Howdy All-
I have an awesome Washburn Washington J9 (335 style) with a Bigsby that I absolutely love. However the pick ups are pretty lifeless. I'm definitely looking for that wonderful Chet tone... Any suggestions as a good replacement pick up? Probably a filtron style PU, but I'm always open to any suggestion.
Thanks all!
Tim
www.timsguitar.net
Re: Replacement Pick Ups
TV Jones has made some great Gretsch style pickups He has a website, go there, see what he has and if you need answers ask him.
Mounting is always a consideration and bear in mind if you use, for example the same pickups as what's on a 6122-59 it won't sound like a 6122-59. It will sound like your guitar with those pickups in it.
Mounting is always a consideration and bear in mind if you use, for example the same pickups as what's on a 6122-59 it won't sound like a 6122-59. It will sound like your guitar with those pickups in it.
- thenorm
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Re: Replacement Pick Ups
I put these:
http://cgi.ebay.com/MRG-GOLD-Mini-Humbu ... 3cb050d54c
in a 335clone (Hamer), and they sound mighty mighty fine. Very close to Chet's late 50's early 60's tone.
If you want to hear them, I will come on the picker's chat and play for you some time. Let me know.
LMark
http://cgi.ebay.com/MRG-GOLD-Mini-Humbu ... 3cb050d54c
in a 335clone (Hamer), and they sound mighty mighty fine. Very close to Chet's late 50's early 60's tone.
If you want to hear them, I will come on the picker's chat and play for you some time. Let me know.
LMark
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Re: Replacement Pick Ups
I don't know anything about the picker's chat but I would like to hear them. Any way you could post on the Audio or Video sections of the 'Board? Thanks. Billy
- Billy Anderson
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Re: Replacement Pick Ups
As it was mentioned down below, TV jones makes a variety of pickups that you might want to consider. They are reasonably priced and of top quality.
Here is the link to his web site.
http://www.tvjones.com/pickups/pickups.html
enjoy
Here is the link to his web site.
http://www.tvjones.com/pickups/pickups.html
enjoy
- Gary Smith
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Re: Replacement Pick Ups
I put two TV Trons (TV Jones Filtertrons) in my Ibanez AFS 75 to replace the original generic humbuckers. After that it sounded much more gretschy. Don´t hesitate to ask "dumb" questions, you´ll always get good answers from TVJ.
- Vidar Lund
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Vidar, I like what you said, in fact, there is no such thing as a "dumb question" .
In part, that is what the chetboard is about, we can as each other just about anything and if no one knows the answer, someone is almost sure to show us the way to find the answer.
In part, that is what the chetboard is about, we can as each other just about anything and if no one knows the answer, someone is almost sure to show us the way to find the answer.
- Gary Smith
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Re: Replacement Pick Ups
Gary, I agree, no question is dumb. After I joined the Fretboard/Chetboard I´ve become much wiser (guitarwiser) than I ever could have imagined. There´s so much knowledge on this board and generous people to share it with us.
- Vidar Lund
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Re: Replacement Pick Ups
Absolutely NO such thing as dumb questions! The Chet Board is my first GO-TO place with anything Chet/Fingerstyle. Probably because of the NO SUCH THING AS DUMB qustions attitude here! (And thanks for the pick-up advice!)
Tim
www.timsguitar.net
Tim
www.timsguitar.net
- gitzilla2000
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Re: Replacement Pick Ups
I bought a case of Ibanez Super 70 Humbucking Kits w/wiring & pots back in the mid 70's when we sold Ibanez copies, because copies were all they made back then. These pick-ups to this day are some of the highest output that I've ever seen at 550mV RMS, with a sweet tone to boot . . .
If BRUTE-FORCE isn't working, you're not using enough ! ! !
- Mike Nye
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