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The Dream 180 is actually voiced to mimic the soapbar P90 sized humbuckers found on some such guitars, but in a full sized humbucker package. For instance, in the bridge position it pairs well with GFS' own Dream 90, a humbucker sized, P90 voiced single coil, in the neck. I have these two pickups in a Les Paul with a Seymour Duncan Active Blackouts Preamp. I put D'Addario EJ21 strings on it, and tune to Dropped C, Dropped B, D standard, C# standard, and C and B Wahine tunings for metal.

Great comparison video. I appreciate your putting in the effort put into demonstrating each pickup in a variety of ways. I hope everyone reading this has a better than expected day. Peace

Its crazy how the fat pat is described as being warmer than the crunchy, but to me its quite the opposite. I find the fat pat to be a little shrill and found the crunchy to be more warm.

I could easily hear the differences in all respects. Thanks for the demo and great playing too

Thanks for the hard work. I’m kinda leaning towards the crunchy pats. I think they would sound good in my alder body. I want something that won’t be so twangy.

They sound great - Fat Pat, Crunch Pat, VEH brights, outstanding!

Thanks for doing this. I think Guitar Fetish pickups are underrated because of the prices. I have a few. The FAT PATs are great. I put them up against any. The VEH are also very good.

Clean strumed chords 5:26 FAT PAT 5:37 CRUNCHY PAT 5:50 VINTAGE EXTRA HOT 6:03 DREAM 180 6:16 POWER RAILS 6:29 CRUNCHY RAILS

Fuel- Innocent 🤘 I went to college with Carl Bell, and used to play foosball with him. We had two bands on campus back then, and he played in the other band. Great guitarist!

thanks so much for this! I was wondering what the difference between these were and the written descriptions don't help that much haha

The Crunchy Rails sounds most like a Tele in split mode, and the Power Rails sounds like an overwound Tele bridge. If I could get a guitar with a slanted humbucker bridge route, like those weird Kramer axes, if I didn't get a Duncan P-Rail, I'd probably get one of those.

Great demo! I had a Fat Pat Boutique in my Yamaha Pacifica 212. The harmonics jumped right out, with high gain.

Awesome job. Thanks so much for this work. i really liked that you did a wide range of gainy clips also. Looking for pickups with a variety of scrathcy sound details for my monstrous amount of gain tones i use. Thanks.

I'm glad that RU-vid recommended your channel! I swear by the "Fat Pat" I'm a Guitar Fetish fan but on the same SG I've got a Rio Grande BBQ bucker in the bridge. It's an Epiphone but sounds like a 3000 dollar Les Paul

Before buying replacement pickups I have good old fiddle with my EQ pedal, I can usually achieve the tone/voicing I am looking for using this method.

hey thanks for taking the time to do this! I am looking at a number of these pickups to put into my se prs custom 24. To me the pickup in the prs is kind of middy sounding and no bite. I own a prs ce24 semihollow and love the pickups in that. I am looking for a versatile pickup that can handle everything from clean arpeggios, great ballsy rhythms, but also has a great out front lead tone. after your video I will check out the veh. lmk if you think that would work well.

Great work. Thanks

The tone of the taurine really comes through.

you're a gentleman and a scholar

I liked the Power Rails Single Coil!

Thank you for your hard work. 🙏 thinking about grabbing either crunchy rails or VEH in the near future.

Great video man! Thanks for all the work, very in-depth.

This was great! Thank you for doing this.

I thought the fat pat alnico made your bright tele warm and lively.i think the veh is scooped and better for mid heavy mahogany set neck guitars.but the veh with its airy hi mids and highs made your leads sound like it was clearer with more sensitivity.im glad u went with the alnico ,I think they have more expressive range overall.

The rail ones only really seem happy as humbuckers. They lose somehting in single coil mode.

I love the VEH and Dream 180's the rest are not anything special IMO. And the Dimarzio DP100 is one of my all time favs for a Les paul style axe and no way the GFS even comes close to that one!

I’ve had the crunchy pat for awhile now and bought those connectors for the easier wiring, what did you use to stick the connector to the back of the pickup? Thx

What song are you playing at 18:30?

they are such similar humbuckers that it's not worth hearing the same riff repeatedly.