Tonerider Rocksong

Humbucking , Zebra colors Alnico2 magnets..around 12k

Used on a mongrel strat . Swamp ash body , maple neck and fingerboard..in bridge pos ..I needed a sweet sounding humb pickup that don't sound too powerful

Sweet sweet sweet.. with the combination of swamp ash wood , and maple , this p.u. just sings ..I found myself quite often switch to the bridge humb for clean passage and chordHowever , don't expect this baby to drive your amp crazy . Remember it's not a high output P.u. however it does sound great for hard rock kinda sounds all the way to pristine clean jazz

Great value , Great sound ..But... i just wish it came with a more decent scheme and manual references . Just an add of a nice sheet of paper won't cost that much !!

Passive humbucker, boutique handwired, Alnico II, gold cover, 4 conduct, look solid and outstanding.

I installed this set of pups in my MIK Epiphone Les Paul standard plus.
Reasons is that I want to get rid of the muddy of stock pups, and improve the tone of cause.

Middle output level, great balanced bass/mid/tremble, a little brighter than ordinary Alnico 2 humbuckers because it's over-wounder to get a higher output. This set of pups get extra harmonics and great sustain as well as clarity. Just great clarity. You might have to adjust the height of the pups and reset your amp to get the best tone, after all it's a unique pup .

After installed, I competed it with a Gibson LP standard through Marshall JCM2000 and this Epi guitar with Rocksong gets 90 percent what the Gibby got.
It should work much better in a better guitar.

It's just fantastic for the bucks I paid, if you want to get people envy, buy this...

nickel covered humbucker

Epi Dot SE limited edition block
replaces Epihone "designed in USA 'Alincos.
set installed

I wanted to install some different pickups in an Epi Dot SE as the stock ones were a bit muddy though not bad .I went ahead with Rocksongs first just to give them a whirl .They sounded better even while I was restringing it let alone all tuned up and ready to go .I was very impressed with them .I cannot help but wonder whether a certain negative reviewer for these has ever owned them or indeed any guitar at all .The sound is punchy but sweet from soft chordy jazz ,which I play a lot of to OD'd blues ..its transformed the Dot into a professional sounding instrument .I dont really know how it compares to Gibsons or SD's but as it sounds so good not really bothered to find out .Certainly from memory it sounds much better then the 335 Gibson I tried out for an hour or so but maybe that had dull strings,it had been hanging on the dealers wall for a long time .i will certainly try out Toneriders again in my Strat maybe .
I play Jazz and blues plus a bit of folk and country .The pickups handle any tone very sweetly from clean to dirty

playing 40 years

Passive Humbucking set, four conductor for coil splitting. Specs on www.tonerider.com

I replaced the stock pickups on a Raven West RG450 semi-hollow body PRS knockoff with a set of Rocksongs. The stock PUPs were uninspired; a little dark, good for clean tones, but really lacking any character when driven and not powerful enough to bite, punch or otherwise distinguish themselves.

Output is medium/hot. These have been described as PAFs on steroids and I agree. They are punchy, dynamic, have good harmonics and the clarity is stellar. This guitar is alive now. Woody tone; the pickups really seem to give a supercharged PAF sound paired with the natural guitar tone. Balanced, but more alive and dynamic than the previous pickups. I am continually surprised at how clear these things sound even with the gain on 10. I bought these on a hunch and feel like I found the deal of the century on pickups.

My rigs consist of various things:
ADA MP-1 preamp
Rocktron Piranha preamp
V-amp Pro preamp/modeler
SS poweramp
2x12 cab

I also use software amps like Revalver and Guitar Rig.

My style is...well, I noodle around and play lots of different styles/sounds. However I always seem to fall back to good punchy, biting lead tones with some effects.

This is a set, and they are matched well. The neck pickup is more tame than the bridge, works great for vintage PAF tones and cleans up nicely. (both clean up nicely though)

Been playing mostly classical for 20 years, but electric off and on that entire time as well. I actually have two of these RG450 guitars, the other with a pair of Bartolini pickups (77D/55). I'm not really happy with that combination but am leaving it as is for awhile.

