Ep. 88 - Lindy Fralin of Fralin Pickups!

[@teledriver1398]

I'm not a winder, but Lindy is really making me appreciate the workmanship, thought and experience that goes into a pickup, and what it can mean to a guitar. Too often we think of a pickup and the sound, not the story that is behind it. Good interview, glad he did it.

[@acme.videos]

Lindy is such a wealth of knowledge and he is so gracious with his tech tips. I admire him immensely!

[@tone-talk]

We agree!

[@jwparsons1]

Caught the end, cool show. Will have to check out the rest of it. Lindy is a very fine guitar player too. I saw him many times with the Bopcats back in the late 80’s and 90’s, he rocked the house every time.

[@robertbuffalo8287]

I have had my Unbucker pickups for almost 20 years now. I custom ordered the Unbucker to my specs. Added the Jimmy Page wiring. The split coil is awesome with no volume drop thru the hot wind. My guitar sounds so good. I told my friend I would put my guitar up against any guitar. He said go grab that Gibson off the wall and try that for sound. It turns out the Gibson off the wall was a famous 59 burst. I guess I was wrong. However, the 59 burst is the only guitar the beat out those Unbuckers to date.

[@tone-talk]

Very cool!

[@kevinmusso2397]

Fralin pickups are top quality. I love my blues specials.

[@TyRobertsmedia]

Love his stuff! They are all very fairly priced, high quality and sound awesome. I have them installed in a few of my guitars. Highly recommended. I have one guitar with his hum-cancelling P90s and they are AMAZING - with zero noise. They are his own unique design, and I love their tone. Try 'em...

[@Jordan_Thomas]

Lindy is a class act. He knows so so much and understands way beyond the usual sphere of tech heads, but his humility and patience with people also stands out.

[@1Rockstok]

When I moved to Richmond in 1995 I learned about Lindy. Since then I’ve bought maybe a dozen sets of pickups from him, each time visiting his shop where he is available and as willing to talk as he is in this great interview. For someone who is world famous among guitar players, you’ll never meet a humbler guy. I love his Blues Specials on Teles and Strats but on his recommendation will go with Split Rails next time.

[@ZigbertD]

Just got a set of Fralin Blues Specials for my MIM Tele, absolutely love them. Also great customer service, when I was shopping for my pickups they promptly answered a couple of different emails about differences between pickups/options, wiring questions, etc.

[@WarrenBey]

Well this is awesome! I bought a Friedman BE-100 and my first of many set's of Fralin's this year! I just got the Fralin Classic Tele set installed over the weekend and I wanted to cry. This is the sound I've been searching for all my life. I can't believe it was so obtainable. This partscaster is magical now. It has so many tones. I actually use my volume and tone knobs now. Rather than everything at 10. And the Friedman? What can I say. It has just about every tone you could want. It even dips into vox and fender areas at times. But I have those also if I really need those tones.

[@georgepelekoudis]

Thanks Marc, Dave, and Lindy! Back in ‘86, I finally saved up enough cash to buy my first guitar. The day I went to buy the Squire Strat I was eyeing, it was sold...I ended up with an Yamaha SG200. I’d lament over it, but I’m sure it, like the SG, would’ve been traded for something else 😂 Have a good weekend :)

[@carsgunsandguitars]

Love Lindy's pickups, have a sweet set he rewound for my vintage strat and everyone loves them that plays it!

[@volodyanikolaev]

Marc: - Is that a cat, Dave? Dave: - What? Marc: - I hear meowing. Dave: - There is no meowing here Dave's cat: - .....Meow

[@tone-talk]

🤣😂🤣😂🤣

[@eryckcrypton6412]

😂

[@nathanadkins4696]

I've got a pair of Lindy Fralin pure PAFs in an old Japanese Vox. They rock. They are wound 7.5 in the neck and 8 in the bridge. They rock. The bridge pickup is my favorite.

[@Neuri]

Fantastic thanks for the great content as usual Marc and Dave 👊

[@jerrymcleod8586]

Great Interview,I love Lindy Franklin Pickups!🎸🔥

[@plexibreath]

I kept trying different pickups in the neck position of my PRS Artist, humbucker format. I wasn't happy with any pickup there. Eventually I tried the Twangmaster and was amazed at how big, open, and clear the tone was, it was the perfect pairing with the PRS. This is the final pickup in the neck position of this PRS!

[@iwillnevergetone5]

watching this episode as i play my SG loaded with Franlin's Twangmasters. Lindy is a master at what he does. these are some of my fav pickups ever.

[@AuntAlnico4]

This darling guy is the only one who can make a true vintage sounding p90's !

[@These_go_to_eleven_1959]

Do you know of any that have the look of a regular humbucker? I know of the "Bluesbucker" by Dimarzio and the "Phat Cat" by Duncan but they really do not zero in on the true vintage P-90.

[@traviscrown6582]

@@These_go_to_eleven_1959 lindy makes them in humbucker size

[@These_go_to_eleven_1959]

@@traviscrown6582 Thanks. have you tried one by chance?

