So how long did it take you to find the right pickups?

[AniML]

Re: So how long did it take you to find the right pickups?

No, not really. I may want another guitar, but I don't need it. There's a difference. I value my marriage.

Call the wife's bluff. Who values the marriage more? In the end it comes down to $40

 

[AniML]

Re: So how long did it take you to find the right pickups?

Well, there's the 'Blueman Plan' for acquiring guitars, which depends on a combination of gradually buying guitars similar-looking to what you already have and the female's inattention to detail. Eventually you have a bunch and she doesn't know when or how they got there. It works.

That's flipping genius. Luckily my wife's good with it

 

[ErikH]

Re: So how long did it take you to find the right pickups?

Well, there's the 'Blueman Plan' for acquiring guitars, which depends on a combination of gradually buying guitars similar-looking to what you already have and the female's inattention to detail. Eventually you have a bunch and she doesn't know when or how they got there. It works.

Call the wife's bluff. Who values the marriage more? In the end it comes down to $40

Guess what, my wife runs my bands sound. She knows what I have, has even bought me gear in the past, including a guitar for Valentine's Day a couple years ago. There is no fooling her. She is not an inattentive female.

Joke about it all you want, but our finances are more important than me buying another guitar. If we didn't have debt, and had expendable income to do it, she'd have no problem with it, and has told me so.

 

[AniML]

Re: So how long did it take you to find the right pickups?

I was just joking about it. Very cool your wife is so involved ... and that you respect her values

 

[SF audio]

Re: So how long did it take you to find the right pickups?

It's really amazing that our ears are so prejudiced that we hear a pickup in a guitar for the 1st time and somehow expect to hear certain things based on a description. Pickup A has a nice high end, but you throw it your les paul and its too shrill. Pickup B has a nice bottom end, but too muddy in your particular guitar. Others think its just great! How much of it is was you expect vs. what your ears actually hear?

All these combinations of body, neck, fretboard, and pickups yield so many different sounds. Some slight differences, some night and day. And it is all subjective - no right or wrong answer.

So would we all sound alike if this was 1969 and everyone had stock pickups?

 

[chris_tw21]

Re: So how long did it take you to find the right pickups?

I have always like humbuckers,I did like strats with singles but I found that with humbuckers I can coil tap to get those tones.

 

[Sodom616]

Re: So how long did it take you to find the right pickups?

Pretty much the first time I swapped pickups on my Schecter for a pair of DD's I nailed the tone i was looking for. I've never even heard the pickup until I bought it. I just looked at the description and the tone chart and knew instantly that this IS the pickup is for me.

 

[JeffB]

Re: So how long did it take you to find the right pickups?

I used to go through all sorts of stuff trying to find "the right" pup for a certain guitar. I've since become wise enough to buy great natural sounding guitars (instead of trying to turn a mediocre sounding guitar into a great one with pickups- it don't work, IME). IOW- if I find I'm having to keep trying new pups, what it really boils down to is it's not the guitar for me and the sound foundation is not there to begin with.

My last 3 keepers (hamer, tele, and strat)- I knew what I wanted, did my research, listened to the natural sound of the guitar and went from there. On all three I exchanged the stock pups with whatever I thought would work best, and I was happy with that first set of pups.

 

[ErikH]

Re: So how long did it take you to find the right pickups?

I was just joking about it. Very cool your wife is so involved ... and that you respect her values

It's a two way street. Otherwise I'd have zero closet space to hang my clothes.

In fact, when I saw the SG Classic that I now have, that a friend was selling, she was the one that told me that if I wanted it, sell one of the others to raise the money for it. It was a done deal.

 

[AniML]

Re: So how long did it take you to find the right pickups?

You have closet space? <envy>

 

[ErikH]

Re: So how long did it take you to find the right pickups?

You have closet space? <envy>

:lmao: A couple feet anyway.

 

[blueman335]

Re: So how long did it take you to find the right pickups?

That's flipping genius. Luckily my wife's good with it

To an average woman, the only thing they really notice on a guitar is the 'pretty' color. So if you have a black SG, you can probably get away with a black LP, black Strat, black PRS, & black Tele. All she ever sees at one time is you playing a black guitar. So then you run across a 'super deal' on a white guitar (which she approves of because it's such a good deal), which leads to a couple other white guitars. You go until you have the basic colors covered, and there are guitars stuffed all over the house. It's a gradual thing. Just don't take two of the same color out at the same time. If she starts to catch on that the guitar collection has multiplied, you can say: "I've had that one for years, and you've seen this one, and..." all of which is true. She's lost the battle and doesn't even know when she lost it. That is how you measure success. :cool2:

 

[AniML]

Re: So how long did it take you to find the right pickups?

People spilling their bank accounts into the new fender select series need to pay attention. They are all $2000++ and some flavor of amber flame top

 

[gvis]

Re: So how long did it take you to find the right pickups?

Unless you abandon the internets completely, that will never happen. You'll hear about some cool amp, google it, post a thread on here, save your pennies, get it, post about it, it's not your thing, miss your old amp, post about it...

man, what about this badass guitar, here? can't find it at your local store so you go out on a limb, not your thing, post a thread...

We all do it.:banghead:

Yes, of course...lol. But this past year was not just about my pups. I also spent a lot of time and energy on my entire rig, and I'm finally just about done with all of it.

Whatever new mods/urges come now will be minor, comparatively. Doesn't mean I won't go through some similar grand overhaul or project in the future, but at least for this year my focus is playing....long overdue..lol.

Of course I'm done to just one guitar for the first time ever, so.......

 

[clcwarlock]

Re: So how long did it take you to find the right pickups?

I think I got kind of lucky so far.

My BC Rich STIII USA had an Alnico II pro in it when I got it. I changed the middle and neck single coil to Wilde(Bill Lawrence) L298 noiseless singles. I had thought about putting an L500L in the bridge but the old Alnico II pro in alder body sounds so good I never changed it.

My PRS custom 24 came with 57/08's and I see no need to change them. I think they sound great and are very balanced with the different single coil Rotarty positions.

My BC Rich Gunslinger USA had a single emg 85 and I just put in a TB-11.
So far I am pleased with that.

My first guitar was a BC Rich NJ Warlock from 1984. I have an Ultrasonic reference 5 pickup (Very paf'ish) in the bridge and an L500r in the neck.

I had emg's in a Charvel guitar that I sold and I just could'nt get used to the sound. I found myself chasing High output pups originally only to go back to lower output pups with better quality guitars and amps.

I still want to get a les paul at some point and I will probably use seth's, antiquity's or fralins so I guess it will be a while before I stop.