Tell me about the Rio Grande 'Muy Grande' pickups

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I have a trade in the works and the guitar has a set of these in it
 
outstanding pickup. I have one on the neck of my strat. Thick warm tone in the neck position but still sounds like a strat.
 
threadkiller":itnuw8yw said:
outstanding pickup. I have one on the neck of my strat. Thick warm tone in the neck position but still sounds like a strat.
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The guitar is a EBMM Silhouette with a HSH set. Im more concerned with the bridge pup to be honest

here's what they look like...

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I don't know about the humbucker version and I've never tried one in the bridge position. When I was looking for the replacement pups for my strat I was strapped for cash and found some random pickups on ebay that were pretty close in DC resistance. I did a good bit of research before I bought and everything I read about Rio Grande pickups was positive. I think you can buy with confidence that it's a good pickup. Will it be what you are looking for? I can't say. I ended up with the rio grande in the neck and a Torres Engineering in the bridge on my strat. I had a matching reverse wound pup made by a guy named Owen Duffy to put in the middle. If you ever want to try his stuff out he seems to be a good guy and makes a good product. Sorry I can't tell you more about rio grande other than I've been pleased. They are marketed as blues pickups. They are not meant to be super high output but mine has plenty of bass response so with the right amp, etc I bet they would be fine for higher gain applications.
 
I don't know about the bucker either but I've got the Muy Grande single in the bridge of my G&L asat and it's excellent. I would imagine that those humbuckers would be somewhat similar in tone to some of the Tom Anderson buckers that use magnets for pole pieces just like true singles.
 
Their store was closed today. im calling tomorrow and getting the scoop :yes:
 
called today and got an answering machine :thumbsdown:


anyone else use these?? Specifically the one in the bridge pic?
 
I had a set in my strat years ago. Great sounding pickups but had three crap out on me. One went bad in the first year and Rio grande replaced it. The other two were a couple of years later. No replacements. I use Van Zandt's now. Sound just as good and have had no problems with them.
 
I've never had a set op pickups of any kind crap out on me. Weird.
 
Don't know about the humbucker, but the one I had in my tele was a great pickup. Almost P90ish. If you go to the Rio Grande site, I believe that they have sound clips of all of their pickups.
 
threadkiller":2yszur0j said:
I've never had a set op pickups of any kind crap out on me. Weird.
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I've had an early SD hotrail crap out on me maybe 20 years ago or more. When they first started making them. More recently the bridge pick up in my axis (erie ball replaced it and input jack no questions asked), and a bare knuckle vhII go bad. Granted that bare knuckle was only working on 1 coil when I got it. Was a local shops pickup and had been in and out of a ton of guitars. The Rio grands were the old style singles that a cover wouldn't fit over. They changed the design so maybe thay had problems with those?
Lots of very thin wire wrapped, I guess doesn't take much to short or break?
 
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