People actually seem to prefer 500k's with the means.
My guitar has no tone control, though if I decide to upgrade it further I'll completely redo the pickguard/wiring and probably add a second bucker to the neck.
It's a hardtail strat, single bucker, single volume...made for some french guy.
because I'm lazy, I'll do a straight swap at first, 500k volume with a .220k resistor and 680pf cap wired in parallel. The invader is a much beefier pickup so I'm sure there will have to be some tweaking.
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Gunner Recall wrote:People actually seem to prefer 500k's with the means.
My guitar has no tone control, though if I decide to upgrade it further I'll completely redo the pickguard/wiring and probably add a second bucker to the neck.
It's a hardtail strat, single bucker, single volume...made for some french guy.
because I'm lazy, I'll do a straight swap at first, 500k volume with a .220k resistor and 680pf cap wired in parallel. The invader is a much beefier pickup so I'm sure there will have to be some tweaking.
to me personally i found that the tone was really unbalanced with 500ks, but that was a few years ago and i wasn't as skilled in "tone balance" as i am now... or at least, i THINK i am now....
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I have the Hot LiverPool RetroTrons in my Les Paul copy and I love them. They SEAR and have sustain for days. It's my strongest guitar.
I also have the Cool Vintage Rail pickups in both of my Teles. They add just a tad bit more bite without taking away from the Tele character. One is a Squier and the other is a FrankenTele.
Anyway, I have not had a bad experience with GuitarFetish yet although admittedly I haven't tried the P90s.
I also have the Cool Vintage Rail pickups in both of my Teles. They add just a tad bit more bite without taking away from the Tele character. One is a Squier and the other is a FrankenTele.
Anyway, I have not had a bad experience with GuitarFetish yet although admittedly I haven't tried the P90s.
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Yeah, I think I had a GFS Fat Pat on a strat once? lol
I'm not even sure what model it was, but it WAS a GFS pickup, I bought it used for like, 20 bucks.
It sounded okay through in my strat, maybe a little wimpy, but that was more the guitar than the pickup, I think.
Again, not the GREATEST pickups in the world, definitely not Duncan-quality, but they'll get the job done with a decent sound.
I'm not even sure what model it was, but it WAS a GFS pickup, I bought it used for like, 20 bucks.
It sounded okay through in my strat, maybe a little wimpy, but that was more the guitar than the pickup, I think.
Again, not the GREATEST pickups in the world, definitely not Duncan-quality, but they'll get the job done with a decent sound.
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I bought a couple of their Power Rails just because I needed cheap-ish rail pickups for a bass. They're working out pretty well. They're obviously X2N copies that don't quite sound the same as X2Ns, but for all intents and purposes-- they're X2Ns. They're too hot and bright for me, but their resistance specs were perfect for what I was doing-- I'll change the magnets, and they should sound just like I want.
Pickups are really just some wire wrapped around a magnet. There's no real magic to it. Every little thing you do differently makes the sound different, so there's no reason a cheap knockoff can't sound better (FOR YOU) than the real thing.
There are some things that bug me about the Guitar Fetish company, though. Although I've gotten nothing but good products from them (hell, their pickups come mounted in a ring-- even the big companies don't do that), the owner's insistance that they don't "copy" pickups is a but absurd. The Power Rails has the EXACT specs and magnet structure of an X2N. And, like you guys said, the marketing hype is a bit much.
Pickups are really just some wire wrapped around a magnet. There's no real magic to it. Every little thing you do differently makes the sound different, so there's no reason a cheap knockoff can't sound better (FOR YOU) than the real thing.
There are some things that bug me about the Guitar Fetish company, though. Although I've gotten nothing but good products from them (hell, their pickups come mounted in a ring-- even the big companies don't do that), the owner's insistance that they don't "copy" pickups is a but absurd. The Power Rails has the EXACT specs and magnet structure of an X2N. And, like you guys said, the marketing hype is a bit much.