Can there come a better pickup?

[RogerMexiko]

Or has it all been covered except for little tweaks here and there?

As I said before I am new to the pickup tone world but looking around it seems that there is a pickup around for every possible practical need.

What would be a concept pickup that broke the mold and goes where no pickup has gone before?

 

[AlexR]

Re: Can there come a better pickup?

This is a question with no answer........or maybe as many answers as there are players or guitars.

If you like a Gibson PAF or a vintage fender singlecoil as your best/ideal pickup, then there will never be a better pickup made ever.

If you want something that is not yet made, then maybe there will be.

 

[EDX]

Re: Can there come a better pickup?

if the thing is outside the mold and way different to everything or at least very different when they first came out
i think the first ones were the pickups in the les paul recording, then Bill Lawrence L500 pickups, Flying v 2 pickups, EMGs, Duncan Parallel Axis, Duncan Live Wires/blackouts, Lace Alumitones and now Fishman Fluence

 

[darthphineas]

Re: Can there come a better pickup?

This is a question with no answer........or maybe as many answers as there are players or guitars.

For sure. These kinds of threads have Vegas odds of being closed down after 4 pages of heated back and forth.

*gets popcorn*

 

[thanaton]

Re: Can there come a better pickup?

I think the better pickup to come along will be one that gives you the benefits of a pickup swap without swapping pickups, or a magnet swap without swapping magnets, etc. all while maintaining stock appearance.

 

[Obsessive Compulsive]

Re: Can there come a better pickup?

I defy the Vegas odds of being closed down after 4 pages of back-and-forth rambling:

Bridge: JB, Tone Zone.
Neck: 59, Jazz, Air Norton.

 

[TVFV]

Re: Can there come a better pickup?

For sure. These kinds of threads have Vegas odds of being closed down after 4 pages of heated back and forth.

*gets popcorn*

Over/Under 75 posts?

 

[MkIII Renegade]

Re: Can there come a better pickup?

For sure. These kinds of threads have Vegas odds of being closed down after 4 pages of heated back and forth.

*gets popcorn*

And that's before even mentioning the much-vaunted magnet swaps. :18:

 

[darthphineas]

Re: Can there come a better pickup?

Over/Under 75 posts?

And that's before even mentioning the much-vaunted magnet swaps. :18:

You guys have taken your first steps into a larger world. Knowledge of forum trends binds the galaxy together. Now...try again...this time with the blast shield down.

 

[Blille]

Re: Can there come a better pickup?

I still have to hear a pickup that sounds the same with poly and nitro.

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[EDX]

Re: Can there come a better pickup?

hmmm 65 posts before the posts insulting each other intelligence and knowledge/lack of knowledge about pickups and then just blatant mocking insults to lower level insults and mincer finally coming to close the thread around post #90

 

[RogerMexiko]

Re: Can there come a better pickup?

I think the better pickup to come along will be one that gives you the benefits of a pickup swap without swapping pickups, or a magnet swap without swapping magnets, etc. all while maintaining stock appearance.

Now that is thinking outside of the box! I like the concepts.

 

[RogerMexiko]

Re: Can there come a better pickup?

I still have to hear a pickup that sounds the same with poly and nitro.

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Can't happen. Poly is death to tone wood.

 

[TVFV]

Re: Can there come a better pickup?

hmmm 65 posts before the posts insulting each other intelligence and knowledge/lack of knowledge about pickups and then just blatant mocking insults to lower level insults and mincer finally coming to close the thread around post #90

I'm an optimist. I think we can go 100 posts before this gets locked. We're not THAT bad are we?

 

[EDX]

Re: Can there come a better pickup?

nah i've seen better threads fall before the 100 posts mark, this one smells like a 90 posts before lock

 

[esandes]

Re: Can there come a better pickup?

I stumbled upon a late 80s or early 90s strat, the US strat plus deluxe and it came with the new, groundbreaking noiseless Lace sensor pickups. I've found that I would rather have the noise and character of a vintage style pickup. In the guitar world new things come and go and the classic stuff seems to prevail.

 

[LLL]

Re: Can there come a better pickup?

The "better pickup" has existed for decades:

The SH-5 Custom.

 

[RogerMexiko]

Re: Can there come a better pickup?

The "better pickup" has existed for decades:

The SH-5 Custom.

Bbbbut...it has,uh...a...ceramic magnet...can anything good come from ceramic magnets? A Crate&Barrel pickup...

 

[RogerMexiko]

Re: Can there come a better pickup?

For sure. These kinds of threads have Vegas odds of being closed down after 4 pages of heated back and forth.

*gets popcorn*

Wrong, this thread will Peter out and die a natural death in less than 48 hours, 2 page max.

 

[darthphineas]

Re: Can there come a better pickup?

nah i've seen better threads fall before the 100 posts mark, this one smells like a 90 posts before lock

Are you accounting for the possibility of tone wood and scale length to be an issue?