Squier Paranormal Series Cabronita Pickup Swap with Fender Pure Vintage ’65 Jazzmaster® Pickups

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Squier Paranormal Series Cabronita Pickup Swap with Real Jazzmaster Pickups

Hey, welcome to get offset. My name is Emily. I love cats and I hate white supremacy, but that’s not what I’m here to talk about today. Today, I am going to talk about the pickups that came in the square paranormal series. Kavita. They look like jazz master pickups from a distance don’t they, but they’re not.

[00:00:24] They are more in line with P90X. The biggest visual tell from just looking at the top. Is these an adjustable pole pieces. That’s not what Jazzmaster pickups look like. Um, but that’s fine. That’s fine. Cause we have a control panel on the back and thanks to Lawler who sent me these blade master pickups to put in my, uh, American made Jazzmaster.

[00:00:55] I have, uh, some. Basically of a fender 1965, um, voiced Jazzmaster pickups in my house. Cause I never sold them because I thought, you know, maybe I’ll need them for something. And I was right. I’m going to put them in the cavity to tele. So it actually has Jazzmaster pickups, which will make it an even weirder beast.

[00:01:19] And I’m very, very excited for it. So in true me fashion, I’m going to play some. Uh, some licks on this guy, I’m going to do a, basically an AB test thing. Um, so I’m not going to do the whole showing the very quickly speed time lapse of me swapping out these pickups. What I am going to do for you. If you want to see that, uh, join us on Patrion, that’s going to be some of the exclusive content you get.

[00:01:50] I am going to film. An overhead view of me talking while I swap out these pickups, which, um, scares me because last time I did that, the one of the first things I did was I accidentally cut the ground wire when I didn’t mean to Oh yeah. Really proud of that one. Um, but how about I just, I just shut up and get to it.

[00:02:14] See you in a second for the AEB and then I’m going to have a moratorium. On, uh, the comparison as they felt in my ears. And then in the description of the video, I will put any other notes that I, um, that, that crossed my mind during post. So don’t you go change it. I am using the strive Iridium round B for all of these sounds.

[00:02:44] Um, Room is at about noon levels at nine, uh, drive is at nine and then I’m going to, we do some stuff with the hotcake as well. So this is the neck pickup with some, uh, chords.

[00:04:38] middle position.

[00:06:37] Alright, bridge bridge.

[00:08:11] I played that one a little bit longer. That’s okay.

[00:08:27] Adding a, some distortion. I am going to play the neck.

[00:09:21] middle position.

[00:10:09] and the bridge

[00:11:25] bridge.

[00:11:52] all right. So I swapped these out and it was pain in the ass. It sucked. I, I really never want to do that again. I have decided that I really hate. Uh, having to fish the wires through the body to get them into the control plate back there. That was an enormous, um, struggle. And I was really upset about it and I didn’t have a good time doing it.

[00:12:18] Um, what else do I say about them? These sound noisier to me a lot. Noisier the middle position is like. Fine. But the other one weather-wise asked to go back and listen. But to me right now that feels noisier. I’m pretty sure, like I tagged all the wires. The ground is where it should be the, the hots where it should be.

[00:12:53] Like, I gave him all some good tugs, but it still seems to sound like I don’t. I don’t know, but, uh, as far as the total differences, um, let me know in the comments which you heard. I, it took me so long to wire this up that I don’t have a good before and my ears, like in my memory. So I don’t really know.

[00:13:16] I’ll put some notes in the video description about what I think, um, the sound differences are all I can think right now is that damn, these are noisy. Uh, no wonder. I always played that guitar. When, when this had these almost always in the middle position, like the middle positions, fine, like

[00:13:45] but yeah, that’s, that’s, that’s all I have. Uh, I didn’t have to actually buy anything new with these, but. I don’t know if it was, if, if it’s, if enough, if it’s enough change even to justify, um, the, how hard and painful and how much I disliked soldering wiring this up. So that’s all I got to say about it. I wish I didn’t spend two hours working on this, but I did.

[00:14:16] And now, like I had anything else to do really, so whatever. Um, thanks for watching. Thanks for understanding. If you do plan on buying things, please buy them from reverb.com via our affiliate link in the video description, it helps us out. We get 1% cash back on your purchases and it doesn’t cost you anything extra.

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[00:14:57] Just kidding. It’s gonna be the $5 here. Um, if you join that, you get access to some special Patrion videos. Um, I still love this guitar. I’m just gonna play in the middle position and actually I’m going to right now, uh, look to see if there’s anything arise. I’m going to put on my little headlamp. See what’s up.

[00:15:18] So thanks for watching and thanks for understanding. Once again, my name is Emily goodbye.