Product: Kent Armstrong WPU900NR
Price Paid: US $55.00
Submitted
12/29/2004
at
11:15pm
by
Mike Baker
Features
:
Pickup features: passive single coil ALNICO
Impedence or other specs: 9.5K ohms humbucker retrofit
Instrument
:
Model of guitar or bass: Gibson the Paul
Position: neck
Pickup being replaced: stock humbucker
Other pickups on guitar: WPU900N
Artists using this pickup: unknown
You musical style(s): blues, classic rock, R&B
Reason for pickup change: Old pickups had no ooomph.
Sound
:
No Opinion
Perceived output level: I need a single coil pickup, I'd like to get an old LP Special sound.
Tone: The tone is there. I'm experimenting with caps, I'm using a 33 ufd now for a darker sound.
Sonic evaluation: Marshall AVT50H.
For which styles and positions is this pickup (un)suitable:
Overall Rating
:
1
Comments: The tone is okay. This is rather surprising considering the beating, bending, grinding, filing and otherwise gorilla fisting I had to do to make it fit. The pickup did not fit the pocket in any dimension. It was too large in depth, height width etc. I tried the pickup in an LP Studio and also an Epiphone ES335 Dot. It didn't fit in those either. I finally cut the tabs off and fastened it with double sided tape. Not a good solution. I hate it when things don't fit. Here is the Armstrong claim "It will fit anyplace a humbucker fits without physically modifying your guitar!." A major reason why I bought the pickup. I can't honestly recommend this pickup.
