Aaron at Rumpelstiltskin Pickups delivers yet again!!!

[thrashmetl]

I know, I know, another Rumpelstiltskin pickups thread, but I ordered yet another set of Tele pickups from Aaron Campbell at Rumpelstiltskin pickups and yet again he nails it dead on, better than I could have imagined. I've ordered a number of pickups from Aaron and every time I'm amazed when I plug in. No warm up period, no getting used to them, they just sound amazing from the first note. Aaron nails the sound in your head every time.

This time around I asked for his Black Rope bridge as fat and beefy as possible at 7.8k and a custom neck pickup with as much clarity as possible wound a little hotter than normal as I feel that neck pickups are always a little underpowered. The Blackrope bridge is a 50's style Blackguard Tele pickup made with Alnico 3 magnets and 42 gauge wire. The neck pickup, this being the second one I've ordered from him, is Alnico 5 with a Nickel Silver cover. This is my favorite Tele neck pickup on earth, it's absolutely perfect with great clarity, so sexy!

These pickups are amazing! You can play ANYTHING with them, twang to rock to jazz. With a little overdrive these things fatten right up. Truthfully, and I really mean this, Aaron Campbell at Rumpelstiltskin has the best customer service in the business, by lightyears. He will answer all of your questions no matter how dumb you may think they are and he will spitball ideas with you until the cows come home. I've probably sent this guy a million emails and he emails me right back, it's kind of strange too because I do most of my emailing around 10pm at night on the west coast and he emails right back, he's on the east coast so I really don't know when he sleeps???

Sounds:



Running my Tele into my Eleven Rack. The first patch is a Blackface Twin with a little reverb and comp on it, then I add a little Tubescreamer drive to it halfway through. Next up is a cranked Tweed Deluxe patch, then a Tweed Bassman patch. Next is a Vox AC-30 patch with some Tubescreamer on it, my favorite! After that is a Marshall Plexi patch with some room reverb. Last but not least is a JTM45 patch I developed with my SG for a an Eric Clapton Blues Breakers type tone, sounds relatively accurate with a Tele too.

My Tele is a lightweight Mark Rutters Ash body with an Allparts TMO-FAT Tele neck, Barden Bridge, and RS Guitarworks wiring.

[dlc1953]

Sounds good! Ya Aaron makes great pickup's! I have a Strat and Tele loaded with his stuff and really like em.Strat pickup's are FAB. Great guy to deal with!

[rokdog49]

+1 on the Black Rope and the neck pup.
Aaron wound a Black Rope for me at 9.5 k it twangs, crunches, Tom Petty's, you name it. Great guy, great customer service, isn't satisfied until you are. Rare

[cap217]

Nothing against the pickups but I dont hear "twang". When I think of twang I think of 60's sound.

I want to ask, am I the only one that doesnt heat twang in the video?

I hear, woody, throaty, full.

[Whoa Tele]

I have a Black Rope 50s in a partscaster that leans toward the bright side tonally. Good beefy tele rock tones ala Keef and great customer service from Aaron. Most of the winders I've dealt with (Mare,Budz, Duff et al) are phenomenal when you ask for advice. So many pickups, so little time

[rokdog49]

cap217 like I said I have a hotter wound version and it twangs believe me. I hear some twang at times.
I think it's his playing style and the distorted tone he is using that minimalizes it.