(ramblings ranty stuff ahead)
This isn't quite about particular pickups, but so I can learn to choose stuff.
I am thinking of changing the pickups of my guitar, they are too 'humbuckery'.
You see, I like to listen to some humbucker sounds, but when I am playing I want clarity, and I love the singy tone a strat can get, or how "stringy" a neck tele single is(think Lari Basilio, Nick Johnston).
So my priorities are low gain and cleans, that's easy: I should look into the low output category.
I was up until 2am yesterday scouring youtube, holy crap the Seth Lover is awesome. Is this really a humbucker?!?
But first, over here a duncan set would be around minimum wage for a month... and for some reason used prices are close to new prices
I have the money, it just seems, I'm no professional, it feels weird splurging for the money people could live a month for...
Second, I do know of 2 national pickup winders. They are more realistically priced for me, but there's almost nothing on youtube about 'em, or when there is, the quality is crap!
The winders together have a ton of models, how the heck I'm supposed to choose?
I know I love the Seths and the Suhr SSV and the PRS Santana neck, I have youtube showing many different examples, it might not be accurate to real life but it sounds good. Meanwhile I know I hate what I hear of the Gibson 57s, not so fond of 59/sentient/jazz. Either I really don't like -something- about those, or the common use cases of those make 'em sound weird.
I just have a bad case of choice paralysis.
What do I do? >.<
This isn't quite about particular pickups, but so I can learn to choose stuff.
I am thinking of changing the pickups of my guitar, they are too 'humbuckery'.
You see, I like to listen to some humbucker sounds, but when I am playing I want clarity, and I love the singy tone a strat can get, or how "stringy" a neck tele single is(think Lari Basilio, Nick Johnston).
So my priorities are low gain and cleans, that's easy: I should look into the low output category.
I was up until 2am yesterday scouring youtube, holy crap the Seth Lover is awesome. Is this really a humbucker?!?
But first, over here a duncan set would be around minimum wage for a month... and for some reason used prices are close to new prices
I have the money, it just seems, I'm no professional, it feels weird splurging for the money people could live a month for...
Second, I do know of 2 national pickup winders. They are more realistically priced for me, but there's almost nothing on youtube about 'em, or when there is, the quality is crap!
The winders together have a ton of models, how the heck I'm supposed to choose?
I know I love the Seths and the Suhr SSV and the PRS Santana neck, I have youtube showing many different examples, it might not be accurate to real life but it sounds good. Meanwhile I know I hate what I hear of the Gibson 57s, not so fond of 59/sentient/jazz. Either I really don't like -something- about those, or the common use cases of those make 'em sound weird.
I just have a bad case of choice paralysis.
What do I do? >.<
Comment