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I need GFS Vintage Split sound clips
Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2012 5:02 pm
by luciguci
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.
Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2012 9:13 pm
by Mages
they just sound like regular humbuckers. they do look cool though.
Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2012 9:36 pm
by luciguci
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.
Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2012 9:39 pm
by Mages
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
Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2012 9:47 pm
by luciguci
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.
Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2012 9:58 pm
by SKC Willie
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.
Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2012 10:02 pm
by paul_
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.
Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2012 10:07 pm
by luciguci
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.