Product: Wolfetone Flashback
Price Paid: UNKNOWN
Submitted
02/03/2008
at
02:43am
by
Caretaker
Features
:
I can`t find my meter right now!! LOL I`ll guess that these measure about 6.5/5.6/5.9. I`m usually pretty accurate. Single coil strat set done to my tone request by the only man I trust to make my pickups. Mr Wolfe Macleod.I asked for vintage wind, but tweaked a little. I need a Rory Gallagher type bridge tone amd a David Gilmour middle and neck tone. As usual, he nailed it. Smooth and silky blues tones and chimey sparkle with a killer lead bite.
Disclaimer: Wolfe makes ALL of my pickups including the Caretaker set(my sig set). But don`t let that stop you, Try any of his products for yourself, You won`t be sorry.
Instrument
:
Built a Partsocaster(Fender body, Allparts neck, etc)
Sound
:
10
This will do anything/everything a real 62 strat will do. That is exactly what I was going for.
Overall Rating
:
10
Luckily, Wolfe saves all the specs for my pickups since I sometimes order them again for a different guitar. If anything were to happen to them I would be on the phone that day to order another set.
Product: Wolfetone Flashback
Price Paid: US $240.00
Submitted
06/21/2005
at
04:36pm
by
Andy Cottle
Email: acottle<at>ainop dot com
Features
:
Pickup features: single coil passive
Impedence or other specs: all around 6.1
Instrument
:
Model of guitar or bass: Warmoth Strat
Position: all positions
Pickup being replaced: Rio Grande tallboys and a Wolfetone rewind (bridge)
Other pickups on guitar: none
Artists using this pickup: unknown
You musical style(s): Blues, Rock, Jazz
Reason for pickup change: Wanted to try Wolfes new line.
Sound
:
No Opinion
Perceived output level: Very vintage, medium-low output
Tone: perfect, the essence of what a strat should sound like
Sonic evaluation: I play through a Plexi Marshall (50 watt) and several others including an Tweed Bassman clone, Trainwreck Express clone and McIntyre Bluesmaker (the latter two built by Burlington, VT amp genius and all-around great human being Bill Carruth) I use various flavors of 10 and 12 inch speaker cabs. Like his Legend humbuckers, these pickups are the epitome of what I like in a vintage sound, what I've been seeking for years and what remember about the great older guitars I have owned and played. They sparkle and are beautifully transparent (a hallmark of Wolfe's work). They sound fantastic clean and in all shades of overdrive. The bridge pickup is nice and strong without any icepick-in-the-ears syndrome There's nothing more to be said. If you like vintage strats you'll be in heaven.
For which styles and positions is this pickup (un)suitable: These are great for anything calling for a vintage strat sound
Overall Rating
:
10
Comments: Ratings of 10 are overdone, but I really can't find any reason to give less than that. These just plain knock the stuffing out of anything else I've tried (Rio grande, Dimarzio, Duncan, Fralin and a number of others)and stand with the best-of-the-best vintage gear I've played.. Aside from his great work, Wolfe is a class-act to deal with. As he said to me when I bought them "If you don't like 'em, I'll re-do them." A deal doesn't get better than that. He's got all my future pickup business. I'm totally satisfied.