Author Topic: Q-tuner pickups (Read 202 times)

jazzyvee · « **on:** August 18, 2013, 04:22:16 AM »

I have a passive rob Williams csm custom guitar. Mahogany body and neck with a thick quilt maple top and rosewood fretboard. The original pickups were Seymour Duncan's which I found too harsh. I put some fender gold lace pickups in which are better but not great with the mahogany.

I am now looking for some q-tuner pickups which seem to have a great sparkle to the sound but can't find them on sale anywhere. If you know where I can buy them off the shelf in Europe preferably, that would be great.

Failing that I!d like to try a full set of humbuckers in the HSS configuration as I currently don't have a fully humbucker guitar that I would use regularly. Any suggestions. Only clean sounding pickups please. Alembics pickups are not for this guitar as I want to keep it passive. I would imagine Gibson pickups would be good for mahogany but do they do single coils or hb in a sc case?

Jazzyvee

sparechaynge · « **Reply #1 on:** August 18, 2013, 10:57:20 AM »

The Q-Tuners will be available again in the fall, see their website and Facebook for details.

As far as Gibson pups, I personally like P90s, as warm-er single coils. Most Mini-humbuckers are the same size as P90s, so you can route for one and try both.

jazzyvee · « **Reply #2 on:** August 18, 2013, 12:13:29 PM »

The guitarist in my band has a strat with two P90's and that sounds great but I don't really want to start routing into the guitar. I really want to stick with what will fit in the existing holes as they are fitted to the body without a scratchplate and routing will mean I will have to have the thing re-finished again. I fancy trying out humbuckers that fit the guitar as it is.

I saw the Q-tuner web site saying they were not producing at the moment but there must be some stock in a shop somewhere.... maybe...?

Jazzyvee

(Message edited by jazzyvee on August 18, 2013)

that_sustain · « **Reply #3 on:** August 18, 2013, 12:42:07 PM »

Kent Armstrong makes some nice pickups.

edwin · « **Reply #4 on:** August 18, 2013, 01:18:56 PM »

What about some Bartolinis in the interim? I have some in a jazz box and they sound very warm, full and not harsh at all.

Of course, my favorite humbuckers are the ones that came in my ES140T. It's a 1956 and the P90 was replaced with a pair of early 60s Gibson humbuckers (with the wrong patent numbers) and they just sound wonderful.

sparechaynge · « **Reply #5 on:** August 18, 2013, 07:36:13 PM »

That's my fault for not understanding you meant HSS, sorry about that Jazzy. In that case, I can only suggest what Dan and Edwin have already.

tncaveman · « **Reply #6 on:** August 19, 2013, 05:31:54 AM »

You ought to try some DiMarzio noiseless single coils. They sound great! I have Area 67's in my G&L Legacy and they have an awesome clean jazz or blues sound through my Fender Hot Rod DeVille amp. I also have an Area 67 in my heavy ash Fender Lead II.

Stephen