Fat Tone Pickups Super Fat Bucker

Super fat tone neck pickup. 9.5 resistence black open coils. It came with a wiring guide, bezel, and mounting screws,springs,etc. All in a very cool clear plastic case with associated art work,logo's, and a breif history on the back.

90's Carvin DC135 neck thru, H,s,s with 1 vol, 1 tone, 5 way selecter.
Installed this in the bridge.
replacing the M22 stock bridge pup
It has M22 bridge, and two stacked humbucker blades in the mid and neck pos.
Check Tommy B's website at Fat tone pickups for a list of artists.
This guitar is naturally bright. The stock pickups made it worse. Thin in all positions. way too bright. Shrill...

The output is more than I expected. This is a neck pickup in the bridge position, and it has great output. Very smooth sounding, and it loves overdrive.
My amp is an all tube carvin vintage 16. I also use a boss gt6 for effects only. All preamp, speakers sims,etc. are turned off and my patches are used in manual mode. I like to hear the tone of the amp.
These pups are a little dark sounding. Not muddy by any means, but warm, smoother, with a much more open sound. I now have great tone.
The super fat bucker is very responsive to pick attack with sweet harmonics, and it sounds great clean or distorted/overdriven. I replaced all of the pickups with fat tones. Now my sickly thin guitar sounds fantastic. It's a joy to play music again.
I play in a classic rock band, but we do venture into blues, southern rock, blues bros, 50's, 60's, 70's. etc. America to zz top.
Before, overdrive made me cringe. Now it smooooth, and big as a house.
These pickups will sound good no matter where you put them.
I'll rate them a nine because nothing is perfect. Is it?

I will use these pickups on all of my guitars now. Depending on which manufacturer these cost 1/4 to 1/2 as much as the big boys,you know the names, and I've used most of them. Often being dissapointed with the end result.
I started learning to play when I was 23. Not seriously until I was 35. Now I'm 47, and I still love to entertain. Bad tone makes this a job, not a joy. You all know that you have to be able to trust your gear to do the job. I have used many brand of pickups , including carvin in other guitars. Wasn't good.
I've owned way too many guitars, amp, effects, etc. etc. to keep track of anymore. I never quit my day job for need of more gear, and some bills.
These pickups saved this guitar from ebay. I am satified.
At pratice the same night after the rewire and new Fat Tones, everyone noticed the difference immediatly! The were as impressed as I was. Now the bass player wants me to gut his Fender J bass and put in the Fat Tones. The difference was that dramatic.

Passive Humbucker, Alnico 5 Magnets, 11.5K DC Resistance, Four Conductor Wiring (like Seymour Duncan), uncovered black bobbins.

Guitar: 1978 Ibanez Studio 100

Position: Bridge

What pickup are you replacing? PRS Dragon II Treble

Other pickups installed on the instrument? Dragon II Bass (replaced by Vintage Fat Bucker)

Reason for Change: Experimentation, Dragon II's a bit dry.

What's the output level like?

It's the overwound PAF sound, about the same output as a Dragon II Treble.

Amps: Zinky Mofo, Peavey Transtube Studio Pro 112.

Tone: Balanced, nice low mids, excellent attack, lively p'up! Use a 250K volume and 500K pot as the guitar is bright.

What style of music do you play? Is this a good match?

I play modern rock, funk, metal, blues, etc. It sounds GREAT for these. Has somewhat of a JB vibe, but less honk and more open sounding. Split sounds are usable, even GREAT with the Anderson vintage voicing Mod. Basically, you run a resistor from hot to ground to get the pickup to see 125-150K like a strat or tele would be.

I like this pickup alot. I'm not putting my Dragon II's back in. For less than half of what most people pay for great aftermarket pickups, these are an absolute steal. Does what I need and I'll probably but Fat Tones in my other guitars. They hold their own against excellent USA pickups, probably because they were designed by a master engineer who worked for Seymour Duncan for 5 years.

To me, these are a fist step in the upgrade path. Get these, if they don't do it, move on. But for what you pay for two, you can only get one from most manufacturers. Check 'em out!!!

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