Friedman Pickups

Charvel1975

Charvel1975

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Anyone use or had experiences with the Friedman humbuckers and single coils? How do they sound?
 
ChuggNorris said:
They sound like they wish they were Duncan's.
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True, not as good as your signature Duncan pickup and capacitor set, the Dunce Cap

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ChuggNorris said:
They sound like they wish they were Duncan's.
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You're a homeless bum, you can't even afford chinese made pickups from Amazon.

To answer the question of this thread, the Friedman Classic + Bridge at least seems to have a fatter & darker PAF sound with a bit more output while still remaining articulate. If you like the PAF feel but find them typically a bit too bright for your taste, this might be on your alley.
 
Mahlakuorrutus said:
You're a homeless bum, you can't even afford chinese made pickups from Amazon.

To answer the question of this thread, the Friedman Classic + Bridge at least seems to have a fatter & darker PAF sound with a bit more output while still remaining articulate. If you like the PAF feel but find them typically a bit too bright for your taste, this might be on your alley.
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Sorry I don't speak gayanese.

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The Classic Plus in the bridge has a slightly gritty low end and can be shrill/stringy on the top end with some setups. It’s a nice hum once you get some volume going.

The A3 single coils are somewhat underpowered, as expected. They dont shine with gain like an A5 but have a very classic feel. Probably my favorite single for clean work.
 
Had the Classic+ in the bridge of my Cali. I couldn't stand it, I love pretty much everything about the guitar, but I couldn't get that pickup to sound good irrespective of what amp/EQ/processing I tried. I sort of thought there might have been something wrong with it. Swapped it out for an Aldrich and all is good. For whatever reason, I don't mind the Classic (non +) at the neck position.

As described above "shrill/stringy" are good descriptions. It had some kind of bizarre overtone or a kind of ringing high-end thing. Yuck.
 
I played a 1 pickup Friedman Cali yesterday at a local GC and the Classic + in the bridge sounded great through the Pink Taco I tried it out with.
 
I have Triple D pickups in my 70th Anniversary Strat tuned to C# Standard and they sound great.
 
I had the Classic/Classic Plus for a brief time. I was underwhelmed... especially for the street price. There are simply better pickups for the money. The Classic Plus that I had was microphonic af.
 
I've had 5 Friedman guitars. I think only pickup I haven't tried of theirs is the p90 and the triple d humbucker. They all sounded fine to me. That said I went to higher output bridge humbucker (afwayu) in all of them. As said they all sounded fine, but other pickups sounded better ...
 
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