Lollar Pickups The Bird | Dirty & Ambient Sound Samples | Squier Paranormal Toronado

Today we're checking out Lollar's The Bird pickups in a few more contexts. These unique pickups have such rich top end and sing with a little gain behind them. The tight bottom end and snap make them sound powerful with just the right amount of sag.

They can also handle the mellow ambient sounds, delivering sparkly cleans through delay and reverb. Check out each section and let me know how YOU would use them!

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CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro/Cleans
00:20 Dirty Tones
02:03 Boosted Gain
03:06 Ambient Tones

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GEAR

Squier Paranormal Toronado w/ Lollar The Bird set (500K pots)
1981 Inventions LVL
Bondi Del Mar mk2
Strymon Brigadier
Strymon Volante
Strymon Flint v2

1968 Fender Princeton non-reverb with Celestian Creamback
Soyuz 1973 microphone
Warm WA12 Mic Preamp

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[lesharrison]

Love the Squier Toronado. Such an underrated guitar and it punches way above its class. Those pickups sound glorious. My only complaint about the Toronado is that the pickups are too hot generally. Clearly they are designed to be hotter pickups. Great playing. Go, Twins!

[dancompton]

A guitar I always wanted to play, but I'm a lefty. I love the scale length and controls of a les paul, but I always wanted the comfort of a fender guitar. It always seemed like a best of both worlds to me. Sounds great with the Lollar's.

[jwlash]

My #1 guitar has a trio of Lollar Firebird pickups. They are my favorite pickups. Single coil clarity and touch sensitivty but with tight, full bass response and obviously no hum. As you demonstrated, they sound fantastic clean or dirty and play really nicely with effects, especially delay and reverb. They are a great match for your playing and make that Toronado (which is already pretty underrated IMO) sound like a boutique guitar in your hands.

[timelythinking]

LOVE my Toronado!! I upgraded mine with a custom cut white pickguard with a three way blade switch in the lower portion of the guard (required a little bit of routing to make fit, and a Gretch style wiring (master vol, master tone, bridge vol, neck vol) with push pull pots for coil tapping. It’s a great Swiss Army knife guitar now!!

[MrWishihadagibson]

I’ve been wanting a toronado for a long time.

[wheresallthezombies]

Dang… these pickups sound killer, I didn’t read the title before I started watching. So I thought that guitar was some boutique guy. Lol. Very cool!

[poesybeat]

Such a bummer they don’t offer the Toronado with a trem. Pickups sound great btw.

[TKID-]

My MIM '03 Toronado is my 'daily player'. The only thing I did to it was to have the bridge pickup split with a push-pull on the tone knob.

I LOVE the feel of Fenders, but that 25.5" scale has never been great for me (I've smashed my hands up more times than I can count, and that little bit of difference between 24.75 and 25.5 is a big deal for my poor hands).

I'm considering buying one of the new Squier Toros just to go batsh!t crazy with- total repaint with huge metal flake in something obnoxious like acid yellow/green, new pickguard, and new pickups. These might be a contender.

[stringtheoryx]

I appreciate the video, but I got the most out of the first 14 seconds, where you play clean (which sounded great). I never get much from trying to hear subtleties of pickups thru an overdrive.

[frank_ferrante]

These pickups caught my attention, unfornunately it's not easy to fine in stores

[MoistBuddha]

Super interested in these pickups, how do they handle fuzz tones and harder rock styles? Looking to brighten up the tone of a dark PRS

[afootlongdingledong]

I am apologizing for the stupid question, but I really can't comprehend the design of this pickup. Is it a regular firebird pickup that is made to fit in a humbucker housing, or is it a full-sized humbucker that is constructed like a firebird pickup?

[IlNeige]

How would you say these compare to the Atomics that the Toronado comes with? I’m hearing a lot more jangle and dynamics from the Lollars.

Also, any idea if these can be wired for splits?

[ryanbarber]

Ok but where’s the tab for what you’re playing because that sounds real good.

[javyclubsoda]

which capacitor kit do you installed with it?

[mrhelpnow]

Let me know if you decide to sell it. I will buy it from you ❤

[timholtguitar]

Thinking about putting the bird in the neck of my Schecter PT NJ.

How do you thinking it would pair with a fairly high output single coil?

[HenrySchecker]

is it $200 for the set or for each pickup?

[dirtylove]

this kid of mic need a booster pedal to really see what the can do