Re: Best Cheapie/Sleeper Pickups?
I used to have a Peavey Preditor, from the mid 90's. It had a humbucker in the bridge that sounded Horrible. So I replaced it with an invader. And at somepoint, I decided to put the Peavey pickup in the neck of a Strat I had laying around. And its amazingly the Best sounding neck pickup I've ever used. Kinda blew me away. It sounded horrible in the bridge of the preditor, But sounds radical in the neck of a strat. Makes no sense to me. Like I could understand if it sounded Ok in either possition, and not great in one. But to Sound Unbelievebly horrible in one possition, and amazing in another. Its just kinda astonishing. Its like 7.6k, and has a small ceramic magnet. So apperently thats an amazing combination for a neck bucker. I dunno.
Also, I used to have an Old Peavey Patriot (which I gave to my best friend when he started playing guitar). And it had these weird rail type pickups in it, they were sorta like Rail P-90's. Said "super ferrite" on them. And those sounded pretty amazing too. Sounded sumwhat like a p-90, but also alot like mini-buckers. Pretty kool pickups.
And Another Also. I just Bought a "douglas shm-91" from rondo music. It was like 200 dollars, and I kinda just bought it as a backup, and didn't expect much. I figured I'de have to change pickups and it would still suck. But amazingly, Not only is the guitar Amazing qaulity. But the Pickups amazingly Rock. They're low output, with alnico mags (not sure what grade), with a Dc around 8k (bridge is slightly hotter than the neck). And they sound really really good. I'm actully not planning on replaceing them anytime soon. I'de totally recommend that guitar to anyone lookin for a 335 style guitar cheap. Its Pretty much an Epiphone sheraton clone (actully looks like it might just be a sheraton with a different name on the headstock), with the triple binding, and the block/triangle inlays, gold hardware and grovers. Its pretty amazing for the money. And the Stock pickups alone are worth half the Price (to me).
Oh, and YET ANOTHER also. A buddy of mine bought a couple old Uni-vox Hi-flyers (mosrite copys made in the 70's). And for some reason he decided to route the bodys and replace the pickups with gibson 490 serise buckers. And since he had no use for the uni-vox pickups, he gave em to me. And I tossed em into a dead jazzmaster I had laying around, and They sound amazing in the jazzmaster. I dunno how they sounded in the uni-voxes. But they're pretty sweet pickups. Sorta p-90ish. But sorta different. Kinda breed of they're own.
thats it.....
-edward
