Opinions on Rio Grande Pickups

[ztikmaen]

Title says it all
http://www.riograndepickups.com/index.html
They are more available in NZ... Not saying that I'm not considering BKPs though

[Telerocker]

Title says it all
http://www.riograndepickups.com/index.html
They are more available in NZ... Not saying that I'm not considering BKPs though

Of course on this forum people will favour BKP's, but I can tell you my experience with a Muy Grande/Tallboy-set wich was sitting in my MXG-swampashstrat. I replaced it with a Crawler/IT's-set. The Tallboys were ok, but don't have the articulation and depth of the IT's I think. The Muygrande has serious output. I don't know the dc-resistance, but to my ears it slammed the amp more then the Crawler. Lacked a bit of tone and depth, but the biggest problem was it was microphonic. I read some topics on this and there were more people complaining about it. Maybe they solved it by now. On the other hand I read good reviews on the BBQ. Bottomline: I'm very happy with my current BKP-set. Replacing was worth every penny.

[HTH AMPS]

you'd be better off asking opinions of Rio Grande pickups on their own forum (if they have one).

maybe you could ask about BKP pickups on their forum  :lol:

[ztikmaen]

you'd be better off asking opinions of Rio Grande pickups on their own forum (if they have one).

maybe you could ask about BKP pickups on their forum  :lol:

Lol I think I have milked this forum with every possible question there is to ask about BKPs haha
Just wondering. The single coils are not much more expensive from BKP, so I may go with these. But the Humbuckers here are about 1.4 the price... Still thinking about that Abraxas + Black Dog combo though