Product: Parker Guitars P-38 Bridge
Price Paid: came on guitar
Submitted
03/18/2002
at
10:34pm
by
cosmo
Email: cosmo_mcturk at hotmail<dot>com
Features
:
Pickup features: humbucker, passive, but won't work without the battery for the piezo
Impedence or other specs: ?
Instrument
:
Model of guitar or bass: parker p-38
Position: bridge
Pickup being replaced:
Other pickups on guitar: stock parker
Artists using this pickup:
You musical style(s): psychadelia, some emo, radiohead etc
Reason for pickup change: the fucker broke
Sound
:
No Opinion
Perceived output level: average to mildy hot
Tone: trebley
Sonic evaluation: just when i started getting used to the pickup, and i started using it more, the little bastard broke.
however, while it did work, i was getting some quite nice squealing tones out of it, like playing the radiohead 'lucky' solo, on the first bend (you know the one) i was getting some really nice squealing going on... i like(d) that.
For which styles and positions is this pickup (un)suitable:
Overall Rating
:
No Opinion
Comments: well, i was writing this review mainly for reliability purposes.
cos it's kinda crap.
i took it to my tech in town, and he said there was an internal coil fault which was pretty much unrepairable.
i am now kitting the bridge with an EMG 89, for some single/humbucking switching action (baby).
however, i could not take it back to parker, because i made some mods on it (and i also took it out of the country, back to england, where i live), so my warranty was void... even though it's under a year old.
