Neck pickup

Jimig

Jimig

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Looking for a neck pickup love the 59 to bassy in my LP so what pickup has the nice bluesy tone like the 59 .
 
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Have you ever swapped a pickup magnet?


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Personally I'd go with a Phat Cat and get a little P-90/humbucker stank from the neck? That said, I assume you are looking for a real humbucker? A Pearly Gates Neck would probably be nearly perfect, great Bluesy tones and they clean up nice too, but if you want to save a few bucks a SH-2 Jazz, they are Duncan's most popular neck Humbuckers for a reason & they sound absolutely great in L.P.'s! I like something a bit more exotic in my fiddles but the Jazz is a great pickup, I mean hundreds of thousands of guitars can't be wrong???
 
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I'd look into P90's as well or a DiMarzio EJ Custom if clarity and shimmer is what you want.

A Duncan '59 is usually what I swap in when I want LESS bass response.

It's tighter than all the other PAF style neck pickups, don't confuse that with excess bass.
 
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Nostalgic Distortion said:
they are Duncan's most popular neck Humbuckers for a reason & they sound absolutely great in L.P.'s! I like something a bit more exotic in my fiddles but the Jazz is a great pickup, I mean hundreds of thousands of guitars can't be wrong???
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Let's not get too carried away. They're Duncan's most popular neck HB because they've been paired with JB's as part of the Hot Rodded Set (which is a poor name, as the JazzN is certainly not a hot rod PU in any sense of the word), and advertised as part of Seymour's favorite pair. Duncan's marketing has pushed the JB far more than any other model, so you'd expect JazzN's sales to benefit significantly from that boost. Without all that extra help, JazzN's probably wouldn't be Duncan's most popular neck HB; the JazzB isn't anywhere near being their most popular bridge HB.

Also keep in mind that for many players the JB/Jazz set is the only aftermarket PU's they own, so it's not like most of the owners of those 'hundreds of thousands of guitars' are trying other makes and models of neck HB's to make a comparison. They pick what they see advertised and pay a tech to install it.
 
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9unslin9er said:
A Duncan '59 is usually what I swap in when I want LESS bass response.
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Then apparently you're not putting them in LP's, as that's where most of the 'boomy' complaints come from, and of course, the OP has an LP.

Better choices for him are an A2P if he wants a little high-end edge to it, or a PGN if he likes warm, rounded high-ends.
 
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blueman335 said:
Then apparently you're not putting them in LP's, as that's where most of the 'boomy' complaints come from, and of course, the OP has an LP.

Better choices for him are an A2P if he wants a little high-end edge to it, or a PGN if he likes warm, rounded high-ends.
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You know...you make a lot of assumptions.
I had a set in a Classic another in a Traditional, and one currently in the neck slot of my Dean Soltero USA, a guitar which I'm sure you wouldn't even be able to afford.

I don't know what murky sounding amplification device you're using or how deaf you are but no, they are neither thin nor boomy.
 
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I think you will be happy with the Pearly Gates. It is still in the PAF-land, so it doesn't compress as much, and is much more open sounding than the 59 or A2P.
 
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PG is a cool pickup. let me toss one thing in . If you like the 59 but find it just a little too much in the low end, try putting in an A4 magnet. My explorer runs a Duncan 59/4 neck and custom 8 bridge.. I found the 59 to be just alittle flubby in the lows, so I swapped the mag for an Alnico 4. kept the same basic sound but took of alittle of the low end..
 
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A2P is a bad choice. My suggestions, in order would be:

PG
Jazz
Full Shred
 
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