Mastertone Revisited

Hey Guys,

Done a bit of research this time and now for your perusal is this web site.... http://www.mastertonepickups.com

Reading reviews and the word around seems that they seem to be the next new thing in pickups. I don't really know alot about this sort of thing, but was just wondering if anyone new more about them or had used them in there guitars??

What sort of style do they suit etc....

Have a look at these reviews on Harmony Central... http://www.harmony-central.com/Guitar/Data2/ 00frames.html

Seem to be pretty popular for a small range.... Anyone out there know a bit more than the obviously uninformed me?? Please??

Never heard of them.

Call me cynical, but hands up anybody who thinks that this really is a genuine enquiry and not a cunningly disguised advert?

Anyone who can try to sell guitar pickups with the following statement deserve a visit to the nuthouse.. <QUOTE> Hand wound and hand made by a couple of Aussie Aircraft Technicians with a background in Gas Turbine, Electronic Warfare and Radar Technology, so design and construction is of a high military standard. <END QUOTE> Giggle, yeah the Aussies are renowned the world over for they're awesome military products Think I'll stick to my SD's thanx

Don't know about their military products, but Kinman's are Australian and pretty good.

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giggle all ya want, but don't you think knocking a product when you have zero experience with it is a bit stupid? if you think Seymour Duncan never hypes their pups, you need to pull your head out of your ass. Find an ad for their Dimebucker for a good example. (I'm not slagging SD; I own several of their pickups.)

anyway, I have a Mastertone VHO humbucker set on order for my Gibson Flying V. I'll post a review when I've gigged with them.

Hey just where in the above statement did I knock the product? I knocked the advertising technique. Coz everyone knows if you want to create a nice musical sounding pickup then a career in military hardware is the way to go .

don't you realize how goofy that is? don't you think about what you're saying? Do you really think that studying electronics in one field has nothing to do with the electronics you need in another? Do you really think that somewhere along the line something changes.. current voltage amps .. ?? Do you think pickups are some kind of ultra special thing rare to anything but guitars? A wrap of wire around a magnet will stump these guys somehow? Previously you made it seem as if being australian was also some sort of drawback..

I find you know little about advertising, electronics, people, and more.

A good point. I used to work for a company that made magnetometers, and basically the sensors used to detect a magnetic field were, unsurprisingly, wound wire coils. Also unsurprisingly the majority of applications were military, involving reading a ship's magnetic field, then calculating the amount of windings on the on-board coils required to counteract it. This involved a huge amount of calculation and modelling of magnetic fields using dipoles. I imagine if you were good at this, and at designing magnetometer coils which were capable of registering the difference in the earth's local magnetic field by the second hand on a watch, you'd be pretty good at designing guitar

I heard they were the black-hole of tone...

ive got a mastertone in my main guitar, its a humbucker , cant remember the model but it was the highest output one they had. ive had numerous sd, dimarzio pu's and a bill lawrance l500xl and the matertone is by far the best. the high output really brings the guitar to life, even more so than the bill lawrance. tone is flatter /more neutral than sd's and dimartzio's which sound a bit dull when i go back to them. hope this helped anyone, i know this was an old thread. its a shame mastertones not still around, i dont know what happened to them but im glad i got a pu before they went down.