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Originally Posted by cmckay
i recently bought 2 new toneriders for my les paul standard. The PAF replica for the neck and the generator for the bridge, both zebra's! the warm rounded tone of the neck and the sharp bite of the brdge generator have given my les paul so many tonal options!! in terms of build quality, they are as good as any pickup at any price, personally some of the best pickups i have ever heard, way better than burstbuckers!!
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I did a similar thing on the strength of my experience with their P-90s. I bought a pair of their vintage humbuckers and put them in my Standard. The neck pickup was definitely an improvement over the SD 59 it replaced. As I think I've said elsewhere, I couldn't really pick much difference between the SD 59 bridge and the Tonerider vintage bridge.
I suppose the acid test is that the Toneriders are still in that guitar and the SDs are in their box in the cupboard. And there was nothing wrong with the SDs, either. I liked them. I simply decided to try the Toneriders because:
a.) of my excellent experience with their H-90 single coils;
b.) they come in 4 conductor, and I was considering some Page mods; and
c.) they were very inexpensive as experiments in guitar tone go.
cheers,
Splat