Fiesta Red
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Gibson Dirty Fingers. The older ones from the 70s and 80s.
Most unique sounding humbuckers?
- Thread starter Johnny Tenderloin
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Each of the following are pickups I currently use, love, and that are (somewhat) unique
490R with an Alnico IV magnet. I have this in the neck of my main guitar, a les paul gold top. I use a 1M volume pot, a no-load tone control, and a resistor in place for a partial coil split. I know the 490R is not well regarded, but damn do I love how this turned out! It has a bright and full neck humbucker tone, can do the singing Les Paul neck lead tone, and it sounds remarkably stratty when split.
Burstbucker 3 with an alnico VI mag. I love this in the bridge of the les paul I mentioned above. It's my main guitar, and this tone is to die for.
Pegasus w/ a ceramic mag. Love this in my cheap, heavily modded Jackson V. Chug-a-lug.
Pegasus w/ an alnico VI mag. I have this in the bridge of my Charvel HSS DK24. It does the JB thing, without all the annoying things about a JB.
Gravity storm bridge pickup. I have this in the bridge of a "Slick SL52" - a very weird, budget single cut guitar that I basically bought to mod and have fun with. I saw the gravity storm ridiculously cheaply on reverb ($30), snatched it up, and am so glad that I did. This pickup manages to have a lot of definition and cut while also being quite beefy and thiccc. I think Dimarzio go this one right.
490R with an Alnico IV magnet. I have this in the neck of my main guitar, a les paul gold top. I use a 1M volume pot, a no-load tone control, and a resistor in place for a partial coil split. I know the 490R is not well regarded, but damn do I love how this turned out! It has a bright and full neck humbucker tone, can do the singing Les Paul neck lead tone, and it sounds remarkably stratty when split.
Burstbucker 3 with an alnico VI mag. I love this in the bridge of the les paul I mentioned above. It's my main guitar, and this tone is to die for.
Pegasus w/ a ceramic mag. Love this in my cheap, heavily modded Jackson V. Chug-a-lug.
Pegasus w/ an alnico VI mag. I have this in the bridge of my Charvel HSS DK24. It does the JB thing, without all the annoying things about a JB.
Gravity storm bridge pickup. I have this in the bridge of a "Slick SL52" - a very weird, budget single cut guitar that I basically bought to mod and have fun with. I saw the gravity storm ridiculously cheaply on reverb ($30), snatched it up, and am so glad that I did. This pickup manages to have a lot of definition and cut while also being quite beefy and thiccc. I think Dimarzio go this one right.
JohnnyGuitarCA
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DiMarzio: Bluesbucker and FRED. Both of those pickups kick butt in neck and bridge positions.
I run the Bluesbucker in the neck position (Screw coil toward the neck), FRED in the bridge. Absolutely killer and I've never had pickups do what these do.
Gibson OG Dirty Fingers. Best high output pickup I've ever played.
I run the Bluesbucker in the neck position (Screw coil toward the neck), FRED in the bridge. Absolutely killer and I've never had pickups do what these do.
Gibson OG Dirty Fingers. Best high output pickup I've ever played.
Bill Dennis
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Unique? None. Different eq and outputs sure but there is nothing unique that could not be achieved with eq and boosts.
Chistopher
malapterurus electricus tonewood instigator
Depends on how many bands your eq has i guess
im sure you could get close with a 31 band eq ala billy gibbons
Supamazzive
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Oh... Easy... Not only is this uniquely voiced pickup part of the SD stable... It's the oddest sounding pickup through the rig I had at the time... It's the oddest EQ curve I've EVER purchased from a large manufacturer without the intention of going 'odd'. I give youuuuuuu.... The Seymour Duncan Parallel Axis Blues Saraceno Trembucker. lol
What's so weird about it? BTW, whatever happened to Blues Saraceno? He was everywhere for awhile.
I have a couple of old Bartolini humbuckers, a 1C and an old Beast II. They had 6 pins on the back and could be wired up in an insane number of ways. Ceramic magnets encased in goop. Very clean, high fi sound. Other pickups can be hi fi, but that and the large amount of wiring options I think make them very unique. I had them in a SG playing thru a Boogie Mark III combo back in the day, and they sounded very good with high gain from the amp. Pulled them and sold the SG and they sat for a long time. I put them in a Eastman Jazz box and didn't like them. Surprised because that should have been a good match, but the Eastman is very bright for a Jazz Box. Even rolling tone and vol knobs didn't get a warn mellow sound that I was hoping to get. OE pickups back in the Jazz box. Still bright, might move on from it LOL
Ascension
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Those are cool. I bought 2 back in the day and sadly sold both guitars with them still in them. Great pickup!
Artie
Peaveyologist
I love that pup. I kinda wish I hadn't traded mine, but it was at a time when I was trying different pups.
The PATB-3 has a little bite and snarl that the PATB-1 doesn't. Sweet pup.
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