The ACME Single Coil Death Match!!! (please vote)

[Notyethendrix]

Please click for the link:

http://www.acmeguitarworks.com/Strat_Pickup_Sound_Clips_W1.cfm

First let me thank ACME for this wonderful single coil pickups demo clips, lots of work man! Appreciated  :icon_thumright:

This is one great round-up page,  installed in the same '71 Strat (alder / rosewood), same pickup heights (all three pickups 1/8" below the strings on both the treble and bass sides).

So please, place your vote based on the given samples, which one is your favourite :headbang1:

 

[Notyethendrix]

I love Lindy's products, but according to the demos, Fender CS '69 sounds incredible!

 

[RLW]

I'm the official UWF torchbearer for Fender '69 Strat pickups. They just have the sound I love.

 

[dbw]

I did a blind test... ended up going with the Lollar blondes.  Though they all sounded pretty good... my second choice was the Texas Special, then the 54's.  :dontknow:  Sorry RLW

Oh, and that's great playing, too.... sounds just like the album

 

[tfarny]

This test proves the tone is basically in the fingers, to me. Those sounded very very similar. I'd go for the Fender fat 50's for a more country / clean sound and the Lollar Blondes for rock and blues.

 

[DiMitriR33]

i didn't think they sounded too similar, i mean the ones of similar output did but there is a big difference between say a fender cs 69 and a fat 50's

keep in mind that the length of guitar cable and tone control position are big factors too. it is much easier to cut treble and lower the resonant peak than to add treble and raise it.

 

[nathan a]

I really enjoyed both the CS 69's and the texas specials (especially in the neck). But many of them sounded pretty similar to me too. Laptop speakers.

 

[Notyethendrix]

push, more votes are welcomed  :blob7:

 

[koshersteel]

Wow, they're all great pickups. I liked different ones in different positions and on different tunes but in the end I chose the Fralin Blues (though I preferred the hot in the 2 and 4 positions) but the Lollar's were great too and funkier in their own way. The Fender coils tones we're good, great even but didn't match up to the other in my opinion.