Anyone tried Seymour Duncan Custom Shop “Scooped” pick ups?
- Thread starter JPMTO
- Start date
Diminished Triad
New member
Re: Anyone tried Seymour Duncan Custom Shop “Scooped” pick ups?
Re: Anyone tried Seymour Duncan Custom Shop “Scooped” pick ups?
I haven't had anything bad come out of the shop....might wanna try for both!
Re: Anyone tried Seymour Duncan Custom Shop “Scooped” pick ups?
I haven't had anything bad come out of the shop....might wanna try for both!
Re: Anyone tried Seymour Duncan Custom Shop “Scooped” pick ups?
Re: Anyone tried Seymour Duncan Custom Shop “Scooped” pick ups?
Welcome to the forum!
I haven't heard (or actually heard of) this set. I can see how it would be cool. That being said, the Antiquity Surfer II is one of my absolute favorite true single coil pickups.
Re: Anyone tried Seymour Duncan Custom Shop “Scooped” pick ups?
Welcome to the forum!
I haven't heard (or actually heard of) this set. I can see how it would be cool. That being said, the Antiquity Surfer II is one of my absolute favorite true single coil pickups.
PicoRiveraTele
New member
Re: Anyone tried Seymour Duncan Custom Shop “Scooped” pick ups?
Re: Anyone tried Seymour Duncan Custom Shop “Scooped” pick ups?
We can see from this pic that the DC R values of the "scooped" set are ~ 5.85k, 6.3k and 7.3k .
According to a post on the internet http://www.fenderforum.com/forum.html/searchthreadgateway.php?topic_number=762098
Close enough I suppose, but I wouldn't pay custom shop prices for something as readily available as alnico 5 strat pickups of these general DC R values.
Re: Anyone tried Seymour Duncan Custom Shop “Scooped” pick ups?
We can see from this pic that the DC R values of the "scooped" set are ~ 5.85k, 6.3k and 7.3k .
According to a post on the internet http://www.fenderforum.com/forum.html/searchthreadgateway.php?topic_number=762098
Close enough I suppose, but I wouldn't pay custom shop prices for something as readily available as alnico 5 strat pickups of these general DC R values.
Re: Anyone tried Seymour Duncan Custom Shop “Scooped” pick ups?
Re: Anyone tried Seymour Duncan Custom Shop “Scooped” pick ups?
^ DCR doesn't equate to tone, output nor many other aspects. So your idea of merely replicating a poor measure of pickup specification to ensure the same pickup is nonsense.
The Fender Big Dippers seem only available in the John Mayer sig strat - something no longer made now that he's not a Fender artist. So the scooped ones from SD are actually the cheap option here.
Re: Anyone tried Seymour Duncan Custom Shop “Scooped” pick ups?
^ DCR doesn't equate to tone, output nor many other aspects. So your idea of merely replicating a poor measure of pickup specification to ensure the same pickup is nonsense.
The Fender Big Dippers seem only available in the John Mayer sig strat - something no longer made now that he's not a Fender artist. So the scooped ones from SD are actually the cheap option here.
PicoRiveraTele
New member
Re: Anyone tried Seymour Duncan Custom Shop “Scooped” pick ups?
Re: Anyone tried Seymour Duncan Custom Shop “Scooped” pick ups?
With Strat pickups, it mostly does. They're so uniform in layout and simplistic in terms of material interactions that the transfer function of the pickup correlates closely with the wind count, which in turn correlates closely with the DC resistance.
Re: Anyone tried Seymour Duncan Custom Shop “Scooped” pick ups?
With Strat pickups, it mostly does. They're so uniform in layout and simplistic in terms of material interactions that the transfer function of the pickup correlates closely with the wind count, which in turn correlates closely with the DC resistance.
Re: Anyone tried Seymour Duncan Custom Shop “Scooped” pick ups?
Re: Anyone tried Seymour Duncan Custom Shop “Scooped” pick ups?
They're almost the same price ($299 vs $265) as the SD Antiquities II Surfer: https://reverb.com/item/2402941-new...oped-strat-pickup-set-big-dipper-stratocaster. Just wondering which would be a better choice, but unless folks have played it before, it's super hard to know!
Re: Anyone tried Seymour Duncan Custom Shop “Scooped” pick ups?
They're almost the same price ($299 vs $265) as the SD Antiquities II Surfer: https://reverb.com/item/2402941-new...oped-strat-pickup-set-big-dipper-stratocaster. Just wondering which would be a better choice, but unless folks have played it before, it's super hard to know!
PicoRiveraTele
New member
Re: Anyone tried Seymour Duncan Custom Shop “Scooped” pick ups?
Re: Anyone tried Seymour Duncan Custom Shop “Scooped” pick ups?
One thing I see in the "Big Dipper" specs is a 5k range neck and a 7k range bridge. That's not something you see too often. Usually the entire set is "hot" or "vintage". Fender, SD and others might do well to have a set that pairs an especially bright neck pickup with an especially hot bridge.
