Best chimey sounding humbuckers!?

[orpheo]

Re: Best chimey sounding humbuckers!?

I just finished wiring a Epiphone Sheritan with Seth Lovers. Sounds great! A nice Jazz guitar. The fretboard is very flat on this guitar not sure it would be great for bends!
To be honest the difference between the Seths and Alnico Pros is a very subtle difference! I would probably pick the APH-1 over the Seths as an all-rounder. I also really like the Jazz neck pups - I have one in my S2 PRS semi-hollow - sounds glassy!
I'm yet to try any Antiquity - Im curious about thwm.. so they have aged magnets AND ages pole pieces!?

seth's are great pickups, but the antiquities are in a league of their own. I love the antiquities so much. The PAF's as well as the JB/Jazz set with the antiquity-treatment sound so, so well. Don't know why, it just is. My sets are signed by Seymour as well as Derek and MJ and Cathy and I'm really happy to own this set. I also own a Joe Bonamassa signature set, his first, but those aren't as great as the antiquities. A bit warmer, fatter, honky and not nearly as chimey.

A great les paul with the antiquity will sound like a souped up beefed up angry pissed off telecaster. A great les paul with the bonamassa set will sound like.... bonamassa.

 

[eclecticsynergy]

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Disagree

It can be done.

That's the adapter plate I was referring to in my post, right above the line you quoted.

Or for full singlecoil chime, use a real Strat pickup. There are adapter plates to mount one in a humbucker rout, and at the neck you probably wouldn't require a lot of extra height. Again, not humbucking but extra chimey.

Of course, your 339 still won't ever really chime like a Strat, but this would be close as you really could hope to get.

I still don't think it would be as chimey in a mahogany-necked Gibson-scale semihollow as it would be in a Strat.
But do I stand by my statement that that'd be as close as you're likely to get.

 

[GuitarStv]

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I have a mahogany bodied 24.75" scale guitar with a fixed bridge and neck/middle single coils that sounds pretty stratty.

 

[beaubrummels]

Best chimey sounding humbuckers!?

If it sounds like a banjo unplugged, it’s got no sustain. Chime will be hard to pull out of it. But of the pickups I have experience with:

Jazz neck
59/A4 neck
A2P neck
Seth neck
Pearly/A2P hybrid neck
Whole Lotta Humbucker neck wired in parallel (or any Humbucker you like 4-conductor wired in parallel)

And I have a Phat Cat Set in my LP Studio right now and it is chimey, but it’s output is unbalanced with the bridge so I have it lowered quite a bit, but it’s a perfect chimey PAF sound, just with a bit of noise because it’s single coil.

Probably the best answer would be a Filtertron or mini Humbucker.

If it still sounds kind of like a banjo after all that, get a compressor.

 

[Mincer]

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I just finished wiring a Epiphone Sheritan with Seth Lovers. Sounds great! A nice Jazz guitar. The fretboard is very flat on this guitar not sure it would be great for bends!
To be honest the difference between the Seths and Alnico Pros is a very subtle difference! I would probably pick the APH-1 over the Seths as an all-rounder. I also really like the Jazz neck pups - I have one in my S2 PRS semi-hollow - sounds glassy!
I'm yet to try any Antiquity - Im curious about thwm.. so they have aged magnets AND ages pole pieces!?

Yeah, and an aged cover. They are remarkable pickups if your style depends on any kind of touch-sensitivity. Also, higher gain will probably not get the most out of them, either.

 

[EC Strat]

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Lambertones- I have set in my Les Paul and they are very chimey

 

[Hot Octopus]

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Gfs protube humbucker, Dimarzio Area 67’, TV Jones in general