dont want to start a war here just my Opinion i hope you guys don't crucify me
bought and intalled about 5pcs of ths already and im beginning to believe that they tend to be too "bassy"? placed them on alder, ash and mahogany with maple top body and they tend to be muddy on the neck position, on the mid they sound abit the same as the one on the neck very slight difference really,
i believe they are are designed to be placed in any position but IMHO they sound lifeless on the neck and mid on the bridge position however that's a different story thats where this pickups really shine very well balanced on the bridge, coil tapping the rail didn't really gave me a usable sound to be honest, the output on this one is around 9k+ splitting this would give you roughly around 4.5k-5k at most so thats really weak in my dictionary hehehehe
but again for the price, you really cant complain much hehehehehe
on to those artec tele pickups well same opinion the neck pickup its so-so but the bridge pickup especially the big pole one's that baby is Hot
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i believe the extra more or less 800 you'll spend on a entwistle asn 57 noiseless pickups would be a better investment or the 62 model, and if your into Humbucker size pickups, check the entwistle HDN that TMS is selling it did magic on a mahog bodied, mahog neck custom of a friend sounded great
again this is just my opinion based on my first hand experience with the artec and artec entwislte pickups that TMS is selling just here to give my take on this
at the end of the day if the artec rails makes you happy and you find the sound your looking for on the rails then by all means pakyawan na hehehehe
as for me id pay the extra for those entwistle really worth it if you ask me both the SC's and the humb pickups
just my dos centimos hehehehe
peace ha