10 Unusual Strat Pickups (Gold Foils, Big Singles, Mini-Humbuckers, Staples, P-90s & More
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- Опубліковано 19 лип 2024
- Joe Gore from tonefiend.com demonstrates ten unconventional pickups for Stratocaster: gold foils, big singles, mini-humbuckers, P-90s, staples, and more! Further details at bit.ly/2iwoouS.
If only Joe could demo *all* guitar gear on UA-cam.
Proves my point that polepiece alignment is really not that much of an issue as most people tend to believe.
Thanks, Joe. You have one big longtime fan here in Brazil.
Holy crap. I just found out you played guitar with Tom Waits and PJ Harvey! You've gone from being an awesome guitarist to being a legend for me. :)
i'm just finding this out from your comment.....He absolutely probably played guitar for tom waits and PJ!!!!
They are no good. This guy is real good. He probably just did it to get his name out there and get known more, like how Stevie Ray did with David Bowie, boost his name some. No harm in that, as long as you dont get stuck playing with someoene shitty for too long.
This cat shud be on you tube.
@@michaelcraig9449 PJ Harvey is fucking awesome and how can anyone say that Tom Waits is no good?
You have now lost all credibility for anything music related.
The pick ups sound amazing but also your playing. You killed it
It's amazing how all these pickups sound as though they have tone of pro-level sound processors in them!
Hee hee
I love your video style. Straight into playing, info in pop-up text. Maximum thumbs up!
Gotta agree. Most times it’s either too much yammering with poor demos or all music without much variety and little to no info.
For a guy with a face built for radio, he’s nailed these videos!!!!
You make thise Lollar Gold foils sound like a Chet Atkins recording
Those All Part Gold Foils sounded amazing with the fuzz.
+tonefiend by joe gore 600$ fuzz pedal, worth it? I will never understand that!
I agree with Fuzz Cous: the Lollars sounded great, but didn't surprise me...the All Parts Gold Foils did.
ALL those pickups sounded amazing.
You have some serious mojo in those fingers! I enjoyed just watching you play. I think my favorites were the first set of gold foils and the p90’s. Thanks for the demos!
Nice review Joe, thanks! love the Big Singles
Thank you!! I was having trouble making out the writing!
I like the Foils and P90s
..and the player was great!
A great test. It's also worth mentioning how quiet the Lollar Gold Foils are compared to other single coil designs: at one point, I used to have a Lollar Gold Foil in the neck position and a P-90 in the bridge position and the difference (regarding the amount of hum) was striking! I would even dare to say they're the quietest single coils I've ever had.
I feel like Lollar Gold Foils would be great for playing jazz. That said, you really show that all these pickups can have a lot of stylistic range with just technique. I think those might be my pick for my dream guitar, I just love their tone. Though I've been thinking of trying to learn to make my own pickups because I have some weird desire to make everything instead of being sensible and just buying something that already works
DIY or die..🛠🎸🖤
@@joe_gore Here is a video of Bill Frisell playing an amazing version of "La La La Means I Love You" with what I take to be a Teisco gold foil, which sounds very similar to the Lollars: ua-cam.com/video/Hbq13bLylCY/v-deo.html
It may not be usual for you, but it would be interesting to see (and hear!) similar experimentation on bass. I feel not enough people are victimising that instrument.
Joe Gore
damn...I hear you demo a pickup and I want it. Thanks for sharing your tests and your talent.
A new Joe video day is always a good day - love hearing your beautiful tones and quirky melodies.
Fantastic video! Playing was phenomenal and so was the setup (amp,mics,etc.) I'll be sure to check out the rest of your vids!
All the sets are very good, but the Lollar P90/Staple set absolutely knocked me out. I love how they sound clean and how they punch with dirt. Amazing tone and feel, and your playing is absolutely excellent in all the demos.
Joe, your playing is an inspiration to many! Thank you for this incredibly helpful video. At one time or another I have had an interest in each one of these pickup sets. Again, this video is so helpful, and a service to many.
Man, yes! I've have seen many of these combos independently but sequentially really shows the difference! Thank you!!!
