TESLA's Plasma single coils are recommended for those of us in search of a less protruding (but still significant) twang with loads of warmth- think overwound pickups with less nasal quality...
No experience with tesla but I have a set of vintage 70's grey bottom non stagger set. The thing was off spec by 5% in resistance all 3 positions. They cloth wires they claim to use are not really cloth wires which you can push back but more like cloth which covers another layer of I don't know what material.
Luckily for me, the guitar itself sounded great acoustically and also with the GFS set installed. Bright with a tight bass, lots of chime and overtones. How they might compare with fralins I don't know but they are good enough for me to not look for something else.
My opinion is that:
Great guitar + average pickup = very good tone
Average guitar + great pickup = average tone.
Psychologically, because of its low price, people will always wonder if its really as good as people claim it to be. But at SGD110 for the GFS set, how wrong could you get?
GFS is by no means boutique....
It is cheap, well made and it sounds decent. thats about it.
GFS
TONE XXX
VALUE FOR MONEY XXXXXX
BOUTIQUE
TONE XXXXX
VALUE FOR MONEY XX
so if you prefer good tone. shell out top dollar for handwound pups...
if you are ok with "decent sound" save a few hundred bucks and just get GFS, Tesla or any other "good and cheap" offerings .
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Pickups: Tesla VS GFS
