Billy F Gibbons presents Cream T 'Whiskerbucker' pickups | Demo w/ Tom Quayle
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- Опубліковано 17 жов 2024
- Introducing the ’Super Scanner’ brand pickup series from Cream T. Our premium pickup sets are 100% exacting electronic reproductions from acclaimed players known everywhere.
Our first release, the Billy F Gibbons set, the “WhiskerBucker”, reproduces the sound of BFG's famous 6-string electric, his ’59 ‘Burst, known around the world as “Pearly Gates” which continues to play a starring role on stage and studio recordings with BFG & ZZ Top. Opening with ZZ Top’s First Album, through Billy’s ongoing solo works, the famed guitar sound of “Pearly Gates” is still regarded as one of the fiercest guitar tones in classic blues and rock ’n roll!
Utilising our patented analog spectrum recorder, developed exclusively here at Cream T Pickups, it is now possible to recreate 100% mirror-imaging of legendary pickups across the board. We now offer our line of pickups with accurate historical response in our ’Super Scanner’ series, delivering the power and performance of guitar sounds of acclaimed performers, studio session players and stage celebrities known everywhere. The admiration shared by us here at Cream T and the many fans of the stars and their rich, warm recognisable guitars, drew us to develop and offer the new ’Super Scanner’ series.
From pure and simple warmth to the punch of vintage rawness, the range in the ’Super Scanner’ series is sure to satisfy.
'Whiskerbucker' pickups are available now at www.creamtpick...
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There's definitely something special going on with these pickups!!
Hard to know without trying them out yourself.
Just received my bridge whiskerbucker today and i have to say. Hell yeah!!! They sound fantastic and what's immediately noticable is how harmonics friendly they are and i didn't played with the amp turned up yet. Yes, they sound like they do in this video. Not too much promised.
I hate to say it but I honestly can hear his guitar in these pick ups and when the host is playing his own stuff I still hear it wow
I’d like to add that Billy is an artist, designed his guitar pin striping and drew that logo of himself on the inside of the lid flap of that box
The off menu Pearly Gates are the only way to go. Production model Pearlys are wrong. These are pretty close to those. I don’t know what you would do with the fancy box after you install the pickups.
was thinking the same. guess you could store the old pickups in there. probably put it away somewhere and forget it.
I hope there is a comparison video planned sometime in the future with the Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates humbuckers vs These. Edit: PS what kind of Magnets are these using?
Excellent idea 👍🏻
It appears according to Tim and Tom at Cream T. The Seymour Duncan version have nothing to do with Billy Gibbons. Nor do they sound anything like his. As for magnet's? Cream T don't appear to give this information on any pickups in their range.
@@natrelacoustix I have the Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates bridge pickup and found it to be pretty good. Not too high output, not too low. Gives you a nice grinding sound but not heavy... It would be interested to hear the difference b/w this and the Cream T.
Don't forget the custom shop SD Pearly gates!
Spent a year down this rabbit hole, dozens of pickups, a magnetometer to read gauss levels. Readings from real PAFs. In short, Alnico II and 550K pots. Much can be done with just distance to strings and adjusting pickup screws--try it. Antiquities are great, Throbaks look the most historic, but it's all in the hands. Put Scumback M65 speakers in your cabinet for the first album tone. Adjust your amp sound with the guitar on 5, then turn up. Billy has the lightest touch, so I had to refine my playing. He made me a better player by giving me a better ear.
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Shouldn’t you never place magnets near guitar pickups ?? Doing so can weaken the pole piece pull and therefore changing your guitar's tone?
fitted a set to a customers guitars, tested through a tweed and instant La grange .. these are the closest by far
Love that sound ofcourse.
These sound quite pleasant
I will have to have a set of these bad boys when the budget allows! :) One question though, why the use of aged aluminum for the covers instead of the usual (and historically accurate) nickel?
Nickel and copper although not magnetic do have an effect on the magnetic property of the pickups. Aluminum is the best metallic choice for the covers.
It's the same reason guys removed the covers. It really is a thing. Some can hear the difference and others don't have a clue.
It is also why some pickups have a brass base plate or nickel base plate.
Im sure the (tone wood dosen't matter guys) will jump all over this....lol
@@georgemueh3273 Did Billy take the covers off Pearly Gates? Or, are all the classic records of his PAF pickups, covered with the historically accurate nickel? Not a big fan of people selling things that are unlike the equipment they used when they became famous.