Came for the tones....Stayed for the playing. Outstanding video.
Joe, Thanks for making this video and for taking the time to install these pickups. They all sound great in their own way. Thanks again! BTW, I could tell from your first note that you would be a tasty player...indeed that came to pass. Thanks for the great playing too!
mmm, love the Lollar pickups both the gold foils and the staples. Great demo. Thank you.
Joe is one of my favorite guitarists of all time and it doesn't hurt that he plays on one of my fav albums-To Bring You My Love-P.J. Harvey. I remember when he worked for Guitar Player magazine and I still read his reviews for Premier Guitar. Plus, I had a friend in S.F. who played in a band called Weld who knew Joe and said he helped him with his rig. Tommy had an awesome live sound. Thanks Joe!
thank you for the video review! I really appreciate how you demo'ed the pickups throughout the whole video and put your thoughts on the screen :)
What a treat to hear a player that is so musical and has such great chord chops and skills. Came here fo' the pickup demo; stayed for the music. Thank you.
New subscriber because I am grateful for the tour of different pickup types that I would have never tried myself.
incredibly good tones from your excellent touch... thanks!
Excellent video and so useful too - thanks for sharing your picking 'n' expertise
I didn't see this coming! Big WOW!!! I'm so glad I can watch this again... Dude, I love the way you think!
Thank you. Great demonstration. I have a 15 year old mercury and a new Skylark. Love them both.
Great stuff, Joe! The Lollar gold foils sound fab. I have three of the originals in a '60s Teisco. The guitar actually plays pretty well (I upgraded the bridge) but the pickups are why I love it. They're just amazing.
I really like the sound of those Fralins too. And I've got a Strat hanging around…
Wow, many thanks fer yer extremely useful, clear, an concise comparison; certainly one of th best I've ever seen/heared! Nice Job, amigo, an yer playin was a delight to behold, even nicer to listen to! Merry Christmas, Joe an Family!
Love all of your videos! You're quite gifted. Thanks for taking the time to post these!Delicious sounds. What amp are you using?
Man, that amp's clean sound is amazing
Well I'm glad I found you I love building strats with different pickups. Right now I have a strat hardtail with three P-90s a thinline tele with hotrails bridge and two mini humbuckers i play lots of slide and carry four or five guitars to gigs and just love all the different sounds. Glad I got to hear the gold foils that may be the next project. Great and interesting playing by the way.
Fantastic video! So helpful and educational. And the playing!!!
I absolution love your playing. Might be the combination of also loving mini's but these are fabulous reviews!
Wow. Really beautiful playing.
Thanks Joe, I loved them all too! I am a big fan of many different pickups, have just about ever combination known to man, in one guitar or another. I have the SD Version of the Staple with a Parallel Axis Trembucker in a 70's LP from Japan, same characteristics as your Lollar.
Thanks for doing this demo. Makes me want to try some of these myself.
Beautiful, beautiful playing. So musical, even the skronky stuff.
Hi Joe, I absolutely love your playing especially at 3:42 made me stop what I was doing and pay attention. Thank you!!!
Hey from Celestion! Great seeing a controlled test with pickups in the same guitar. The A-Type was my baby, I love the 121, and I play a maple board black strat - so this was a perfect demo for me. 10/10! cheers!
Great video ! My personal favourites here are the Lollar Gold Foils and the Duncan Antiquity 2 Mini Humbuckers .
Love the big singles and whatever you’re playing on them, the walking bass line riffs, are really cool
Funny you mention that! After recording this video years ago, I put those pickups in a box and forgot about them. But just a few weeks ago, I stumbled upon them again and put them in another guitar. I'm really digging them right now!
@@joe_gore Good! I'm thinking about buying one to put in the neck position of an old PRS CE24 that has a maple top and maple fretboard. It's a really bright guitar that could use a little top end taming.
Beautiful. Meal for the soul. Thank you for that great demo Joe ! From Canada
What lovely things to say, MA. And deeply appreciated. :)
Woow these goldfoils are crazily beautiful sounding
Awesome!!! It’s difficult to make an informed decision when you want to try something new. This helps a lot!!
