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Hey! lets have a uberthread about all the pickups we think are awesome That way people looking for pickup ideas can get a bunch of ideas in one place

I'll add more later but first I have to say that the SEYMOUR DUNCAN SPH90-1n PHAT CAT really impressed me. I think more so then a lot of pickups have on guitar in a long time. I got a old Japanese humbucker and a phat cat for my mocking bird, the burny humbucker is a kickass pickup, nice punchy PAF sound but.. the phat cat is HUGE sounding tones of.. everything meaning balanced and creamy, just a outstanding P90 sound. and this is in a "plastic" guitar I love it so much I am getting another to have a set in this guitar.

Don Mare tele pickups.
All of them.

I love microphonic pickups.

Bridge Js tend to have widespread and chronic cases of wuss; Dimarzio Model Js fix that right up.
Whatever the SBV pickups are. The neck position is absolutely glorious.
Mudbuckers...although a bridge mudbucker alone sounds like butt, neck or neck + bridge is great.
Seymour Duncan Quarter Pound is neato if you're looking for a P replacement.

I'm not a help. I really really like Lollars. So i slowly replace all of my guitars with them.

surprisingly i'm madly in love with the stock humbucker on my american standard strat. i swapped it out for a JB and hated it. for some reason, it just sounds awesome.

I bought Lindy fralin vintage style strat pickup, and they are really awesome,
and I'm pretty sure every lindy's pickup are awesome, I need more cash to buy some p-90 or maybe PAF

Anyway you don't go wrong with lindy fralin

Harmonic Design Z-90s. They're big sounding without doing all the things that go wrong with other pickups that try to sound big. Single-coil openness and dynamics, big signal output with heft like a humbucker but without the boxiness or narrowness, even-ish frequency response without hi-fi sterility. Play very well with fuzz.

Love both Nordstrands and Aeros
Their off the shelf pickups are fantastic sounding and both companies are great to work with for those custom winds to get the exact sound you want.

MM

For the doomz I love my Gibson Iommi's, great pickups when set up correctly. So thick and crunchy.

For the jazzmasters I'm honestly loving my MIM classic player's stock pickups. They have great chime with the drive and smoothness of a p-90, sounds great clean and my solo's have never sounded better.

Oh God, those are pretty.

Bare Knuckles are badass in my experience. Maton winds some sick coil tapped HBs for their semi-hollow electrics as well, best "stock" PUs I've tried.

Recently installed a BKP Abraxas set in my LP Custom, replaced stock Classic 57s, soooooooo goooooood! I went with an Brushed nickel covers, basically a HOT version of a PAF style 'bucker with some EQ refinements ie; tighter bass and smoother highs.

Went with 4 conductor version to give me more variety with this guitar. Had it wired with series/parallel options for each HB individually, all controlled via 2 push/push tone pots. I much prefer parallel options to coil tap, should've tried this out awhile ago. Tone remains plenty full, just a bit brighter and more chimey. Also, there's very little perceived output loss and they remain hum canceling, good shit!

OK...
Seymour-Duncan Antiquitys: I have them in three basses and and my guitarist has two in her MM Silhouette. The main reason I FUCKING LOVE these is because a few years ago the pickup in my 74 P bass died.. now this is the bass I started with so I have been playing it for almost 20 years, I KNOW what it is suppose to sound like... so I ordered a replacement and my bass sounded the same!

RIC Highoutput bridge pickup: the latest version of what RIC is putting out is just great! and with the push/pull on the choke cap you can use it in it's true full range which gives you a lot more usable sounds then the "classic" RIC sound I have plans down the road to use on in a non-RIC bass idea..

zezozeceglutz wrote:

I've been borderline obsessed with those for years and I'm barely anything passing for a bassist.