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Wilde Electric Guitar & Bass Pickup Holiday Sets: L45S $138, L500 Black
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Bill Lawrence designed both pickups and entire instruments for both Fender (SCN noiseless) and Gibson (the Ripper, Grabber, and G-3 basses, as well as a couple Les Paul variants). He also sold his own line of pickups, used by everyone from Dimebag Darrell to Nuno Bettencourt to Alex Lifeson. He taught a guy named Larry Dimarzio how to wind pickups, back in the day.
Bill has passed away, but the company is still run by his wife and daughter, who wind the pickups themselves on the machines Bill built.
Their pickups are an excellent deal at regular price. At 30% off they're a steal. Blade humbuckers hand-wound in America for $55 each? Noiseless Telecaster pickups for $42 each? You can pay that much for mass-produced Asian products.
I have no affiliation with Wilde. I'm just a customer who has bought a bunch of their pickups over the years and has always been happy with them. I'm happy to answer questions as best I can.
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Bill Lawrence designed both pickups and entire instruments for both Fender (SCN noiseless) and Gibson (the Ripper, Grabber, and G-3 basses, as well as a couple Les Paul variants). He also sold his own line of pickups, used by everyone from Dimebag Darrell to Nuno Bettencourt to Alex Lifeson. He taught a guy named Larry Dimarzio how to wind pickups, back in the day.
Bill has passed away, but the company is still run by his wife and daughter, who wind the pickups themselves on the machines Bill built.
Their pickups are an excellent deal at regular price. At 30% off they're a steal. Blade humbuckers hand-wound in America for $55 each? Noiseless Telecaster pickups for $42 each? You can pay that much for mass-produced Asian products.
I have no affiliation with Wilde. I'm just a customer who has bought a bunch of their pickups over the years and has always been happy with them. I'm happy to answer questions as best I can.
I've got a prs se semi hollow and I was thinking about upgrading the pickups. These seem nice but I don't really know if they would work with my guitar or not and/or what all the options at checkout mean.
I wouldn't be able to install these myself so how much do you think it would cost to get them put in?
which of the humbucker sets would generally go best with downtuned metal? picked up a les paul clone and the craftsmanship is superb but the electronics are lacking.
As far as how they sound, Fralin makes a LOT of pickups and so does Wilde, so it's hard to generalize.
Fralin seems to concentrate more on classic designs, while Bill Lawrence spent most of his life improving and refining his noiseless designs. If you're looking for noiseless, definitely go with Wilde.
If you've got questions about which variation might be right for you, try emailing or calling Wilde and they're usually happy to help.
which of the humbucker sets would generally go best with downtuned metal? picked up a les paul clone and the craftsmanship is superb but the electronics are lacking.
I've got a prs se semi hollow and I was thinking about upgrading the pickups. These seem nice but I don't really know if they would work with my guitar or not and/or what all the options at checkout mean.
I wouldn't be able to install these myself so how much do you think it would cost to get them put in?
This of course assumes your semi-hollow has humbuckers, and not P90s or something else.
As far as the cost, I have no idea what techs in your area charge, and some semi-hollow guitars are difficult to work on because you have to fish everything through the front and the F-holes. It depends completely on the guitar.
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However, they don't have inductances up for the L45 set, so feel free to ask Wilde for that number. A Strat pickup will generally have between 1.5 and 3H of inductance. P90s are usually higher, 3 to 4.5H. Humbuckers usually have 4 to 8H, though neck humbuckers can be a bit lower.
The higher the inductance, the hotter and darker the pickup will sound, all other things being equal.
Here's the L45 demo video. Sounds partway between a Strat and a P90 to me. I'm going to guess 3.5H. Let me know what you find out from Wilde!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta0GmXP
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Money quote: "If you ever find yourself wishing you could have the high output of a humbucker but with the sharp attack of a single coil, check out Wilde pickups." This is exactly what you want for low-tuned modern metal: more attack, to give chugs and fast picking in Z-flat more definition.
Alternatively, you can buy the R/XL set and add one of their Q-Filter circuits, which can make it sound more like an L, or even an R. But it's extra work to wire up and you lose your regular tone control.
As far as how they sound, Fralin makes a LOT of pickups and so does Wilde, so it's hard to generalize.
Fralin seems to concentrate more on classic designs, while Bill Lawrence spent most of his life improving and refining his noiseless designs. If you're looking for noiseless, definitely go with Wilde.
If you've got questions about which variation might be right for you, try emailing or calling Wilde and they're usually happy to help.
The guy from Torche uses an L-500L in one of his main guitars and speaks highly of it, and they're definitely downtuned! So you probably want one of the L500R/L500L sets.
What you want depends on the sort of sound you're going for. On a semi-hollow you're probably not looking for an edgy metal pickup, so I'm going to guess you'd want an L90 set. Probably the 4H/6H set, but maybe even a 2H/4H set. Listen to the videos on the first page and you'll get a better idea. The 2H/4H set isn't on the sale page, but you can contact Wilde and ask if they'll give you the sale price on it.
This of course assumes your semi-hollow has humbuckers, and not P90s or something else.
As far as the cost, I have no idea what techs in your area charge, and some semi-hollow guitars are difficult to work on because you have to fish everything through the front and the F-holes. It depends completely on the guitar.
If you like old-school metal like Pantera, 80s Metallica, NWOBHM, and so on, probably the L500R/XL set. If you like more modern downtuned stuff, probably the R/L set. The L has more clarity, the XL has more mids and higher output.
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The Wilde pickups will have five wires coming out of them, while the ones in your Jackson may only have two or three wires coming out. Assuming the wire colors are the same in the Wilde website pictures, you leave the red and green wires connected (solder them if they aren't) and cover the junction with heatshrink. (You can use electrical tape, but that's bush league because it can unravel.) You connect the blue and black wires (which are already connected) to wherever the ground wire from the existing pickups goes, and the white wire to wherever the live wire from the existing pickups goes. Usually both of these wires go to the pickup selector switch.
The reason for the five wires is that each coil of the pickup has its own wires, so you can coil tap or switch series/parallel, and then there is a fifth ground wire that is always tied to one end of the coils. (A lot of stock humbuckers on mass-produced guitars only have two wires because the guitar doesn't have coil tap or series/parallel, and it saves a few more pennies to not add the extra wires to the pickups.)
Thanks, everybody! You're not just getting excellent pickups for a great price: you're supporting a family-owned small American business.
The Wilde pickups will have five wires coming out of them, while the ones in your Jackson may only have two or three wires coming out. Assuming the wire colors are the same in the Wilde website pictures, you leave the red and green wires connected (solder them if they aren't) and cover the junction with heatshrink. (You can use electrical tape, but that's bush league because it can unravel.) You connect the blue and black wires (which are already connected) to wherever the ground wire from the existing pickups goes, and the white wire to wherever the live wire from the existing pickups goes. Usually both of these wires go to the pickup selector switch.
The reason for the five wires is that each coil of the pickup has its own wires, so you can coil tap or switch series/parallel, and then there is a fifth ground wire that is always tied to one end of the coils. (A lot of stock humbuckers on mass-produced guitars only have two wires because the guitar doesn't have coil tap or series/parallel, and it saves a few more pennies to not add the extra wires to the pickups.)
You're welcome! Let us know how they sound once you're done.
Thanks, everybody! You're not just getting excellent pickups for a great price: you're supporting a family-owned small American business.
Also, double-check the wiring colors with Wilde! According to this website I'm right, but they would know for sure.
https://guitarelectroni
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Also, double-check the wiring colors with Wilde! According to this website I'm right, but they would know for sure.
https://guitarelectroni
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