Between the warmth and adjustability, you just can't beat this pickup. The new owner loves the sound of the KA too. Hit the internet today, and youll find many companies making lipstick pickup replicas. Santa Barbara, California. Danelectros had a unique sound that no other guitar could capture. L5 CES started in '53, had p90s, soon got staple pickups, then Carvin or Kiesel Alan Holdsworth HH2 This company advertises that they have the hand wound Kent Armstrongs: http://www.oneflightupguitars.com/kentarmstrong.html. Epoxy casting inside the cover allows for added coil to give a sweet mini-humbucker tone. Is there any better bang for the buck in a new guitar than this. Are all of his current pickups made over seas? Always loved his drumming, but how about on guitar too, and singing.,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6IBeJMtpzY regardless, jazz pickups don't sound anything like MB pickups. Based on what I read on this forum there seems to be a lot of variability in the stock Casino P-90's. You can post now and register later. But he is the ideal example of repetitiveness, and also extreme rythmic monotonity, which is interesting to Good info, I kinda want to check out a newer one from the custom shop. select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. I've had several pups in my sheri. But then Danelectros are no longer the only place youll find lipsticks. They also split for single coil use better than any other humbucker I've tried. What's the opinion from those Strictly Necessary Cookie should be enabled at all times so that we can save your preferences for cookie settings. http://www.kentarmstrong.com/KentContact.html. At this point, I do not know if Kent Armstrong supplies Epiphone with other OEM pickups in addition to these P90's. You must log in or register to reply here. I love my Eastman 905, but I don't really love the Kent Armstrong floating pickup that came with it. It had a nice tone, good All of these modern updates have done nothing to quell demand for lipstick pickups, new and old. You are using an out of date browser. Terms & Conditions | Registered Trademarks, There are 2 different types of Kent Armstrongs. You may have to register Jazz guitar players are less interested in output and the unique voice pickups can bring to their instrument. (HJGN-2 for neck mount version) Made in the tradition of the Johnny Smith endorsed Gibson instruments introduced in the early '60s. And Strat Players like SRV retrofitted lipsticks into their Fenders years ago. Powered by Invision Community. I've never had any experience of KA humbuckers but the single coil pickups that japasul is considering are great and for the price of KA's I don't think that you can go too far wrong. And.they sounded way different too. I know for a while you could still get domestic KA pickups built custom direct by him and/or his sons - not sure if that is possible still today or if it is all via WD Music. Tech experts from Seymour Duncan are regularly on this forum, and are clearly labeled as employees of Seymour Duncan. I imagine earlier pre WD Armstrong pickups would hold quite a bit of value. before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. You are using an out of date browser. But I don't know if they're the same pickups as those on the WD website. Daniel found he could source lipstick tubes from wholesalers for much less than standard pickup covers. I have a set of Kent Armstrong's Icon series Strat pickups. That bridge pup with full treble and plenty of gain on the amp gets you a nice biting tone like Claptons' John Mayall period. Both these Kent Armstrong made in the USA pickups are far superior to what Eastman is selling on most of their guitars. SBUK You can find out more about which cookies we are using or switch them off in settings. Webhey guys, i was wondering if any of u have had experience with kent armstrong pickups. Tech experts from Seymour Duncan are regularly on this forum, and are clearly labeled as employees of Seymour Duncan. Finally, modern lipstick single-coil pickups offer a variety of wiring improvements. Specifically designed for use with traditional arch-top electrics. Don't know for sure. S, Copyright 2022 - Jazz Guitar Online - All rights reserved - Privacy Policy. They weren't very good. They have a nice full tone not thin and bright like most pickups in this output range. The pickups are hot a great pairing with my Engal Powerball, Mesa Roadking and Carvin V3 all modern high gain amps. But the in-between setting runs both pickups in series wiring. Copyright 2023 Seymour Duncan. Upload or insert images from URL. the pickups in my bree/blue fretless are kent armstrong hand-wounds very nice. yes. WebKent Armstrong has long been the best jazz pickup designer in the industry. I've had a number of Kent Armstrong pickups over the years, and been pleased with them all. I may be wrong, but i think that is one of the overseas "licensed" pickups, not handmade in Vermont. Various humbucker models including PAF style and higher output ceramic humbuckers, standard Tele & Strat pickups, lipstick tubes, high gain metal pickups, Jazz, P90's, Firebird, LP Deluxe you name it. I didn't like the Duncan I had in the bridge though and opted for a GFS Vintage Alnico Tele and was actually super impressed by it. We understand the questions. There is a chance that you might have gotten a "good" set of P90's as stock equipment on your Epi. im looking to a bluesy peter greeny kind of tone. