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Topic: Best pickup for Rains steel? |
Terry Sneed
From:
Arkansas,
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Posted 24 Jun 2020 10:47 am |
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What pickup do you Rains players
have on your guitar? I just bought
a Rains, it has a 705 on it.
it sounds good, just wondering
what you guys use? Thanks |
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Marlin Gengenbach
From:
New Mexico, USA
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Posted 24 Jun 2020 2:08 pm Rains
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I use a Telonics 84PW and really like it.
Wouldn't mind trying the X10 some time, though. |
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Fred Justice
From:
Mesa, Arizona
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Posted 24 Jun 2020 3:02 pm
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Leave the 705 on it.
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Paul Sutherland
From:
Placerville, California
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Posted 24 Jun 2020 3:08 pm
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I have a Tonealigner in my Rains right now, and it sounds very good. I used an Emmons single coil in it for awhile and slightly prefered that, but I felt the need to have a steel with a humbucker, so the Tonealigner went back in it.
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Terry Sneed
From:
Arkansas,
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Posted 25 Jun 2020 8:23 pm Rains
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Appreciate it. Paul, did it make it
sound like an emmons ?  |
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Paul Sutherland
From:
Placerville, California
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Posted 25 Jun 2020 9:27 pm
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The Emmons single coil in the Rains sounded very close to my push-pull Emmons, also with single coils. I have no experience with a LeGrande, but I bet a Rains and a LeGrande would sound very similar. I would not have gone to the Tonealigner except I was getting a pronounced 60 cycle hum at one location with the single coil. Most places it was fine.
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Terry Sneed
From:
Arkansas,
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Posted 26 Jun 2020 2:47 pm Rains
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I may try an emmons single coil , always
liked single coils never had problems with
hum. Knock knock. |
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John A. Russell
From:
Norfolk, UK
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Posted 27 Jun 2020 6:42 am Chrome
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705 chrome surround.
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 27 Jun 2020 6:57 am
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I was very well satisfied with a Jerry Wallace Trutone pickup on my Rains. 
Erv |
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Jerry Roller
From:
Van Buren, Arkansas USA
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John Neff
From:
Athens, GA
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Posted 27 Jun 2020 3:23 pm
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| I too, have a Tonealigner in my Rains and it sounds really good. A good thing about Tonealigners, is you can adjust the pole pieces and really get them balanced. Nice to get the third string up a little. |
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Dean Holman
From:
Branson MO
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Posted 28 Jun 2020 4:04 pm
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| Do they still make Tonealigners? Now that Jerry Wallace has passed, what is everyone doing for single coils now? Is someone else still making those? |
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Paul Sutherland
From:
Placerville, California
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Posted 28 Jun 2020 4:28 pm
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Perhaps because of this thread I broke out the Rains with the Tonealigner. Man, that's a good sounding steel!!
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Jerry Roller
From:
Van Buren, Arkansas USA
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Posted 28 Jun 2020 8:07 pm
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Dean, Jim Pitman sold the Tonealigner pickup business to Bob Hofner so I think he is making them. I believe a guy that used to wind pickups for Emmons still makes the buy I don't recall his name. I believe the Emmons single coil is the best ever. I think Billy Knowles could have this information.
Jerry
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Morton Kellas
From:
Chazy, NY, USA 1
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Posted 29 Jun 2020 7:42 am
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| David Hartley used a 10-1 in his Rains guitars and they sounded outstanding. Check out his clips on YouTube. |
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