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Home › Forums › Discuss Your Gear › Think you know your Single Coils from your P90s? Blindfold challenge!
Great challenge Keith. That G&L Comanche really got my attention. Actually, all the G&L’s stood out!
Mike
Great challenge Keith. That G&L Comanche really got my attention. Actually, all the G&L’s stood out!
Mike
Being a G&L fanatic, I had to smile as The Chappers would comment on the G&L guitars and especially when he heard the price of G&L ASAT Special was approx the same as a Squier. Most of the Tributes have the same pickups and bridges as the American models so they are a good value.
My Comanche & S500 surprises me quite often with the variety of tones that I can get from them. Once you used Leo’s Passive Treble & Bass tone controls, you won’t want to go back to the typical 2 tone controls that is on a Strat; when you spend enough time with them, you begin to realize what a vast improvement that circuit makes especially when coupled with the expander switch – LOL which Fender copied and called it their S1 switching system.
Keith
aka GnLguy
The MFD pickups on the G&L ASAT are mistaken by some to be P90s. The overall shape of those pickups resemble P90s but they are a single coil pickup w/ ceramic magnets & adjustable pole pieces. Per the G&L website – Magnetic Field Design yield about twice the output per wind, making the pickup quieter while allowing a greater overall output. The sound of Magnetic Field pickups is slightly warmer with a broader frequency response.
I’ve gone off Chapman since he said he wouldn’t buy an Epiphone led Paul because of the headstalk shape, that’s just shallow from a maker of a strat copy…hahaha
Have pickups really changed that much since the days of early use of telephone parts?,
..Billy..
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