They certainly do...the only reason I mentioned that is that the gold foils do have a slight tendency to be microphonic when using gain at volume. But as long as you're careful...heaven! :-)
Possibly he meant you wouldn’t want to play these through a triple rectifier in a metal band? In my styles of playing the tube screamer he slaps on IS my high gain setting, but for others playing a metal zone through a 5150, players generally scoop the mids and want that fatter low end for chugging riffs all day. But for old school RnR tones these things sound so incredible
These pickups definitely have that pure RnR power where the most badass thing you could do on them is windmill G & D chords on them and let em ring wide open through any number of vintage high gain stacks-the more the better!
I Love these types of pickups. I picked up (no put actually intended) a Squire Tele that someone spent a lot of time on... with a jigsaw, but they put two of these in neck and mid, and a dual blade in the bridge and the thing is beat to hell, but it's my favorite guitar. You can tell some of those sounds surprised you. LOVED the fuzz tone with them!
Wow!thin but oodles of character!absolutely loved the sounds you were able to get from them.the first sound that struck me was the phaser.great pedal pickups.I can see how a person might pass on these not knowing right off what they can acomplish.I like how the sounds you achieved became progressively incredibale.A good lesson on creating great tones!
Thanks mate! Yeah, they're amazing pickups - a fair few people make replicas of them nowadays so fingers crossed they become slightly better known! :-)
Wow, to these really do make the surf rock/Beatles sounds. Just really that 1960s glitter almost. Like I get that you can make any guitar sound like anything else with the right set up, but it's rare that clean out of the box that something automatically has a distinct sound but these certainly do. Then when you kicked on that flanger, it was like being transported to a recording session in 1972.
Teisco used them in the ´60s, but at that time nobody wanted them 🙂 My first guitar was a Teisco that I changed for at Höffner Galaxie, the German take of a Strat.
Got a set of these in search of that vintage Harmony/Silvertone/Kay tone for funk hopefully with added modern playability. Question is what should I throw them in, Will a semi-hollow make any difference or a trusty old Strat do it? I saw you out some in a Hagstrom Viking too?! Thanks
It's incredible to see the evolution of Joe and his equipment in those 5 years. The level of nerdism as grown exponentially. I have to say that i really like Goldfoil pickups in the neck. The less low end gives them a sensational clarity. You're probably not going to get the "Woman Tone" out of them but they give you something unique. A combination of Goldfoil in the neck and a PAF of somekind in the bridge sounds like a winning combo.
What a fantastic demo. Lovely tones, great playing. Currently considering a set of these or P90's for my own SG, damned gear-lust... Literally just stumbled upon your channel, but will definitely be checking out more. Awesome stuff!
@@JoePerkinsMusic hard to know without trying both... The guitarist from sister sparrow and the dirty birds uses GFs, and gets a real raunchy tone. A guitar for each it is 😏
Super sweet.. 🤘 though I'm not sure how much your combination of amps are playing into what we're hearing @ our end. None the less, very happy for you bub..
Thank you for this awesome demo. I appreciate the sound you have shared with the set neck SG and these MOJO gold foils. Just happens I got a deal on my first great Gold coil today. It is the better Teisco. Meaning compared to the so many Teisco pups I have listened to. I'm looking at Lollar, Mojo, and of course Vintage. Your video has even made me more excited about my first finished build which wont be so long from now. Keep groovin. I have plaid guitar for near 40 years and I didn't know about these very cool sounds. Fighting different pups for this sound (is that a shame)?. Im extremely excited that my best friend whom I started playing guitar with at 19 years old has shown me these Gold Foil pups in last few months. I'm on my way!!!
Fantastic stuff mate - I'm sure you're going to absolutely love them! :-) They're very different to anything else, but once you 'get' them, you won't be able to put them down!!
These sound incredible. I wanted to say they were a little expensive until i saw that Mojo makes these pickups by hand. I would love to see you try their humbucker sized dearmond pickups.
@@JoePerkinsMusic Nice. T-Armonds are the real deal, but they're specialty sized, and doesn't quite fit the routing for a P-90 or mini-humbucker but it does fit in a filtertron spacing, but I don't really have a filtertron equipped guitar which is why I never got one. Killer pick up though.
@@JoePerkinsMusic lol, I've seen those but I can't help but feel that the specialty size is what gives dearmonds that magical tone. I could be completely wrong about that though, haha.
Thanks for demoing these for us, Joe. I like them, they seem to have a cool but unique 1950's to mid 60's feel and tone to them. How's the single coil/60 cycle hum with these, realistically? I generally stay clear of single coils because of the noise.
No worries! Yeah, they're killer pickups - I love how they sound! :-) No problems with hum for me....but then again, I usually live in single coil land anyway! It's certainly no worse than a Tele :-)
St Vincent used them on her earlier albums which sounded very unique with fuzz gain though I dont know what pedals she used. Does it sound any good with the mercury distortion pedal you got? No question that the cleans sound great and that overdrive type unit sounded good too.
