Our Favorite Strat Pickups (for people who don't really like the sound of Strats): Fralin Steel Pole
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 11 июл 2024
- Twenty years ago, I'd nearly hit my wits' end swapping Stratocaster pickups out of my #1 partscaster. Actives. Passives. Noiseless. Alnico. Ceramic. Traditional. Unusual. I thought I'd tried it all, and nothing was making me really happy in this nearly nine pound amalgam of an overseas mahogany body and super-thin American maple neck from 1983. None of it had worked, and candidly my sentimental fave was sounding anemic compared to my other stage guitars - especially the '71 SG with the P-90 or the Hamer T-51 with the Broadcaster pickup. Going from those to my Strat gave me the "whomp whomps."
I was living in Richmond, VA at the time and enough friends convinced me to go visit Lindy Fralin at his workshop. In less than fifteen minutes I discovered what I would really like in this guitar, how I think I'd been thinking about pickups all wrong, and I've been delighted for decades since.
Nothing to sell or promote of ours with this post - but if you like these pickups, drop Lindy and team a line, and learn more here: www.fralinpickups.com/product...
I'm going to post some more clips on IG from some of my other fave pickups and instruments, just cause they're really cool, and there are some excellent winders out there doing really nice work.
Sign up for our mailing list here to be the first to hear about future releases: carolineguitar.com/contact/ 
Видеоклипы
Love hearing all of this, Lindy's stuff is so great!
good lord these sound nice, thanks for sharing, gonna look into these
Lindy is the man!!
These sound similar to G&L S-500 pickups, both in terms of construction and tonal quality. It would cool to see a comparison between these the S-500 MFD pickups.
Very interesting ! .....Thank you sir !
The Steel Pole pups sound cool. I also love Lindy's alnico High Output Strat set. The bridge has plenty of juice, but they sound a little strattier than the steel poles.
The Chocolate Pudding strat with the brass saddles SCREAMS the '70s. LOVE IT. Cool Mathew Sweet song too. I've been eyeballing these pickups for some time, but I may have to get them now. But they don't show the overwind option. I'll have to email and see if they have it.
Matthew Sweet, nice!
Luv seeing the WCV1 getting a run.
Peter Pumpkinhead by XTC riff on the notch position demo!
Dang those sound great! Lindy is the man!
Are those steel pole pickups hum cancelling?
Hi there, great to see someone talking about these. I was literally just looking at them online last night. I'm a blues player, primarily using distortion from the hot channel of my Delta Blues amp. Are these a good fit for blues? Love to hear opinions on this, and thanks... !
I love them for that. The neck model reminds me of the P-90 an ES-125 I played, and the bridge has heft and crunch.
XTC! Respect :-)
That bridge tone is beautiful...did you hapoen to mention pot and cap sizes
hey! This thing is running 250k volume and a 250k no-load pots. The cap is an old Sprague 10nf.
Ki;ller demo! Whatever you were playing around 5:45 was on fire. What was that?
Thank you! It's just a riff I like to play for testing things. The chords are wide and there's some mix of separation between notes that I like to hear.
@@CarolineGuitarCo good point. That second chord is going into my repertoire and I'll remember that it works for testing tones too.
Driving me nuts trying to figure out what you’re playing for the bridge pickup demo… is that a Big Star jam?
"I've Been Waiting" by Matthew Sweet maybe?
i haven't dedicated my playing to banging out 5th chords through high gain pedals since i was 15, pretty much around the time i last attempted to "impress" someone by hinting i read books-wow