The Pickups Thread

[la szum]

 

[Humbug]

That's awesome! We all should all be so lucky and feel our own are the most special(est) of all.

I certainly am special. They even told me so in school!

 

[Jarick]

Fwiw, I could do with a set of new pickups for my Epiphone LP in the more or less near future. I think I might be fine with a DiMarzio Bluesbucker for the neck position, already slapped one into the bridge position of my Anderson and with a bit of imagination I could pretty well imagine it to be a decent choice in the neck position as well. I thought about slapping a Duncan mini humbucker in there at first, but not only would it look strange with an adapter frame, I also thing the Bluesbucker would suit my needs better. I may as well consider an SD Jazz, though - in a nutshell, I want something not as thick as most standard humbuckers.

However, I have little ideas about what to slap into the bridge position. I don't want anything with high output and I want a sort of "open", "transparent" sound with at least some sort of chime.
Proper split sound isn't required.
Any recommendations?

If you go Dimarzio BB, you could do a 36th PAF in the bridge as an option. Or for Duncan, Jazz neck with a 59 bridge? That would be a little cleaner in the neck and a little bit more oomph but still pretty open sounding.

Interesting that you find the Suhr SSV dark, they seem pretty bright in my Strandberg. Maybe it’s that swamp ash brightness @la szum was talking about lol

It's definitely the guitar and not the pickups which is dark...the big one is fighting the old "tubby neck" thing with a mahogany set neck. That's where the Duncan Jazz would probably be good.

 

[Jarick]

Forgot to add, I did try a Bluesbucker with a 36th combo a couple times and I didn't like the Bluesbucker. It's supposed to be single coil sounding but it's actually kind of higher output for a neck pickup and still has a solid low end. So it didn't clean things up as expected.

I think the Jazz is a better option here, without getting into things like P90 sized humbuckers and what not.

 

[Sascha Franck]

It's supposed to be single coil sounding but it's actually kind of higher output for a neck pickup and still has a solid low end. So it didn't clean things up as expected.

Yeah, I could actually imagine that. I mean, I'm now running it in bridge position, and it's about the same output as the humbucker (snagged from a Framus Diablo, some Duncan designed thing, no idea which model exactly) sitting in there before, so it'll likely be very loud in neck position.

I think the Jazz is a better option here

Yeah, might very well be. And I could use that in another guitar anyway, shouldn't it do the trick in the Epi.

 

[Sascha Franck]

Fwiw, exchanged the Cruiser and Mojotone, so the former is now sitting in neck position, latter in the middle. The Cruiser is *way* better in terms of volume balancing along with the stock Schecter in bridge position and the Mojotone, while I had a day or two of honeymoon (in neck position), unfortunately shows its weakness in terms of overall output. In middle position it's just extremely thin and I will rip it out next time I'll change strings and put a Kinman or Fender noiseless in there. Looks as if I wasted some money - sending it back is likely no option as I shortened the cables (just a bit but still). Meh.
The Cruiser is quite some fun, though. Not exactly delivering much of an authentic Strat vibe, but that seems to be the way with pretty much all pseudo-singlecoils.