They're certainly unique!! I've not tried it with the Mercury just yet - but I must admit, I was really surprised how well they handled the Astro Tone fuzz I stuck on at the end of the video!
Dope sounds. Not sure if the gent over at mojo pickups knows about this vid, as I asked him for some demos and he directed me to some other demos that don’t show case it’s greatness. Gonna send him the link. Can’t comment on the amp sounds, though I do reckon you should pick an amp or maybe run through them one by one. Subbed 👍
Ah awesome stuff! I've never sent it to him myself, so it's great that somebody has :-) I generally run the two/three amps together nowadays & balance the levels equally for the edit, mainly for demoing gain pedals....I find that if a pedal has a tendency to nudge nasty frequencies out of certain amp style, running the Tweed, Plexi & AC30ish amps together make sure those frequencies are heard & highlights any shortcomings. Plus, if a pedal sounds good through those 3 circuits, it's gotta be an excellent pedal! :P Thanks for subbing mate :-)
These sound good I picked up a set of Malinowski Type 13 Gold Foils Just now getting a chance to install them in something This guy builds some great guitars and winds his own pup's Chk his builds out Very cool
They really sound unique - in an awesome way! Are they splitable, or are those humbucker sized single coils? I got an old Aria PRO II CS-250 which I'm currently modifying to be a lap steel guitar:raising the nut, getting better tuners, getting new saddles and most importantly getting some new pickups, and I'm heavily seduced to give those a try.
Ah that sounds awesome!! Yeah, I bet these would sound ace for lap steep...they've got that lovely twang! :-) They're HS-single coils, I believe. I was going to go for a silver mesh to match the hardware, but I'm SO glad I went for gold...somehow it doesn't look weird having both together! :P
I bought a Squier Bullet Mustang with really hot humbuckers that are great for metal and grunge but don't do clean tones too good. It's a really cheap guitar and even though they're humbuckers, it has 250k pots in it. The cheap small kind. If i put mojo gold foils in it, i want to replace the pots as well. Should i go with 500k, or 250k?
Personally, I'm using 500k pots with mine...technically they're single coils, so I guess 250k would be 'typical' but I much prefer having brightness & clarity in my guitars that I can then tame with the tone controls. If a guitar is too bright, it's easy to darken using the tones. Actually, I run the CTS/BKP pots which are slightly over-valued, so technically this guitar has 550k pots. It might be worth upgrading your current pots to 500k's first before swapping pickups...that might solve your problem & save you a load of cash!! :-)
@@JoePerkinsMusic Oh, forgot to tell you how good you sound. I like them with fuzz and vibrato. Like when you play the Rumble and that riff after it. I like the sound a lot.
"Goy-a-Tones" would be pickups played by non-Jewish musicians. On the bridge, they sound like a stereotypical cheap '60s guitar: what was popularly recognized as an "electric guitar" in pop culture. Things like Scooby Doo or other late '60s Saturday morning cartoons. Commercials, sitcoms, etc.
I have a single pickup Teisco Del Rey from the 60's. The gold foil in it sounds really good. Im interested in these however. They sound a little more high output than my original gold foil.
They're pretty low output (7k & 6.1k according to the Mojo website...I haven't measured them myself) but it wouldn't surprise me if the old ones were a bit lower. I'd love to try out an original! P.S. Loving your profile picture!! :P
Hey mate...you all good?? Got a MkI replica demo coming soon - plus a 3-way Tonebender shootout, the Analogman Peppermint Fuzz & a BC183 FF.....possibly all down your street!? ;-)
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they sound lovely. I don't know why you said they wouldn't be used with high gain. I think low output pickups sound great with gain.
They certainly do...the only reason I mentioned that is that the gold foils do have a slight tendency to be microphonic when using gain at volume. But as long as you're careful...heaven! :-)
Possibly he meant you wouldn’t want to play these through a triple rectifier in a metal band? In my styles of playing the tube screamer he slaps on IS my high gain setting, but for others playing a metal zone through a 5150, players generally scoop the mids and want that fatter low end for chugging riffs all day. But for old school RnR tones these things sound so incredible
@@JoePerkinsMusic stupid
These pickups definitely have that pure RnR power where the most badass thing you could do on them is windmill G & D chords on them and let em ring wide open through any number of vintage high gain stacks-the more the better!
I Love these types of pickups. I picked up (no put actually intended) a Squire Tele that someone spent a lot of time on... with a jigsaw, but they put two of these in neck and mid, and a dual blade in the bridge and the thing is beat to hell, but it's my favorite guitar. You can tell some of those sounds surprised you. LOVED the fuzz tone with them!