This video appeared on my feed just as I'd started modding my own black/maple strat. It's getting 2 Jazzmaster pickups and a lipstick in the middle. Strats are the best customisation platform ever.
@@joe_gore For sure. Can even send you a pic somehow. Will take a while though - pickups have to come from USA (Dylan pickups) so I expect to have about a month to wait.
I found myself with 3 black/maple strats - a Mexican Fender 70s, a Matsumoku copy from the mid 70s and a Squier Affinity.... Affinity had swimming pool routing so it was a no brainer. Can't have 3 visually almost identical guitars - even I'd have to agree with the wife when she calls me bonkers.
Thanks Joe -- super great to listen to and very informative
Sounded great Joe,mas usual . Cool overview of pickups not as often on the radar. The AllParts sounded great with the fuzz. I would guess the fuzz cost more than 4 or 5 sets of pickups.
Thank you, that was very useful. You play them without pedals so we can actually really hear them. And then going from very soft to overdriven. Just great. I kind of like those gold foils!
appreciate this demo. I like the Staple pickup tone. the mini hbuckers can be made in Duncan custom shop, something Im sure youre already aware of. thanks again for a great demo, I love that you don't talk.
Love your playing. Great vid. 👍🏻
fantastic video! thanks!
Thanks Joe great presentation and very informative
Watching you play is always an inspiration, Joe. I've always played the guitar on the side, but you made want to be a bit more serious about it, at the risk of jeopardizing my (anyway hopelss) literary career! Also, I watched this video years ago and it made me buy a Lollar Gold Foil for the neck of my Strat. Best pickup of my life. Now I think I'll go the Telecaster route and will remove the Gold Foil before I sell my Strat in order to install it in my future Tele. (You also gave me the idea of using flatwounds and now I can't go back to roundwounds!). By the way, I LOVE your version of Shenandoah... do I hear traces of the Keith Jarrett's version (the one on "The Melody with You at Night")? All best. (Oh, one geeky question, the Fralin Big Singles were 42s or 43s? and the pots were 250k or 500k? They sound sooooo good to my ears).
what a comprehensive video, probably the best on youtube
Wow... That's definitely one of the most interesting videos about pickups... And it definitely shows that, if you have a solid, decent guitar, it's definitely the player and the pickup defining the sound.
Your playing is so brilliant... I'm completely blown away.
Another interesting thing: each of these unusual pickups you used has its own, special and really great sound - and none sounded any close to standard strat.
THX for this really great video!
BTW, forget "tonewood'! ;-)
Wkw bud never seen yah in my life that accoustic like set phhht totally awesome brought me to a nice place thanks man and had heap phones on just awesome you said it have them all set up in throw away guitars but with good tuning gear wow thanks for that and taking the time to share tim from canada
I been debating for about 6 months on if I should get a pair of the gold foils, you defiantly made me want to be part of the party as well, thank you!
I have the same scowl problem. No matter how much fun I'm having while I'm playing, I always look like I'm ready to stab the next motherflumper to cross my sightline.
You smile when you do something prematurely. "Sorry, if came in a little early" (smile) "I just really like this song"
Modern Gold foils are quickly becoming my favorite pickups!
You make them all sound amazing!
Love your playing - Lollars sound fantastic.
Within no time at all, I forgot what the video was about and just enjoyed your playing.
Thanks for posting this. I am glad this video is still around. I was under the mistaken apprehension that Gold Foils were unattractively bright pickups. You have shown this to be definitely not the case.
@@joe_gore Well you have established that those Lollars are very rich sounding and definitely my 'speed'. Awesome.
Thanks Joe, for once a review of pickups using fingers. I don't use a pick and play slide bottleneck style . It's great to finally hear how pickups respond to the touch of fingers. I just subscribed having seen 3 great videos from you. Cheers!
terrific as usual Mr Gore - thanks gain for all the time and effort involved
Some really interesting combos.......... will you be mnixing gold foils and mini-humbuckers etc making even more mixed up mongrel stratty-ness? I really liked the gold foils - but then you have the advantage of playing so well as to make pretty much everything you demo sound interesting and evocative...... happy new year and all the best for 2017 (lets hope God stops recruiting for the heavemy choir in 2017!!)
