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What are the best pick-ups for a good clean blues tone and a good jazz tone, but at the same time for dirty SRV rhythm tone?
I was thinking about the Fralins Vintage Hots.
BTW I was going to put these in a 06' Mexi strat through a Blues Junior with a modded Boss Overdrive.
 
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I'd say the Vintage Hots or the Duncan Antiquity Surfers. I use the Surfers...I like them better than just about any Strat pickup I've tried. But the Fralins are great too, and a little smoother.

I had Vintage Hots in one of my favorite Strats for a long time...changed them last year to the new Duncan Noiseless Classic Stack Plus pickups.

Lew
 
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Lewguitar said:
I had Vintage Hots in one of my favorite Strats for a long time...changed them last year to the new Duncan Noiseless Classic Stack Plus pickups.

Lew
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Hey Lew,
How do you like the Classic stack plus, in comparison to more traditional singles like the surfers? Is the hum cancellation pretty much 100%?

Jeff
 
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i got a set of classic plus stacks in highway one strat, zero hum however don,t sound as good as van zandt pups in same guitar, never the less they are the best noiseless pups i have used
 
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Duncan Surfers

or Suhr V60LP's, I love mine...their fat, smooth and greasy.

The Classic Stack Pluses sound good, too, but not nearly as good as a real single IMO.
 
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cool, thanks guys...guess my real question is how they stack up (doh, no pun intended!) to kinmans.
 
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Lewguitar said:
I'd say the Vintage Hots or the Duncan Antiquity Surfers. I use the Surfers...I like them better than just about any Strat pickup I've tried. But the Fralins are great too, and a little smoother.

I had Vintage Hots in one of my favorite Strats for a long time...changed them last year to the new Duncan Noiseless Classic Stack Plus pickups.

Lew
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Lew....can the Surfers tend to be rather bright like the 50's style antiquities? The Fralin Blues Specials are definately more "round" sounding
 
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Im intrested in the Shure V54's and the Lace Sensors Holy Grail pick-ups, would any of those be good for a good Robben Ford Jazzy tone and a Clapton type of BLuesy tone?
 
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Texas_Blues said:
Im intrested in the Shure V54's and the Lace Sensors Holy Grail pick-ups, would any of those be good for a good Robben Ford Jazzy tone and a Clapton type of BLuesy tone?
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I'm sure the Suhr 54 (not Shure-the mic company :laugh2: ) would be a great pickup. If you want a vintage accurate pickup, you would get that more from a real single, which the lace sensor isn't. IMO, you could do better for noiseless than Lace, such as the new Duncan Stack pluses or Dimarzio Area pups.
 
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Texas_Blues said:
What are the best pick-ups for a good clean blues tone and a good jazz tone, but at the same time for dirty SRV rhythm tone?
I was thinking about the Fralins Vintage Hots.
BTW I was going to put these in a 06' Mexi strat through a Blues Junior with a modded Boss Overdrive.
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Nice pedal and amp.
I would say the Jazz works fine because I have a Jazz+JB combo and it works out great for this use. I also have a set of dual Classic Stack Plus (STK-S4) with a JB trembucker, this also sounds good (but the jury's out because it's sort of a ghettar right now). The boss overdrive? OD-3? -2? If it's the one that there's a knob for blending or mixing overdrive versus distortion, I'd say that's an excellent blues pedal too. Anyways, I can only comment on the Jazz, and I think it works great for that. But the tone wizard says the '59 is good for that too. Hope this helps.
 
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Yea sorry its Suhr, thanks for the compliment, and its a modded Boss Sd-1 modded to the Vintage 808 specs. Im looking for a Robben Ford Jazz tone, to be more specific, and a twangy bridge, with also a good Texas Blues Rhythm tone. Would the Suhr 54's suffice for that?
 
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