Yep - great sounding pickups; different, but great! :-)
Wow!thin but oodles of character!absolutely loved the sounds you were able to get from them.the first sound that struck me was the phaser.great pedal pickups.I can see how a person might pass on these not knowing right off what they can acomplish.I like how the sounds you achieved became progressively incredibale.A good lesson on creating great tones!
Thanks mate! Yeah, they're amazing pickups - a fair few people make replicas of them nowadays so fingers crossed they become slightly better known! :-)
as soon as i heard the tone, i was waiting to hear some link wray and i wasn't disappointed
Wow, to these really do make the surf rock/Beatles sounds. Just really that 1960s glitter almost. Like I get that you can make any guitar sound like anything else with the right set up, but it's rare that clean out of the box that something automatically has a distinct sound but these certainly do. Then when you kicked on that flanger, it was like being transported to a recording session in 1972.
They sound very bright. Not my bag. But I can see they would be perfect for a 60’s cover band type thing . Well presented video.
wow, the astro tone with the bridge pu... sounds pretty awesome
Teisco used them in the ´60s, but at that time nobody wanted them 🙂 My first guitar was a Teisco that I changed for at Höffner Galaxie, the German take of a Strat.
Got a set of these in search of that vintage Harmony/Silvertone/Kay tone for funk hopefully with added modern playability. Question is what should I throw them in, Will a semi-hollow make any difference or a trusty old Strat do it? I saw you out some in a Hagstrom Viking too?!
Thanks
It's incredible to see the evolution of Joe and his equipment in those 5 years. The level of nerdism as grown exponentially.
I have to say that i really like Goldfoil pickups in the neck. The less low end gives them a sensational clarity. You're probably not going to get the "Woman Tone" out of them but they give you something unique.
A combination of Goldfoil in the neck and a PAF of somekind in the bridge sounds like a winning combo.
The first 3 effects you used there were pieces you were playing that immediately struck me as being very Rush-esque...sounded amazing!
They definitely have that clean chime that's perfect for those sorta sounds :-)
What a fantastic demo. Lovely tones, great playing. Currently considering a set of these or P90's for my own SG, damned gear-lust... Literally just stumbled upon your channel, but will definitely be checking out more. Awesome stuff!
@@JoePerkinsMusic hard to know without trying both... The guitarist from sister sparrow and the dirty birds uses GFs, and gets a real raunchy tone. A guitar for each it is 😏
Sounds sick. Sweet! I was wondering how these would sound in a Gibson. Only seen these getting used in Fender style guitars
They're lovely p'ups :-)
Definitely not what I'd expect an SG to sound like, but it sounds so goood!!
Yep - this was definitely a curveball choice for pickups 😂
Super sweet.. 🤘 though I'm not sure how much your combination of amps are playing into what we're hearing @ our end.
None the less, very happy for you bub..
Thank you for this awesome demo. I appreciate the sound you have shared with the set neck SG and these MOJO gold foils. Just happens I got a deal on my first great Gold coil today. It is the better Teisco. Meaning compared to the so many Teisco pups I have listened to. I'm looking at Lollar, Mojo, and of course Vintage. Your video has even made me more excited about my first finished build which wont be so long from now. Keep groovin. I have plaid guitar for near 40 years and I didn't know about these very cool sounds. Fighting different pups for this sound (is that a shame)?. Im extremely excited that my best friend whom I started playing guitar with at 19 years old has shown me these Gold Foil pups in last few months. I'm on my way!!!
Fantastic stuff mate - I'm sure you're going to absolutely love them! :-) They're very different to anything else, but once you 'get' them, you won't be able to put them down!!
Do you think these pickups have a thicker low end than a Tele or Strat?
BASS player here,
CLean with comp, yeaaaah!!!
These sound incredible. I wanted to say they were a little expensive until i saw that Mojo makes these pickups by hand. I would love to see you try their humbucker sized dearmond pickups.
I'd love to shoot that - I've just put TV Jones T-Armonds in my Gretsch and they're unreal. Big fan of that style of pickup - so it turns out!! :-)
@@JoePerkinsMusic Nice. T-Armonds are the real deal, but they're specialty sized, and doesn't quite fit the routing for a P-90 or mini-humbucker but it does fit in a filtertron spacing, but I don't really have a filtertron equipped guitar which is why I never got one. Killer pick up though.
@@lessthanpinochet I believe TVJ do a P90 sized T-Armond :-)
@@JoePerkinsMusic lol, I've seen those but I can't help but feel that the specialty size is what gives dearmonds that magical tone. I could be completely wrong about that though, haha.
Thanks for demoing these for us, Joe.
I like them, they seem to have a cool but unique 1950's to mid 60's feel and tone to them.
How's the single coil/60 cycle hum with these, realistically? I generally stay clear of single coils because of the noise.
