kojdogg
bollocks redux!
Looking for a good set of 4 conductor humbuckers-- any suggestions? I already have guitars with Barden HB's, Fralin PAF's, Seymour Duncan P-Rails, and a single EMG, so I'm looking for something a little different.
Gear_Junky
New member
GFS Dream 180 and any of their current Retrotrons (Memphis, Liverpool, Nashville) would definitely be very different.
I have a set of Dream 180's already wired for splitting and have the Memphises (didn't split yet, but everybody who's split Retrotrons says their great).
My dreams are in a solid-body les paul type guitar - they have a very sweet and musical clean tone and plenty of crunch, great sustain. the single-coil mode isn't much weaker and sounds like a strat pickup should, maybe a lipstick.
the Memphises are very filtertronny, again pleasant jangly cleans, but can do crunch just fine too.
I guess i've always gravitated to alnico pickups - I've had Seymour Duncan Custom Custom, Gibson Classic '57 (and '57 plus in bridge) - but I like these GFS pickups better. Both because of sound and the lower price.
I have a set of Dream 180's already wired for splitting and have the Memphises (didn't split yet, but everybody who's split Retrotrons says their great).
My dreams are in a solid-body les paul type guitar - they have a very sweet and musical clean tone and plenty of crunch, great sustain. the single-coil mode isn't much weaker and sounds like a strat pickup should, maybe a lipstick.
the Memphises are very filtertronny, again pleasant jangly cleans, but can do crunch just fine too.
I guess i've always gravitated to alnico pickups - I've had Seymour Duncan Custom Custom, Gibson Classic '57 (and '57 plus in bridge) - but I like these GFS pickups better. Both because of sound and the lower price.
Anfontan
Banned by eurt
I've been a fan of DiMarzio pickups for quite a while, I installed the Chopper-T single coil sized humbuckers in 2 of my Teles and tapped the coils. I'm very happy with both the single and double coil sounds of this pickup-usually it's either one sound or the other will be good but these really surprised me with both sounding exceptional.
I also used a PAF Classic Pro in the bridge of my Les Paul-I originally wired it for a series/parallel mode-however this configuration did not really do much for me-it's better left as a humbucker, it's not the Jekyll/Hyde that the Chopper-T is...
Roguetitan
New member
I just did some experimenting with a GFS Hot rail guitar neck pickup on a Bass I built in the neck position.
with one of their MM Bridge Pups, I also put some chicken head control knobs on it and this thing looks and sounds totally sick!
Fantastic Highs, lows and everything in between.
with one of their MM Bridge Pups, I also put some chicken head control knobs on it and this thing looks and sounds totally sick!
Fantastic Highs, lows and everything in between.