I have the bellbirds in my strat and they are absolute perfection, a strat bridge pickup you can ACTUALLY USE!!!! and the neck and middle combined, or neck on its own???? OMG.
Mr Glyn's Integrity Humbuckers (Demo)
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Re: Mr Glyn's Blue Sky Humbuckers (Demo)
Slowy wrote: That's the problem; everything rewarding is just such hard work. Regret takes much less effort.
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Re: Mr Glyn's Blue Sky Humbuckers (Demo)
Good to know! My strat has some vintagey SD pickups in it which are cool, but I'm thinking I might like the hotter Tui set more. We'll see how we go.
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Re: Mr Glyn's Blue Sky Humbuckers (Demo)
The bluebirds nail the 60s tone, instant John Mayer or similar 60s inspired players, tuis for a more modern tone, they'd go extremely well with the blue sky!Zaulkin wrote: ↑Sat Feb 20, 2021 9:22 pmGood to know! My strat has some vintagey SD pickups in it which are cool, but I'm thinking I might like the hotter Tui set more. We'll see how we go.
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Re: Mr Glyn's Blue Sky Humbuckers (Demo)
If you can't make it work, its not the pickups fault.... just saying. I know you're being your usual effervescent self, but strat bridge pups have been around since the 1950's, and no-one else is dissing them
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Re: Mr Glyn's Blue Sky Humbuckers (Demo)
I disagree, without winding the tone down they suck, to me that's a bad pickup!Bg wrote: ↑Sat Feb 20, 2021 9:40 pmIf you can't make it work, its not the pickups fault.... just saying. I know you're being your usual effervescent self, but strat bridge pups have been around since the 1950's, and no-one else is dissing them
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Re: Mr Glyn's Blue Sky Humbuckers (Demo)
I find this too - hard to get a great base sound that works for all the pickups in a strat due to the treble content of the bridge. Ok if you really really want it to cut through. Just picked up a Mexi player with a humbucker in the bridge - much better. Now you have got me wanting to upgrade all pickups.jeremyb wrote: ↑Sat Feb 20, 2021 9:55 pmI disagree, without winding the tone down they suck, to me that's a bad pickup!
They keep telling me tone is in the fingers, but I have yet to see a "look at my fingers" thread.
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Re: Mr Glyn's Blue Sky Humbuckers (Demo)
G&L passive tone system.Delayman wrote: ↑Mon Feb 22, 2021 11:11 amI find this too - hard to get a great base sound that works for all the pickups in a strat due to the treble content of the bridge. Ok if you really really want it to cut through. Just picked up a Mexi player with a humbucker in the bridge - much better. Now you have got me wanting to upgrade all pickups.
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Re: Mr Glyn's Blue Sky Humbuckers (Demo)
I've spent entire gigs sitting on a vintage sounding strat bridge pickup. Strum lighter during the verses, harder in the choruses, dig in hard during the solos. It's a pretty dynamic pickup and it always sounded pretty good to me.
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Re: Mr Glyn's Blue Sky Humbuckers (Demo)
I have only had the Tui's for a day so I won't give an in-depth review yet. However, this is my reaction after a few hours of jamming on my strat:
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Re: Mr Glyn's Blue Sky Humbuckers (Demo)
I'm going to split the difference.
If you set up your rig to be playing on the usual Strat positions (2, 4, 5), then going into position 1 generally sounds pretty unpleasant. Sharp, ice-pick, spiky treble, whatever you want to call it. If you set up your rig to sound good in position 1, then yeah a Strat bridge pickup can sound great, but when you change to the other positions everything goes all mushy.
Having said all of that, I love SSS Strat because 2, 4 and 5 sound so good, and 2 doesn't sound right with a humbucker in the bridge.
If you set up your rig to be playing on the usual Strat positions (2, 4, 5), then going into position 1 generally sounds pretty unpleasant. Sharp, ice-pick, spiky treble, whatever you want to call it. If you set up your rig to sound good in position 1, then yeah a Strat bridge pickup can sound great, but when you change to the other positions everything goes all mushy.
Having said all of that, I love SSS Strat because 2, 4 and 5 sound so good, and 2 doesn't sound right with a humbucker in the bridge.
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Re: Mr Glyn's Blue Sky Humbuckers (Demo)
With the right bridge humbucker, i.e. splitable, and the right wiring, e.g. Obsidian Wiring HSS harness, position 2 sounds great!robthemac wrote: ↑Mon Feb 22, 2021 2:12 pm I'm going to split the difference.
If you set up your rig to be playing on the usual Strat positions (2, 4, 5), then going into position 1 generally sounds pretty unpleasant. Sharp, ice-pick, spiky treble, whatever you want to call it. If you set up your rig to sound good in position 1, then yeah a Strat bridge pickup can sound great, but when you change to the other positions everything goes all mushy.
Having said all of that, I love SSS Strat because 2, 4 and 5 sound so good, and 2 doesn't sound right with a humbucker in the bridge.
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Re: Mr Glyn's Blue Sky Humbuckers (Demo)
Haven't tried the Obsidian kit. The Fender and Suhr HSS guitars that I've played have never tickled my fancy though.codedog wrote: ↑Mon Feb 22, 2021 2:22 pmWith the right bridge humbucker, i.e. splitable, and the right wiring, e.g. Obsidian Wiring HSS harness, position 2 sounds great!robthemac wrote: ↑Mon Feb 22, 2021 2:12 pm I'm going to split the difference.
If you set up your rig to be playing on the usual Strat positions (2, 4, 5), then going into position 1 generally sounds pretty unpleasant. Sharp, ice-pick, spiky treble, whatever you want to call it. If you set up your rig to sound good in position 1, then yeah a Strat bridge pickup can sound great, but when you change to the other positions everything goes all mushy.
Having said all of that, I love SSS Strat because 2, 4 and 5 sound so good, and 2 doesn't sound right with a humbucker in the bridge.
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Re: Mr Glyn's Blue Sky Humbuckers (Demo)
They quite surprise me, they can go from chugging on the bridge pickup with lots of gain to really nice clean blues tones on the neck.
I find they do love gain, but as they are my only humbuckers atm, they spend most of the time on gain. I flip between that and my Hp90 loaded sg & telemaster.
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Re: Mr Glyn's Blue Sky Humbuckers (Demo)
I've got an HSS setup in one James Tyler, and a SSS in the other James Tyler
Glyn would need to tell me which pickups I actually have in them. But if you wanted to grab and borrow to do a demo that's fine by me. I do love the pickups.
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Re: Mr Glyn's Blue Sky Humbuckers (Demo)
Legend. The HSS setup would be amazing. I need more guitars so I can put more of Mr Glyn's pickups in them.