If you try another manufacturer's pickups, is it cheating?

[Scott_F]

I tried some Lollar P90s this weekend. I felt dirty afterwards. Needed to take a shower!

:laugh2:

 

[FireBros.]

Re: If you try another manufacturer's pickups, is it cheating?

I tried some Lollar P90s this weekend. I felt dirty afterwards. Needed to take a shower!

:laugh2:

It is cheating, shame on you.

BTW how were they?

 

[Hellion]

Re: If you try another manufacturer's pickups, is it cheating?

No pickup manufacturer is an island!

 

[dani]

Re: If you try another manufacturer's pickups, is it cheating?

tell us about the lollars scott.

 

[aleclee]

Re: If you try another manufacturer's pickups, is it cheating?

One of the admins on the old PRS Forum (also named Scott) had a number of non-PRS guitars. A couple years ago, he got some "hate mail" from a few folks because he didn't play PRS guitars exclusively and said nice things about his non-PRS guitars.

Internet forums can be really weird at times...

 

[krankguitarist]

Re: If you try another manufacturer's pickups, is it cheating?

Its not cheating if they don't know about it. :wink:

 

[kmcguitars]

Re: If you try another manufacturer's pickups, is it cheating?

Depends what the meaning of IS IS? :laugh2: :laugh2:

 

[Tony_H]

Re: If you try another manufacturer's pickups, is it cheating?

WHAT, SCOTT? I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS!!!

Just kidding

If you've been using all Seymour Duncan pickups for a long time, it may feel strange. But not to me - I try other pickup brands all the time. I like Gibsons and a local brand named the RM Pickups. The RM are just as good as any other brand name I have tried and they cost much less.

But the most important part is this question: How were the Lollars?

 

[BlueGuitar]

Re: If you try another manufacturer's pickups, is it cheating?

So how did you like them? Jason is highly regarded in the boutique winding community, having written the book that everybody uses. His construction of P-90's is not quite the same as the traditional Gibson, with him not using the bottom plate and optionally omitting the keeper bar as well (just butting up the bar magnets to the screws).

I don't think of Jason as being competition for SD since he markets to entirely different customers. Now if it was Larry DiMarzio you were talking about, you should wash your mouth out with soap... Larry's patents and lawsuits leave a bad taste in everybody's mouth!

 

[Simon_F]

Re: If you try another manufacturer's pickups, is it cheating?

I vote you should be stripped of one Administrator's star per infidel pickup you tried. Preferably in a humiliating public ceremony at User Group Day. Photos to be posted here of course. :nono:

 

[rinse_master]

Re: If you try another manufacturer's pickups, is it cheating?

I vote you should be stripped of one Administrator's star per infidel pickup you tried. Preferably in a humiliating public ceremony at User Group Day. Photos to be posted here of course. :nono:

Yeah, so us UK forum bro's still get to see it, hehehe...

Anyway, how were the Lollars?............

 

[TheArchitect]

Re: If you try another manufacturer's pickups, is it cheating?

Probably, but as a known gear whore I don't mind.

 

[Breogan]

Re: If you try another manufacturer's pickups, is it cheating?

Shame on you...

 

[Butch Snyder]

Re: If you try another manufacturer's pickups, is it cheating?

Well, I went to a support group for pickup junkies because I was trying everything I could get my hands on. Seymour has always been my favorite; ever since the first replacement pickup I bought back in 1982, a JB. I have tried others and always felt bad. So, to help curb my addiction, I bought a Variax. I now don't need pickups... :biglaugh:

 

[tone4days]

Re: If you try another manufacturer's pickups, is it cheating?

nah man, it's all good ... we know who you're comin' home to ... leave your trash at the door



cheers
t4d

 

[Lewguitar]

Re: If you try another manufacturer's pickups, is it cheating?

It's OK as long as you only do it in Las Vegas. :laugh2:

(At least that's what the commercials for Las Vegas would have you believe!)

 

[Evan Skopp]

Re: If you try another manufacturer's pickups, is it cheating?

I am so hurt.... <sniff, sniff>. How could you? <sniff, sniff> Don't touch me! Don't even come near me. I think I'm going to be sick...

BTW, how are Jason's P-90s? Jason and I were guests at the Pacific Northwest Chapter of AES last year. He did a winding demonstration. It was very interesting to see how he scatter-winds compared to Seymour. Two different approaches to the same goal.

My girlfriend and I had dinner with Jason and his wife. They're all very nice folks. He makes some nice guitars too.

OK, Scott... I guess I'll take you back...

 

[Jeff_H]

Re: If you try another manufacturer's pickups, is it cheating?

I'm going to give the 57' Classics comming in my new 57'RI Lester a fair chance first...just to see how they sound. This will be my first real experience for any length with Gibson pickups.






























Ok, I'll really just be trying them until I figure out if she needs Antiquities (front runner), Seth, APH's or some custom shop J Pages, ect. I'm a SD junkie. I guess this is like in Pretty Woman, rent-em for a week or so.

"$3000, one week, and yes Vivian, I will let you go!"

 

[cvogue]

Re: If you try another manufacturer's pickups, is it cheating?

I don't think of Jason as being competition for SD since he markets to entirely different customers. Now if it was Larry DiMarzio you were talking about, you should wash your mouth out with soap... Larry's patents and lawsuits leave a bad taste in everybody's mouth!

What lawsuits and patents? Never heard of that... hmmm...

One thing I'll say is that these Duncan forums are a great source of info and even threads bashing Duncans are allowed! Try that on the Les Paul forum! Or the Dimarzio forum... oh wait, there is no Dimarzio forum! :smack:

 

[PhatStrat]

Re: If you try another manufacturer's pickups, is it cheating?

Let's see now... Clinton did not consider it "cheating" when he and Monica... well... you know. So if that's not cheating, I certainly don't see how trying another manufacturer's pups would be.