No worries! Yeah, they're killer pickups - I love how they sound! :-) No problems with hum for me....but then again, I usually live in single coil land anyway! It's certainly no worse than a Tele :-)
St Vincent used them on her earlier albums which sounded very unique with fuzz gain though I dont know what pedals she used. Does it sound any good with the mercury distortion pedal you got? No question that the cleans sound great and that overdrive type unit sounded good too.
They're certainly unique!! I've not tried it with the Mercury just yet - but I must admit, I was really surprised how well they handled the Astro Tone fuzz I stuck on at the end of the video!
Why are gold foils considered good for slide?
Nice tone! Are the gold foils a humbucker or a singel coil classified pickups?
Very much single coils...these are just humbucker-sized. The originals of the '60s looked a lot like Strat single coils :-)
Dope sounds. Not sure if the gent over at mojo pickups knows about this vid, as I asked him for some demos and he directed me to some other demos that don’t show case it’s greatness. Gonna send him the link. Can’t comment on the amp sounds, though I do reckon you should pick an amp or maybe run through them one by one. Subbed 👍
Ah awesome stuff! I've never sent it to him myself, so it's great that somebody has :-) I generally run the two/three amps together nowadays & balance the levels equally for the edit, mainly for demoing gain pedals....I find that if a pedal has a tendency to nudge nasty frequencies out of certain amp style, running the Tweed, Plexi & AC30ish amps together make sure those frequencies are heard & highlights any shortcomings. Plus, if a pedal sounds good through those 3 circuits, it's gotta be an excellent pedal! :P Thanks for subbing mate :-)
These sound good I picked up a set of Malinowski Type 13 Gold Foils Just now getting a chance to install them in something This guy builds some great guitars and winds his own pup's Chk his builds out Very cool
They really sound unique - in an awesome way! Are they splitable, or are those humbucker sized single coils? I got an old Aria PRO II CS-250 which I'm currently modifying to be a lap steel guitar:raising the nut, getting better tuners, getting new saddles and most importantly getting some new pickups, and I'm heavily seduced to give those a try.
Ah that sounds awesome!! Yeah, I bet these would sound ace for lap steep...they've got that lovely twang! :-) They're HS-single coils, I believe. I was going to go for a silver mesh to match the hardware, but I'm SO glad I went for gold...somehow it doesn't look weird having both together! :P
We need links in the description 👍
Good call - I'll add one now!! But for quick reference: www.mojopickups.co.uk/product/humbucker-sized-gold-foil/
I bought a Squier Bullet Mustang with really hot humbuckers that are great for metal and grunge but don't do clean tones too good. It's a really cheap guitar and even though they're humbuckers, it has 250k pots in it. The cheap small kind. If i put mojo gold foils in it, i want to replace the pots as well. Should i go with 500k, or 250k?
Personally, I'm using 500k pots with mine...technically they're single coils, so I guess 250k would be 'typical' but I much prefer having brightness & clarity in my guitars that I can then tame with the tone controls. If a guitar is too bright, it's easy to darken using the tones. Actually, I run the CTS/BKP pots which are slightly over-valued, so technically this guitar has 550k pots. It might be worth upgrading your current pots to 500k's first before swapping pickups...that might solve your problem & save you a load of cash!! :-)
@@JoePerkinsMusic good advice. Thank you !
No probs! I do like the expensive boutique gear, but I'm all for saving a few $$$ whenever possible! :P heh
@@JoePerkinsMusic Thats where Guitar Fetish gold foils come in. Lol.
@@JoePerkinsMusic Oh, forgot to tell you how good you sound. I like them with fuzz and vibrato. Like when you play the Rumble and that riff after it. I like the sound a lot.
"Goy-a-Tones" would be pickups played by non-Jewish musicians. On the bridge, they sound like a stereotypical cheap '60s guitar: what was popularly recognized as an "electric guitar" in pop culture. Things like Scooby Doo or other late '60s Saturday morning cartoons. Commercials, sitcoms, etc.
I have a single pickup Teisco Del Rey from the 60's. The gold foil in it sounds really good. Im interested in these however. They sound a little more high output than my original gold foil.
They're pretty low output (7k & 6.1k according to the Mojo website...I haven't measured them myself) but it wouldn't surprise me if the old ones were a bit lower. I'd love to try out an original! P.S. Loving your profile picture!! :P
yo Joe
Hey mate...you all good?? Got a MkI replica demo coming soon - plus a 3-way Tonebender shootout, the Analogman Peppermint Fuzz & a BC183 FF.....possibly all down your street!? ;-)
yeah man all about the fuzz. i just put my skreddy p19 on the board. great sounding big muff. ooohhh and the SG sounds amaze balls !!!!!
No, DeArmond & Harmony who subcontracted them in the 1950's. Yes they've been around that long. Day are mahnd, jsyallz knowz.
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These pickups aren't even available... Mojo= Nojo.. lame