[@traviscrown6582]

@@These_go_to_eleven_1959 i have, sounds great. I am biased to P90's because its my pick up of choice. But you cant go wrong with it.

[@These_go_to_eleven_1959]

Thanks for getting LINDY to do the show! 😎👍 Being the uber pickup geek that i am i always like to hear their story and how they do what they do. Lindy is one of the main titans of original pickup world along with Dimarzio, Duncan,EMG,Bartolini,Lollar,Gibson and fender. These are all the ones that have been around the longest. Of course there are many others but they are newer than those others.

[@gavinmacfarlane7044]

Amazing. Great chat.

[@SWizz871]

Such a fantastic episode. We need that pickup book!

[@MrKenward777]

Great show you guys! I need me some Fralin's. Thanks for all the great shows over the past 9 months!

[@tone-talk]

Our pleasure!

[@angusmackay7281]

What a lovely humble guy.

[@frankhuezoguitar3647]

I had a tele built for me by Bob Coleman out of ft worth Tx, who had a business relationship with Lindy. This was after fralins were already superstars by way of Brad Paisley. He suggested that we have Lindy custom wind the pickups with mixed magnets. We went back and forth over the phone and even sent back one of the prototypes. I could not have been a bigger ass. Lindy was the coolest guy all the way through the process and ended up charging what he would of for a standard set. Coolest guy in the biz.

[@angusmackay7281]

@@frankhuezoguitar3647 , what a great story, Frank.

[@frankhuezoguitar3647]

Ha, sorry man I meant to post in the comments. Glad you enjoyed the story. Lindy is boss.

[@HiHello-ku1fl]

Really enjoyed this episode. Lindy is a great guy and knows tone. I trust his ears as he rewound a vintage tele bridge pickup for me and it sounded even better than before it broke. Would be nice to see more pickup winders on as pickups are very interesting to me. I totally geek out on them for some reason. It all starts with the guitar and pickups.

[@MrTwangstaable]

Vintage Hots transformed my 94' MIM strat into something very special.

[@AuntAlnico4]

Right !

[@jcmguitar8609]

I put a set of Fralin "Big T" pickups in my Telecaster several years ago. They're fantastic!

[@frankhuezoguitar3647]

I had a tele built for me by Bob Coleman out of ft worth Tx, who had a business relationship with Lindy. This was after fralins were already superstars by way of Brad Paisley. He suggested that we have Lindy custom wind the pickups with mixed magnets. We went back and forth over the phone and even sent back one of the prototypes. I could not have been a bigger ass. Lindy was the coolest guy all the way through the process and ended up charging what he would of for a standard set. Coolest guy in the biz

[@somebodyelseuk]

The 'hum-cancelling, humbucker sized, P90' made me chuckle... Seth Lover is spinning in his grave.

[@middle_pickup]

I love my Fralin blues specials! Some of the best Strat pickups ever!

[@stevenbryan7586]

Honestly never heard of this stratitus thing, but thanks Lindy for explaining the phenomenon. My strat has this problem on the low E above the octave. I lowered the neck pickup on the bass side, and wow, problem gone. I've been playing a long time, and this is new to me. Thanks a bunch seriously. There is clearly a cat. I hear it also and don't own one.

[@Gorbyrev]

Really enjoyed that. Was across at Sully Guitars and noticed that he has licensed the Concord from Grover so if you can't find a second hand GJ2 Concord he'll build you one.

[@JasonHobbsGuitarist]

@40:36 Hey Lindy, love your work man! Your choice of dogs 🐕 too! Labradoodle. I’m from Newfoundland and Labrador...those dogs have same behaviour as our province, very well tamed and friendly dogs, haha. Loved seeing you and hearing your stories on the show! Cheers!

[@t3r080]

I agree fully with Dave Friedman about TCElectronic Hall Of Fame 2 reverb. I bought it just to compare it against the similarly priced EHX Oceans 11 and... Hall Of Fame 2 sounds dull. There's no life in those sounds. You can get it work by tweaking it HARD with toneprint editor but straight out of the box EHX O11 sweeps the floor with HOF2. I'm actually selling my HOF2 and replacing it with Free The Tone Ambi-Space reverb OR Chase Bliss Audio Dark World. If you seek for cheap reverb for your guitar rig / pedalboard... get the EHX Oceans 11. It sounds so much better. Especially if you do NOT need HOF's stereo in/out jacks. And especially if you don't want to spend countless nights tweaking your toneprints to get a "fairly OK" spring reverb. You can get that straight out of the box with Oceans 11. Get the EHX instead. Play more, tweak and fiddle with knobs less.

[@jeffm8262]

I'm not quite sure what and how Lindy used me in various spots, or charity guitar causes, but filtering out that it was a great interview. Thanks guys.

[@23skidoo46]

a p-90 in a Junior is rock n' roll to me.

[@WyattWillis88]

Fantastic episode you guys are making me want a tele! Bad!

[@These_go_to_eleven_1959]

Fralin PURE PAF and his Un-bucker are epic! Need to try his singles eventually.

