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New 2013 Guild Starfire Bass Reissue
- Thread starter Patski
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Sure thing! So you'll end up with a fantastic quartet of holes perfectly visible beside the E and G strings!!!
So these are definitely MIK, made in the same factory as Gretsch Electromatics:
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According to SFIV1967 on letstalkguild:
- the pickups will be available as aftermarket options.
- these are meant to be 2013 updates rather than accurate vintage reissues.
- the number of dealers they will be available at will be limited due to production limits.
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According to SFIV1967 on letstalkguild:
- the pickups will be available as aftermarket options.
- these are meant to be 2013 updates rather than accurate vintage reissues.
- the number of dealers they will be available at will be limited due to production limits.
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Agreed on the two pickups point. As long as that didn't mean they'd move the bridge pickup farther back. The 65/66 starfire pickup was a bit closer to the neck than the bridge pickups on later SFB-II models.
As for the strings, I used to use the old formula Fender flatwounds. They were good strings IMO... too bad they changed to a cheaper, lower quality product.
Never tried the old Fender flats. TI flats sound great on mine but they are a tad floppy. Just tried a set a Chromes but didn't like it at all. I am going to try the new DR HiBeams Flat next.
Funny thing is that the "real bass" (played on the lower strings) is hidden in the clip for the Starfire III guitar
Looks promising. Getting the M75 Aristocrat nevertheless, the starfire bass might follow, who knows!
Looks promising. Getting the M75 Aristocrat nevertheless, the starfire bass might follow, who knows!
Dark-stars are BEEFY singlecoils, built the same way as a DeArmond 2000 pickups. The 4 big metal polepieces are the actual polepieces, the 4 smaller one are the height-adjustment screws for the big polepieces (they are linked at the underside of the pickup via a bracket). In terms of sound.
Output: humbucker-like
Sound: THUDDY, but with a singlecoil clarity to it (think: beefy low-end, but with sparkle)
Output: humbucker-like
Sound: THUDDY, but with a singlecoil clarity to it (think: beefy low-end, but with sparkle)
Yes! DR Legend flatwounds are my current favorite set of strings. I like strings with a good amount of tension. LaBellas were a bit too tight and TI's were way too floppy for me. I used to despair about the loss of the old Fenders but the DR's are just right and I think I actually prefer them a bit over the Fenders.
On a side note, Chromes and GHS flats were decent, I thought... depending on the bass. I found both worked well on a jazz bass, but were still inferior to the old Fenders and the DRs.
Note: I will say though, I'd be careful using the DRs in any situation where the silk runs out and more than a 1/4 to a 1/2 wind of steel start going around the tuning peg... they seem less flex-friendly, similarly to LaBellas. Having the strings top mounted on my precision bass, about a 1/4 wind of steel goes around the peg with no issue. But whole lot more than that and I'd be cringing, waiting for the POP
If DRs are comparable, I may try them one day!
Back to the StarFire: hope they appear in local stores, I would so much like to try one!
Back to the StarFire: hope they appear in local stores, I would so much like to try one!
Really hope they do sell the pickups individually so I can snag a set for my '69 Starfire II. Also hope they don't cost an arm and a leg.
They will release it for after market. But the question is how it sounds. It is said to be not a copy of the original Hagström Bisonic but a modern remake. That can mean anything, many of which are not good.
I was just watching a video on [Invalid or Expired Link Removed], and Mike Lewis, the rep, talks about the pickups in the S-100. He says that he bought a set of the original pickups and sent them over to the Korean factory to be duplicated, saying not to try to fix them, or change materials, or update them, but just get a dead on replica. If they did that for the S-100, I'd be inclined to think they did something similar for the Bi-Sonic, arguably a more unique and esteemed pickup.
