Micros TIM WHITE Timbuckers

These were in a 1957 Real Gold Top Les Paul.. The owner installed real Paf's.... These sounded Better than Real Deal...(he wanted to make it orig) No Longer made.. Was 2 year wait even if did want a set...

This set has all the typical appointments (hand wound/unmatched coils/Alnico magnets) and read 8.36k and 7.78k respectively, and both have Tim White's hand written signature on the distinctive white labels.

The lowest output set is also, for me, the best. For those who don’t know, Tim White makes these pickups in his spare time, and they’re modeled after an original P.A.F. that he was asked to duplicate by a member of the Les Paul Forum. After that, everyone was so impressed he was just inundated with orders! Because of the limited number of pickups Tim can make, and the large demand there is for these pickups, there’s a bit of a wait – it was 22 months from the time that I got my order in to Tim getting around to being able to make them! A long wait? Yes, but they are the most authentic sounding P.A.F. replica’s I’ve heard. They have it all: the harmonics, double tone, clarity, punch, that "chirp" – everything! A word of caution though; these pickups are NOT wax potted, just like the old P.A.F.’s meaning there is a greater risk of pickup squeal if you play in high gain situations – that’s not to say they can’t cope, because they do just beautifully, but P.A.F.’s enjoy an amp that’s being made to work and not drowned in distortion. Once again, original construction materials and scatterwound, unbalanced coils go that extra step to getting P.A.F. tone.

They have been said BEST PAF Holy Grail Bell Tone out of ALL Re Makes.. To include Rolph, Fralin, Duncan, Bare Knuckle.

[Perceived output level] Medium High output. Open sounding without covers. [Tone] Very well balanced and amazingly articulate. No muddiness at all! [Sonic evaluation] I have a set of Timbuckers in a PRS McCarty Rosewood. I play through a Naylor SC38 modded by Roccaforte, a Guytron GT100, or a John Martin EL84 Spitfire-type amplifier. I'm not going to say "organic" or "harmonically complex" or anything else that you know I don't even understand. These are just the very best PAF-style pickups I've ever heard, bar none! Rich, warm and amazingly articulate regardless of volume level. [For which styles and positions is this pickup (un)suitable] I play Blues from traditional to modern, overdriven styles. This pickup is suitable for any style of music in my opinion.

The output level is dead on to a real set of PAF's. These aren't "loud" pickups and neither are real PAF's, a lot aftermarket pickups seem to miss the point in this respect and end up driving the amp too hard/too early with output. The amps I use in the studio and live are mainly BF Princeton and Deluxe Reverbs, BF Super Reverbs, a '64 Vibroverb, a '58 tweed Deluxe, a variety of vintage Gibson amps, Supro's, Silvertones, an 18 watt 2x12" Blockhead, Marshall JCM800 2x12" master volume combo from the early '80's and a real '59 Bassman. These pickups come closer to a good set of PAF's than anything else I've ever tried... it' all there... the "chirp" PAF's have is here, the upper mid emphesis, the full swirling double tone on the top end... the Skatterbranes have all that. The wound strings have that hollow tone and the plain strings all get the classic PAF "crying/double tone" thing that makes a good set of PAF's so great. The Skatterbranes are warm without being muddy in the neck, the middle position really reminds me of Dickie Betts' tone on the ABB "Live at the Fillmore East" record. The bridge pickup, my favorite place to play, is otherworldly... thru a clean/cleaner sounding amp the tone is very reminicent of Mike Bloomfield's sound and thru a Marshall the tone really does head for Duane's sound on the Fillmore record. These pickups just have "more" sound built inside them than any other aftermarket pickup I've ever heard. The pickups aren't potted and are every so slightly microphonic... and that's another good thing... more overtones with pickups that "ring" a little bit. If you play thru dimed 100 watt Marshalls there might be a problem with feedback from these pickups in smaller venues. I had no problem with them in a small studio with a '50 watt JCM800 that was turned up to painful levels.

je suis persuadé que le micro le meilleur du monde peut sonner quelconque sur une pelle qui ne lui irait pas...

... le mariage des deux doit-être optimum, pour avoir l'excellence...

j'ai un WRC incroyable sur ma R8, un crossroad (un son magique)... j'ai commandé un Filmore tellement j'étais satisfait de la marque... ben déception!... pas de mojo avec ce dernier sur ma R8...

timbucker achetés !