Tone Rider pickups

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Post by Lucifer »

I've just installed a set of Tone Rider 'Hot Tele' pups on a project Tele - and they are very tasty (despite being Chinese made).

The neck pickup, unfortunately, was dead on arrival - but the shop replaced it immediately, and the replacement was just fine.

All in all, great Tele tone with a bit more bite, and without the harshness - for about £60 (UK).
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I really like my Tonerider Rocksong Humbuckers. My blacktop HH strat humbuckers were 17k+, even in the neck pickup. Way too dark. The toneriders are alot more balanced. Worth the price.

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I put the same set in my homebuilt tele and have been really impressed. I'd heard very good things about the sound but another factor for me was that they looked suitably vintage as I wanted to do a relic job - nickel plating, cotton tape, fibreboard bobbin = win win

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Nice looking geetarr BF !
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I've got a couple of sets of their humbuckers. Both are uncovered, one is the hotter Rocksong set, the other is a lower output PAF type - can't remember the name. Very nice for the money, in fact as good as some pups twice their price. I can't really find any reason to replace them. I do have Wilde by Bill Lawrence pups in a lot of other guitars which have a flatter wider response, generally speaking, but for regular humbucker sounds the Tone Riders are great.

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wildschwein wrote:...one is the hotter Rocksong set, the other is a lower output PAF type - can't remember the name.
Edit: Actually I think it was a Generator set which are about 16k in the bridge. The other set was the Classic Alnico IIs or IVs - memory escapes me.

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I've got a set of Tone Rider City Limits in one of my strats and they are surprisingly good too.

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Post by rocklander »

I've got a pair of their HB sized P90s .. had them in my tokai love rock for maybe 5 years? I reckon they're great.... but I have crap taste so who knows? no complaints from anyone else yet.. heh
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