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Filtertron sound with more uumph
Tried the Psyclone Hots hoping to get the unique filtertron characteristics combined with a bit more output. Very little information is available on these anywhere, it seems. So I'll try to add my 5 cents.
Quality: Very nice metalwork, cabling, soldering. Everything that I can see is made in a very high quality.
View: looking gorgeous straight from the box!!
Installation: The bracket to adapt to a standard humbucker frame is not thought out to the end. I had to grind of all the ends because the bracket wouldn't fit into the guitar cavities of two guitars I tested this on. The pickups are ca. 2mm wider than a standard humbucker it seems, so expect to neither get them fitted into a wood-mounted / frameless setup nor getting your humbucker frames back in without having to grind them down.
A bit of a hassle, but well worth doing. If Seymour Duncan advertises those as being "drop in replacements" for humbuckers, that's not quite true, though.
Cabling is easy, cable length is plenty, and connects like any single coil you've ever seen. Signal + shield, that's it.
Sound: hard to describe. With the additional C-Switch I installed, it ranges from a pretty metallic telecaster twang to a very creamy, lush tone somewhere between single coils and humbuckers. Overall I'd rate them as medium output. Very high dynamics! Always with some notable "quack". Exactly what I wanted.
Unique! Would recommend.
Quality: Very nice metalwork, cabling, soldering. Everything that I can see is made in a very high quality.
View: looking gorgeous straight from the box!!
Installation: The bracket to adapt to a standard humbucker frame is not thought out to the end. I had to grind of all the ends because the bracket wouldn't fit into the guitar cavities of two guitars I tested this on. The pickups are ca. 2mm wider than a standard humbucker it seems, so expect to neither get them fitted into a wood-mounted / frameless setup nor getting your humbucker frames back in without having to grind them down.
A bit of a hassle, but well worth doing. If Seymour Duncan advertises those as being "drop in replacements" for humbuckers, that's not quite true, though.
Cabling is easy, cable length is plenty, and connects like any single coil you've ever seen. Signal + shield, that's it.
Sound: hard to describe. With the additional C-Switch I installed, it ranges from a pretty metallic telecaster twang to a very creamy, lush tone somewhere between single coils and humbuckers. Overall I'd rate them as medium output. Very high dynamics! Always with some notable "quack". Exactly what I wanted.
Unique! Would recommend.
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