Alnico 5 TL Pickup Hot Dual Rail Humbucker Bridge Pickup 9-10K

It was exactly what I was looking for! It replaced a rather sterile bridge pup in my Telecaster Custom. I ordered the 9-10k version in order to match the output of the Fender stock humbucker. It sounds great! It still has some "Tele" to it with a little bit of "humbucker" added. Easy install, but you may want to use your old mounting hardware. The new pickup screws were slightly larger than the mounting holes in my vintage style baseplate. It wouldn't be hard to drill them out, but I just used my old hardware. I can't really comment on any noise or unwanted feedback because I'm a home player and I only play a medium volume. The pickup I received seemed to mirror a Seymour Duncan bridge pickup in both polarity and wire color scheme. Black-switch... Red and white-split... Green and Bare-ground. I would recommend this pickup if you want a great sounding pickup without breaking your wallet! 👍🏼

So, I put the 9-10K bridge pup in my 2014 American Standard Tele for a HS configuration. I used 500K CTS 3/8 smooth shaft audio taper vol / tone pots with a .22mf capacitor in standard tele wiring fashion. It REALLY sounds great... like, I was wondering if I was out of my mind putting a cheap pup in my expensive tele... but I couldn't believe how good it sounded when it was done. The bridge on split sounds very close to the nocaster I had in the bridge. It couples very nicely with the twisted tele in the neck. The bridge on humbucker mode sounds fantastic... beefy but not muddy, midrangey but not honky, good clarity in the top end. Couple issues tho, #1- You can see in the pic, the pickup does not sit square in the bridge plate hole. The holes are slightly off. #2 - The holes were not tapped all the way through. The screws have to be put in with some force to cut the last little bit. But they went in. #3 - The springs are a little long, and could be a problem if you wanted the pickup closer than about 3/16 of an inch to the strings. #4 - there are no instructions. BUT you can find a diagram online. I soldered mine to a 4 way switch for Humbucker, Split, Split + Neck, Neck. FYI, the GREEN wire is FULL HUMBUCKER (I soldered to the position 1 lug), the RED/WHITE wire together is SPLIT (I soldered to the position 2 lug), the BLACK / BARE gets soldered to the back of the pot for ground. For this wiring config, I soldered neck to lug 3 and 4, then jumped a wire from 2 to 3, plus a wire from the main lug on bottom right (to vol pot) to main lug on top left (when control plate is upside down). Hope this helps somebody. It was a royal pain trying to figure out. EDIT: I downgraded to three stars. Pickup is microphonic at higher volume levels. EDIT: I upgraded back to 4 stars. After going back to the stock broadcaster, then a gfs 15k rail (horrible, muddy mess), I put this fleor 9k rail back in, and it really sounds great. Plays well with the twisted tele neck. No need to cool split. This time I wired it with a 3 way switch, no tone pot, and a 500k pot so the 250k tone pot could be used just for neck with a 500k resistor from neck lug on switch to ground to 'make it see' a 250k volume pot. Bridge pup sounds very much like a tele with volume rolled back and slightly more beefy than a p90 all the way up (but still somehow tele). Good clarity. Only microphonic at very high volume. Not an issue for me, as I run a hx stomp straight to the mixer. Prob wont change it again.

I love the sound of this. However, Telecaster users be aware that you will need to enlarge the cutout in the pickguard to fit it. It is the size of a Strat pickup. The easy way is to buy a cheap Strat pickguard, line up the cutouts, tap it together, and use a Dremmel or similar with a sanding drum to enlarge.

I used this to have a humbucker at the bridge to compliment the neck HB. Works fantastic, nice and bright strong handles gain just fine and best of all,,,,,,,,, NO HUM!!!!! Just as good as the name brand stuff.

Keep in mind that this pickup went into a cheap guitar with a basswood body. It is a very bright pickup but somehow lost the highs....and the lows. Bright and very middy is how i would describe it. It was a drastic improvement over the microphonic junk that was in the guitar though. I have some Fleor humbuckers in another guitar and am very satisfied with them. This one not so much. Could be the guitar though. The pickup is well made. Good luck, may work in your guitar.

You will definitely need a multimeter to figure out what these leads are doing, and then, once you get it wired up, it doesn't really sound very good. Very loud and very thin. Honestly, I really wouldn't bother with this pick up.

A good strong pickup. Not to harsh and very articulate

This pickup is way more then I expected! It has bite, and tone. All the features of a full sized hotrail in a single coil size. It can scream and yet it also can do blues. Sounds like a pro style rail, without the coast! Buy it you won't be sorry!!

Very surprised and impressed on the sound quality from this inexpensive pick up….highly recommend if you don’t want to spend hundreds of dollars on a brand name pick up

Saw the good reviews for this pickup and after researching some expensive brand names I chose the 9-10K option. It sounds miles better than the single coil stock pickup. Very happy with this purchase. It was so affordable and sounds really good.

Surprenant

バッカスのテレキャス BTE-1DX のリアに 9-10K を装着。リアをハムバックにし、センタートーンでフロントのシングルとリアのシングルで使いたく購入しました。装着は穴やザグリの加工なし取り付け出来ました。音はやや太めのハムバック、センタートーンのシングルタップも意外に良い音で使いやすく気に入りました。 私のところに届いたものはシールドが緑と結線されていましたが、テスターで確認したところネック側ボビンのホットが白、コールドが黒、ブリッジ側ボビンのホットが緑、コールドが赤になっていました。これまでのレビューにそのような書き込みがないようなので、販売時期等により違いがあるのかもしれませんが。 ちなみにシールド線は裏面の金属プレートと導通がありましたので、弦アースは不要でした。

not a bad sounding pickup..but loaded in the bridge on a telecaster.. the 6th E string is not as close to the pickup as the other strings.. otherwise, it sounds fine .. surprising for this real low price..i have the 10k version