RIO Grande Single Coils

[keith_t4e]

After hearing the muy grande on youtube in a maple board strat, I'm really considering these for my AV 70s ash body maple board strat. Anyone have em.

[Blue4Now]

Have the Muy Grande set in my early SRV and love them. Have the Stelly in the bridge. Very warm and round sounding with lots of punch. Of course my SRV is alder with rosewood so perhaps no help for you.

[Phil M]

I don't have the Muy Grande but my Nash came with a Half breed in the bridge, plus two Tallboys. Outstanding warm tone with the highs rounded off a bit. Bridge is still "stratty" but higher output and the neck pickup is PERFECT. I believe my guitar is alder though and it has a rosewood board.

[shihanderek]

Have the Muy Grande set in my early SRV and love them. Have the Stelly in the bridge. Very warm and round sounding with lots of punch. Of course my SRV is alder with rosewood so perhaps no help for you.


This is the combo I have. Absolutely love it. I get great harmonic overtones with the Stelly. You would have to kill me to get'em out of my strat. Mine is a US Standard, so alder + maple board.

:boxer

[ReddRanger]

All,

I just dropped a Tallboy in the neck of my Tele that has/had Nocaster pickups in it. I like the Tallboy so far, but I lost the hum cancelling in the mid position (the Rio and Fender were out of phase with each other).

If I go for a Rio bridge pup, will I get the hum cancelling back in the mid position?

Also, I really like the Nocaster bridge pup. Would a Muy Grande be a good
equivalent?

Thanks.

[Mark Ray]

I've got the "Big Bottom" set in my new Warmoth Strat. I definitely like the tones and volume, as I need a louder bridge pup, but wanted the nicer traditional Strat sounds when backing off and using the other 4 positions.

Mark

[keith_t4e]

I'm thinking Muy in all three or Muy bridge and two tallboys. help me out here.

[angelo]

I had a maple / ash Melancon with a bridge bucker and two 1/2 breeds. I liked the 1/2 breeds a lot. Pushed with the volume on 10 and very traditional strat like with a slight roll off the volume. They really did fill in the ground between traditional and very oeverwound.

Sorry, no muy grande experience, but like those 1/2s a lot.

[fieldhdj]

Got a set in an alder/maple Strat. Killer set, big, bold, Texas sound. Best Blues machine I have.

[DrBob]

I've had a Midbottom set for ages, and absolutely adore them.
They were originally in my MIM Strat and quite frankly they made that guitar come alive.
I've since had them in my 94 EBMM Albert Lee and the added build quality of that guitar allied to the Rio Grande's made for a bit of tonal titan !
The Albert's gone now but I'm keeping the Rio Grande's to use in a Boatneck Partscaster project. Is that a ringing enough endorsement ?

Oh yeah one negative. The Tallboy's are too tall for standard sc covers and the polepieces on the bridge pos Halfbreed are bigger than standard so you'll need a dremel for the pickup covers

[jimlp]

All,

I just dropped a Tallboy in the neck of my Tele that has/had Nocaster pickups in it. I like the Tallboy so far, but I lost the hum cancelling in the mid position (the Rio and Fender were out of phase with each other).

If I go for a Rio bridge pup, will I get the hum cancelling back in the mid position?

Also, I really like the Nocaster bridge pup. Would a Muy Grande be a good
equivalent?

Thanks.

The Muy Grande Tele bridge is an over wound pickup approaching almost P-90 territory. It sounded great in my friends tele but doesn't have that vintage snap to it IMO.

[Will Chen]

All,

I just dropped a Tallboy in the neck of my Tele that has/had Nocaster pickups in it. I like the Tallboy so far, but I lost the hum cancelling in the mid position (the Rio and Fender were out of phase with each other).

If I go for a Rio bridge pup, will I get the hum cancelling back in the mid position?

Also, I really like the Nocaster bridge pup. Would a Muy Grande be a good
equivalent?

Thanks.

You have to get the reverse wound Tallboy for hum cancelation. I have one in my Fernandes TE-3. Those are great pickups, though lately I've been wanting a more traditional tele neck tone so I may change it out.

[Blue4Now]

My RIO's

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