Vintage ReIssued V100WR Wine Red | Why YOU need some mini humbuckers in your life NOW! Review & Demo

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This is the Vintage ReIssued V100WR in Wine Red!

I love trying out guitars that are slightly different, and the mini Wilkinson humbuckers on the V100WR are just that. These pickups seem to occupy a round somewhere between single coils and humbuckers, yet have the advantages of both of them!

Find out more about the Vintage V100WR here:

Mini humbuckers are not a common pickup, for some reason. You usually hear about them in relation to the Gibson Les Paul Deluxe, or Firebird models. There’s a few more quirky guitars that feature them too, like the Ernie Ball St. Vincent signature model, or the Epiphone Crestwood Custom. But apart from that, there’s not much, especially on the more affordable side of things. Happily, Vintage seem to be catering to the Les Paul Deluxe crowd with this guitar.

The V100WR features some pretty decent specs for the price (which seems to be around €430 or $599 as of December 2021) – a mahogany body and neck, rosewood fingerboard, Wilkinson tune-o-matic bridge, a Graph Tech nut and Grover tuners.

The Wilkinson WMC301 Mini Double Coils are the cherry on the cake, and in this video I put them through their paces by playing a bunch of riffs in my favorite genres to see how they handle it! That means everything from clean pop, folk and indie strumming to classic and hard rock, some alt rock and some punk, and even a bit of metal in Drop D!

How does the guitar handle it all? Watch on to find out!

Here are some links to the various playing samples and info bits:


00:00 Hello!
00:11 Intro and all about the Vintage V100WR and mini humbuckers
02:07 Specs and features
04:36 Today’s rig

Clean Sounds
05:25 Reference chords on all pickup settings
05:48 Poppy indie ringing chords
06:02 Poppy barre chords
06:18 Country lead sound
06:26 Country ballad arpeggios
06:39 Country strummed chords
06:59 Cowboy chords with tone control test
07:48 Blues progression
08:01 Indie pop picked arpeggios
08:20 Choppy barre chords
08:30 Strummed indie pop chords

Crunch Sounds (Clean Channel w/Greer Lightspeed)
08:48 Groovy classic rock riff
09:03 AC/DC inspired classic rock riff
09:20 Airbourne inspired classic rock riff
09:31 Hendrix inspired classic rock riff
09:47 Classic rock riff
10:04 Another Hendrix inspired classic rock riff
10:21 Southern rock picked arpeggios
10:32 60s rock rhythm tone
10:42 Indie rock rhythm chords riff
10:59 Indie rock barre chords
11:24 Volume control roll-off test
12:06 Indie octave chords riff
12:31 Edgy indie barre chords
12:45 Ascending droning indie rock riff
12:59 Kings Of Leon inspired epic indie rock riff
13:14 The Strokes inspired indie riff

Amp on the Lead Channel
13:25 Classic hard rock riff
13:43 Hard rock riff
14:00 Glam rock riff
14:13 Classic hard rock rhythm riff
14:40 Foo Fighters inspired modern rock riff
14:57 Alt rock riff
15:22 Pop punk riff
15:36 Pop punk melodic lead sound
15:52 Green Day inspired punk rock riff
16:06 Progressive rock riff (Drop D)
16:21 Chunky modern hard rock power chords (Drop D)
16:44 Rage Against The Machine inspired groovy rock riff (Drop D)

Clean Channel with Revv G3 distortion pedal (Drop D tuning)
17:00 Metal chugging riff
17:16 Mastodon inspired metal riff with country twang
17:28 Hardcore punk riff
17:44 Thrash metal riff
17:55 Lead sounds
18:06 Classic heavy metal/sludge riff


18:39 My thoughts – mini humbuckers are unique
19:23 First impressions out of the box – looks, weight, feel
20:15 Vintage have upgraded their guitars
20:44 Build quality and hardware
22:14 The neck and playability
24:01 Sounds and versatility
27:20 What other mini humbucker guitars are out there?
28:22 More affordable competition with mini humbuckers
29:55 Final conclusion and goodbye


My setup was as follows: I ran the V100WR into my Hughes & Kettner Black Spirit 200 head, using my Greer Lightspeed for the overdrive and my Revv G3 for the heavy distortion sounds. The amp went from the Red Box DI straight into my Focusrite Scarlett 2i4, which went into Logic Pro X. That's it. No post-processing on the sounds was done.

Here’s some links to those bits of gear:

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H&K Black Spirit 200 head:
Greer Lightspeed:
Revv G3:
Focusrite 4i4 (this is the newer equivalent of my 2i4, which they don’t make any more!):
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Enjoy!

Check out Musik Wein here:


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Backing music from the YouTube Audio Library: Controlled Distress – Biz Baz Studio.

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