Product: TV Jones Magna'Tron
Price Paid: UNKNOWN
Submitted
07/12/2008
at
07:23pm
by
conrad
Features
:
Humbucking pickup with staggered, alnico pole pieces, just like Fender single coils but no hum.
Instrument
:
I use this pickup in the neck position of a heavily modded Strat. I feel that the sound of a great Strat neck pickup is one of the classic tones in rock music. This pickup nails all of those tones without the hum.
The other pickup is a TV Jones Powertron at the bridge.
Sound
:
10
The output is a little less than the bridge PowderTron pickup but with some height adjustments they can be matched to suit my tastes.
As I said above this pickup nails all of the Strat neck tones. It has the soft airy transparency of a great single coil. A round smooth bass tone and chimey top end sparkle. Playing up around the 12th fret gets you that tubey, hollow tone. Clear, clean tone with no muddiness.
Mr. Jones has done an incredible job with this pickup.
Overall Rating
:
10
Not only do I love the tone of this pickup, the Filtertron style cover looks really cool to boot.
I've been playing for over 30 years, semi-pro for some of it and have owned Gibson, Fender and PRS guitar along with a long list of others. I would re-buy these pickups without hesitation and highly recommend them to anyone looking for a single coil sound without the hum.
Workmanship and service were top notch.
They may look a bit pricey but are worth every cent.
Product: TV Jones Magna'Tron
Price Paid: USD 140
Submitted
06/27/2008
at
01:00pm
by
Rog??rio Lins
Features
:
Single coil or humbucking? Active or passive? Filtertron style - Passive paralel Mini-humbucker
Impedance or other specs? DC rest. 7.95K Inductance 2.9H
Instrument
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What model guitar or bass did you install this in? Ibanez AFS 75T
What position is it in? Bridge
What pickup are you replacing? Ibanez Artcore
Other pickups installed on the instrument? TV Jones Supertron Neck
Any artists using this pickup? Brian Setzer, Me?! lol
Reason for changing the pickup? I wanted a guitar with a brighter
and punchier Gretsch sound without the Gretsch price.
Sound
:
10
What's the output level like?
Like a low wind PAF. In my setup little less than a TV classic.
What amps and effects are you using it with?
Tweed Champ with Jensen P10R.
Tone - Bassy, middy, muddy, trebly, balanced?
Hi mid focused without ice pick. Nice attack, much closer to a sigle coil sound than a TV Classic. Never played a Dynasonic. To me sounds like a louder and bolder 52' Tele pickup or a brighter P90. Perfect!
What style of music do you play? Is this a good match?
The style my band plays (Amps & Lina: www.myspace.com/ampslina) falls in the alternative category. This pickup works great to the 50's R&R and brit pop side of my playing. The lighter MPB side and the heavier overdrives tones are covered by the supertron neck also in this guitar (my #1). This pickup is great to achieve 50's R&R, Rockabillie, country, brit pop, funk and lighter punk/garage rock - anything a that works with a tele bridge, only better, louder and without hum.
For which positions is this pickup (un)suitable?
Unsuitable to none I guess. I heard Setzer using it on neck, and for his style was great. For me, I would use a neck pickup with more output, better bass and less attack - Superton , PAF, Fender Wide Range.
Overall Rating
:
No Opinion
If it was destroyed or stolen, would you buy it again or get something else?
I would buy it again...
How long have you been playing? What other gear do you own?
10 years of guitar playing. Also own a MIJ tele 72 custom and a korean ES 355 (with TV Classic at Bridge), a Tweed Champ, few pedals (analog and digital delay, Moog Ring Modulator, Barber LTD) and a sampler/computer/drum machine/synth rig wich is the major part of my live setup.
What do you love about it? What do you hate?
Love its sigle coil caracter, its attack and unique voice. Don??t hate anything, but it could use a tad more bass only on the havier strings - but thats may be the way how the pickup is setup in the guitar.
Did you compare it to other products? Which ones? Why did you choose this one? Well, for gretsch sound the only way is the actual gretsch pickups (ceramic), Seymor Duncan (more expensive), GFS (not right) and TV Jones. I Already had a great experience with TV Calssics on my ES 355 copy, such that I dicided to have a gretsch clone with TV Jones only in it. Liked so much that this guitar is my #1 now!
Anything you wish it had?
Nothing.
Are you satisfied with this pickup or still searching for <b>that</b> sound?
Very satisfied. Search is over for this guitar. lol
