Thanks to everyone who attended the open house! We had a great time!

Here is a link to a posting one of our customers wrote about the event. It's beautifully done, and we appreciate his sharing it with the TDPRI forum.

http://www.tdpri.com/forum/just-pickups/228365-open-house-wilde-pickups.html

.....and some pics were added on Bill's site with the good spirit of our time together visible for all to see! Open House

 by Bill Lawrence

Bill designed his cable and plugs that the strain relief is built inside! The Cable kit now features the BL-10 universal plug-for both pedal board and guitar.

As Always Made in the USA!
Read what others say about it - http://www.thegearpage.net/board/showthread.php?t=368208
.....and a review e-mailed to us by Tom. Thanks!!

Hi Shannon,
Recieved my Wilde USA cable & plugs today and want to say many thanks.  As stated before, I used these type cables from around 1980 till 1994, played pedal steel & lead guitar professionally for over 40 years & I'll swear the cable had "Bill Lawrence" printed on it.  The plugs are slightly different.  It took quite a few cables to interconnect all my "stuff" to play live gigs.  This appears to be the same cable I used before and am really greatful to get my hands on it.  I'm now 77, retired and am now going to start recording & making a DVD of about 20 of my favorite counry songs & some instrumentals.  That's why I kept inquiring about my order.  As you can see, I'm having a courageous battle with "Old Age" and I want to leave copies of the DVD to my friends & relatives.  This will be a one-man project achieved with multiple recordings.  Noise-free cables are a Godsend!!
 
The cost of your cables vs the best on the current market-- your cables are superior to any I've ever used.  Clarity, tone, presence & sustain are unbelievable! Some are claiming that they are too "skinny" to be strong.....I want all your non-believers to know that while playing a live gig using this type cable & connector, a fellow musician walked into my cable hooked into a Peavy Session 500, pulled it completly out of a chair with no damage to any part of the cable or connector.

Again, tell the "Old Man" I said hello and keep churning out those GREAT PRODUCTS!!!  Tom S, San Antonio, Texas. 
 
 

Available NOW!!!!!!

_______________________________________________________________
 Tip of the Week

08/27/10

Replacing your pickups

We often advise our customers to just "Keep it simple!" The beauty about Bill's pickups is that they can usually be an easy drop-in replacement in most guitars today. For more help and advice, contact Shannon at billnbecky@wildepickups.com

08/18/10

Let's continue with the previous week's tip topic and try to understand more about tone. The portion below (including the 07/21/10 tip of the week)  is taken from Bill's Pickupology writing -- "What are Magnetic Pickups?"

http://billlawrence.com/Pages/Pickupology/Introduction.htm

"The position and the angle of the attack is where You, the player, take over.

Experienced players can create all kinds of sounds, just with their right hand technique. About a year ago, I was playing at a blues jam, and during the break, a young player asked me, "How do you switch so fast from the bridge pickup to the neck pickup, sometimes in the middle of a fast phrase?" I told him, " I don't", and showed him my guitar. He couldn't believe it, my guitar had only one pickup - the neck pickup. I told him all about the hot and the sweet spots on a string.

Try for yourself -- take your guitar and switch to the neck pickup and set your amp on low volume. Pluck your string with a medium thick pick at a right angle with medium force. Start to pluck the string at the end of the fingerboard, and, slowly, go up towards the bridge. You will recognize a steady change in output and tone, and somewhere close to the center between bridge and neck, you will find that beautiful sweet spot. Now, change to a more forceful attack, and also change the angle of attack to 45 degrees; you'll be surprised of all the sounds you can get! Then, repeat the whole process with different pickup selections. Single coil pickups are generally more sensitive to these changes than large humbuckers. It requires a lot of practice before you can master this technique, but with practice, you can duplicate the effects of a wah wah pedal just by changing the force, the position and the angle of the attack."

 

Searching for that elusive tone you're dreaming about can be a confusing and daunting task.
Remember that a guitar pickup is only one link in the chain and a chain is only as strong as it's weakest link – this can be player, the guitar, the pickups, the strings, the cable, the amp, the speaker, and when worst comes to worst, all of them! http://www.billlawrence.com/Pages/Pickupology/tonelinks.htm

Bill's pickups are designed to achieve a range of sounds and versatility in the set-up of your guitar so you can “Color Your Sound” the way you like it. For more help selecting the right pickups for you, e-mail Shannon at – billnbecky@wildepickups.com.

07/21/10

Height Adjustment

Following Bill's famous nickel method for height adjustment of your pickups can be a simple and effective point to achieve the tone your looking for.

"The distance between pickup and string is a very important factor for output and sound.

As a general rule for the bridge pickup - put a nickel on top of the pickup under the high E string and play the highest note on that string. Adjust the height on that side of the pickup till the string touches the nickel. Repeat the same with the low E string, but use two nickels on top of each other. If this gives you too much output, you can reduce the height slightly. Don't forget that twice the distance will reduce the output by about 60%, and the sound will lose some lows. NOW, you can adjust the neck pickup to match the output of the bridge pickup. For the sound test, use stage volume."

Website.


Please e-mail Shannon at: billnbecky@wildepickups.com

Stay tuned.............. Love, Becky