Fender Noiseless Pickups

The Fender Noiseless series is a line of electric guitar pickups made by the Fender Musical Instruments Corporation designed to cancel 60 cycle (Hz) hum noise while retaining the characteristic sound of single coil pickups.

Alnico[1] 5 magnetic bars span from one coil to the other, crossing a soft ferrous steel spacer plate that isolates them, without touching it.

Lace Sensors are an innovative design of pickups using a unique radiant field barrier system that surrounds both the coil and magnets, eliminating annoying 60 cycle hum.

The pickups installed on Strat Plus guitars display "Fender Lace Sensor" on the cover.

The Gold Lace Sensor model was the pickup of choice for years by Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, and Buddy Guy on their Signature Series Stratocasters.

[8] These pickups were the result of three years of research aimed at combining the advantages of single coils with those of humbuckers: the characteristic sound of the former and the silence of the latter.

[9] The Stratocaster version is identified by the word "Noiseless" embossed in gold cursive on the aged white or black pickup covers and the use of staggered pole pieces.

[10] The Stratocaster set of Vintage Noiseless pickups comes packaged with two 1 MΩ potentiometers ("pots") and a 0.022 μF capacitor for tone controls,[11] one 500 kΩ pot for volume control, a 680 pF capacitor and a 220 kΩ resistor for a treble bleed circuit,[12] and a wiring diagram.

Features include: The Samarium Cobalt Noiseless (SCN) series was a subsequent line of stacked electric guitar and bass pickups; these were designed by Bill Lawrence with the goal of further reducing noise while improving the "single coil" tone of the pickup[16] and were fine tuned by Fender.

The SCN pickups were a standard equipment feature on the American Deluxe series Stratocaster from 2004 to 2010, and were available for the Telecaster and Jazz Bass, but are no longer manufactured by Fender.

The strong magnets allows the pickup to retain articulation and clarity, even when introduced to extreme gain.

Hot Noiseless Strat pickups have been standard on the Jeff Beck signature model since 2001,[26] but were never available on the American Deluxe.

All black and green wires are grounds; the "hot" leads are red (bridge), blue (middle), white (neck).