i've installed porter pickups before on the channel and i've got the porter custom vintage
single coils in my strat and they sound incredible really clean and chimey and to be honest they're
my favorite pickups so i reached out to brian porter to see if he'd be interested in sending
over a set of humbuckers for my thinline telecaster you know the one that i built
so in this video let's install and listen to the porter anthem paf custom wound humbuckers
they are really nice and easy to install they're a four wire pickup which means that if you wanted
to you can install the coil split i decided not to so i'm just going to install them as
a normal set of humbucking pickups so all i did basically was just remove the old pickups and
substitute the wires of the new pickups with the old ones that just makes things nice and simple
the green and the white wire are not needed so they're just twisted together
then soldered and just wrap a bit of tape around them
let's just check the output of the pickups so over at the bridge we've
got 7.39 in the middle we've got 3.94 and at the neck pickup
7.84
now if you haven't heard of porter it's definitely worth checking them out it's also worth mentioning
that you get various covers for them as well i chose the relic look because that's what i'm
going for in the thinline tele and the pickups are four conductor as well so you can use a coil split
if you want to anaco 5 magnets in between 7 and 8k output and after listening to the sound examples
on their website these ones seem to be the perfect fit for what i was going for in the thinline tele
now i won't do it before and after some pickups in the thinline tele you but from a stock kit from
thefretwire.com they're only like ten dollars and they're quite dark but the guys at porter
have tested these against several vintage pafs to get the right inspiration for the design they
come in a nice package with a sticker that goes on the toolbox and a couple of picks as well
in my opinion a fantastic set of pickups but i just knew they were going to be great
really well balanced and the neck gives you the warmth that you'd expect
and the bridge thins things out a little bit for lead parts and soloing
all together a really nice set of vintage sounding pickups now i'll leave all things porter pickups
below so that you can check them out if you haven't heard of porter i'll leave their website
their youtube channel as well as a link to the anthem pafs, you have a great day cheers