Members mbengs1 Posted November 13, 2016 Members Share Posted November 13, 2016 I've listening to the dimarzio the tone zone again lately and its one of the best pickups i've heard. its got lots of mids and has a loud 'cocked wah' sound. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DeepEnd Posted November 13, 2016 Members Share Posted November 13, 2016 Chevy Silverado:[ATTACH=CONFIG]n31855501[/ATTACH] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mbengs1 Posted November 13, 2016 Author Members Share Posted November 13, 2016 does it sound better than it looks? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members hellion_213 Posted November 13, 2016 Members Share Posted November 13, 2016 Other than the above pictured Silverado, Ive got to go with the EMG 81 for active, followed by the Duncan Pegasus for Passive, for my favorites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Notes_Norton Posted November 13, 2016 Members Share Posted November 13, 2016 What's my favorite pickup? P90s. The attack transients and the pure tone are blissful to me. Once I got used to playing with P90s, everything else just sounds dull. Second favorite and the one I gig with are Duncan P-Rails with triple shot rings. They give me 4 sounds, P90, Rail, Series Humbucker, and Parallel Humbucker. The P90 sound isn't quite what a soapbar sounds like, but close enough (a little less low-mid frequencies), and I get the versatility of the other sounds. The Rail is perhaps the weakest, but playing with both neck and bridge pups in the rail mode can sound very Fender-ish. The humbucker sounds can either sound like a full or mini. It's almost like bringing 4 guitars to the gig. Insights and incites by Notes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Quarter Posted November 13, 2016 Members Share Posted November 13, 2016 My go to pickup winder is Bryan at BG-Pups. He makes some wonderful pickups. Here is Scotty Murray playing a set Bryan wound me for my JP7 prototype. [video=youtube;gv6glTOv1Ts] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bucksstudent Posted November 13, 2016 Members Share Posted November 13, 2016 You forgot to mention your Parker, Mr. Insight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members GAS Man Posted November 13, 2016 Members Share Posted November 13, 2016 I've listening to the dimarzio the tone zone again lately and its one of the best pickups i've heard. its got lots of mids and has a loud 'cocked wah' sound. I have one of those with coil split in a mahogany bodied Fender Custom Telecaster Special (Air Norton in the neck) and it does indeed sound very good in that guitar. The detractors of that pickup sometimes say it's not the best for "cutting through the mix", but I'd rather have a bridge pickup that might need to have some bass rolled off in that application rather than something like a Duncan Custom Custom that's not much more than a mid hump. My faves are the Burstbucker 1 & 2 combo. I like the complexity of tone from the scatter wound design and the extra vibe from no wax potting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members humbuckerstrat Posted November 14, 2016 Members Share Posted November 14, 2016 Too many to mention, mostly GFS pups. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DeepEnd Posted November 14, 2016 Members Share Posted November 14, 2016 Okay, seriously, there are dozens if not hundreds of pickups out there and none of us has tried them all. I'm generally a humbucker guy but along with Notes_Norton I'm fascinated by the Duncan P-Rails. That said, I like the "Duncan Designed" humbuckers in my Schecter just fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mbengs1 Posted November 14, 2016 Author Members Share Posted November 14, 2016 nice guitar. when a tele has a normal bridge like that one does, does it still sound like a tele? i thought it must sound more like a strat now without the tele bridge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Emory Posted November 14, 2016 Members Share Posted November 14, 2016 I've got some TV Jones filtertrons I find quite deelish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Ratae Corieltauvorum Posted November 14, 2016 Moderators Share Posted November 14, 2016 See, I'm European, but that looks good top me, compared to one of it's Ford bretheren Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Ratae Corieltauvorum Posted November 14, 2016 Moderators Share Posted November 14, 2016 For it'd have to the Nissan Titan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members DeepEnd Posted November 14, 2016 Members Share Posted November 14, 2016 It looks and sounds great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members onelife Posted November 14, 2016 Members Share Posted November 14, 2016 I like what Chris Kinman is doing with pickups. The clarity, definition and evenness really help me explore what the guitar has to offer - making fact that they are noisless a bonus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members gardo Posted November 14, 2016 Members Share Posted November 14, 2016 My !997 Ford F 150 is 20 years old and still working hard. So Ford is my favorite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members gardo Posted November 14, 2016 Members Share Posted November 14, 2016 My favorite guitar pickup is the neck pickup on my Telecaster. Not saying it's the best one made but it gives me what I want.It's a Fender Vintage Noiseless. I'll probably upgrade sometime but for now it's my pickup Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Notes_Norton Posted November 14, 2016 Members Share Posted November 14, 2016 Sorry. I love my custom Parker and it does have P-Rail pickups. It's the only guitar I bring to the gig. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Notes_Norton Posted November 14, 2016 Members Share Posted November 14, 2016 Back when I was single, I was gigging in a club called Seymour's. There was this beautiful girl with the best smile I've ever seen there, so I asked her if I could sit next to her. We started talking, and it was like old friends right from the start. She's now my wife of 38 years and still has the best smile. She plays guitar, synthesizer, sings like an angel, and we are in the same duo making a living doing music and nothing but music. Life is good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bucksstudent Posted November 14, 2016 Members Share Posted November 14, 2016 Did she also play a Parker? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ancient Mariner Posted November 15, 2016 Members Share Posted November 15, 2016 An old Gibson patent number from a '78 Les Paul Custom that I repaired - sweetest tone ever. Now sadly sold on in my Heritage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Notes_Norton Posted November 15, 2016 Members Share Posted November 15, 2016 Didn't at the time, but she bought one before I did. She got hers in a music store, a made in Korea model. The fit and finish is superb, without taking it into bright light, you can't even see where the neck meets the body. The wood grain is almost matched. Inside the wiring is ultra neat with good solder joints. Good fret finishing and higher quality switches and pots than you usually find in an Asian inport. Class act. So when Parker started advertising Dragonfly guitars (now Maxxfly) I thought about giving up my 8 pound Faux-Les Paul for something lighter. My wife encouraged me (having two guitar players in the family can be dangerous to the bank account). I bought one mail order (first time ever) and immediately bonded with it. It is a DF524NS - pickup arrangement like a SSH Strat. I love the guitar, and the only thing I missed was the P90 sound. I have 3 P90 guitars (Gibson, Epiphone, LTD). So I asked the company if they would build a custom for me (they were still in the USA then). The built a DF522NN (NN for Notes Norton) with two Duncan P-Rails with triple shot rings. I love it. Besides for the great sounds in the Duncans, it has a Piezo under the bridge that I can blend with the mag sounds for extra jangle or twang. The piezo is too thin to sound like a flat top, more like an arch-top, but blending it with the mag sounds is what I like. Plus it has ebony fretboard with hardened stainless steel frets, -- Sperzel locking tuners, Graph-Tech nut and bridge, and with the Parker Whammy, it stays in tune better than my hard tail guitars. -- It is contoured and balanced so it's more like wearing the guitar than holding it. -- It weighs only about 5 pounds but sustains as long as my 8lb LP. Since I switch instruments on the gig (sax, wind synth, guitar, flute) a light guitar is less tiring by the end of the gig. There is one bad thing about the guitar. Since I got it probably 3 years ago, I haven't had GAS. I can look at pretty guitars, but have no desire to buy one. So I am deprived of the endless longing for a new guitar. Probably TMI - sorry. Notes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Ratae Corieltauvorum Posted November 15, 2016 Moderators Share Posted November 15, 2016 See on the basis, that probably in excess of 90% of the music we all grew up listening to in the 60, 70s, 80s, was recoredde on a Fender or a Gibson....our favourite pickups can be little else Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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