Re: Anyone tried Seymour Duncan Custom Shop “Scooped” pick ups?
One thing I see in the "Big Dipper" specs is a 5k range neck and a 7k range bridge. That's not something you see too often. Usually the entire set is "hot" or "vintage". Fender, SD and others might do well to have a set that pairs an especially bright neck pickup with an especially hot bridge.
PFDarkside
of the Forum
Re: Anyone tried Seymour Duncan Custom Shop “Scooped” pick ups?
Re: Anyone tried Seymour Duncan Custom Shop “Scooped” pick ups?
The real Big Dippers (and I imagine these are a clone of them) are a great set of calibrated pickups. Articulate in the neck but still some oomph in the bridge. Of course great 2/4 sounds. The lore is that they are based on Mayer’s personal Texas Specials that happened to be underwound from the factory. So if that’s true, you can imagine them being the thinner PE Texas Special wire that’s wound to three different specs.
Regarding the two Duncan sets, the Surfers are the classic 60’s Strat sound, the Big Dippers (and I assume these as well) are a variant on the standard Strat tone. If this will be your main Strat, I’d go Surfers, but if you already have a 60’s style Strat, the Scooped ones would be a nice alternative.
Re: Anyone tried Seymour Duncan Custom Shop “Scooped” pick ups?
The real Big Dippers (and I imagine these are a clone of them) are a great set of calibrated pickups. Articulate in the neck but still some oomph in the bridge. Of course great 2/4 sounds. The lore is that they are based on Mayer’s personal Texas Specials that happened to be underwound from the factory. So if that’s true, you can imagine them being the thinner PE Texas Special wire that’s wound to three different specs.
Regarding the two Duncan sets, the Surfers are the classic 60’s Strat sound, the Big Dippers (and I assume these as well) are a variant on the standard Strat tone. If this will be your main Strat, I’d go Surfers, but if you already have a 60’s style Strat, the Scooped ones would be a nice alternative.
Re: Anyone tried Seymour Duncan Custom Shop “Scooped” pick ups?
Re: Anyone tried Seymour Duncan Custom Shop “Scooped” pick ups?
Sorry, should have been clear...better for playing in a jam band that focuses on Grateful Dead, Clapton, Allman Bros (with a John Mayer tone-ish!)! And also from a home based tone, always striving for that Stevie Ray sound, without the over bite-y Texas Specials -- have those and don't love them.
Re: Anyone tried Seymour Duncan Custom Shop “Scooped” pick ups?
Sorry, should have been clear...better for playing in a jam band that focuses on Grateful Dead, Clapton, Allman Bros (with a John Mayer tone-ish!)! And also from a home based tone, always striving for that Stevie Ray sound, without the over bite-y Texas Specials -- have those and don't love them.
PFDarkside
of the Forum
Re: Anyone tried Seymour Duncan Custom Shop “Scooped” pick ups?
Re: Anyone tried Seymour Duncan Custom Shop “Scooped” pick ups?
Depending on your amp and pedals I think either would work well. I’m slightly more inclined to say Surfers as the slight mid bump would benefit the jam band type stuff and they are pretty close to the pickups Stevie actually used. (Selfishly I want you to get and post a review of the Scooped ones.
)
Re: Anyone tried Seymour Duncan Custom Shop “Scooped” pick ups?
Depending on your amp and pedals I think either would work well. I’m slightly more inclined to say Surfers as the slight mid bump would benefit the jam band type stuff and they are pretty close to the pickups Stevie actually used. (Selfishly I want you to get and post a review of the Scooped ones.
)Re: Anyone tried Seymour Duncan Custom Shop “Scooped” pick ups?
Re: Anyone tried Seymour Duncan Custom Shop “Scooped” pick ups?
I don't see the vintage strats as mid scooped by themselves - unless they've purposely been wound to be so. Certainly not the 10 or so variants I've tried anyhow. The 2/4 positions do get mid scooped by comparison.
Re: Anyone tried Seymour Duncan Custom Shop “Scooped” pick ups?
I don't see the vintage strats as mid scooped by themselves - unless they've purposely been wound to be so. Certainly not the 10 or so variants I've tried anyhow. The 2/4 positions do get mid scooped by comparison.
PFDarkside
of the Forum
Re: Anyone tried Seymour Duncan Custom Shop “Scooped” pick ups?
Re: Anyone tried Seymour Duncan Custom Shop “Scooped” pick ups?
Think CS69 Scooped, not Mesa V EQ Scooped.
And yes, they work great with Tube Screamers, Klons and other mid humped ODs.
Re: Anyone tried Seymour Duncan Custom Shop “Scooped” pick ups?
Think CS69 Scooped, not Mesa V EQ Scooped.
And yes, they work great with Tube Screamers, Klons and other mid humped ODs.
Similar threads
