Favorite Bridge Pickup?

Favorite Bridge Pickup?

  • JB

    Votes: 63 21.1%
  • Custom

    Votes: 31 10.4%
  • Distortion

    Votes: 25 8.4%
  • Demon

    Votes: 9 3.0%
  • Custom 5

    Votes: 18 6.0%
  • Custom Custom

    Votes: 25 8.4%
  • Full Shred

    Votes: 7 2.3%
  • Invader

    Votes: 14 4.7%
  • PAF-style (59, Jazz, Aph-, Seth, Antiquity, PG)

    Votes: 66 22.1%
  • Something else?

    Votes: 41 13.7%

  • Total voters
    299
Re: Favorite Bridge Pickup?

I picked the JB for it's versatility and because it's the one I'm most familier with. I've played Distortions and they get second place, I give third place to the Invader, I had a couple invaders tuned the guitars way down, and it sounded awesome, then i started playin' jimi hendrix....
Strats for life... ha ha :smoker:
 
Re: Favorite Bridge Pickup?

I voted PAF-style, because they work best for the kind of music I play.

The Custom is second choice. Great for hard rock, always puts a smile on my face. Always considering putting it back in one of my LPs. :D
 
Re: Favorite Bridge Pickup?

JB, the one I have used the most, so that's gotta say something, it seems to be able to do most styles, and with a Jazz at the neck it's unstoppable!!
 
Re: Favorite Bridge Pickup?

The best bridge humbucker I ever tried was the DiMarzio Paf Classic. If I had to tell a relative model in Seymour Duncan that will be either the Seth Lover or the APHII.
 
Re: Favorite Bridge Pickup?

I kow its a duncan forum and I love Duncans but my fav bridge pickup is a Lindy Fralin 9K Unbucker.

Nothing is sweeter
 
Re: Favorite Bridge Pickup?

Same thing I said for the favorite neck bucker thread:

My choice would very much depend on the guitar!

For vintage output pickups I like the Pearly Gates, Antiquity, Seth Lover and 59B. For hotter output pickups I like the JB and Custom Custom. And I would make my final choice only after some experimentation and trial and error.

Generally though, alnico 5 pickups sound particularly good in guitars like Gibson SG's...thin bodied guitars with long necks that lack deep bass and whose natural resonance accentuates the twangy mids and treble. Alnico 5 buckers tend to have more bass and are a real plus in guitars that lack bass.

Alnico 2 pickups seem to have more mids and a little less bass and often a little less treble. They're particualarly good when you want warm up a bright guitar...or add some mids to a guitar.

But it really depends on the resonance of the guitar and personal taste.

Lew
 
Re: Favorite Bridge Pickup?

For my guitar (alderB + mapleN + rosewoodFB), the music I play (PUNCH!) and my simple-minded way of playing (mixobrontotonic "D" scale), I can do it only with the Invader in the bridge. It has THAT juice I need.
 
Re: Favorite Bridge Pickup?

Metal, Standard tuning - EMG 81

Any style, Detuned, EMG 85

Punk, Standard tuning - DiMarzio Super Distortion
 
Re: Favorite Bridge Pickup?

Travis said:
Who wants to guess what I voted for?

I am willin to bet the JB is the one you voted for!
we all know that secretly you use and love the JB's :laugh2:
just kiddin trav,
DD all the WAaaaaYYY!
i voted other since the duncan SAVAGE is not a production pup :grumble: :laugh2:
 
Re: Favorite Bridge Pickup?

SABOTAGE said:
I am willin to bet the JB is the one you voted for!
we all know that secretly you use and love the JB's :laugh2:
just kiddin trav,
DD all the WAaaaaYYY!
i voted other since the duncan SAVAGE is not a production pup :grumble: :laugh2:

did you mean sabatoge? :smack:
 
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