Need advice on replacing the middle pickup in my Fender Nashville Deluxe Telecaster.

[dcmlenny]

I have a Fender Nashville Deluxe Telecaster that I would like to beef up the sound a bit. It has the original Noiseless pickups in it.
Do you think if I replace the middle strat pickup with a Seymour Duncan SSL-1 or Antiquity 2 middle rwrp, it will play nice with the existing noiseless pickups? The Noiseless are essentially humbuckers.
What do you guys think?

 

[Mincer]

Welcome to the forum!

Do you want to keep the new pickup noiseless? Both the SSL-1 and Antiquity 2 would work (I dig the Ant), but both will add noise. The Antiquity would be in phase, the SSL-1 wouldn't, so you'd have to reverse the hot and ground. Neither pickup is really 'beefy' though. A Classic Stack would be beefy, and stay noiseless.

 

[Blille]

Agree with mincer. That said, my experience with Nashvilles is that lower output ones give you more options to mix with the other pickups. Apart from the ssl1 (or ssl2) I would consider the duckbucker to stay noiseless.


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