Anyone know anything about Ronni´s mysterious italian-made "Magnetics" neck-pickup, that he had on his famous black Fender stratocaster?

/Mike

Welcome to the forum. There are a number of people lurking who are well-versed in Ronni's gear, past and present, but probably the one who might give the most detail would be our friend BeBopStar. Keep a lookout - some knowledgable person will eventually reply!

Mike wrote:

Anyone know anything about Ronni´s mysterious italian-made "Magnetics" neck-pickup, that he had on his famous black Fender stratocaster? /Mike

What is it you want to know?

PeSt

PeSt wrote:

Mike wrote: Anyone know anything about Ronni´s mysterious italian-made "Magnetics" neck-pickup, that he had on his famous black Fender stratocaster? /Mike What is it you want to know? PeSt

What kind of pickup was this, I have never seen any facts on it?
Is there more information on this pickup?
and yes, one more thing what chorus did Ronni use during the late 80´s?

I belive Ronni uses a (normal)chorus,flanger and a
turbo(overdrive/distortion) and a wahwah..I do not
know anything about those italien made magentics-pickups,but i do know that he uses seymor duncan pickups on his fender/esp..

Yeah, i was also wondering about the chorus:)
I know the reverb (on the Tell NO Tales album) was a mixture of an Eventide SP 2016 reverb, Roland SRV 2000 reverb and a Korg Digital delay, you can hear it pretty easily. But i don't know about the chorus.

I can only imagine trying to find that Magnetics pickup would be next to impossible. I'm not even sure if it's hum canceling?
The EMGs are a good alternative or even a SD Hotrails or Fender Noiseless single coil sized stack.

I have many guitars with either humbuckers in the neck or single coil sized stacked pickups and kinda prefer my hotrails in the neck position because I can use the pickup blades as another fret if I want to! (it's reinforced)

Either way most of the tone we hear comes from the hands and one's musical vocabulary behind their minds eye.

In the eighties, Ronnie used a german neck- pickup called Rockinger on the black and white stratocaster. It was used for the seven seas album, and is common knowledge. The sound is spectacular, isn't it?

brennberget wrote:

In the eighties, Ronnie used a german neck- pickup called Rockinger on the black and white stratocaster. It was used for the seven seas album, and is common knowledge. The sound is spectacular, isn't it?

The tremolo was Rockinger, while the pick-up/s was/were Magnetics (which Rockinger, among others, distributed). OOP for many years, but here's a new site, so they're apparently back up and running: http://www.magneticspickups.com/eng/ Notice mention of Ronni (Ronny) on the homepage (near bottom).

Rockinger: http://www.rockinger.com/index.php?lang=eng (I don't believe Rockinger produces original tremolos anymore, but they came stock on various 80's Kramer guitars.)

Common knowledge...

Skål

Anonymous wrote:

PeSt wrote: Mike wrote: Anyone know anything about Ronni´s mysterious italian-made "Magnetics" neck-pickup, that he had on his famous black Fender stratocaster? /Mike What is it you want to know? PeSt What kind of pickup was this, I have never seen any facts on it? Is there more information on this pickup? and yes, one more thing what chorus did Ronni use during the late 80´s?

See link above for pick-up info. Chorus in late-80s was the same ol' BOSS CE-2 pedal, based on Young Guitar article w/photos. Don't know about in-studio recording or earlier rack gear possibilities.

vikingr wrote:

I belive Ronni uses a (normal)chorus,flanger and a turbo(overdrive/distortion) and a wahwah..I do not know anything about those italien made magentics-pickups,but i do know that he uses seymor duncan pickups on his fender/esp..

Currently, Seymour Duncan Custom on bridge, EMG SA-1 on neck.

Ibanez wah (according to articles; in pics, looks like a Crybaby to me; don't know much about Ibanez wahs), Digitech Whammy II (the black one), BOSS CE-2, BOSS BF-2, BOSS OD-1, BOSS SD-2, RE-150 Space Echo

The Magnetics are back. I'm looking into them for a possible custom guitar project. Alnico and stacked pick-ups. Looks nice...but how do they sound? I need something flexible for rock-jazz-fusion. Hmmm...

Also, the Magnetics and the EMGs are active pups.

Until I get out of school, forget Magnetics pups. For $189 US, they'd have to cook me supper and do the dishes. In fact, I wouldn't mind if they did the laundry too. ESP active pups are more than half that price, and they do the job quite nicely.