GFS Gold Foils??

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Chocklit_Thunda

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GOLD! GOLD FOILS IN THE DUNGEON!!

Thought you ought to know.....
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Anyway..... Here's a link
Thoughts? Anyone keen to try 'em?

With the postal strike down here I won't be able to get a set for a while....
 
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Re: GFS Gold Foils??

I'm suspicious. They say they dumped the "outdated" construction methods, but they kept the sound of the originals. To me these look like another set of cosmetic replicas from GFS like their Wide Range and Filtertron pickups.
 
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Re: GFS Gold Foils??

They look cool, just saw 'em today.

I'd wait till reviews started popping up on YouTube and other guitar-tech forums before buying anything.
I wouldn't put it past Guitar fetish to start a line of fancy looking cheap-turd pups just to bump up sales.

But then again who knows? Could be unique tones
 
Re: GFS Gold Foils??

I definitely agree with you guys... I'm thinking that these are just regular pups voiced like gold foils. I mean, their retrotrons do have a Filtertron-esque jangle and their Mean 90's emulate a P90 in an HB format (don't get me wrong, they're not 100% but they do get you in the ballpark... and for a lot of us, that's good enough...)

I don't have any experience with their WRHB clones but let's be real, even the modern fender ones aren't that close.
 
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From my prior experience I have my doubts. Probably nothing like a real gold foil, but still, they might sound good....or (as I've experienced in the past on several of their 'unique' models) they may sounds like a thin, overwound strat pup.
 
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I had an old Teisco guitar with gold foil pickups . . . thin is pretty much the way I'd describe them. Thin, and overwound strat pickup would be pretty much the way I'd describe them. Microphonic as hell too . . .
 
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At best you'll probably get a sound that not too many other players are going to have
At least GFS stuff is cheap
 
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Thin, overwound Strat pickup...... Well in that case all they'd have to do is repackage their "unique" models in gold foil casins ;)
 
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