GFS Brightons - Regular or RWRP

[THRobinson]

Looking to place an order today for a build I plan on starting in a few weeks. Looking to do a flat top strat guitar with binding, and use the GFS Brighton's and pre-wired pickguard to make a Queen-ish guitar. I know won't be exactly the same, but, budget and such, it'll hopefully have the same overall sound of the Red Special. Close as I'll ever get anyways...

Was about to order and got hit with the RWRP vs non-RWRP question... web seems all over, if it's worth it, is there a noticeable difference, etc...

May's guitar has an abundance of options... like 40 or something with phase/antiphase etc.... how's RWRP factor in? I know May tinkered with his pickups as well, does he have an RWRP middle?

 

[Jacew]

Re: GFS Brightons - Regular or RWRP

I don't think there is (was?) rwrp model of the pickups he has.

Basically if you have ptyer in rwrp model the in phase sounds will be hum cancelling. With both the same pickups (no rwrp) you get hum cancelling with out of phase sounds.

 

[THRobinson]

Re: GFS Brightons - Regular or RWRP

Well, I read once he rewired the original trisonics... how/why I'm not sure. Maybe he made it rwrp?

 

[superpete]

Re: GFS Brightons - Regular or RWRP

how are you going to be wiring them?

 

[THRobinson]

Re: GFS Brightons - Regular or RWRP

Luckily... they have a kit.

https://www.guitarfetish.com/BHM-Style-Wiring-Kits_c_226.html

 

[idsnowdog]

Re: GFS Brightons - Regular or RWRP

From what I understand the Tri-Sonic pickups aren't wound with wire as strat pickups are but are copper tape wound coils around a ceramic magnet with a metal baseplate and a metal cover. Dimarzio also had a BHM set that I owned for a while and they are pretty poor pickups. They're basically an unpotted wire wound coil around a central ceramic magnet, the baseplate and cover are plastic. I believe the Brightons are conventional strat style pickups that are supposed to LOOK like Tri-Sonic's. How close they sound to the originals I'm not sure?

 

[THRobinson]

Re: GFS Brightons - Regular or RWRP

Unrelated but, is there a way to stay logged in on this site? Every time I reply to someone, I'm logged out again.

Not sure how close they are, saw a few YouTube reviews that definitely leaned towards the Red Special in sound. Which is enough to try.I think the full RWRP set was $79USD -15% for Black Friday, so... just over $67USD. After shipping and such to Canada, plus the pickguard and harness, it was under $150CAD. The Bourns, which I wanted, were closer to $270CAD, plus I'd still need the harness (or pots/switches and tylenol) plus a custom pickguard made because fatter than strat pickups. After all that.... which would sound closer/better? No idea because don't have a side-by-0side comparison between them, the GFS and the original.

Just a guess game really, trying to make an educated guess, but still guessing.

I saw some specs on the Red Special replicas for sale, and they have Bourns TriSonics with RWRP. So I bought the GFS RWRP option.

Now to get that slab of Ash I have planed flat and start building.