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SD Red Devils...finally installed.
I grabbed a set of Red Devils from our own ArtieToo and finally got around to installing them a week ago. I am now finally getting around to a brief write-up.
The guitar is a self-made and finished strat body (alder) and a Warmoth all pau ferro unfinished neck. I play mostly through a 5E3 hand-wired clone.
The pickups are MASSIVE sounding. Considering 90% of my guitars are single-coil, I actually had to tweak my amp settings
. Very deep bass but it stays pretty tight. As you would expect, they drive an amp on the edge really easily by themselves and interact well with the volume control. I honestly haven't played buckers in quite a while so half of what I might say is probably just describing buckers vs singles. Personally, the sweet spot I've found in my rig is with the amp on the edge. The pickups respond well enough to picking dynamics to be able to get clean notes, just dirty notes, or that nice triad sizzle just by varying my picking. Add in a low-gain OD of choice and a compressor after the OD for leads, and I'm very happy with these pups. The bridge is everything you would expect from a '59 styled lead pickup.
I do not have them wired in series or parallel, despite Artie almost making it a condition of purchase
, so as you might expect there isn't (to my ears anyway) really any of the strat quack in the notch positions...but I didn't buy them and wire them straight-up for that purpose.
The guitar is a self-made and finished strat body (alder) and a Warmoth all pau ferro unfinished neck. I play mostly through a 5E3 hand-wired clone.
The pickups are MASSIVE sounding. Considering 90% of my guitars are single-coil, I actually had to tweak my amp settings
. Very deep bass but it stays pretty tight. As you would expect, they drive an amp on the edge really easily by themselves and interact well with the volume control. I honestly haven't played buckers in quite a while so half of what I might say is probably just describing buckers vs singles. Personally, the sweet spot I've found in my rig is with the amp on the edge. The pickups respond well enough to picking dynamics to be able to get clean notes, just dirty notes, or that nice triad sizzle just by varying my picking. Add in a low-gain OD of choice and a compressor after the OD for leads, and I'm very happy with these pups. The bridge is everything you would expect from a '59 styled lead pickup. I do not have them wired in series or parallel, despite Artie almost making it a condition of purchase
, so as you might expect there isn't (to my ears anyway) really any of the strat quack in the notch positions...but I didn't buy them and wire them straight-up for that purpose.
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