Peavey Super Ferrite pickups???

[teleblooz]

I remember playing a T-15 (or T-25.....can't quite remember as my memory is one of the many things I'm losing these days) many moons ago and being quite pleased with the pickup's.

So.....is my memory correct? I'm a 'blues-er', so everything I play (from rock to jazz to worship to country, etc) is framed and steeped from that 'kinda clean, kinda dirty' deal. My main guitar is a homebrew tele with a Zhangliqun PureHandwound (A5 7.5K) bucker in the neck, (totally AWESOME pickup btw) and a Dimarzio Tone Zone T in the bridge. My strat sports a set of Tonerider's, the Pure Vintage winds.....which fit this guitar perfect. I also have a 70' Hohner tele deluxe clone that has a set of Dimarzio 36th PAF's in it.....so I pretty much dig the 'classic' low wind style pup's.

The reason I'm asking bout the Peavey's is I have an opportunity to get set at a great price.....and, I happen to have a custom built semi hollow (mahogany body similar to the Gibson Blueshawk in size and shape) that currently has no pickups. I was wondering if a set of Super Ferrites would be a good way to go. Again, I'm not into high gain, mega distortion...(not that there is anything wrong with that!) but play clean 75% of the time...the other 25% is either a bit of amp breakup or with an old Marshall Bluesbreaker pedal adding a bit of grit. Thanks in advance for your thoughts!

 

[Funkfingers]

Re: Peavey Super Ferrite pickups???

One of those T- models was a short scale "student" model. This will have had some effect on the sound that you remember from the past.

AFAIR, the Super Ferrite pickups were roughly humbucker sized with a single blade polepiece showing through the top. Use them as if they were a cross between a P90 and a Stratocaster pickup.

 

[Low_fidelity2100]

Re: Peavey Super Ferrite pickups???

I have an Old Peavey Patriot with the super Ferrite pickups, and yes your memory is correct. Those are some of the best sounding pickups I've ever played. Not just in that guitar either, I at one point had them in a 335 rip-off and they sounded just as good in there. Nice big deep piano like low strings, and smooth glassy high strings. They're almost like combining a Tele Bridge Pickup with an Underwound P-90. Although despite having a low DC, I do find them to be relatively hot compared to other (semi) similar pickups. Not a bad kind of hot though, just very very mildly compressed, and with a smoothed out high end. Probably due to the two Big Ceramic mag's on them. regardless, they're great sounding pickups. And would work great for what you described (great cleans, great for low gain tones....also good for higher gain stuff FWIW).

 

[esandes]

Re: Peavey Super Ferrite pickups???

would this design be similar to the Seth Lover designed Fender wide-range humbuckers? i think they used a ferrite magnet as well.