The Pickups Thread

[TheTrueZoltan!]

[…] I may try some EMG's […]

Finally someone with common sense!

 

[Jarick]

That sounds like a great combo. Interested to hear how it turns out.


You can always remove the quick connects and solder wire directly to the solder points. I’ve had to do that with other pickups.

Not a bad idea!

I got them installed, basically routing the cables to the side of the plug. They are pretty underwhelming. Not bad by themselves but in split positions it sounds really muffled. I may play around with them for a couple days but likely will swap them out.

 

[Jarick]

Cruisers are insanely quiet though. There's almost no noise through high gain with the noise gate turned off.

Noise levels:
Single coils: -40 dB
Humbucker: -52 dB
Cruisers: -60 dB (or less)

Messing with pickup heights to see if I can get them to sound better. They are eerily quiet which would be amazing.

 

[Jarick]

Still messing with these pickup heights, there are some really cool tones in the Cruiser neck though. It's kind of like a humbucker voiced to sound like a single coil somehow. Volume matches really well with the 59 PAF level bridge. You can do pinch harmonics really easily though which I don't know that I've experienced with a neck pickup.

 

[Jynx]

So what's the deal with rail pickups?

 

[Jarick]

Cruisers are the brightest and lowest gain of Dimarzios but still have a humbucker tone. I’d be curious to try Joe Barden pickups otherwise maybe the best bet is a properly designed rail in parallel to get a more single coil tone.

I’m reinstalling stacked Area pickups in my guitar this week and putting the Cruisers back in the sell pile.