Just installed my new Fletcher Landau/SSV Suhr pickups!!

[Joeytpg]

like two months or so ago, I ordered some Suhr pickups form Luxxxtone (awesome guy Jerry!) to replace the EMG system I had on my blue MIA strat. I just got tired of the EMGs on that guitar and wanted to really make her shine, after all it was my first guitar, so she deserved something better, specially for what I play.

Now, my guitar tech was on vacation so I couldn't install it right away.

MAAANN!! these pickups sound GREAT! it's a suhr system with two Fletcher Landau and an SSV humbucker, but Jerry made it as versatile as possible. It's got the push pull in the volume know to split the humbucker, so I also have an S/S/S system. and the second tone know pulls out to basically activate the neck single coils ALWAYS and it combines that with the pickup you choose with the toggle. For example I'm in pos. 3 (which is the middle single coil) and I pull the second tone knob, it combines the neck sc with the middle sc, if I go to pos. 4 it's the same (neck sc + humbucker + middle single coil) etc etc. I can also do this while the humb is split.


I'll make a video tomorrow, it just rocks!

the humbucker is perfect for what I do..... it's vintage sounding but it'll handle Hard rock even metal quite nicely!

 

[ejecta]

Congrats! Did you get the silencing plate? I've had those on a few of my guitars and they work great.

 

[Joeytpg]

I think so, they're DEAD quiet

 

[audiomichael]

Cool that you dig 'em. I REALLY didn't like them. To me they sounded really mid rangy, with no bass. Like they would ballance out if you played through a blackface Bassman, or some other dark bassy amp.

Before that I had tried 3 Suhr V60LP's, which sound great, but we're so big sounding, they almost sounded like humbuckers.

So I ended up putting my stock pickups back in, but kept a Suhr V60LP (reverse polarity) in the mid position for the noiseless system. My middle pickup is rockin!

 

[mentoneman]

cool pickups!
and yeah they're voiced to work in a particular way with fendery tones but can also jump into dirt pretty well too, which is always a challenge.
if you consider they were designed to be put in a suhr gtr and played with the OD 100 then you shoot for those types of gtrs and amp tones to play them with for max impact

FL playing FLS

 

[luxxtone]

I think so, they're DEAD quiet

I'm glad you like 'em Joey...thanks! The cool thing about those pickups is that they can do both the clean and overdriven stuff really well....where as some singles are good for just one or the other. Very versatile set...and quiet like you mentioned. The quietness and tone is also helped by the high quality pots, cloth wiring and vitamin Q caps...all the best stuff possible.

Oh yeah, you did not purchase the Suhr Silent Backplate, I think that's what people are wondering. That's a completely separate backplate that acts as a reverse coil to the single coils and makes them hum canceling. The way you're guitar is running, it would only help you go noiseless in 2 positions on the switch, the neck only and middle only spots. I really don't think you need it or be worth it. Anyway, have fun!

 

[blackba]

I got my FL set installed in my strat and am digging them so far (got them from luxxtone too). I shielded the pickup cavity when I did the swap and they are pretty quiet. I am not really finding too much midrange with the FL's at all, they sound pretty balanced to me.

I have the Fender CS '54's in the strat before, those were great in positions 1-4 put poor in position 5 (bridge only). The FL's are on par with the '54s and better in the bridge.

The CS '54's went in the fat strat I had to replace the stock pickups. Haven't plugged that one in to test. If the Suhr SSV splits as well as the Aldrich your in business. I have a Anderson H2+ in my fat strat and have a push-pull pot on the 2nd tone to split it.

 

[Joeytpg]

I think so, they're DEAD quiet

I'm glad you like 'em Joey...thanks! The cool thing about those pickups is that they can do both the clean and overdriven stuff really well....where as some singles are good for just one or the other. Very versatile set...and quiet like you mentioned. The quietness and tone is also helped by the high quality pots, cloth wiring and vitamin Q caps...all the best stuff possible.

Oh yeah, you did not purchase the Suhr Silent Backplate, I think that's what people are wondering. That's a completely separate backplate that acts as a reverse coil to the single coils and makes them hum canceling. The way you're guitar is running, it would only help you go noiseless in 2 positions on the switch, the neck only and middle only spots. I really don't think you need it or be worth it. Anyway, have fun!

thank you for clarifying Jerry. I don't know but Ifind them EXTREMELY quiet, I really really really like these pickups!

btw, my guitar tech was VERY impressed with the tech job (wiring and everything!)

 

[luxxtone]

thank you for clarifying Jerry. I don't know but Ifind them EXTREMELY quiet, I really really really like these pickups!

btw, my guitar tech was VERY impressed with the tech job (wiring and everything!)

Great...thanks! I'm always here to help.