Other than SD.............

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The only other pickup I have is a Fralin Blues Special neck pickup in my Tele, and that gets me some lovely tones.
 
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My best guitars have both Duncans, a C8 bridge /'59b in neck - JazzN/Jazz8b.

I've got a 1996 Mayones Maestro with a 1989 wound by MJ '59n paired with an alnico 8 Gibson '57 Classic Plus. I call this the "Mojo Set". I'm not very fond of this guitar due to its scale (25.5") but it sounds "magical", at least to my ears.

My PRS SE EG has a Stew-Mac Golden Age hot Single Coil set. This set sounded so-so in a Squier Std Strat, but just KILLS in this guitar. Go figure!

My backup guitar, an Epi SG G-400 Custom, has an Alnico 5 HB103n and it's getting a HB103b rewound to PE 8.7-9.0K and put an Alnico 8 magnet by our own Zhangliqun. I'm very excited about this p'up, I'm really looking forward to get it.
 
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Some different brand pickups I've had the best experiences with:

-Fender CS '54 single coils, great chime and sparkle and dynamics.

-DiMarzio Tone Zone, anyone looking for a thick and warm pickup should try this one.

-EMG 81, the metal pickup.

-EMG 89, the pickup that does it all, both single coils and humbucking tones without any compromises.
 
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SlowGroove said:
I always wanted to look more into the DiMarzio range as i have read sooo many timea that thier units are (as a rule of thumb) more bassy/bass responsive than your ave Duncan units !

Want to see for myself if that is true . . . or not !
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To my ears it's not "more bass". It's some wired low-mids push that can do nasty things with your first clipping stage

And it also covers up some of the critical mids that make you able to tell one Les Paul from the next Les Paul (insert whatever model you like here).

My go-to pickup makers are the SD custom shop (Ants etc.) and WCR. Not sure about Lollar yet. Some SD baseline models are great (DD bridge, PG bridge).
 
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uOpt said:
To my ears it's not "more bass". It's some wired low-mids push that can do nasty things with your first clipping stage

And it also covers up some of the critical mids that make you able to tell one Les Paul from the next Les Paul (insert whatever model you like here).
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Thanx for the info !


James
 
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