Product: Tesla Vintage 0
Price Paid: CAD 45.00 used
Submitted
06/11/2004
at
12:57pm
by
Frankie
Email: fouellet<at>idirect dot com
Features
:
Pickup features: Humbucking, passive (neck)
Impedence or other specs: Measures around 8.3K Ohms on the meter (other data unavailable...)
Instrument
:
Model of guitar or bass: Yamaha RGX-120
Position: neck
Pickup being replaced: Stock
Other pickups on guitar: Mighty Mite Motherbucker
Artists using this pickup: Don't know... but they all should!
You musical style(s): Mostly rock
Reason for pickup change: Stock pickups are not very hot, are they!
Sound
:
No Opinion
Perceived output level: A big improvement over the stock pickup, much louder in clean and distorted modes.
Tone: Very nice sound throughout the strings range, punchy yet not excessive, leans on the crisp side with Regular Slinky strings.
Sonic evaluation: I use a Peavy Bandit 75 amp and the pickup delivers lots of input to the amp. In distortion mode there are lots of overtones and nice harmonics. A little noisy though, unfortunately.
For which styles and positions is this pickup (un)suitable: This pickup would go well for almost any style, playing with the treble control produces jazzy, blues or rock-style sounds. This is the neck model used in the neck position.
Overall Rating
:
10
Comments: Excellent value for the money. This pickup sounds like other worth many times more money, like all of the Tesla's product line. It was recommended by the tech guy where I bought it. Excellent value for the money. My other guitar is a strat-copy with Fender single-coils so the sounds are obviously different. I like the richness of the humbuckers for some of my music, yet appreciate the punch of the single-coils for heavier musical pieces. The combination of the Tesla with a Mighty Mite Motherbucker has changed the life of this axe. My advice: if you can't spend $3000 on a Gibson buy a cheap Yamaha for $300 and spend $100 on Korean humbuckers: the sound will be the same!