I have a distinguishing ear and am a harsh critic of tone and am continually searching for great tones. These pickups were a gamble; I was really unsure about which pickups to try on this semi-hollow body, but that gamble has paid off better than I ever expected. I wanted something with more punch, bite, dynamics, harmonics...I guess everything except what a Jazz pickup would deliver, although these are clearer than the stock pickups as well. These pickups are not crazy hot (I am going to replace the other guitar's pickups with an evo2/paf-pro pair later), but I didn't want that for this guitar.

It now sounds amazing. I wanted a guitar to have a modern take on vintage tone. One that could be used to play a variety of styles (but these really aren't for the more extreme types of metal) but be modern in its response, dynamics, etc. I found what I was looking for.

One complaint - the pickups come in these NICE boxes but the diagram is lame; no examples for coil split or parallel or phased-reversed or anything. Very lame, especially compared to the Bartolinis which contained a sheet with about 10 different schemes.

-1 for a lame diagram.

Humbuckers

Installed on a Gibson. Wanted change from factory sound.

The output level is different on each pickup. They are noiser than the factory model. Tone is lifeless. I can't believe the reviews here are genuine. Next time I stick to the big names. You get what you pay for.

These are a joke. Don't be the butt.

Rocksong set, bridge and neck, 16k and 8k resistance. Nickle covers

I installed these on a PRS Santana SE, as I wanted a hotter pickup set, but not a fuzzy distorion sound. I went to their site, and listened to the sound clips. It was a hard choice, as their Alnico IV and Generator sets had great sound clips as well. I figured for the price I would give them a shot. Man was I ever pleasantly surprized! These things kick ass.

Both the neck and bridge are very responsive to pick attack, and can go from a warm clear tone to wonderfull crunch and screaming pinch harmonics with a simple adjustment to the volume pot. I can honestly say that these sound better than any Duncan, DImarzio or Even Fralin set that I have owned, They are a bit on the bright side in my guitar, but a quick cap change and they were dead on. Very good for heavey Blues (Gary Moore) or Santana type of overdrive sound.

I would buy these again, In fact I have a set of Duncan 59s in a Les Paul that I might pull out, sell on E-bay and buy a set of these! I love the wide tonal range, the pick response, and the nickle covers are first class. These are a great bargin for the buck!

Rock Song-Bridge-passive Humbucker
12k-Huge and full

Fender std american stratacastir
Bridge
replacing the std single coil stock pickup
dimarzio Virtual vintage blues single coil size humbucker
My self and only my self
Not a full humbucking tharashing texas sound- still feel little thin

No doubt at all. Fully covers up and rhythm sound is fantastic and the overdrive and little bit of distortion is so thundering. Feel amazing with solos, very crispy and I love the punch.
I am using laney with a Vintage 30 and a green back. Gives me a thrashing ocean like crispy humbucking sound
Base is fantastic with amazing middle sound and the high end is very soloing. I love the sound with a bit of distortion.I am using with texas specials in the neck and middle. I have tried seymour duncan pearly gates plus, seems great too. However, I want to have a change so I tried this babe with little effort of 59 aust. dollars. So great combination. Nothing wrong in trying. you will never go wrong with this combination. I have modified the original pickguard with a HSS fender moto pickguard with all old same fender wiring. Feel great. I play country and contempery rock and lot of christian blues mixed rock. I can cover a lot. So far I have tried only on bridge and so I cannot comment on it.One thing I would like to say with this manufacturing of this pickups is 3rd - G string adjustable screw is little loose, but I did not have any big issues based on this.

If it is destroyed, I will try a tone riders vintage models only in neck and middle because I will replace the bridge with this rock song itself.I have been playing for 14 years and I own lots of dimarzios and a fan of Rio Grande and seymour duncans. I love dimarzios for their compressed and bell like tones. For Seymours I love their heavy ones such as SH-11, custom 5 and JB's. The great thing with this pickup is loudness but very sweet and not at all harsh. I am a fan of dimarzio but I love this pickup for the price, matching quality with texas specials and great soloing ability. Recently I have tried Area 58's,area 61. The neck is very good for the rhythm and I am not impressed with bridge 61. When I went back to old texas specials with rock song in the bridge (12k). Never had a mind to change and no turning back to dimarzios. Very original and feel the touch sensitiveness of this babies. I love dimarzio's V.V.54's and I want to try this rock song in the bridge position too. Hope I still have the luck and May the loving God bless these combination too. Hope My opinion will be useful to someone in the world

2000 Ephiphone Les Paul custom made in Japan for the Japanese domestic market (ie not for export) so it is a carbon copy of the real thing.

