I need GFS Vintage Split sound clips

luciguci · Post by **luciguci** » Mon Jun 25, 2012 5:02 pm

Does anyone have soundclips for the GFS Vintage Split Humbuckers? There's almost no clips of anyone using them, except for crappy ones recording straight from the camera and the sound clipping badly. If anyone has them and can record, I would be so grateful.

Mages · Post by **Mages** » Mon Jun 25, 2012 9:13 pm

they just sound like regular humbuckers. they do look cool though.

luciguci · Post by **luciguci** » Mon Jun 25, 2012 9:36 pm

Really? because I'd imagine have half of each coil filled in with wax instead of pole pieces would make them sound different, like humbucking split singles, but I want to hear how they sound because it's really uncommon.

Like so, Fender reissue on the left, GFS on the right, half of each coil is filled with wax.

Mages · Post by **Mages** » Mon Jun 25, 2012 9:39 pm

weird. they don't have screws on the bottom? if they're really just empty, it probably sounds a bit like this: http://shortscale.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=47319

luciguci · Post by **luciguci** » Mon Jun 25, 2012 9:47 pm

Mages wrote:they don't have screws on the bottom?

Three in the top coil on the bass side, three in the bottom coil on the treble side. So it's like a split single coil. so neither row is full.

SKC Willie · Post by **SKC Willie** » Mon Jun 25, 2012 9:58 pm

I can do some samples here in a couple of days. I've got them in the Epiphone Dot I actually got from Mages.

They don't sound like a typical humbucker but they're definitely voice more like a traditional bucker than the WRHBs.

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Mon Jun 25, 2012 10:02 pm

They just sound like buckers to me, and not particularly good ones. They aren't copies of WRHBs, they're modeled after Fralin P92s which were meant to be like WRHBs but weren't the same at all... I think they were alnico V but the GFS may just be a ceramic magnet (can't remember, certainly reminds me of a ceramic bucker). I had one in the bridge of my Epi G400 but took it out in favour of an Alnico II PAF which was a lot nicer, then a Super Distortion which was a different ballpark altogether.

luciguci · Post by **luciguci** » Mon Jun 25, 2012 10:07 pm

SKC Willie wrote:I can do some samples here in a couple of days. I've got them in the Epiphone Dot I actually got from Mages.

They don't sound like a typical humbucker but they're definitely voice more like a traditional bucker than the WRHBs.

Cool, thanks. And I kinda figured, but if it was, it would be priced way higher.