et allez ! je suis parti pour monter demain des nashville retrotron gfs qui me restent sur ma sheraton.ils sont chromés alors que la sheraton possede un encastillage doré que j'aime pas. Mais c'est un test. Si le resultat est positif, je rfait tout en chrome et je monte un coil tap pour pouvoir splitter les micros...
à priori il y a cette revue qui m'inspire puisque le gars a fait pareil que moi et trouvé sur un forum :
"here's the review for the GFS Retrotron "Nashville" set. It's a nice set of humbuckers, they seem pretty well-made. Four-conductor wired, very Gretsch-y looking, nice chrome cover with Gretsch-y cutouts revealing a black top-plate, adjustable pole pieces for each coil, making them a close cousin to a Filtertron in apperance, anyway. They're slightly wider bass-to-treble than a mini-humbucker, but are about the same nut-to-bridge size and depth, so they must be skinny coils, pretty much about the size of a mini-humbucker. The pole-piece-to-string spacing on the on the neck pup is just a tic wide for the Epi Sheraton, and the E-strings do JUST make it over the outside edges, but it's just about dead-on centered on the bridge pup. Nice.
The installation went surprisingly smooth, real straight ahead. I BARELY had to widen the existing humbucker holes in the Epi Sheraton to clear the mounting "ears." The nice, chromed metal mounting rings were even closer to the same size as the rings I had on the Epi than I expected, so it was almost a slam-dunk swap. They supplied nice chrome mounting screws, and I was actually able to use the existing screw holes (shame on me, yeah, some of them had to go in a little crooked, but, it looks fine). I did replace the supplied mounting springs with some rubber tubing - like to fight that feedback where I can. There was just enough lead to get to the volume pots on a regular Epi Dot, but I was ready for the "extension" needed for the bridge pup on my custom-wired Sheraton. All in all, the installation couldn't have been much easier.
Now, you know me - as I installed these, I wired a push/pull for coil-shunts, and following the instructions on the little color-code card supplied with the pickups, it gave me the two inner coils - which is a good way to maximize the quack out of 'em. I already had a push/pull for series/out of phase, which by he way, sounds great with these pups, regular or coil-shunt, great bite, not too thin. The other trick deal with THIS axe is that long ago I wired it to have two pickup volumes, and a MASTER volume and tone - yeah, like a Gretsch, huh!? OK, so this axe has been a Gretsch wanna-be for a very long time...
Now as for the TONE of the new pups, well, I can certainly say that I like 'em very much. They meter out at about 13k, and have plenty of punch. Played as humbuckers, these pups have some BITE, and are definitely not overly dark, as you might assume from the impedance numbers. I THINK they remind me of something like mini-humbuckers, more than anything else - but, that's not a bad thing. Nice chimeybridge pup, and the neck pup, shunt, is very Strat-y. Played against my '69 Epi Casino (loaded with Seymour Duncan Antiquities P90s), the Nashvilles are not quite as warm, but have better definition and that humbucker-hard-hitting fundamental. Played against my Gretsch Double Anniversary with Hilotrons, if you yank the coil-shunt, it's pretty dang close. Perhaps just a tad bassier and perhaps fuller sounding, but they still have plenty of quacky-spank. I'd like to hear these A/B with a real set of Filtertrons, but that's probably NOT gonna happen in my lifetime.
The look is great, and even the stock Epi pickguard fit with only the tiniest adjustment. Now I'm just ITCHING to get a Bigsby for this axe to complete the deal! I'll get a picture up here ASAP..."
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