Re: Pickup Poll

[Phil Clevenger <phil.clevenger@gmail.com>]

Ah so that's your Santa Barbara connection - nice :)

The new bridge pup is a Seymour SSL, the other two are 69's...

There was nothing wrong with my previous setup, it sounded great ! Just 
got an itch... now... gotta figger out how to unscratch that itch :)

Phil :)


On Aug 11, 2011, at 11:20 PM, tEd ® KiLLiAn wrote:

> Phil,
> 
> I don't know if this question was purely rhetorical or not.
> 
> I tend to favor Seymour Duncans (since I used to work there in the '90s).
> 
> Specifically, I favor humbuckers, but occasionally I want that snarky 
> single coil notch position Strat sound, so I use switches for coil 
> tapping on them.
> 
> My Gibson RD has a JB in the bridge position and a Jazz in the neck.
> 
> My 3-pickup Surfmaster has the same but with a 59 in the middle position 
> between them.
> 
> Alas, my Tele copy is just a Tele copy with whatever stock no-name 
> pickups it came with.
> 
> It's mighty quiet for just having single coils though.
> 
> Yeah, noisy pickups can be a bugger if you're looping.
> 
> I have a Jazz Bass that's a bit noisy, and my Surfmaster used to have 
> P-90s which were sortta prone to hum and buzz despite having a very 
> creamy-glassy sound that was way cool otherwise.
> 
> I hate extraneous noise though.
> 
> But sometimes you run across a guitar that sounds so good despite some 
> little niggling extra hum or noise that it's a keeper anyway.
> 
> Sorry to hear that you didn't like your new pickups.
> 
> Duncan makes a couple of different kinds of single-coil sized humbuckers.
> 
> There are the "Rails" variety and the "Stacked" varieties  . . . and 
> they also make a very narrow side-by-side model typified by the George 
> Lynch Sreamin' Demon model.
> 
> Frankly they make so many different kinds of pickups these days, and I 
> have been so long out of the loop in the industry, that you'd be better 
> off to get a current catalog from them (or any other manufacturer you 
> favor) and check what the tone charts say for each model.
> 
> Some sort of hum-canceling type of pickup may be required to get rid of 
> the noise - or much better shielding in the wiring and control cavity 
> (and double check the soldering joints while you're at it).
> 
> Just suggestions.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Ted
> 
> On Aug 11, 2011, at 10:23 PM, Phil Clevenger wrote:
> 
>> Say LD-people,
>> 
>> What kinds of pickups are you using in your electric guitars?
>