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Originally Posted by lawrenceRaider
What pickups do you prefer? My current favorite set is Black Winter from Seymour Duncan. I'm a pretty terrible player, but man do I love the way those pups sound. My son can properly make them scream.
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I depends on the guitar and what I'm doing with said guitar (or bass) but generally speaking, every guitar is completely different. The main thing that I want from each guitar is a Balanced Sound. Not too bassy, not to midrangey and definitely not too bright. The Classic 57's are pretty much my baseline pickup but then each guitar requires a different pickup in order to achieve the sound I want to hear because all woods, necks and hardware are different, although I tend to go with low to medium output pickups because I want to hear the
guitar, not the pickup.
Jaguar: Seymour Duncan Jaguar Antiquities
Mary Kay Strat: Fender 69's
Telecaster: Lollar 52's
Nashville Tele: Duncan Tele Neck, Lipstick in the middle, Quarter Pounder in the the Bridge.
Les Paul Custom: Gibson Classic 57 in the neck, Duncan Pearly Gates in the Bridge. I had a Gibson Burstbucker Pro in this guitar from 2008 until 2 weeks ago The PG is far more balanced.
Les Paul 60's Tribute: Classic 57 neck, Classic 57+ bridge
Custom Charvel - Duncan Jazz in the neck, Duncan Screamin' Demon in the bridge (I just replaced a JB that had been in there for years)
Custom Charvel (Dropped D): Duncan Jazz Neck, Duncan Custom Custom bridge (Same as above. Too much low mid from 200-400 so I swapped it for a CC).
Elitist Casino: Lollar 50's P90's (Freddy King) in both positions
Elitist Sheraton: Lollar Imperial Low Wounds in both positions
ESP Custom Stratocaster: Cool Rails Bridge, Classic Stack RWRP Middle, Vintage Hot Neck
Epiphone Broadway Elitist: Gibson Classic 57's.
Epiphone Prophecy 24 fret Baritone(I rarely, if ever, use this guitar): EMG 81 & 85
Gibson 61 Reissue SG: Lollar P90's
I have a 51 reissue ash body Precision in which Lindy Fralin made a custom, side-by-side single coil/humbucker which is killer.
All three of my fretted Jazz Basses have the Fender Vintage 74 pickups while my fretless Jazz has Duncan Quarter Pounders. The only stock bass I own is an Epiphone Jack Casady, which Dave Grohl turned me onto and it's really cool for specific tones, generally what's called Modern Rock today, although I've used it on some uptempo Active Rock tracks as well.