Gold Foil Floating Mount

Product Details

Thanks to our Gold Foil’s acoustic transparency, it’s one of the most versatile guitar pickups we offer. If you play softly, the fundamental tones are round and full and come to the forefront. Increase your pick attack and you add more high harmonic overtones. Well suited for a variety of playing styles as well as guitars ranging from "Coodercasters" to jazz boxes. Read more in our blog post, Gold Foil Pickups: Then & Now.

Avg. DC: Neck 6.2K (Read about DC resistance)
Recommended Potentiometers: 250k
Recommended Capacitor: 0.047μF

Also available in Surface Mount, Soapbar and Dogear mounting options.

Pickup Dimensions

Gold Foil Pickups

Soundfiles above played by Jeff Senn with a '73 Princeton Reverb.

Soundfiles above played by Jeff Senn with a '53 5C3 Wide Panel Deluxe.

Gold Foil Pickups

Frequently Asked Questions

Does it matter which way I orient the pickup when I install it?
Our Gold Foils use a large oval magnet; they are not directional. The pole piece screws offer very slight individual adjustment, but they are largely cosmetic.

What values of potentiometers and capacitors do you recommend for Gold Foil pickups?
Gold Foils (like other bright single coil pickups) work well with 250k pots (both volume and tone) and .047μF caps—and these are the values we typically recommend. That said, there are no hard and fast rules. You can read more about how different pot and cap values affect tone in this two-part blog post: Part I - Pots, Part II - Caps.

Do you offer a third wire on Gold Foils—like you do on your Tele neck pickups—for series/parallel or in/out of phase switching?
We can do a jacketed two-conductor wire with Gold Foils that will allow you to take advantage of in/out of phase or series/parallel wiring for an upcharge of $10 per pickup.

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