scovell001
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‘just’ got a set of these pickups recently to put in my cs R8 - there doesn’t seem to be very much information about them on the web at all. So I thought I’d put some more information here (if that’s okay).
I was trying to find some pickups that’d both a) work in this particular guitar & sound a little bit knopfler-like & also be in the ‘ballpark’ of the pafs I’ve got in my other lp. I was also ‘really worried’ they’d be crap, or ‘generic’ having tried/heard so many other pickups. I was also taking a few ques from a burst owner here in the uk called Bob who has a lovely 58 with pafs in the low 7k range link here: Bobs burst
Here’s a few pics of the initial unboxing & a few initial words below
So, I was initially worried because I ‘thought’ that the sle-101’s would be more my thing a2 mags etc & that I ‘normally’ don’t like modern a5 mags the few yt vids seem to make these out as ‘loose’ but also drier sounding with a bright bridge - so not my thing at all !
However! - I’ve ‘just’ put these in so it’s the honeymoon period - lol ! - initial impressions: Firstly I didn’t need to adjust them very much as a they sounded spot on & balanced really well - The Tones - a very nice articulate dry sound from the neck - a round, fat, but also tight sounding bridge! - the middle position is also very nice.
The original early pafs I have are a bit higher dc but also soft/sweet sounding.
These throbaks are ever so slightly harder edged but also rounded in a very, very nice way.
It’s early days & my first set of throbaks, but I’m very impressed especially as I was expecting a spiky sound from the a5 & hours of tinkering trying to get them to sound right.
I was trying to find some pickups that’d both a) work in this particular guitar & sound a little bit knopfler-like & also be in the ‘ballpark’ of the pafs I’ve got in my other lp. I was also ‘really worried’ they’d be crap, or ‘generic’ having tried/heard so many other pickups. I was also taking a few ques from a burst owner here in the uk called Bob who has a lovely 58 with pafs in the low 7k range link here: Bobs burst
Here’s a few pics of the initial unboxing & a few initial words below
However! - I’ve ‘just’ put these in so it’s the honeymoon period - lol ! - initial impressions: Firstly I didn’t need to adjust them very much as a they sounded spot on & balanced really well - The Tones - a very nice articulate dry sound from the neck - a round, fat, but also tight sounding bridge! - the middle position is also very nice.
The original early pafs I have are a bit higher dc but also soft/sweet sounding.
These throbaks are ever so slightly harder edged but also rounded in a very, very nice way.
It’s early days & my first set of throbaks, but I’m very impressed especially as I was expecting a spiky sound from the a5 & hours of tinkering trying to get them to sound right.