Gfs Dream 180 Vintage-voiced Humbucker White Pearl Review

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GFS Dream 180

• Thread starter foreignlawns
• Start date Jan 6, 2016

• #ane

Are these pickups any good? Looking for a humbucker with some jangly qualities for the bridge position in an Epiphone Sheraton. Seems like some think the Dream 180s are too harsh, if this is truthful do y'all guys take any other recommendations? Thanks

• #2

I love 'em (they're not at all harsh) in this guitar.

• #3

• #4

I really liked the GFS Retron Memphis for a bit of jangle in the bridge position. I had one in a Reverend Rick Vito and it gave me the exact sound I was after.

• #5

Cool, thanks for the replies. I'm kind of looking for something in between their retro-tron pickups and a standard humbucker, so it seems like the Dream 180 might exist a adept option. Seems like it combines some of the jangliness and chimey qualities of a Ric or Filtertron pickup with some of the warmth and power of a humbucker, which is pretty much exactly what I'm looking for.

• #6

Oasis't tried the Dream 180s but I tin say the GFS pickups I have tried were excellent bang-for-cadet values. They sound great and aren't expensive. What's non to similar?

• #7

I don't have any personal experience with the Dream180s, but I have a set of Surf90s which are unusual and pretty expert in their own dry/retro/not-really-P90ish way.

You can occasionally notice used PRS Starla pickups for sale on Ebay. They're aimed in a Gretsch-ey direction and by most reports they hit fairly close to the mark.

• #8

I simply put a set of these in a maple tele build and so far I'm amazed at how articulate and articulate they are. I don't know how well those qualities volition serve me in a band setting and an all maple body may have some influence on the tone, just I actually like what I'm hearing from them.

Mine are gear up with a v-way Megaswitch with the PRS switching options.

Terminal edited: January 17, 2016

• #9

I only put a set of these in a maple tele build and so far I'm amazed at how clear and articulate they are. I don't know how well those qualities will serve me in a band setting and an all tele body may accept some influence on the tone, merely I really like what I'm hearing from them.

Mine are set with a 5-mode Megaswitch with the PRS switching options.

killer guitar!!!!

• #10

I dear 'em (they're not at all harsh) in this guitar.

I have been considering that aforementioned config; two Dream 180s and a lipstick middle in a "strat". Could/would you endeavour a clarification of the tones in that (great looking) guitar? Thanks.

• #11

I've been considering one for the bridge of an old Peavey Axcelerator superstrat, partly considering the pearloid meridian would lucifer the pickguard. Anyone accept any specs on this pickup or comparisons to other widely known pickups you could share? Based on the description they sound like mayhap a Norton in the Dimarzio line or a Custom in a Duncan (with lots of extra potting wax!)? I'k also curious about what material the baseplates are - contumely, nickel-silver, or "other"?

• #12

I just put a fix of these in a maple tele build and so far I'thousand amazed at how articulate and articulate they are. I don't know how well those qualities will serve me in a ring setting and an all tele trunk may have some influence on the tone, simply I really like what I'm hearing from them.

Mine are gear up upwardly with a 5-manner Megaswitch with the PRS switching options.

Whoa.. Love the recessed plastics. Very absurd.

• #xiii

Hrmm... I currently have one Dream 180 (forth with a Dream 90) in a double cut type guitar and previously had two in a Tele. I idea they were perfectly OK. Didn't dislike them at all but sold the guitar.

I definitely - nether no circumstances - would say they audio like a Norton or a Custom five. (I've never owned a standard ceramic Custom) I similar both those pickups every bit well and accept both in other guitars (well, an Air Norton). I'd say the Custom 5 sounds similar a hot-rodded, higher output PAF that can get into higher gain territory, but has the same basic residual every bit a PAF. The Air Norton is also a not bad pickup in my stance, simply it definitely sounds darker overall than whatever other HBs I own whereas the Dream 180 is brighter than the average PAF. Non quite opposites, but definitely not similar.

Over again, no slight against any of the pickups I've mentioned. I like them all and currently happen to own at to the lowest degree one of each, but I wouldn't say the 180 and the Norton/Air Norton are similar at all.

• #14

Thanks for the input. Any idea nearly specs - resistance value, magnet type, etc.?

• #15

+1. The D180 is a prissy medium-output pickup that splits nicely; I've had a set in my LP for years now. Not certain I'd really consider them 'jangly', though. Ameliorate options might be their Retro-trons or lipsticks.

If you lot want a Retrotron to jangle, wire it parallel. Amend yet wire it with serial-single-parallel switching. Also try using a neck model in the span position. This recommendation is based on the Hot Liverpool model. I haven't used the Memphis model - maybe that one jangles with series wiring.

• #16

But put a Dream 180 in the span of my Les Paul (my avatar shows the guitar when it had 2 Mean 90s). There was a 490R in the cervix and a 498T in the span before and I found the 490 muddy and undefined, and the 498T harsh and thin.

The Dream 180 is more balanced in the lows and mids. It's not muddy, I'll say that. The highs are prissy and present without beingness harsh. I've used a Duncan Custom and a DiMarzio PAF for yeas in other guitars, and comparatively, this is a little brighter on pinnacle and less boomy. It's supposed to be a sort of Filtertron / PAF hybrid, according to GFS' (really campy) marketing tripe.

The Dream 180 balances well with the Mean 90 (after some pickup height adjustments). Both of the GFS pickups were only gonna be temporary until I could get better ones... but to exist honest, they have surprised me with how good they sound. Both are improvements over the stock Gibson pickups, to my ears.

Last edited: Apr 30, 2016

• #17

Ive got a dream 180 in the bridge of a parts strat and a retrotron in the neck of a pine tele

I have both wired to do hum in series, parallel and unmarried coil.

The dream180 is really really cool. Woody / chewey kinda tone with some good slice and crisis. One of my favorite pickups in any guitar i own.

• #xviii

Another update: Put a Dream 180 in the neck position. Short review: Non a keeper.

I had hoped the Dream 180s would be equally inspiring as the Mean 90s as a pair, only they're only not. The Bridge position works OK (as noted above) and was meliorate than the stock pickups I took out. Only I am MUCH more than picky most neck pickup tones, and the Dream 180 isn't grabbing me the way the Hateful 90 in the neck did. At to the lowest degree not in my detail guitar.

Only reason I moved away from the Mean 90s was for noise cancelling - I play in some rooms with 60 bike hum issues. A noise-cancelling P90 of some sort is in my hereafter.

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