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REVIEW wades lowrider gold foil pickups

Ok . as some of you know .. I plopped 4 of wades lowrider gold foils into one of my witches to make an ss4l tribute . and I had some time to test and compare them against the real thing as I have many teiscos with gold foils . including an ss4l .

So , as a few of you have asked my opinion ….

here's the break down .

Do they sound nice ? yes , they have a great tone .

Do they sound just like the vintage teisco foils ? .. well , no, not on par , but they do mimic that vintage tone very well , and come pretty close , and they have that same microphonic effect .They come closer than any name brand pickup that " claims" to have “vintage tone “ that I have ever tried .

Are they worth the price ? I’d say yes, .. considering they are around the same price as most custom wound pups out there , . and when compared to the real teisco foils , they are about half price .. and beyond half as good , so .. its a deal really .

Do they look exactly like the vintage foils ? no , they do not have the set pole screws etc .. and the size is different from the fatter rys and they are smaller than the slim jims . BUT the over all look is almost the same at first glance ,, and not having the set screw poles makes them more versatile and not look as silly on 3 or 4 stringers etc ..

Do I honestly like em ? or am I just being nice ? , well .. lemme put it this way .. if my swamp witches weren't designed around the mini hummer pickups I currently use and already have that established swamp witch humbucker sound, or if I couldn't get em . .. I think I’d have these single foils in my witches . ;-)

Nice job wade .

Here’s the ss4l tribute video with wades pups

http://www.cigarboxnation.com/video/swamp-witch-guitar-ss4l-tribute...

and here is where you can get wades pups .

https://reverb.com/shop/victory-guitars

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Permalink Reply by Clock The Wolf on January 1, 2015 at 9:42pm

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Permalink Reply by the anonymous pick on January 2, 2015 at 2:47am

;-)

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Permalink Reply by Randy S. Bretz on January 2, 2015 at 2:53am

Cool Pick I`ll be using one of Wades on an up coming build...the Copperhead

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Permalink Reply by the anonymous pick on January 2, 2015 at 8:12am

Anne , im guessing your post is due to your UK counter part "chicken bone john's" earlier post, in where he figured , or assumed these WADE lowrider foils were the same as the less expensive china and gitty "pawn shop" pups . but as you can clearly see in this picture , they are not

i'm guessing that's one of the reasons why john deleted his message .

- note the rounder corners , larger slots , smaller circles

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Permalink Reply by the anonymous pick on January 2, 2015 at 8:30am

do you have a picture of the top of yours anne ?

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Permalink Reply by Wade on January 2, 2015 at 9:42am

Proud to say my pickups are cardboard and gluten free!!! It is a bit unreasonable to judge until you experience the power and intense tone that is a Lowrider Gold Foil Pickup!

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Permalink Reply by the anonymous pick on January 2, 2015 at 12:34pm

funny, it seems "Anne" deleted his / "her" post too .

(just explaining so , if the thread is confusing now )

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Permalink Reply by Clock The Wolf on January 2, 2015 at 2:17pm

EEK! Me has wandered into the Twilight Zone!!!

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Permalink Reply by the anonymous pick on January 2, 2015 at 2:55pm

i believe the thread was much better without it jim . "Anne's" account was exposesd long ago as a sock puppet account .

thanx for your input anyway .

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Permalink Reply by Jim_N on January 2, 2015 at 3:14pm

Wow. Thanks for catching that. For awhile, I thought we had a real exposé here.

Permalink Reply by the anonymous pick on January 2, 2015 at 3:19pm

lol.. ,

but yeah, i agree a vid comparison from someone that had all 3 might be cool .

or someone else is welcome to do a china pup review .

but i dont have one of gittys, or the china pups , to compare . and my intent was to review another members work with a tip of the hat here , and answer questions " I " was asked. nothing more .

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Permalink Reply by Jim_N on January 2, 2015 at 3:34pm

Yeah, as pick said, it'd be pretty hard to do. One would need to demo all three pups using the same guitar through the same amp set up exactly the same, with the atmospheric pressure being equal, the moon in the exact same phase, etc., etc.

Everyone: Buy one of each and test 'em yourself! :D

(Regarding "disappearing comments," Unc... One of my now-long-gone favs was one that referred to a certain "copyright-violating piece of crap knockoff". ; )