Owner of a set of big singles here. Love the crap out of them but nice to hear some others that are similar for another build
Sounds great ! Good playing !
The strat is my favorite guitar platform but other than the stock sounds it sometimes leaves me wanting. I've been through as many pickup changes myself and don't like spare pickups sitting in boxes either. Best setup I've found other than something completely off the wall is a standard neck add switch with 7 positions - that works great!! Rock on Joe and keep up the good work!!
i love this demo.. great job. thanks
Great video Joe, as always! One question: how important do you think it is that pickup poles are spaced properly?
I had a set of DeArmond gold foils with a blender switch in my 1966 Harmony Hollywood ($200 & i hold to it, the best playing and sounding harmony Ive ever touched) and they were amazing. I was able to get the filthiest grunge tones. Sounded really 'vintage'. Unintentional dirt on everything I played. Sounded good.
tonefiend by joe gore when I bought the guitar a set was $60, $110 a set when I sold it. I have no idea how much a set of vintage dearmond foils cost now.
Thanks for making this video...cool stuff!
I went with Dimarzio DP218CM Super Distortion S on the bridges of my Strats. On one of them I also installed a Dimarzio DP184CM Chopper. That’s my Hot Rod Strat.
Hmmmm, thank you for the edumacation. I think gold foils are what has been missing from my life.
Really enjoy your approach to chords
Great demo!! Now I want at least 4 of these pickups! :-)
Gold Foils and minihumbuckers in a Strat - truly inspiring!
Ive watched a few of your videos and must say you are quite talented. Nice work.
Loved the first pair!! Thanks for sharing all this work!!! Excelent vid as always! :D
Nice!!! I was hoping you would try de p-rails, as it something I'm planning to do o a squier strat I have (and love), I'll check if you've done anything with those pick-ups besides the one with the passive dist
Btw thanks for your answer 👍
Great stuff as usual! Have you ever tried, or would you consider trying, GFS Gold Foil pickups? I have three of the humbucker-sized single coils with ferrite magnets installed in a cheapo Epi LP Special II and I love them! They come in several different form factors, but as I understand it the HB-sized ferrite-based single coil is the only one that's actually similar in construction to the "true" Gold Foils. To my ear, they sound closer to the Lollars than to the Allparts ones, at least.
You are truly a great player. Nice work!
outstanding performances flawless
Just love the sound of a guitar plugged into an amp. Many reviews seem to have the peddle manufactured with gold pixie dust and alchemy so you are never sure what you are hearing. I think worrying about pole peaces some times distracts from the lets see if it works approach of actual experimentation.
Great work. I think I found 2 pickups I might try!
This was so freaking fantastic
Much appreciated, Jacob! Thanks for watching.
Amazing playing!
Very cool and informative, thank you.
Great demo! Been kicking around the idea of putting some gold foils from Guitar Fetish in my current Tele build.... I think I'm sold.
tonefiend by joe gore I've put some of their pickups in past builds, and you really can't tell a difference from the "big name brands"
Great demo! I recommend checking out some of the pickups from Roadhouse. They have some interesting offerings you might enjoy. My favorites are the Valco clones.
A second on the Roadhouse Valco-style pickups. I have a set in a '70s SG. (Great guitar but the pickups & electronics had to go.) They're P90-ish but with more clarity & less gritty mids.
Apart from the review... I really enjoyed listening to you play and your playing style/technique
@@joe_gore BTW subscribed
Loved the Fralins!
Great sounds
Very entertaining and informative!
Now this is useful material! thanks.
Great playing!
Thank you for this! Your video helped
I love it sir. This is one of the ways demos should be made. Just simple playing with straight to the point texts.
I dig that mini humbucker btw
A Tele with a regular single coil bridge pickup and a minibucker in the neck is really a great combo
I have a Jay Turser Thinline with that setup and it kills.