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. They make many, many pickups. He'll also custom wind you anything you want if you call him. But they were very noise free. I heard the hot rod vintage is better than a JB? Up until now, I have had no other verification of this claim, until he directed me to the WD Music website (as milospilo has provided the link above). What I did not know was the extent of the Kent Armstrong catalog. i think ill go for them. Click to reveal Was put on a customers guitar and modified to fit a D'Aquisto see offset bracket in picture. However, there are some people who want even more flexibility in this style of pickup, so Kent has brewed up something new and even more versatile. We get asked a ton of questions about lipstick single-coil pickups. I had a 12 polepiece nickel covered Kent Armstrong in the neck position of a double humbucker Tele for a while, and it was a very sweet sounding humbucker. Unlike the Duncan SMB4D the Armstrong is very consistent all the way up the neck with thick mids, clear highs and growling lows. Up solos the neck pickup. Kent is a great guy. Announcing the all new jazz pickup line! WebThe Rocker cleans up nicely and is warm, even in an alder/maple set up. This sweet sounding jazz pickup comes in either neck-mount or side-mount configurations. Kent Armstrong sells his pickups exclusively through WDmusic. Jangly, chiming, clear, and detailed are often used to describe their singular voice. I got the cheap ones (I was only 18 at the time) and was very pleased. do My gut feeling is that they are one of the better import options out there but maybe not the same level as US aftermarket. These are the Kent Armstrong pickups in my Soloist: The bridge pickup has a bright fendery tone, for a humbucker it. I haven't needed to use him for years but his rewinds were superb. His pickups are really, really nice. Really thin and very harsh. One retailer mentions that Kent Armstrong's pickups with adjustable poles can be adjusted to work with either nickel or bronze strings, a claim that doesn't appear to originate with the manufacturer. It may not display this or other websites correctly. I'll hafta get some of Telenators PT-90's. That said, other Korean Kent Armstrong pickups I tried sounded very good as well, so I would not hesitate trying them. I e-mailed about a possible custom wind and Kent himself replied quickly that he'd be happy to do one. Though arguably, modern improvements have made lipstick pickup design better, some players live and die by the originals. This means that every time you visit this website you will need to enable or disable cookies again. Anyone have any experience with them? Perhaps Ryan Burke of the 60-cycle Hum Podcast described it best, saying, they basically sound the way they look: Despite their penchant for clean sounds, theyre also a ton of fun with a cranked amp exuding a snarly breakup and a loose low end. So there should be a few good European Pickup builders Bare Knuckles, Haussel,etc? I had an old discontinued KA Tele neck pick that sounded great in one guitar, but just so so in another, so I put it back in that one it sounded good in, and sold the guitar. The customer changed his mind and went with a Different Armstrong. I put Kent Armstrongs in my much-reviled epiphone LP about a year ago and found them to be a good pickup and much improved over the stockers (obviously). If it's a 3-humbucker guitar I strongly recommend the following : 1. etc.) You may have to register Along with Dire Straits Mark Knopfler, Page also found his Dano perfect for electrified blues slide. again, i cannot help with what you are really asking, but after reading some disparaging other comments, i thought i should at least share my experience with his handmade jazz pickups, which are superb. Here's a link to a great semi-technical explanation: http://www.guitartechcraig.com/techpckp/pickups.htm. I have one of his "hot-rails" type tele bridge pickups in my thinline and that is an amazing sounding pickup, not to mention the nicest made pickup of this type that I have seen from ANYONE (it even has a chrome plated grounding plate on the base), and that is one of his "mass-produced" pickups. A no brainer is if price is an issue and you're only playing jazz on this ax, you only need to replace the neck pickup. This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies. They are very dull and lifeless None of that typical P-90 sound. well ive got a korean made epi which im guessing is about 93 95ish so would and upgrade to kent armstrongs be a good idea? I used them exclusively in my tele strat builds for a long time, and those are all nice pups, too. I've got a set in an el-cheapo Flying V I have. I don't have one but I use the capacitor in my ToneBlock 202, and I do have the treble up higher than I used to. i dont like the idea of a guitar having a battery too toy-ish IMO. The reason I asked here is I know I'll get good info I can trust, you go through a lot of chaff before you find something really useful trawling. thanks. Posted March 1, 2021. 1995-2022 Harmony Central, Inc. All rights reserved. The middle pup doesn't do much tone-wise on a 3 pup LP so the stock Epi pup is fine in my view. You are using an out of date browser. Don't despare so quickly. Kent Armstrong has long been the best jazz pickup designer in the industry. In the same price range I prefer GFS pups. These new pickups allow you to completely equalize the string balance through height adjustment of individual polepieces. At this point, I do not know if Kent Armstrong supplies Epiphone with other OEM pickups in addition to these P90's. I had some double blade Strat pickups in my parts Strat for a while. I wanted to have some time with the guitar before I went with the swap but at the next string change, I'll change out the pickup. Nice wire, nice waxed string cover on the coil, nice box, good screws and springs. Hughes and Kettner, Victory Amps, Black Star, Two Notes, etc. P90's are normally ~8H -- nearly double the inductance of an average PAF. Announcing the all new Side mounted Jazz Pickup. For a while you could still get domestic KA pickups built custom direct by him and/or his sons - not sure if that is possible still today or if it is all via WD Music. Especially the humbuckers and P90 humbucker retrofit and P90s Im very easy to satisfy; just give me a '58 Les Paul, a '52 Fender Tele w/ Bigsby, a '63 Gibson ES-335, a '62 Marshall JTM45, a '59 Fender Bassman, and a dozen or so assorted vintage Fender blackfaces and tweeds to play through and Ill be just fine.
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