lean tones. I use it together with the TeleBucker Dual Tone Bridge, and it sounds great in every switch position. I’m absolutely thrilled with it.
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caster, together the guitar and those pickups have endured over 20,000 hours of play in that decade, through the entirety of my music degree, and into my professional life as a musician and busy teacher, that guitar is my no.1, it's my inner voice and the pickup swap to the APGs was an integral part in forming that voice all that time ago. There is nothing they won't do, and convincingly, they are mocking birds. If I need a fat jazz tone, a thin glassy funk sound, a more intimate kind of clean tone where I want lots of definition in a chord, a full on hendrix style neck pickup quacky-ness, it's got it all and none of it sounds inauthentic. The compliments on my tone are constant every week. I'll end with this, and probably the most assuring thing I could say- They made me stop hunting for so much gear! The abundance of satisfaction I get out of just plugging straight in to literally any amp and playing this combo of guitar/pickup is unparalleled, they make even the worst backline amps sound passable, and the best of them sound better than ever. I'm now ordering a replacement for the neck pickup and will continue to give Andrey and his work the highest of praise, a great product, it competes with the best of anything you'll hear, and I can give it at LEAST a 20,000 hour guarantee!
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copy of a Gibson Marauder and turn it into a Gibson S-1-style guitar, so I wanted to make sure the experiment wouldn’t end in disaster — the shorter Gibson scale, different body material and weight (mahogany), etc. Let me tell you — every time I speak with this man, the experience is fantastic. He is an incredibly kind person with extensive knowledge in this field and a real passion for what he does. The pickups sound fantastic. They are extremely clear, very responsive to articulation, and all positions are very well balanced. P.S. I recently bought another old Japanese guitar in which the bridge pickup unfortunately wasn’t working. So I called Mr. Andrzej and asked if he could take a look and see what could be done to repair it. The man makes his own pickups and is now also starting a company where he will be building guitars under his own brand. He could easily have brushed off some random guy with a broken pickup by simply saying he didn’t have the time — but he didn’t. He had no problem telling me he would take a look and see what could be done. I wholeheartedly recommend this man and his products.
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. I tested many different pickups, and there was always some kind of compromise — more glassy and wiry split tones at the expense of the humbucker sound, great humbuckers whose individual coils sounded completely characterless or had a very low output. Not to mention having to take the winding and polarity of every coil into account to make sure as many of the possible combinations as possible would remain hum-free in the final setup. I had almost given up on the idea of achieving what I wanted. But while looking for interesting solutions and new pickup technologies, I came across APG pickups. Based on the description on the website, the Stratobucker Dual Tone set, with a noiseless Stratobucker single-coil in the middle position, seemed to be exactly what I was looking for. I had just picked up my guitar after having these pickups installed, and when I plugged it into a tube amp, my jaw dropped. The Dual Tone pickups in single-coil mode sound exactly the way I would expect good Stratocaster single-coils to sound, especially in positions 2 and 4 combined with the middle single-coil. The HB mode also completely meets my expectations. It delivers a convincing humbucker character even though the pickups are in a single-coil format. In this mode, you get a warmer tone and higher output; you lose some of the typical glass and wiriness of a single-coil, but the pickups remain clear and articulate, just as a good humbucker should be. The output is somewhat higher, but not enough to require you to immediately change your amp settings. With the right electronic configuration, in addition to S-S-S and H-S-H sounds, you can also get both outer humbuckers working together — in the style of Gibson-type H-H or superstrat configurations — or an S-S combination similar to a Telecaster. It’s also worth mentioning that all pickup combinations remain hum-free in every mode! By installing these pickups in a superstrat-style guitar, I ended up with an instrument that allows me to play virtually any kind of material without compromise. Maybe with the exception of the most extreme metal — but with the right gear, who knows? 😉 I wholeheartedly recommend them!
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during the build process. Fast turnaround as well. Highly recommended.
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me now, I have been building semi-hollow-body guitars because they have a more “open” sound. They are also perfectly suited to solid-body guitars. The ability to switch from series to parallel operation is absolutely fantastic. In series mode, the speaker delivers a whole spectrum of sounds that puts a big smile on your face. But switching to parallel mode brings you right back to the true character of a single-coil, with the invaluable advantage that there is no hum!!! Of course, you can use noise gates, but as we all know, even the best ones can cut off the initial attack of the note. In my opinion, that essentially disqualifies a noise gate as a solution for a true single-coil. With these pickups, even with a strong overdrive, rolling the volume down almost all the way transforms the tone into a saturated, “wire-like” clean. But hit the strings harder and the lions sleeping somewhere inside the guitar body suddenly wake up. Of course, this will only work if you use what is commonly known as a Tone Bleed — a resistor and capacitor connected in parallel across the volume pot, between the input and output of the guitar signal. Guitarists who play through tube amps at high power and fairly high volume, however, don’t always like this way of cutting the low end, because the tubes themselves seem to compensate for this effect. Another advantage of these pickups is that they can be used with both 250kΩ and 500kΩ pots. Naturally, each pot value gives you a different sound, so you have to try them in your own guitar and see which works better for you.
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ej, thank you for your time, advice and valuable input. I highly recommend APG!!!
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harder. A huge plus is also the whole service — professional approach, expert installation and attention to every detail. You can see that everything is done with passion and to the highest standard. Both the pickup itself and the complete service are top quality. I definitely recommend APG!
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e at the neck, in the version designed for 500k pots (somewhat similar in character to a P-90). And honestly, it sounds absolutely beautiful. I’m very happy with the result. These are yet another set of pickups from APG in my guitars.
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