Mustang
True Fender Single Coil Tone
$105 – $210
The perfect drop-in replacement for your Mustang or Duosonic guitar! Our Mustang replacement pickups come in the same familiar styles as our Strat® replacement pickups. If you want staggered pole pieces in your Mustang, please call the shop for some custom ideas.
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Features
Lindy Fralin Mustang Pickups: it’s like putting on glasses for the first time. Musicians looking for a sparkling, bright, and open sound will love the sound of our replacement pickups. Our Mustang pickups offer a few outputs to fine-tune your instrument’s own voice. The sizing is consistent with all Fender guitars, so you can easily drop them in your Fender Mustang or Duosonic. We took our formula for our famous Vintage Hots, Blues Specials, and High Outputs, and we applied them to these amazing-sounding Mustang pickups.
Features:
- Original Fender specifications, with modern output
- Clean and clear, lots of Fender sparkle and twang
- USA-made Alnico 5 Magnets for optimal tonal balance and output
- Compensated Bridge for even volume across all pickups
- RW / RP Neck Pickup for Hum-Cancelling in the middle position
- Two magnet staggers are available for different fingerboard radiuses
- Hand-wound with our “Sectioning” technique for unique, dynamic tone
- Hand-built fiberboard Bobbins for unrivaled quality control
- 10-Year Warranty on manufacturing defects
Sound
We have 3 outputs available: Vintage, Blues, and High Output. We use our same formula and amount of turns as we do on our Vintage Hots, Blues Specials, and High Output Strat pickups.
Vintage:
The Vintage Output will sound the cleanest. They are the truest to the original Vintage Mustangs. Vintage Output Mustangs sound best with 250K pots. The Vintage Output Mustang will sparkle and sound very clear. Don’t expect it to sound “tinny” or glassy – these are still warm and full-bodied. They sound big and wide, with an even balance of Bass, Middle, and Treble. Expect a dynamic and thick buttery grind with distortion. Also, you’ll notice a clear low-end and a sharp attack. Single notes cut through with ease while chords have an excellent string-to-string definition.
Blues Special:
When playing clean, Blues Specials sound thick and rich, especially in the lows and mids. Additionally, Blues Specials sound very open and clear without sounding too compressed. The 5% overwound coil gives the player 5% less highs and 5% more mids than the Vintage Output Mustang. Expect a medium attack, low-end growl, and a compressed grind with distortion. These, like the Vintage output, sound best with 250K pots.
High Output:
When playing clean, High Output Mustang Pickups sound very thick and dark, simply because of the increased mids and lows, and less highs. Additionally, High Outputs have a nice compressed, beefy sound. With distortion, the tone remains thick and fat while being slightly compressed and thick with a low-end growl and a medium attack. You can expect 10% less highs and 10% more mids and power than a vintage-sounding pickup. The High Output Mustang Replacements will give you a lot more power than most pickups and will break up a lot quicker than lower output replacements. You’ll want 500K pots for this pickup.
Sound Samples for Mustang:
Additional Outputs
We have 3 outputs of our Mustang. Compare them below.
About these Sound Clips:
All sound samples are played from Neck Position First and Bridge Position Last.
These soundclips are recorded on a Strat, but you can get the idea of the tone as the pickups are nearly identical. All models have the same bobbins, wire, and amount of turns as our Strat lineup, except they have flush-top bobbins with no stagger.
Tonal Graph For Mustang:
The tonal graph below for our Mustang features Lows, Midrange, Highs, and general Output.
