Cheap pickups / guilty pleasures
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Metalblaze
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The rusty neck single coil of my very first guitar named Century. Strat-style guitar. That thing could sound so wickedly bluesy especially for slide. LIke if the sound had a blue color.
Woody single coil tone.
The pickup had the word GIFMEN stamped on its magnet.
The rusty neck single coil of my very first guitar named Century. Strat-style guitar. That thing could sound so wickedly bluesy especially for slide. LIke if the sound had a blue color.
Woody single coil tone.The pickup had the word GIFMEN stamped on its magnet.
idsnowdog
Imperator of Indignation
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The Wilburn Custom Shop version of the Kent Armstrong Mega Distortion. It is an epoxy sealed unit like an EMG and it wails! I am also enthusiastic about the GFS Loudmouth, it sounds like a big, fat and clean single coil with big heavy balls.
The Wilburn Custom Shop version of the Kent Armstrong Mega Distortion. It is an epoxy sealed unit like an EMG and it wails! I am also enthusiastic about the GFS Loudmouth, it sounds like a big, fat and clean single coil with big heavy balls.
Frogman
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Andrew Lamprecht
Minion of One
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The single coil in the neck of my Ibanez GSA60, cheap powersound pickup but it sounds really good, bluesy, great for slide. No point in replacing it.
The single coil in the neck of my Ibanez GSA60, cheap powersound pickup but it sounds really good, bluesy, great for slide. No point in replacing it.
TheLivingDead
Dawn Of The Shred
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GFS pups and the stock buckers from an old Yamaha pacifica 1221.
GFS pups and the stock buckers from an old Yamaha pacifica 1221.
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alashredder
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Ibanez V series pickups. Love the ceramic mag neck pickup.
Ibanez V series pickups. Love the ceramic mag neck pickup.
drew_half_empty
Looking for Real Life
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gfs nyII. Sounds SO good in the neck of a mahogany guitar
gfs nyII. Sounds SO good in the neck of a mahogany guitar
anewdefguitarist
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the pickups that came with my Traditions Strat. its a HSS and the neck and bride really shine. the middle is great for mild and when the bucker is split it makes for a great alternate heavy rhythm sound!
the pickups that came with my Traditions Strat. its a HSS and the neck and bride really shine. the middle is great for mild and when the bucker is split it makes for a great alternate heavy rhythm sound!
oilpit
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This, except I swap the magnets so it's alnico neck, ceramic bridge.
Really decent pickups, I like them a lot in my RG
This, except I swap the magnets so it's alnico neck, ceramic bridge.
Really decent pickups, I like them a lot in my RG
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Grandturk
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Nope.
Nope.
Franknfilms
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Randall SL bridge pickup, designed by Egnater and put in all of their cheap Idol series guitars.
Randall SL bridge pickup, designed by Egnater and put in all of their cheap Idol series guitars.
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The GFS vintage 60s are very good, much better than the other GFS pups I've tried.
I've always liked the stock Fender MiM strat pups; little P90s w/ceramic magnets. Fatter & snarlier than a normal strat pup. Along those lines, the Peavey USA Predator pups are similar construction & have a cool sound, as well.
The GFS vintage 60s are very good, much better than the other GFS pups I've tried.
I've always liked the stock Fender MiM strat pups; little P90s w/ceramic magnets. Fatter & snarlier than a normal strat pup. Along those lines, the Peavey USA Predator pups are similar construction & have a cool sound, as well.
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Funkfingers
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A Kent Armstrong hot P90. He doesn't make one with this DC resistance value any more.
I'm sure that it began life as a WD Casino dogear bridge PU. I took the original metal cover off so that it would fit under a plastic dogear cover on my Gordon-Smith GS-1. Later, I remounted the bobbin and magnets onto the baseplate from the OEM pickup in my PRS SE One.
A Kent Armstrong hot P90. He doesn't make one with this DC resistance value any more.
I'm sure that it began life as a WD Casino dogear bridge PU. I took the original metal cover off so that it would fit under a plastic dogear cover on my Gordon-Smith GS-1. Later, I remounted the bobbin and magnets onto the baseplate from the OEM pickup in my PRS SE One.
