Product: Kent Armstrong Floating Archtop Pickup
Price Paid: US $200
Submitted
06/01/1998
at
12:31pm
by
Anonymous
Features
:
Pickup features: Miniture humbucking, passive, no pole pieces.
Impedence or other specs:
Instrument
:
Model of guitar or bass: Campellone Deluxe
Position: neck
Pickup being replaced: no
Other pickups on guitar: none
Artists using this pickup:
You musical style(s): Jazz
Reason for pickup change: I ordered this pickup for a custom Mark Campellone archtop.
Sound
:
No Opinion
Perceived output level: cleaner sound than a Gibson humbucker, but with a nice liquid, smooth sound.
Tone: Very balanced, good top end without being too bright.
Sonic evaluation: Flatwound strings, archtop guitar, Polytone amp. I also like to roll
off some of the high frequency overtones with the guitar's tone control.
For which styles and positions is this pickup (un)suitable: Jazz
Overall Rating
:
9
Comments: I would definitely buy this pickup again. I love that the sound can
be clean and dynamic, but at the same time liquid and pretty warm. I
had heard that the Armstrong pickup was very bright, but I didn't find
it that way. With flatwound strings, I get a very classic
"jazz guitar" sound.
