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The Tonerider Alnico II is a vintage voice humbucker that offers more warmth and sustain than your standard PAF style pickup.
Set Contains:
AC2 humbucker bridge pickup with black bobbins;Wiring Guide;Set of height adjustment screws and springs
Customer
Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2025
Very articulate pickup. Great clean and handles dirt very well. Every bit as good as twice the price pickups.
Strat
Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2025
Sounds good!
Nancy
Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2022
Excellent quality and sound great. Highly recommended especially for the cost, these are quite a good value.
benjamin phaon ross
Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2020
This is an absolutely wonderful pickup. For the price I was expecting it to be a bit harsh or overly bright or even a bit muddy and/or dull sounding but was I ever wrong. It has character. It has soul. It wires up easily. The directions were very straight forward. The build quality is excellent. It looks way nicer than stock Gibson 490R's and T's and many Seymour Duncans. The non-adjustable pole pieces are actually polished and chromed nicely. The wiring could have a nicer PVC jacket. It's a cheap gray standard type of PVC jacket but it is effective. Ultimately it's got it were it really counts. The tone is unreal for a pickup of this cost. I would not hesitate to buy this for anyone who wanted a PAF type bridge pickup and wasn't willing/able to buy something in the $80-$150 range. It's warm and inviting. It is not as articulate as more expensive pickups but who is looking for incredible clarity out of a vintage style pickup anyway? It's got mojo! I have to say it is far better than most cheap PAF copies including Duncan Design types. Like I said, loads of character, epic price, great great quality.
Brian E Bloomfield
Reviewed in the United States on October 1, 2020
Amazing mid gain tones wired 50s style. These are fantastic
Customer
Reviewed in the United States on September 3, 2018
Great sound. I love Alnico2 sound.
Kindle Customer
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 18, 2017
Only three stars because its wired up the wrong way round. Had to put the red wire to ground and green wire as hot. Once that was done, it sounds fine. I know it might have been the other pickup, however the one I swapped out was working. So I wonder about the quality control, the black tape also seems a little loosely fitted but not coming off, seems to be hanging on to a big fat coil. The wires to solder to the pots are very thin and care needs to be taken so as to not melt the insulation when fitting in a tight space. I'd have given 5 stars otherwise. Delivery was prompt. It was a sign for item, so had to pick it up from the post office. Through a Compressor + Blues Driver 2 pedal into a clean Laney Amp sounded like 1970's Angus. Which is ok by me. I have a friend with P90's, sounded similar to me, bit less punchy and scratchy.
Simon
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 17, 2017
Fitted into a HSS Strat mod I was doing to a SSS Squier Affinity and it fits perfectly. Paired with a 22nF tone cap, and 500k pots, it really shines. I have it wired with it's own tone control and a push/pull for coil splitting, and it sounds perfect. Split to the slug coil, it's almost like having a regular single coil in the bridge, and it can get pretty bright when you need it to, and in full humbucking it sounds nice and fat, but not over the top. It fits in well with the single coils in the mid and neck, and there isn't a huge volume leap which is really helpful since you can swap to it quickly without having to worry about cutting some of the output.It drives well but it lives up to the "Classic" name. It's not going to do metal, but for anything else it's a great investment. Comes with a quick instruction guide for installation into a 4 control, 2 pickup guitar like an SG or Les Paul, and a quick coil split guide which shows some alternative wiring, like split series/parallel, splitting to the screw coil (only really for neck pickups) or splitting to the slug coil.For the money it's going to be pretty much unbeatable.
Andrew R Muller
Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2014
it did not give me the tones I was looking for in my one pickup sg. I love their p-90s in another guitar I own.
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