Don Barrilleaux
UNITED STATES
30-Sep-2023
Installed pups, totally satisfied.
ED: The shortest and sweetest Report Card we have received. Don bought a set of 580 (neck) and a 580 Extra bridge.
Ken
I installed the 580 and can’t stop playing. It's perfect. I really can't imagine a better P90 guitar, and I can't imagine NOT having a 580 in the neck of any P90 guitar I own in the future. I shouldn't be up this late, but I can't help it. I will neither confirm nor deny that I was hopping up and down in my chair like a 6-year-old girl. Thanks a lot for putting this pickup together for me, and at such a crazy reasonable price. Is this pickup considered super-secret R&D, or I can I tell other folks about it? Thanks again!
Lukas Kuipers
01-Aug-2019
Be careful using this pickup in the neck position - it will ruin every strat in your collection to your ears! It really does have the glass like clangy quality of fender pickups, but with so much warmth, bass, and dynamics. Chords have a room-filling quality to them. Especially pretty on the low lows and high highs, I can highly recommend this for d-standard tuning. I could imagine it sounding great on a baritone as well.
Important to note is: it's really sensitive. I thought something was wrong at first, but after playing around with the pickp height and knobs I was able to change the sound quite significantly.
I have it paired with a kinman twangbucker in the bridge, and in both series and parralel position it sounds fantastic, and you can definately hear it dominate the low wound strings. Because of the higher output and lack of any noise (however that's even possible) you can put the dirt on as well, and after some experimenting I've found some nice dirty tones as well.
All in all: great sounding versatile pickup with beautiful clean tones, and it has a few tricks up its sleeve for heavy genres as well.