Product: Budz Guitars Purebred Matched Tele Pickup Set
Price Paid: USD 180.00
Submitted
08/06/2008
at
11:46am
by
erocypsi
Email: erocypsi at hotmail<dot>com
Features
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The tele purebreads are single coil pickups meant to capture the true tone of the tele. I would say they are meant for anything ranging from clean to classic rock.
Instrument
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I had the set installed into my custom built tele. It is walnut, so it has a slightly dark sound. Standard pickups were not sounding all that great. After putting in the purebreds, the sound completely changed. These pickups are discribed as having and earthy tone and I would agree with that assessment.
Sound
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10
The output is slightly hot, but not to hot where it stops sounding like a tele. I play through a hot rod deluxe, but these pickups would sound great through any tube amp. One of my favorite things about these pickups is the balance between the bridge and neck. The middle position gives you nice meaty but clear tone. The bridge pickup is great as well. It doesn't have to much of the high end ear shattering twang that some tele bridge pickups have.
Overall Rating
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10
I would definately put these in again. They are awesome handmade pickups in my opinion. I have played for about 15 years and have gone through the seymour duncans, lace etc. There is definately something to be said for a small operation that does things the right way.
If you try these pickups, I know that you won't be dissapointed.
Again, these will not do super heavy stuff, but for blues, classic rock, or country, these are it!
Product: Budz Guitars Purebred Matched Tele Pickup Set
Price Paid: UNKNOWN
Submitted
11/10/2006
at
01:27am
by
Mickey Richard
Email: mickeyrichard at comcast<dot>net
Features
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These are a matched set of single coil direct replacement Tele pickups, wound with enamel wire & using alnico magnets.
Impedance:
Neck-6.8K ohms
Bridge-7.5K ohms
Combined-3.6K ohms
Instrument
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I installed these pickups into my 2001 New American Standard Tele (Alder body w/ Rosewood fretboard), replacing the stock pickups. While I was satisfied with the sound of the stock pups, I did some recording with Beowulf Kingsley's MIJ Squier Tele with a Budz pickup, and loved it! I'd also heard other Budz equipped guitars when I was playing out, and thought that they were the bee's knees!
Sound
:
10
The output is slightly hotter than the stock pickups. I play mainly through a 1964 Fender Princeton 6G2, and a modded Peavey Classic 30. I rarely use any FX, but when I do: a Homebrew LP-1 Clone, a Danelectro BLT Slapback Echo, and a DigiTech Bad Monkey.
These pickups are sparkling, very articulate, and at the same time have some warmth. You can hear for yourself...here's a link to a solo that I recorded through a Line 6 Pod (Blackface Setting), into Cubase.
http://spirityard.com/solowithbudz.html
I play mainly blues based music, the Purebreds fit me to a tee.
Overall Rating
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10
I would definitely replace the Purebreds if they somehow left my universe. I've been playing guitar for 41 years, I'm a 1978 graduate of Roberto-Venn School of Luthiery, and have built guitars and hand wound pickups. My other guitars, are for the most part, instruments that I've built.
The only other pickups, I compared the Purebreds to, are the stock pickups from my Tele. I've haven't been searching for *that* sound for years, preferring to work with whatever equipment I had and finding usable sounds with it. I was satisfied with the stock pickups, but I really like the articulate nature of the Purebred's.
