What GFS pickups for Sadie?

Haze · Post by **Haze** » Wed Apr 06, 2011 5:14 am

So I've decided on putting the other P-Rail from Sadie into my Jag. Its an awesome guitar that I would love to work into rotation. It will need both pickups, and since I'm broke I am looking at GFS. The guitar is tuned lowwwww at the moment so preferably pickups that will complement/handle the low frequencies. Its set neck mahogany so the guitar is fairly dark itself.
Here she is now:

Their Split Humbuckers and hum sized p90s are always a start. Anyone have experience with the hotter humbuckers they have?

ekwatts · Post by **ekwatts** » Wed Apr 06, 2011 8:49 am

I just wired the Loudmouths into my Nu Sonic the other day and I'm loving them already. Sprightly, rather high output (the sort you need to turn the volume down on to get a properly clean sound) and nice and mid-rangey. I'm loving them. Proper rock pickups. And they look the fucking business, too.

endsjustifymeans · Post by **endsjustifymeans** » Wed Apr 06, 2011 3:03 pm

ekwatts wrote:I just wired the Loudmouths into my Nu Sonic the other day and I'm loving them already. Sprightly, rather high output (the sort you need to turn the volume down on to get a properly clean sound) and nice and mid-rangey. I'm loving them. Proper rock pickups. And they look the fucking business, too.

That was going to be my advice as well.

They also get quite a nice split coil sound. I have a demo I did of them in my Goth les paul somewhere, but I can't find it.

Haze · Post by **Haze** » Wed Apr 06, 2011 5:13 pm

I'm thinking a p90 type in the neck, maybe a mean 90, and something fucking nast in the bridge like one of their super high output rail pickups or those loudmouths

Steve! · Post by **Steve!** » Wed Apr 06, 2011 8:04 pm

can you get Tonerider pickups in the us?
they are amazing pickups and ridiculously cheap

hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Wed Apr 06, 2011 9:00 pm

my vote is for theses

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dream180 neck, mean90 bridge, and a black tele half bridge.

SGJarrod · Post by **SGJarrod** » Wed Apr 06, 2011 9:20 pm

I love the Mean 90 in the neck of my Epi SG but the bridge one is weak for my liking....but then again I usually only like HBs in the bridge not SC......

the Mean 90 is very round/natural and organic sounding...vintage style output/ clean sounding

You might even want to look Dream 90 in the neck, I think it would pair up better with a hot HB, the Dream has more crunch to the tone

cobascis · Post by **cobascis** » Wed Apr 06, 2011 9:45 pm

Haze, for some reason I remember you having a vintage Jaguar under a bed somewhere... do you?

hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Wed Apr 06, 2011 10:14 pm

he does

damienblair17 · Post by **damienblair17** » Thu Apr 07, 2011 12:34 am

The Mean 90 is a great neck pickup. Warm, expressive, and a bunch other adjectives.

I can't say anything about the bridge, as I only have the neck, but it's a good one.

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Thu Apr 07, 2011 3:15 am

SGJarrod wrote:I love the Mean 90 in the neck of my Epi SG but the bridge one is weak for my liking....but then again I usually only like HBs in the bridge not SC......

When using a Mean 90 in the bridge I'd suggest a Dream 90 in the neck. I have one of those in my Epi SG and they're so nice, they have many of the characteristics of the Mean 90 but in a more polite form. Great single-coil cluck, loads of low-end but with a nice shimmer to clean tones, great note definition on chords. They won't make a Meanie in the bridge sound weak, but having that setup will shift the guitar into cleaner territory I guess.

Haze · Post by **Haze** » Thu Apr 07, 2011 3:37 am

hotrodperlmutter wrote:my vote is for theses

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dream180 neck, mean90 bridge, and a black tele half bridge.

damn
that bridge won't be a drop in, the existing hole patten is 3 bottom, 2 top corners. I don't have a problem with the stock bridge, strat saddles aren't perfect but it intonates even with an .80 on the low B/A [tuned Benstandard lpl]
Its a fucking rocking guitar, but I can't get on with humbuckers most of the time so p90'd ones seem the way to go. It already has push/pull pots from the p-rails so if that p-bucker thing can be tapped then im game. That way i can do a nice middle position sound.

Like I said, I want to work this back into rotation, but keep the low tunings. So some songs will need this guitar, definitely want it to sound niiice