Quarter pounders

[ajruiz]

Anybody have any exp with the Quarter pounder bridge pickups? Would like to hear opinions.

[JohnS]

I had a set in my '71 a long time ago. Dark and non-Teleish. No twang or spank.

[Bob Mc]

Hiya
IMHO, depends on what you're replacing and what you seek tonewise. I've noticed that when they first came out folks liked 'em because they sounded hotter and 'bigger'.
After a while, the Tele guys usually pulled them back out.
OK for Rock but little else. Like JohnS said, spankless.

[Deaf Eddie]

... with most "Tele-ish" neck pups, it's just too hot and dark. Agree with the above posts.

I have a pal who had one in a Tele, with a DiMarzio humbucker in the neck, and you could hardly hear the difference when he switched between the two pups!

He DID love the big sound of that bridge pup, though.

I finally matched it up with a S-D Quarter Pounder Strat neck pup, and it finally became a usable instrument - but it sounds like a dang SG Special, not a Tele!

[MrL141]

I had one in my bridge years ago. It is a hotter and darker pickup--but it ain't like a tele. Took it out after about 6 months. It isn't a bad pickup--it just isn't tele sounding.

Mark