GFS Dream 180

The Dream 180 is a vintage voiced humbucker from GFS. They are available in different colors (black, gold, chrome) but mine is the gold version and I put it in a PRS styled guitar with a wrap around bridge and mahogany body. It is a very sweet looking pickup that seems to be built well but that’s about where I stopped loving this pickup. They based this off of the Dream 90 that was so popular for the company. The Dream 90 was a P90 pickup that was raved on the internet for it’s old school tone. Basically GFS tried to make a humbucker version that could match the vintage tone and feel of the Dream 90 and add some of the high end of their Retrotron Nashville line and the bottom end of their PAF pickups. They just came up with a humbucker that doesn’t do anything exceptionally well in my opinion. I like my pickups a little on the hot PAF side, like their Fat Pats, so I was a little let down in the performance of this pickup. GFS says that they wound them “Hot to accommodate modern playing styles” but I felt this pickup was underpowered and mostly just honked in the upper mid EQ and sounded muffled in the high end. I understand that this isn’t supposed to have that kind of output, but I was hoping that the clarity and body of the guitar would still be there. The pickup is fairly quiet electronically and goes into place without a hitch using the included wiring guide from GFS. The pickups just don’t capture that Filtertron tone because they are muffled on the top, and they don’t do PAF stuff well because they are just too thin sounding. String attack and dynamics are represented fairly well though. For 33 USD they aren’t a bad deal, but I wouldn’t bother with getting another one. My advise would to stick with putting it in the neck position. This might let you get a singlecoil-ish tone that you could be able to match in volume with a slightly hotter bridge pickup and get some decent tones. Overall I’d say go for the Fat Pat for a more versatile budget pickup that has several sweet spots and is the same price.

This is a test version of the Dream 180 NECK all-black.

Install on my Randy Rhoads JRR94 gives Si has a succd SH1-n it even has a PAF PRO succd.
This is certainly a low quality of the luthier who could not take advantage of micro precedents both my GAL, but it is perfectly Dream 180 SURPRISING!
In the saturated He makes much better than the PAF Pro and the SH1!
His own trs, trs dynamic cash notes without the most serious problem and restores the attacks and Soliya fast without any trouble and with a neat stupfiante.
In his clear, it is doing a little worse than SH1, but better than the PAF Pro.
The sound is round and deep, not slamming trs, same splitter.
However, I RPET, this opinion is on this guitar in particular, as the same one on my Sh-LAG than my previously installed on JRR endows better.
In short, for the price of a micro trs good quality!
Casing cardboard, micro packed in bubble wrap, Schematic assembly extremely simple to want on a postage stamp, no publicity and a website ultra basic .. o one knows Guitarfetish made his economy, but your exact is the microphone that sounds really cheap yet good trs.

I did put a pair on my Ibanez 180 Dream-TOR AF75D whose original pickups were, to my mind, characterless and tasteless. I spotted the GFS pickups for a while and I decided to Dreams 180, especially after noticing that many possessors of AF75 chose these pickups. I ordered late May and they took seven and a half weeks to arrive, a record according to Jay, the Manager of the box! (He who answers the mail!). Normally, a command is one week to arrive!
So since I use one and half months and I have mostly used this summer during an internship of Jazz and I must say I've never felt any difference after changing the pickups. the result is downright amazing.

Micro Bridge is very incisive with his twangy enough, with quite high medium. It can be very wild and very vintage in mind, I made a small "The Barn" on it with my tube screamer, it does it very well also with the right settings on the amp. It is quite versatile from the point where it is used to make the Blues, Blues or Rock Rock'n Roll, Country and even the funk. It is not extraordinary, but it is a good microphone that delivers a vintage, with nice and decent character. I expect to use it with a tube amp to really see what he has in the stomach.

The micro neck (neck) is bleuffant him outright. I do not use that for one thing: playing jazz. Its velvety, full of character, very round and warm, lots of low medium, it is a wonder. My Ibanez has really become a jazz guitar with these pickups. Besides an ES175, she was not pale. A user on Harmony Central calls this microphone "guitarists'best kept secret" (the best preserved secret guitarists) is saying!

Frankly, my Ibanez is radically different with these two microphones. I also heard a sample of these microphones mounted on a Telecaster, andTHE sound is still different. These microphones are adapting very well to the violin and have an output level close to the Gibson Paf.

I put them 10 because I think it's impossible to beat in terms of price / sound quality.

If this choice I would do with experience? Carément! and eyes closed!

Received on Friday, Saturday and installed hot I give you my first impressions.
Aesthetically very nice pearl on top because he has the peculiarity in this finiion be slightly smaller than the micro épyphone it replaces the Zephyr Regent (es-165 copy of at Gibson). The latter had a good jazz sound but lacked a little accuracy and dynamic.
plugged into a Roland Cube-30 channel AD with knobs to 12 and a very light touch of reverb, this micro releases immediately a very good dynamic and a definition of the agreement quite impressive. It sounds like a Classic 57 by now. It should halve the tone of the guitar and the fourth volume to find the classic jazz. A low volume heat pickup is always present and the wooded side of the instrument at all times preserved.
This microphone will not have reserved solely for that purpose and appears to say the least able to compete with other styles more nervous.
In summary the price / quality ratio of GFS Dream 180 is unbeatable and offers for 1 / 5 the price of a CLASSIC 57's ability to access powerful sound of guitar respecting the nature of the instrument with deep bass never aggressive treble all perfectly balanced.
This is only my first impressions. I expect to see over time and in different situations (solo, duo-concert repeats) its true responsiveness.