Opinion On Golden Age

[Lavidicus]

Hey, I bought two golden age humbuckers from stewart macdonalds, but it'll be a while before I install or hear them. could I please get some opinions on the sound and quality of them?

If not, do you know of anywhere I can hear them, like a site with mp3s of the sound?

thanks.

[Mattia]

A question: you've already bought them, so what does it matter, exactly?

[Geo]

I have two of them in a guitar I built. I love them--but that's totally subjective. I've used them to record a lot of songs. Here's a link...

http://www.acidplanet.com/artist.asp?songs=590945&T=2430

I always record with the guitar straight into the amp, so there's no pedals here to mask the "true tone" of the pickups.

"Venus Descends" has clean and distorted parts through a Marshall-style amp. I think I recorded the clean part at the beginning with the bridge pickup in single-coil mode.

"Pleasure Can Be Had" is through a distorted Marshall-style amp with the bridge pickup in humbucker mode.

"The Pendragon" (past the intro) gives you the bridge humbucker through a distorted Fender Princeton Reverb, and later the neck humbucker through the same amp.

"guitar test" has several pickup config's through the Princeton Reverb.

Keep in mind that the Fender-style amp has a "mid-scooped" preamp, so it sounds "chimier" and colors the natural tone of the pickups more than the Marshall-style amp does (I think).

All the parts were recorded with a Weber 12" Signature Alnico and an SM57. Hope that's helpful.

Edited August 10, 2007 by Geo

[Acousticraft]

I have two guitars with G.A humbucker pickups. One has the nickle covered over wound set and the other the standard black set and I like the sound of them both. I have my over wound set so I can coil cut them individually and it does add to the tonal palette available.

[rubber314chicken]

I wired them up in a maple guitar, and they sound very nice. they are very warm. I will post sound clips when I finish fixing my wiring (I literately finished it 5 minutes ago)