@@RickMcCargar Pearly Gates has the original covers on it. But yea a lot of companies try to replicate original pickups without using the original materials. Hell for the longest time Gibson couldn't even make a historically accurate burst.
I knew I recognised that les Paul, I sold it to Thomas earlier this year, glad it's getting used now at least!
About 20 years ago I dropped a pair of Duncan Pearly Gates pickups in my ‘94 LP studio. How do these pickups compare tonally to what I already have?
Great question,
I recently picked up a set of Amber Spirit of 59 pickups, and in my humble opinion, they fly over the top of this set in terms of clarity, note bloom and matching the tone of my vintage set of 58 Gibson oafs.
amber ? is one of the best at this moment ....over the top.
@@scottyx77 Yep. I ordered more sets with the original degaussed A5 mags. They are never leaving my guitars. My search is over.
@@theshyguitarist If you love Amber you Can try mojotone, solo dallas or raw vintage, mojotone IS Amber spirit more open sound.
@@scottyx77 I have used Mojotone. Good tone, but lack sustain and harmonics, both of which are readily available in the 3 sets of Amber's I have in my guitars. Thank you for the suggestion.
Jeeezuz H. Tap Dancin Gibbons I Neeeed these.
Wow. Nice!
Wonder how these would compare to the vintage Tim Shaw pafs I've already got in the goldtop!
what wiring diagram is used here? Pls don't say: "...you can choose on the website..." would REALLY love to know which one is choosen here - Tx!
I need these pick ups😍😍😍
Great playing Tom! I'd like to see/hear you play some ZZ Top with a band behind you. Bed room demo's don't give a musician a sense of how a instrument or amp will perform in a band setting.
Awesome playin’ !
With all that studio equipment in that room you could make a Teisco Del Ray sound good. Nice Demo. Mucho Gusto.
What are you playing through? Did I miss that somewhere?
No mention of the amp being used and no reference clean tone. The packaging is a bit over the top, I would feel bad about throwing it away.
Tom Quaile plays beautifully.
I would love to See Tom and Billy have a head to head shoot-out comparing these to the Custom Shop SD's.
Aere those pickups close to the strings?
works with a Gibson SG ??? I have to get a set......the sound is outstanding...............
Would the bridge pickup be too bright for my strat?
A little over $200 U.S. each. I actually thought they'd cost more. They sound great, if that's the tone you want.
Does anyone know the winding strength of these pickups
is this here now "Super Scanner" or "Whsikerbucker" ??
I want to hear it in the LP before and After in both clean and dirty.
I was hoping for more of a transformation in the Standard.
Hmm, which guitar should I put them in....
What did you decide?
@@creamtcustomshop All of them I'm thinking. Now can you give me a Discount for the Suggestion ? I've tried to find these pickups before because they sound so good on the Guitar Player from the Vaticants Guitar. Of course it doesn't hurt that he's an excellent Guitar Player. This is the first time I was successful finding your pickups on here.
Woah! Big $$$ in the US.
The Quayle can play wow
Terrific song playing around the 5min mark.. They sound huge honestly, just way too expensive
So Tom are you going to leave them in ?
That player is hot!
Or even the one that play "TV Dinners. WAY different sound.
As usual with the English, the playing doesn't start until at least half way through the video (3:09) if you want to skip the jabber
No USA s/h?
Our pickups are available worldwide!
This is from the same source as marketed the Mexican Lottery guitar strings - 007 gauge top E. So............................................................
Not buying it. Play the pickups that play "I need you to night".
'Unboxing experience'..?
Since when did this become of any significance?
When you're paying £400 for a set of HB's. I guess it means it's a lot less likely that fakes will be made too.
@@willholt100pickups for the Instagram generation
Started, i believe, with Apple iPods/iPhones. Because Apple was obsessively dedicated to its packaging as well as its product design. As a designer, i could deal with those initial 'unboxing' things, because it represented a respect for the design effort. In this instance, the pickup manufacturer went to some great lengths to package the product, so, hey-fine. What absolutely kills me, though, is that every goddamned youtuber does an "unboxing video" for every goddamned cheap ass piece of cardboard their product comes in. It's moronic. But, somehow, the youtube 'algorithms' reward it, because-you guessed it-there are enough morons in the audience that it still appeals to them. And even if it doesn't and you're as 'offended' as i am, you're not likely to click out of a video just because it also contains an unboxing. So, basically, we're screwed.
$400. experience .
The same old twaddle in a bid to sell pickups.