Battle of the "less expensive" buckers?

[WICKED LESTER]

you got duncan designed or performers
http://www.seymourduncan.com/website/news/newproducts_archive.shtml


GFS http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=22670&item=7318990702&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

Golden age from stew mac
http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Electronics,_pickups/Pickups:_Guitar,_electric/3/Golden_Age_Pickups.html




kent armstrongs made in korea by SKY
http://www.wdmusicproducts.com/Merc...n=CTGY&Store_Code=WMPI&Category_Code=PUHMBCKR

which are the best deal for tone and quality?
any other good values pups out there?

 

[the guy who invented fire]

Re: Battle of the "less expensive" buckers?

IMO the "low line" Duncans sound better that a lot of other big name pickups!

 

[TheGZeus]

Re: Battle of the "less expensive" buckers?

Don't forget www.rondomusic.net

They have a number or ubercheap, to good but inexpensive pickups and will soon be offering actives.
The actives are the best sounding pickups I have ever heard(and I dislike EMGs greatly).
Warm, smooth, clear...mmmmm.

Lots of low end but instant jazz tone from the neck pickup and the dirty leads from it are great.
The bridge pickup performs like a good bridge pickup should. It does a humbucker twang clean and crunches like no tomorrow dirty.

NO inherent compression or harshness(which I hear in all the EMGs I've heard).

 

[Artie]

Re: Battle of the "less expensive" buckers?

I think the best "deal" is time. And I don't mean that tongue-in-cheek. Just keep an eye out in The Trading Post, on eBay, and elsewhere. And, you really don't have to wait that long. Good deals come up all the time on standard line Duncans.