Fender Squier CV FSR 60s Thinline Telecaster – Pickup Swap – Tex Mex – Mojotone solderless harness

Hello, my name is Matt – welcome to the latest updates on the Squier Classic Vibe 60s Thinline Telecaster FSR in Sonic Blue!

So while this is a lovely guitar representing great vfm, the level to which the neck pickup is microphonic was affecting the playability for me.

Unaccustomed as I am to Soddering (or soldering for those who speak English) – this presented a good opportunity to try out one of the Mojotone solderless wiring harnesses and match it with some Fender Tex Mex pickups.

How hard can it be?

Well….

…quite a bit harder than I’d envisaged!

Hurdle 1 Imperial Vs Metric – a hasty purchase was made for a spare pickguard/scratchplate to accomodate the larger shafts on the cts pots…

Hurdle 2 The Fender Tex Mex bridge pickup is unfit for solderless purpose – no brass base plate and the ground wire is too short to reach the harness…

Hurdle 3 After fitting the tex mex neck and squier bridge to the harness and pearly pickguard a quick test showed it sounded great but the tone pot was not working – User error? Probably! Blimey!

Hurdle 4 Decided to file/ream the holes on the anodised pickguard and retrace the steps re. the tone pot – Result! All appears to be working for now.

Have ordered the Wilkinson bridge and Alnico V Broadcaster bridge pickup to be installed in a future installment…

Work done time for bit of PedalScape-ry = Verdict sounds loud and bright – thought that may have been the pots but further research would suggest it’s the treble bleed circuit – Twangy!!!

Thanks for reading this far and hope you enjoy the video.
Cheers,
Matt 😎

Working Title: Back To Gold.

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Time Stamps:

0:00 Intro and unbox of pickups and wiring harness
3:30 Before sounds
7:49 Knobs and more unboxing of pickguard and more knobs
10:56 some footage of the stripping down
16:29 After sounds 1: first try with the tex mex neck – tone not working
20:30 intro and blurb for 2nd try Back to Gold pickguard…
25:12 Tap Test, tone test and Clean (ish) Tones
26:44 Give it some AT and Halo Sunshine!
28:10 This thing plays itself!
29:45 Halo, Hydra cloudburst
30:45 More finger picking
33:56 Major Third into Blue.
36:06 Back to the Pick
38:18 Change the quarters back
40:20 Motif across the octaves…
42:00 Mellow back down to E minor
46:13 All roads lead to…
51:58 Outro and conclusion (for now).

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A simple stereo Wet Dry Wet setup.

Amp of choice is the Laney Cub12r.

Dry:
In the front of the Laney is the Keeley Muse Driver.

Wet:
Line out from the Torpedo to the mono in of the Halo out in stereo to the Hydra and the Strymon cloudburst.

Captured at 24/96 by the Evo 16.

Hope you enjoy the music/video.

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User guide:

With these longer soundscapes the first minute or more is usually a clean sound check before gradually building up to the ambient improvisation – please give it a chance to build up and breathe.

It is recommended with these sonic explorations to have the video on in the background as more of a listening experience. But please do enjoy as you wish.

For ultimate listening experience use headphones or monitors if possible.

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Signal Chain:

Squier Classic Vibe 60s Thinline Telecaster – Muse Driver -Cub12r – Speaker out – Two Notes Captor 8 – DI – Mono XLR in Evo16.
Captor 8 Line – Halo – Hydra – cloudburst – Simplifier Stereo return in – Stereo XLR out – Evo 16 Stereo XLR in.

Warning! Contains improvisation, extended noodling and the odd mistake – proceed with caution….

Recorded with Cubase
Camera: Pedalboard – Galaxy S10 / MEB – iPhones.
Edited with: Openshot.
Pedalboard: Vert Deluxe Limo by Marcus D’Luxe

All Material © Matthew Elvis Brown 2024.

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