and blend in only a little bridge it will start to cancel hum. That way you can get quiter neck and bridge sounds. Or you could use a double pot and have vol, tone, and blender.

[Rampant Pony]

Re: Which Quarter Pounds for a Mustang?

No prob. Rwrp isn't really necessary to only gain 1 position of hum cancellation. A cool trick you could do with 1 rwrp is replace the tone with a blender knob. So if you're in neck position and blend in only a little bridge it will start to cancel hum. That way you can get quiter neck and bridge sounds. Or you could use a double pot and have vol, tone, and blender.

Good info. As it sits right now, I'm likely to just buy 2 SSL-4's, wire them up normally and see what I think of them. Change them out as necessary. Of course, I'm still in the planning stage at this point, what with all the nonsense going on in the world right now.