Roswell’s rather good ’Tron and Gold Foil pickups
Retrofit pickups have dominated our modding coverage over the past 12 months. While that’s of little surprise bearing in mind the crucial effect they can have in upgrading or altering the voice of your guitar, new pickup sets or new-to-us pickup makers seem to pop up at an increasing rate. So many pickups, so little time…
And it’s not just dedicated pickup makers that are adding to the ever-tempting market out there. Increasingly, it seems that guitar companies now view the aftermarket pickup as good business, too. After all, many pickup makers (understatement) have been ‘improving’, cloning or making endless variations on the classic pickup themes since this whole thing kicked off. But the classic pickup designs of Fender and Gibson are increasingly joined by ‘less popular’ designs, either from their history like the trendy offset Jazzmaster and Jaguar, or Gibson’s Staple P-90. Gretsch’s Filter’Tron and other styles are now wellcovered, too, even the previous single-coil Dynasonic, while the less specific Gold Foil genre is uber-trendy at the moment.