bluezguy
May 24th, 2008, 11:31 AM
Does anyone have this pickup installed and working? I just got mine (H57 bridge).
I'm having such a blast with GFS's mini humbucker in one Tele that before I go routing out the body for this full size humbucker in another Tele, I'm considering maybe getting a matched set of these alnico v mini's.
shoretyus
May 25th, 2008, 12:01 AM
Not in a Tele but in my 335 clone love them in that.
bluezguy
May 25th, 2008, 08:40 AM
Not in a Tele but in my 335 clone love them in that.
Thanks for your reply!
Can we elaborate a bit on your tonal quality? I have a Gibson es335 and find the classic 57s a bit to dark so I resign this instrument to 'jazzier' covers that I play.
I play quite loud and aggresive forms of drinkin' Blues with a lot of slide. P90's are my choice in my other instruments but on this one, I hope the Dream 180 will give me the p90 balls with some interesting added tones ( as per the description on GFS' site for this pup).
How can you best describe your bridge tone played wide open on this pup??
Thank you.
bug music
May 25th, 2008, 10:47 AM
Not in a Tele but in my 335 clone love them in that.
+1
I have a set in a Washburn HB-35, 335 copy. Great sounding pickups for blues. Not very humbuckerish sounding, more like fat single coils very close to the P90 sound. You can get fat T-Bone Walker tones from the neck pup, and nice biting Freddie King sounds off the bridge. Very versatile set IMHO. Hopefully this helps.
- Jay