Pickup for 8 string

Ashoke kumar Das · Post by **Ashoke kumar Das** » 21 Nov 2016 4:07 am

Which pickup is good for 8 string and into a resenable a price? Thanks. Ashoke.

Petter Tornqvist · Post by **Petter Tornqvist** » 21 Nov 2016 4:23 am

I can warmly recommend Jerry Wallace.

http://www.jerrywallacemusic.com/

Jack Hanson · Post by **Jack Hanson** » 21 Nov 2016 7:50 am

Jerry Sentell in California will make you just about anything at a reasonable cost:

http://www.sentellpickups.net/Lap-steel.html

George Piburn · Post by **George Piburn** » 21 Nov 2016 10:38 am

Alumitone 3.5 Tone Bar's are flat wide range very desireable for steel guitar 8 string set up.

Easy to install, coil split able and most important , extremely HUM Resistant , 30% louder than typical single coils.

Alumitones are made by LACE Pickups in Los Angeles California. Many online dealers of these.

Hope this helps you.

Dale Foreman · Post by **Dale Foreman** » 21 Nov 2016 11:04 am

I'm using a George L E66.

Roman Sonnleitner · Post by **Roman Sonnleitner** » 22 Nov 2016 1:06 pm

Pete Biltoft http://www.vintagevibeguitars.com/ makes Stringmaster-type and other kinds of 8-string lap-steel pickups. Jason Lollar also makes some (pricey...)
And I've recently run across this site (no personal experience with the products - but he does make 8-string CC-style pickups):
http://www.johnanthonyguitars.com/store ... ckups.html

John Rosett · Post by **John Rosett** » 22 Nov 2016 2:34 pm

Ryan Rukavina is making some great sounding pickups also.

Webb Kline · Post by **Webb Kline** » 22 Nov 2016 8:19 pm

My Remington C6 has a George L E66 wound like a Fender Stringmaster, and I've always liked it a lot. For my George Board kit that I built for E13, I wound up trying a George L PF1 Paul Franklin pup, and I've really fallen in love with it. The E66 is more in your face, yet mellower tone, but then the pickup is almost in a neck position on the guitar, and definitely has that old Fender tone, and the PF1 is brighter, smoother, more pedal steel like in tone, and not surprisingly, it is quite a bit closer to the bridge, so placement does have a lot to do with tone. I've always been a BL 705 fan, but for what I'm doing on both of these guitars, I'm right in the zone and have do plans on changing them. I did match caps in both guitars and used good, musical caps, which helped a lot, and they keep the tone the same all the way through the radius of the volume pot. They run around $90 give or take.

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