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MIM fender pickups any good?


Tigerclaw_x
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Hey. I have a chance to grab the MIM pickups to go into a Yamaha TRBX 174EW or into Washburn T14Q. Considering it is MIM pickups, and not real fender,  I am having doubts. Are MIM Fender (not Squire) pickups any good? How do they compare to REAL fender pickups?
Is it worth to use them as an upgrade in simple Yamaha an Washburn basses? Or are the MIM fender gonna be the same as stock Yamaha and stock Washburn?

Thank you
 
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MIM Fender IS real Fender... A long time ago they used cheaper ceramic pickups but these days I believe they use alnico like the US Fenders? If so, no idea when they changed but you would be able to tell from a photo.

Whether they would be any better than your stock pickups is a gamble though. Personally I'd only get them if they were dirt cheap, otherwise I'd be more inclined to get something more specialist, DiMarzio, EMG, Seymour Duncan etc.

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4 hours ago, Tigerclaw_x said:
Hey. I have a chance to grab the MIM pickups to go into a Yamaha TRBX 174EW or into Washburn T14Q. Considering it is MIM pickups, and not real fender,  I am having doubts. Are MIM Fender (not Squire) pickups any good? How do they compare to REAL fender pickups?
Is it worth to use them as an upgrade in simple Yamaha an Washburn basses? Or are the MIM fender gonna be the same as stock Yamaha and stock Washburn?

Thank you
 

not all MIM pickups are created equal 

look underneath and you'll find codes to look up

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14 hours ago, Tigerclaw_x said:

or into Washburn T14Q.

When I started playing bass again after a 15 year break I was going to buy one of this range. Local shop didn't stock them so I bought something else.

Happy to be corrected but I don't think there's been one thread about these basses here in all the time I've been a forum member.

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