Ever just get sick of a pickup you really like?

[TimmyPage]

I've been using the PATB-3 for years now, it's got such a great, fat tone, and up until recently I was completely in love with it. Maybe it's because my tonal tastes are changing slightly but.. I don't know, it still sounds exactly like it did before but I really can't deal with the honkiness/'notch' sound of it suddenly. Every time I switch to the bridge pickup these days I think 'I'm so sick of this sound'.

I actually feel kind of sad, it's like waking up and realising your girlfriend started to grow facial hair.

[SirJackdeFuzz]

Re: Ever just get sick of a pickup you really like?

"Ever just get sick of a pickup you really like?"


Thank God not !!!

. . . not yet.

[nightfall]

Re: Ever just get sick of a pickup you really like?

Not yet, i have fallen out and in love with my JB recently. Come to think of it my Pearly gates is sort of bugging me recently

[SFW]

Re: Ever just get sick of a pickup you really like?

Yes. My beloved Duncan Custom is no long getting it done for me. It still sounds great, but I'm just wanting something different.

[Gone_Shootin]

Re: Ever just get sick of a pickup you really like?

Yep, the Dimebucker. When they first came out I bought one, and loved it so much I put another one on another of my guitars. But my tastes changed. I didn't like scooped out guitar tones anymore, or at least not that scooped out.

[Nacho8807]

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Happens to me all the time. Not so much because my tastes change, I just get bored. Its not just pickups either. I don't like a certain amp's low end, or a certain overdrive pedal anymore, so I have to change it.

[Gearjoneser]

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I don't dislike the Custom 5, but I've heard it everyday for so many years that I gravitate toward different pickups more often than not.

[chris effect]

Re: Ever just get sick of a pickup you really like?

I got tired of the D-Activator 7 Bridge, or maybe i got tired of the guitar it was in...

[DeathMetalRob]

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I think it's just what you get used to. Perhaps tweak the amp settings or raise or lower the pickups by a gnat's cojones and that might fix your feelings.

Mix it up a little - failing that, buy an Invader.

[Kac]

Re: Ever just get sick of a pickup you really like?

buy an Invader.

It never hurts to change it up a bit. Swapping pickups is fun and a new tone could provide new inspiration.


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[DeathMetalRob]

Re: Ever just get sick of a pickup you really like?

It never hurts to change it up a bit. Swapping pickups is fun and a new tone could provide new inspiration.


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No, it doesn't. Assuming that Invader poles pieces have the same screw thread size that other poles do, just can swap them out for anything else that will fit - that for a start. Then you get into magnets etc.

[Dark Order Lord]

Re: Ever just get sick of a pickup you really like?

This is the odd situation where I start trying pickups, then ages latter end up back with the favourite I always used.