Describe Your Dream Pickup

[frankencat]

The "dream pickup" thread by our friend Erlend_G got me thinking about this. If you could have a pickup that could do and sound like anything what would it be like?

Mine is pretty simple - A humbucker that sounded fat and smooth when cranked with nice balanced response and vintage-beefy output. When rolled back it would clean up and sound like the best fender single-coils, nice and jangly and sweet with clear definition. As a bonus it would be 4-condutor and sound like a vintage P-90 when wired in parallel. I would call this the FrankenBucker

Next.

 

[JacksonMIA]

Re: Describe Your Dream Pickup

https://forum.seymourduncan.com/showthread.php?t=33471&highlight=rht

This would, without a doubt, be the ultimate pickup.

 

[JB_From_Hell]

Re: Describe Your Dream Pickup

Honestly, the Distortion is pretty damn close, but I guess a JB that's as aggressive as the Distortion... perhaps either of these with a small ceramic?

 

[Boleslaw Gers 666]

Re: Describe Your Dream Pickup

A set of really hot Alnico V's with full treble, mids, and bass, with nice harmonics and clean sound. About a DD output level or so. Or, something sounding like the super distortion for chords and the hot rails for leads. Mmmm.

 

[lateralus]

Re: Describe Your Dream Pickup

if the dimarzio x2n had slightly less output, it would come close to being my perfect pup

 

[Jimbojsr]

Re: Describe Your Dream Pickup

A minihumbucker in a full-bucker-sized cover to go into my 335.

 

[theboatcandream]

Re: Describe Your Dream Pickup

A 7 string Phat Cat.

 

[Jimbojsr]

Re: Describe Your Dream Pickup

A 7 string Phat Cat.

yoiks... 7 string bassiness with single coil sounds....

 

[WICKED LESTER]

Re: Describe Your Dream Pickup

the EMG 81 is my dream pup for now, but keep in mind i play metal if i were to play a lot of other things with the band the JB would be it
on my own at home i play a lot of non metal things and the JB serves me well

 

[Travis]

Re: Describe Your Dream Pickup

If I could get the lows and mids out of a Distortion in the bridge with the highs out of a Distortion in the neck, with Rails, then I think that would be my dream pickup. As it stands, I'll take a pair of Distortions with Rails. I can live with switching between the two for leads and rhythms.

 

[gripweed]

Re: Describe Your Dream Pickup

Do I have to choose just one? Seriously, I like having a lot of different tones available.

One that I'm going to have made by the Custom Shop is a 5/2 twangbanger wound like Seymour's Tele hot pickup in his Esquire. I'm guessing that will come close to the perfect Strat bridge pickup for me.

 

[sosomething]

Re: Describe Your Dream Pickup

My dream bridge pickup would be the DiMarzio Tone Zone if it split well and actually cleaned up nice with the volume rolled off.

 

[theboatcandream]

Re: Describe Your Dream Pickup

yoiks... 7 string bassiness with single coil sounds....

You mean the phat cat? P90s have scooped bass ends and more mids.

 

[ex-250]

Re: Describe Your Dream Pickup

a DD with a touch less mids.....thats damn near perfect for me.

 

[Erlend_G]

Re: Describe Your Dream Pickup

Well, if i could get a pickup that could sound like a custom custom with the highs and singing qualities of a JB, which sounded like two paralell wired Alnico 2 Pro Single coils when wired in paralell (d'oh) :smack: , i would be happy.

I also like the Jazz model alot.... maybe a Jazz with Alnico 2's would be the solution?

-Erlend

 

[Johtosotku]

Re: Describe Your Dream Pickup

Something with warm highs, crisp lows and full mids. Dynamic as hell. I think that low-medium output would serve me well. Perhaps along a ´59 overwound a bit, or the blues trembucker. How about a humbucker 5/2? A demon? Demon with those different screws on lows and normals on highs?

 

[Simon_F]

Re: Describe Your Dream Pickup

I think I may have found it already - the SH-55 Seth Lover model!