The guitar came with a new Seymour Duncan SH6 in the bridge and a mystery white open humbucking pickup in the neck.

Well the Seymour is fantastic as they always are, with a sound just like The Backyard Babies get and great sustain. The neck pickup was a different story however, the closest sound comparison would be a sick pig farting in a bathtub full of mud.

I had just spent close to a grand on the guitar, freight and a new hard case so didn't have the money to lash out on another Seymour.

I saw this on ebay for $54, jumped on their website, listened to the sound clip, searched out some reviews and thought it would be a good interim fix.

Man, i am so happy with it i am keeping it on !

8.0K , nice looking open humbucker in black, very similar looking to a Seymour.

I have been playing for 20+ years, grew up on rock, punk, hardcore, metal and play stuff in the vein of The Backyard Babies, Motorhead, Smack, just loud fast raaak and roll.

This pickup can go from sounding like Slash on Sweet child of mine to Steve Jones of the Pistols. Output matches the Bridge Seymour and this thing is powerful, has good mid range, minimal noise and tons of warmth. Great in the neck for leads / riffs and great split for powerchords.

I have owned and played a lot of guitars and this pickup sounds better than most of the crappy stock pickups you would find on epiphones, ibanez, yamaha, monterey etc

I think it actually sounds better than the neck Gibson pickup on my 1995 Les Paul and would recommend this if you want that chunky les paul rock sound.

I have these in a custom built mahogany bodied semi hollow. I had a nice set of custom wound humbuckers made for it, but sold them at a stoopid high price then bought these and pocketed the difference.

I also had a set of GFS Retrotron Brooklyns in this thing for a month or so. They were quite bright sounding in this guitar. While certainly OK, since they are single coils, it's an apples/oranges thing. I will say the Rocksongs sound like they were made and voiced for this guitar. I love the tone they provide and could not be happier with my choice.

I don't thik there are any artists using these yet, but there should be. However, I believe many have the perception that low price means low quality. Certainly not the case here.

I like vintage voiced PAF style pickups. I was a bit hesitant due to the higher ouput rating of the bridge pickup, but it has become one of my favorites. I like these pickups better than several of the high priced botique winds I have.

These are very well balanced pickups. The neck pickup is excellent for blues and rock. It has a nice fat, creamy tone. The bridge pickup is great for classic rock tones. Pinch harmonics are easy to get.

While I agree with much of what the other reveiw said, I will take exception to the Duncan Dimarzio comment. I've used Seths, 59's, Jazz, Classic PAF, virtual vintage PAF and for me, the Rocksongs are a better match. I've used them in two guitars so far and love what I hear.

While I will always search and try different pickups, I have found a winner with Tonerider. As the other reveiwer said, I can buy a set for the price of one Duncan or Dimarzio. The A4's are next on my list. I spoke to a fella who plays blues in Australia that has the A4 Tonerider's. He was amazed at the tone and responsiveness.

I won't bore you with details of the gear I use. I'm old, I've played for 40 years and know what I want in tone. I'm greatful companies like Tonerider are out there. Not many seem to know about them, but I'm sure that will soon change. Anytime I an pay 1/2 price and get exceptional quality, I'm a happy camper.

These are a Humbucking set.
Resistance: 8.0k (neck), 12k (bridge)

I put these in a Monterray SG copy, rplacing both the neck and bridge pickups.

They have a smooth sustain, much more guts than the standard pups, no surprises. They are hard to describe in the usual tone terms as they seem to be full of surprises at just about every different gain/volume setting I use. Must be very responive. I play mostly Rock and Punk.

Yeah I'd get these again. Dimarzios, or SD's they aren't, but they are in the ball park, well made and at about a third of the price!!