Good Humbucker at a Fair Price

Rockbly

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Looking for a Humbucker nothing used I already have some options for that. Someone that sells a decent humbuscker at a decent price like GFS or Tonrider, but tell me specific models that you have had good Luck with. It is going in a G&L Fallout tribute series. I Blues to Hard rock, no Metal. Thanks
 
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What is it that you don't like about the factory pickup? What kind of tones are you looking for?

Bill
 
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they have most SD Pickups in the Trading Post for around $50 used

GFS
The Crunchy PAT and Fat PAT are both kinda nice Pickups , one has a ceramic magnet and the other an Alnico 5 I think

Dragonfire
Screamers
 
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He did say he's not looking for used pickups, but I do take issue with the "fair price" comment. I find the retail cost of new Duncans very fair. Fair doesn't mean cheap. Cheap means cheap.
 
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I fill pretty much all my pickup needs by buying used Duncans for around $50, less for single coils.
 
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if you are buying cheap, brand new, one more recommendation for GFS 'Fat Pat', imitation of an inbetween of Custom and JB.
 
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I'd pick a Duncan or DiMarzio that interests you, then find it used on E-Bay. You say nothing used, but that makes no sense. Used is how you'll get the best bang for your buck. It's much better to have a used high quality pickup than a new mediocre one.
 
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I listened to a a few You Tube videos that compared GFS with Dimarzio and Duncan and you can real tell the difference. THe Duncans and Dimarzios just sounded better. So I think I am going to bite the bullet and get a Duncan Custom Custom or a Dimarzio 36th Anniversary. Those sounded the best. I was almost going to get a Duncan JB because that is the most highly rated and reveiwed humbucker on the music store websites, but in a video someone put it up against the Custom Custom in the same guitar and it sounded like Mud. The Custom Custom sounded way better to my ears.
 
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The Custom Custom (one of my favs) has a lot more mids than the JB, and I have never heard the JB sound like mud anywhere. On our new website there is a pickup compare function, which allows you to hear both side-by-side. I would start there to compare the pickups in a controlled setting.
 
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The JB is really sensitive to its height adjustment .
Once it's right it's 80's hair metal all day

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The thing with people selling them on ebay is that they are only about $20 less. I will pay $20 more for new, I'm not that frugal. You never now what possible damage they could have. I bought a Dimarzio used of a pickup my buddy had in the same guitar. The neck position. I loved it in his guitar, but the one I got used sounded like ass. Probable sweated on too much or something and I only saved $20 from new. You always got to wonder why people are selling them.
 
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I don't know of any pickup company that balances quality and price better than Duncan. I've certainly spent more elsewhere, but not really because they were *better* pickups; just that they were different and offered what I was looking for when Duncan didn't. For what you get, Duncans are VERY fairly priced.
 
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These are the pickups I have an love.
Gibson 57 57+
Gibson Burstbucker Pros
Duncan Pearly Gates
Dimarzio Area T Hot
Dimarzio Paul Gilbert set
Duesenberg Grand Vintage Humbucker
Duesenberg Domino P-90
Tonerider Hot 90
 
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