[@sj99ward]

Great show, as usual.

[@mgcnashville6615]

Lindy, there exists an instrument which you where on your head and you can think the notes, and it will record them in real time. When I studied at Berklee, one I'd my professors had one in the edm department. It's a midi style instrument. But it def exists.

[@koolkat808hawaii]

I'm not part of the chat but a good question is , Why don't the pole pieces line up under the strings on replacement pickups on strats and how does that effect the sound.

[@mymixture965]

Bought his PAFs for my PRS and his Vintage Hot for my Strat, love them.

[@frankn4skeen]

Hi y'all! Cool podcast, as ever. I was thinking, as were're now well in the 21st century, and having Lindy Fralin on the channel. What about a discussion about hum-cancelling and noiseless pickups recent technologies?

[@the-creech4790]

Good show guy's!

[@peteflynnPAF]

Lindy has always been a generous, super guy!

[@stepitupandgo67]

What are the best p-90s? I love lindy's pups, I chose t-90s tv jones....I love them...haven't heard lindy's p 90s...I loved the ones in my satellite coronet I used to have...

[@SpartanPridePod]

"Is that your cat, Dave" That was funny

[@75YBA]

All the best from Canada!

[@ianmartens5286]

I love my Fralin pure PAFs.

[@geezberry8889]

does the 43 wire strat bridge pickup come in a non slotted pole piece model?

[@davemarshall9153]

Who made that Les Paul for Lindy?

[@rcjward]

Best clean amp tone I remember was the 70s era 4x10 Ampeg 60Watt VT-40. Discuss.

[@kxmrock]

Episode KT88, I'm Catch'n the Rerun

[@AngusMcToon]

Fralin PAFs turned an average sounding Les Paul Classic into a sonorous instrument. JM pickups are also great in the Jazzmaster. The man knows.

[@MrPhotus]

I had a female cat that did the same thing. What they're doing is they think they're moving their babies from one location to another ( my cat carried rolled up socks in its mouth ) and they're calling out to the other kittens in their litter that momma is close by and hasn't abandoned them.

[@joehervey84]

MORE METAL!🎸

[@joeywilder9708]

You suggest anything for a les Paul for a nice hot rodded sound? And also can you make a pickup with a quick connect adapter for the 2019 gibsons? No one makes these not even Gibson seems to anymore i know you can wire up to an adapter but it would be nice if someone offered em ready to go.

[@AuntAlnico4]

Well quick connect is junk just cut em off an solder hard wire style, and if you have PCB board wiring harness cut that out and replace with Frailin wiring harness or whatever but if your Les Paul has humbckers from Gibson it should be good, l like 57's from Gibson but also like 490 set too but if you must spend money on pickups go for Frailin vintage style PAF humbckers or throwbak PAF humbckers will get you that vibrant sounds !

[@clubderunzensiertendichter]

Lindy's Pickups are great ! I've been using them since 20 years in my 70's Fender Stratocasters. Listen to: Interstellar Overdrive (The Pink Floyd Experience) - Echoes: kzbin.info/www/bejne/h4isn4KYaqeemqM Have a nice day (from the man with the cap) !

[@thomascoates4820]

Lindy is “The Man” !! He is frying Marc and Dave’s brain!! He spits out some killer spec. information and they just go Hmmm! One after the other hmmm!

[@jupitermoongauge4055]

Gibson guitar through fender amp, bb King, Carlos Santana, Peter Green, Freddie King, Derek trucks, robben Ford, . I never know what Dave is talking about when he says gibson guitars don't sound good through fender amps.

[@giloro85]

My favorite Gibson+Fender amp guy is Mike Bloomfield

[@AuntAlnico4]

Neil Young Gibson guitar into fender amp !

[@jupitermoongauge4055]

@@AuntAlnico4 yes, absolutely epic tone

[@jupitermoongauge4055]

@@giloro85 another classic. And Johnny Winter, firebird into music man and fender amps. Keith Richards played various Gibson's through tweed and blackface amps

[@giloro85]

@@jupitermoongauge4055 very much so! Ted Nugent was also a Fender amp Gibson guy as well as Pete Townsend on some Who stuff in the Late 70s. And who can forget Neil Schon’s 1970-72 recordings with Santana. Good stuff

[@WutipongWongsakuldej]

When Lindy said he hate computers, my computer scientist side feels sad a little.

[@noahguttell1953]

Who is his custom guitar maker??

[@MisterTee]

On cutthroats in the pickup biz: DiMarzio is pretty cutthroat

[@tone-talk]

That's true

[@HiHello-ku1fl]

Well when you try to keep others from useing a color for a humbucker that's a dick move.

[@Gerbinger]

Woodstocks...great pickups.

[@traviscrown6582]

Source Audio Ventris Dual Reverb

[@jason7524]

get mick mars on here! plz!

[@kingfisher7960]

I heard a cat also.

[@1Rockstok]

N

[@seerattan]

Ask him why he sells his 7k resistor for 4 bucks, when its 10 cent in a electronic stores.