Artec pickups

They are decent quality pickups and electronics. Artec makes the Kent Armstrong licensed pickups. They also make the Sky branded OEMs. GFS, Guitarheads, and Dragonfire are also Artec pickups. If you look at the bottom of the bobbins of a GFS humbucker it has an Artec logo. It's possible to trace the specifications of many bargain brand pickups back to Artec models.
 
Yup. I've had several OEM Artec's. They're what's in my Ibby AK80 hollow body. I've also had one or two of their UST's in acoustic-electrics. They aren't bad at all.
 
In my experience Artec makes pretty good pickups - guitar and bass. They are affordable, which makes them an easy choice when shopping for pickups.
 
Well I ordered an Invader bridge pickup.

I've seen that they have great deals on sets. It's like the middle, & neck, are less than half priced.
 
Oripure is the boutique Fleor

Just expensive Fleor pickups

They do have some offerings that you can not get from common sets

Like the half rails I got
Had low wind neck with an A2 magnet
Matched with a 16k bridge with an A5 magnet

Which is what I do with all my a5 sets I get from Fleor

Just costs $50 as opposed to $25

I don't see much difference in the material that mine are made from

So I think they are just boutique Fleor
 
Yes, Artec made/makes OEM pickups for many brands, AFAIK and a bit like Cort factories made/make guitars under other names - Epiphone, etc.

And I agree, Artec products are decent to good pickups.

Chinese PU's can be even less expensive for a comparable quality but their physical reality doesn't always match their depiction (a luthier for whom I've worked did order a sample of OEM humbuckers meant to be loaded with A2 magnets : what came were ceramic loaded ones, under bad covers whose strong eddy currents were softening the sound to fake the tone of AlNiCo)...

To come back to Artec: in their old catalog, they were showing the resonant peaks of their pickups according to the capacitive load of the guitar cable (or wireless emitter patch cable) used... I wish they kept doing that and inspired the same thing to other brands: pretty useful IMO for players with a theoretical background about passive pickups...

Example below (pic from an Artec catalog).

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ehdwuld said:
Oripure is the boutique Fleor

Just expensive Fleor pickups

They do have some offerings that you can not get from common sets

Like the half rails I got
Had low wind neck with an A2 magnet
Matched with a 16k bridge with an A5 magnet

Which is what I do with all my a5 sets I get from Fleor

Just costs $50 as opposed to $25

I don't see much difference in the material that mine are made from

So I think they are just boutique Fleor
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Ok, lol. So how are Fleor?
 
solspirit said:
Ok, lol. So how are Fleor?
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https://www.tonejourney.com/post/fleor-bridge-review
https://www.tonejourney.com/post/fleorpickups-neck-review

Summary: Neck hb has certain clarity for a neck humbucker. If you need clarity, it is fantastic. The bridge? It's not bad but for me its a bit of bright.

That's what i think of two models of Fleor. Moreover they are pretty good pickups for modding.

And for the Artec, they are, as far as i know, the biggest pickup maker. Plus, i was told that they produce "Duncan Designed" pickups.
 
nienturi said:
https://www.tonejourney.com/post/fleor-bridge-review
https://www.tonejourney.com/post/fleorpickups-neck-review

Summary: Neck hb has certain clarity for a neck humbucker. If you need clarity, it is fantastic. The bridge? It's not bad but for me its a bit of bright.

That's what i think of two models of Fleor. Moreover they are pretty good pickups for modding.

And for the Artec, they are, as far as i know, the biggest pickup maker. Plus, i was told that they produce "Duncan Designed" pickups.
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What he said
 
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I have a pair of Fleor alnico P90s and they are pretty decent,

I had several Artec in the form of GFS pickups and they were pretty good, I tried dozen of different mods with them (mixing coils, swapping magnet, etc...) without being too worried about the results since they were very cheap...
 
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