Deciding on pickups

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brianloco

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So I'm building a guitar and I'm at the point where I need to choose my pickups. The body is solid European maple. (Sycamore) with a maple neck rosewood fretboard so I'm thinking it's gonna be pretty bright. The pickups I'm looking at are a 59 humbucker set from the creamery. I really like to get my guitars close to that gilmourish tone but without putting in single coils there's only so much I can do now my main question is Which magnets would give me the closest to that and mellow out the brightness from a maple body a little I was thinking a3 in the neck and a4 in the bridge and potted or unpotted I'm planning on using a six way switch and splitting the coils too with 1vol and 1tone


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Re: Deciding on pickups

You're approaching this magnets first? Do you also buy tires before you buy a car? Pick your pickups as a whole, meaning buy mellow pickups if you want mellow. As ive never played those creamery pickups i cant tell you how each magnet acts in that particular pickup. If it was me I would just ask the creamery which is the closest. People get caught up in saying x magnet sounds like x but it just isnt always true. Look at the Pearly Gates bridge. Many guys will tell you a2 lacks treble and is real middy and the PGB is really bright and not particularly mid pushed.
 
Re: Deciding on pickups

I was looking at a bunch of different pickups on a bunch of sites and listening to sound clips I liked what I heard from the creamery pickups. They are made to order though so when u order them you have the choice of which mags to use 2345 potted/unpotted so I was just looking to get some input on what people thought about the differences between the magnets and such


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Re: Deciding on pickups

It's tough to say, just about any bright situation should mellow out nicely by rolling back the tone knob a little, so I'd aim more for a pickup with an ideal voicing and then let the tone knob take are of the rest, especially for Gilmour tones.
 
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