Product: Amber Pickups Country Neck
Price Paid: UNKNOWN
Submitted
12/18/2008
at
06:40am
by
mo
Features
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great passive telecaster neck single coil with extra german silver cover. usually comes without cover, but wolfgang damm (manufacturer) does everything what you want to look them pickups - even ages them for little extra charge.
AlNiCo 5 rods, plain enamel wire and hand wiring make these pickups very close to their original! output is low (5,6kOhm), but don't let that fool you... this pickup sings and swings! also available as a bridge version.
Instrument
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put this one both in my american vintage '62 custom telecaster reissue and in my custom shop relic '61 custom telecaster reissue, of course in the neck position as it is a review of a neck pickup. replaced the thin and slightly covered sounding stock pickups. even the cs neck pickup was weak sounding, although its brother at the bridge is very nice and hot, so will leave it like this. the av telecaster has a amber vintage plus at the bridge, a hotter and fatter bridge version from amber. the only artist using this pickup i know is me...
Sound
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10
though the output of this pickup is rated very low, it's sounding strong and very balanced to an even higher output bridge pickup. use my guitars with a koch twintone II 50 watt head through a 2x12" koch cabinet loaded with jensen speakers. don't use too much effects, only an old vox wah, a boss tr-2 tremolo and a tu-2 floor tuner. got my crunch and lead sound coming from the amp, using a slight reverb sometimes coming from the amp too. the tone of this pickup is very nice through that amp, ringing like a bell played clean, guttsy and fat played in crunch mode, singing and biting played in lead channel! reminds me more to a good strat neck pickup than to a sometimes boring sounding tele neck pickup! and for the music i do it's the right match - blues, soul, funk and rock.
Overall Rating
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10
if it was destroyed or disappearing, i would replace it in a hence, because i'm addicted to its tone! i'm a tele guy and have tried seymour duncans, fender pickups, kinmans, fralins and so on... none of them can compare to these pickups made by wolfgang damm in good 'ol germany! and i'm playing for 15 years now and slowly i've come to know what good tone is about - your hands and a nice setup! so check out amber-pickups.com
