jimistone
long standing member
The pickups arrived today. I have pictures I'm uploading to post on this thread.
neck (original pickup) 5.65k
middle - 5.73k
bridge - 5.79k
Bottomline; these pickups look and sound like original 1966 strat pickups. They have that beautiful glassy clean tone and amazing articulation and detail with tube saturation and distortion.
A lot of strat pickups turn to mush when a tube amp is pushed into distortion....those are the hot wound ones 6.75k, 7.00k and above.
These milder wound pickups just handle distortion better. I put the face of the guitar up against a cranked tube amp and the pickups didn't go all microphone on me. They are an awesome set of pups!
John Galep - (Dawgtown pickups), the guy who fixed my original and built the matched pair is a pleasure to deal with. He did more than I expected and charged me less that I agreed to pay.
Pics and sound clips to come!
neck (original pickup) 5.65k
middle - 5.73k
bridge - 5.79k
Bottomline; these pickups look and sound like original 1966 strat pickups. They have that beautiful glassy clean tone and amazing articulation and detail with tube saturation and distortion.
A lot of strat pickups turn to mush when a tube amp is pushed into distortion....those are the hot wound ones 6.75k, 7.00k and above.
These milder wound pickups just handle distortion better. I put the face of the guitar up against a cranked tube amp and the pickups didn't go all microphone on me. They are an awesome set of pups!
John Galep - (Dawgtown pickups), the guy who fixed my original and built the matched pair is a pleasure to deal with. He did more than I expected and charged me less that I agreed to pay.
Pics and sound clips to come!