Vintage Output:
Attack: Bright & Sharp
Blues Output:
High Output:
Attack: Dynamic & Full
Tech Specs:
See below for the estimated DCR and Polarity Information for our Mustang.
| SPECIFICATION | VALUE |
|---|---|
| Neck Ohm Reading (Vintage Hot): | 6K 1 |
| Neck Ohm Reading (Blues Special): | 6.3K 1 |
| Neck Ohm Reading (High Output): | 9.1K 1 |
| Bridge Ohm Reading (Vintage Hot): | 6.6K 1 |
| Bridge Ohm Reading (Blues Special): | 7.1K 1 |
| Bridge Ohm Reading (High Output): | 10.2K 1 |
| Magnet: | USA-Made Alnico 5 |
| Wire (Vintage Hot): | USA-Made 42-Gauge Formvar |
| Wire (Blues Special): | USA-Made 42-Gauge Single Poly Nylon |
| Wire (High Output): | USA-Made 43-Gauge Single Poly Nylon |
| Recommended Pot Value: | 250K (Vintage & Blues) 500K (High Output) |
| Bridge Polarity: | Clockwise Coil Direction, South To Strings |
| Neck Polarity: | Counter-Clockwise Coil Direction, North To Strings |
| Recommended Cap Value: | 0.02mfd 2 |
Additional Technical Info:
1 Ohm Readings can vary due to a multitude of factors, including ambient temperature, multimeter calibration, different wire batches, and other factors. Due to this, ohm readings are approximate. Learn more about Ohm Readings here.
2 We recommend a 0.02mfd Cap Value on most guitar and bass pickups. The exception is a Magic Cap, which Lindy prefers on the Bridge Pickup of Fender® guitars only. Learn More about Caps Here.
Mustang Dimensions:
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46 Genuine Reviews for Mustang
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The Fralin Mustang set was my first taste of the brand and they did not disappoint. I’ve been curious about Fralin’s but have never took the leap. Of the 3 flavors of Mustang pickups, I ordered the Vintage Hot with white covers. The mounting hardware was perfect and I had them in the pickguard in no time. I had prewired all the other electronics while I waited for the pickups to arrive. It was a new guitar build so the pickups were the last pieces I needed. I strung the guitar with Slinky 10’s and started playing. What a wonderful set of pickups. Very tame high end with a low end that rounds out in the lower mids, just as you’d expect from a true single-coil. Plenty of output and switching them out of phase gives you that lo-fi twang. The bridge handles drive extremely well through all my tube amps (Mesa, Fender, 5150, Carvin) and even without shielding the 60 cycle hum is very low when using only 1 pickup. I’m very pleased with the Fralin Mustang set and I’m very excited to try your humbuckers soon. Thanks so much. I’m definitely a Fralin fan for life.
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This is my second matched set of Lindy Fralin Pickups. I cannot believe how great these pickups sound.
I chose the Vintage Hot versions, am very very very happy with the results.
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Purchased the Mustang Blues Special pickups last month for my MIJ Traditional II Mustang and finally got around to installing them. Wow. These are awesome! They are warm, they break up nicely at higher volumes and yet they still retain that Mustang ‘quack’ when out of phase and a nice familiar chime. The stock pickups just felt weak and like they had no volume, and these are just fuller with more life but also still feel like Mustang pickups. These are huge upgrades over stock and I also was very impressed with the build quality and fast service. 10/10, would purchase again!
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Honestly I was a bit sceptical about « such a change » even reading the comment section and all those delighted people, but WOW, it’s day and night !!! I went for a neck pup vintage hot and the difference is amazing : the range is much fuller and i got rid of that high end « buzziness », but keeping the twang !! Plus, the output can now match my hot rails at the bridge ! Best pup choice i made so far, won’t go back ! Cheers from France !
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They phenomenal! I plan to buy other more Fralin pickups in the future!
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I have a 1966 Mustang and have been avoiding touching anything since it is 100% original. Eventually the switches broke and I started to take a hard look at this instrument. The sound seemed a bit dull, and I really wanted to enjoy playing it again. It’s not worth what an original strat or tele would be so I decided to upgrade it. Fralin has a great reputation on the web so I got a pair of the blues Mustang pickups. I am MORE than happy with the way my Mustang sounds now. The sound is rich. I wish I had donbe this years ago. I’ll never use any pickups that aren’t Fralin.
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