A full-blooded, harmonically rich neck pickup delivers rock and blues tones with power to spare, while the high-output bridge pickup can take you from bluesy rock to screaming solos. Rolling off the volume knob reveals great, useable clean tones.
OPTIONS & SPACING
Covers: Available in black or zebra open coils, or with highly-polished gold or silver nickel covers.
Neck Polepiece Spacing: 50mm spacing is standard, as measured from the centre of the low E to the centre of the high E pole pieces: .
Bridge Polepiece Spacing: Black, White, Nickel and Zebra Generator Bridge pickups are available in 50mm and 52.4mm spacings (F-spaced). Gold covered pickups are only available in 50mm spacing.
Baseplates: All Tonerider humbuckers are built with medium-length 9mm baseplate legs for easy installation in a wide variety of instruments.
Dimensions
Regular-Spaced Covered Humbucker (Metric)
Regular-Spaced Uncovered Humbucker (Metric)
F-Spaced Uncovered Humbucker (Metric)
Regular-Spaced Covered Humbucker (Imperial)
Regular-Spaced Uncovered Humbucker (Imperial)
F-Spaced Uncovered Humbucker (Imperial)
Wiring
2 Humbuckers / 1 Vol / 1 Tone / 3-Way Toggle
2 Humbuckers / 1 Vol / 1 Tone / 3-Way Toggle / Push-Pull Coil Split (Vol)
2 Humbuckers / 1 Vol / 1 Tone / 3-Way Toggle / Push-Pull Coil Split (Tone)
2 Humbuckers / 2 Vol / 2 Tone / 3-Way Toggle
2 Humbuckers / 2 Vol / 2 Tone / 3-Way Toggle / Push-Pull Coil Split
The Moog –
Got this to replace a rather limp Fender Humbucker in a Tele HSS
Wow, what a difference, much fatter sound with lovely clear mids,
Sounds pretty decent tapped too.
Dan –
Great sounding pickup . Bought to sound as close to my les paul studio bridge pickup as possible. Almost the same sound. Good cleans and great over driven . Wish the cable was a bit chunkier like the gibson ones. Overall very happy with it though.
Craig Hannon –
Great pickup, lots of clarity compared to the stock pickup it replaced. It is fairly hot, very good for classic rock/metal. Instructions/springs/screws all came included and black/white leads were pre soldered and taped so no confusion as to which wires are soldered to the volume pot
Mallory H Nicholls –
I wasn’t expecting too much for the price, but they are actually fantastic. I replaced the standard pups in my Ibanez with these and they transformed the guitar.
Goran –
I have a neck standard (non F-spaced) version installed in bridge position of my Pacifica – trem bridge. Even though the poles do not line up perfectly with the strings (did not notice that for a long time, bough a spare from a friends service shop), the sound is amazing. Detailed and defined, with just the right amount of “volume”, sort of and organic harmonic bark when played trough the lead channel (of my amp, PRS MT15). Single notes sound great, chords sound great. Just what I wanted, thank you Toneriders.
Achim –
Screaming hot set.
The neck pup sounds great, but the bridge pup is a little monster.
I really love the screaming power of the Generator bridge-pup.
All in all, an excellent set.
Kev Thomas (verified owner) –
I bought a set of covered Generators to replace the stock humbuckers in a Mex Chris Shiflett Tele Deluxe. The difference was night and day. That such amazing tone and clarity comes from a set of p’ups at this price point is nuts. What was an ok sounding guitar has been transformed into one that I can’t get enough of.
KJones –
I must say…the hype is real!!! I’m a long time veteran gear junkie, over 35 years playing guitar and I’ve played a plethora of different pickups but I’ve been mainly using Seymour Duncans or Gibson pickups but I recently purchased a Godin Detour electric and I had a Tonerider Generator bridge and Rocksong neck pickups laying on my work bench so I thought I’d try them out after hearing a lot of good things about Tonerider pickups. These pickups are absolutely amazing!! The Generator bridge pickup is highly articulate, well-defined and the harmonic overtones are amazing…it never gets muddy no matter how much gain you throw at it and it cleans up very nicely when you roll back the volume knob. Trust me, if you’re looking for a great rock/hard rock or metal humbucker setup, then give the Generator bridge paired with a Rocksong neck pickup a try..you will be amazed! This is now my go to pickup combination replacing Seymour Duncan JB’s, Customs, 59’s, and Jazz pickups…Tonerider pickups are for real!!
Jake –
Nice sounding pups, other reviews describe the product well, so not gonna repeat what others already wrote. However, wires used by Tonerider in all of their pups are horrendous – they break easily and are so ridiculously thin it’s almost impossible to remove insulation without damaging the wire itself. I’ve never encountered such low quality wires even in the cheapest, crap sounding stock pickups! Hard to comprehend why they’d choose this hair thin wiring in otherwise really decent pups.
rides-in-the-storm.de (verified owner) –
Great set, defined power with character and balanced range. Nice overtones, from dark growl sound to crispy highs in split mode. After bare knuckle and di marzio at my 2,5k RG ibanez guitar i got happiness with this set, can concentrate on playing now 😉 if u need better ones u need to spend 4 times more.
Frank Trevis –
By its spec i was expecting something like a JB, i bought it to pair with a A4 classic in the neck in a strat with a Fender Robben Ford circuit (esprit elite) replica. With my surprise it’s better, warmer than the jb but it pairs very well with the tbx tone control. Very even and easly balancable in volume with the a4.
Great pickups tone rider. Please continue this way!
Bryan C –
Absolutely amazing pickup, lots of gain and output and rolling off the volume clears it all up, perfect for blues, rock and metal plus all the rest. I paired with a rocksong in the neck and they go great together. Tonerider all the way
Jason –
Great sounding like all the Tonerider pickups I have tried so far. The wires though are a bit frail, they break off easily and they need to handled with a lot of care
Peter (verified owner) –
Ich spiele die generator seit vier Jahren in meiner Epi pitch black gothic. Jedes mal freue ich mich diese Humbucker dort eingesetzt zu haben. Ich werde sie in mein Eigenbau Projekt ebenfalls einbauen. Ich bin immer noch rundum zufrieden.
DS –
Check Bryan C:s review, that is really spot on !
Sounds amazingly good in HighGain settings like
IronHeart or 5150….
Mario (verified owner) –
I replaced the stock pickups in my Yamaha Pacifica 120H with a Generator in the bridge which paired perfectly with a Rocksong in the neck. These pickups sound amazing and punch way above their price point. From screaming heavy distortion to beautiful chimey cleans these pickups can do it all.
Ralf –
Replaced a Fender Double Tap Bridge Humbucker in a selfmade Thinline Telly which did unfortunately not fit the G&L MFD Singlecoil i mounted in Neck Position.
Wow, this Humbucker is a massive change, did a partial split using a 3.3 k resistor and matched the output in split mode to the neck pickup, decent Telly like sound in split mode and some kind of afterburner when used as humbucker – i love it 🙂
This Pup goes from sparkly cleans to screaming leads by just controlling your right hand, great dynamic response.