paul_ wrote:When are homeland security gonna get on this "2-piece King Size Snickers" horseshit that showed up a couple years ago? I've started dropping one of them on the floor of my car every time.
Someone educate me on original pickups of Coronado. What are they the beasts? They look like P90 or some of Gretsch pickups or Rickenbacker highgains, but what they are inside? Are they just usual strat style pickups with magnet pole pieces and without any magnet at the bottom under the coils and that just covered diferently? Or they are of exlusive design?
sunshiner wrote:Someone educate me on original pickups of Coronado. What are they the beasts? They look like P90 or some of Gretsch pickups or Rickenbacker highgains, but what they are inside? Are they just usual strat style pickups with magnet pole pieces and without any magnet at the bottom under the coils and that just covered diferently? Or they are of exlusive design?
It's a DeArmond pickup and IMO not a very good one(the silver cover) compared to other Dearmond designed/made pickups. But some people on this board seem to like them and Fender might have used two different versions.
paul_ wrote:When are homeland security gonna get on this "2-piece King Size Snickers" horseshit that showed up a couple years ago? I've started dropping one of them on the floor of my car every time.
Thank you for the information. I don't know a lot abour Dearmonds pickups, so it is the reason to read. I guess indistinct pickups became the reason why Coronado's werent' so popular at the time.
Coronado pickups are great. My mate Ray was always dissing them up until a few weeks ago when we went to see the Dandy Warhols and the dude broke a string on his Coronado and plugged in the other guitarists Tele while it was getting sorted, and Ray was the one who mentioned how bad the Tele sounded in comparison. It was comparatively flat sounding (And I love a Tele)
I guess it's a case of personal taste but it was interesting to see an A/B in a live situation, no amp tweaking etc just swapping the guitar and going with it. It was a Coro with the Black pickups (I personally prefer he sound of the original silver ones.)