The best SD pickup is...

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'59s I happen to like a lot. I'm also a fan of the brobucker (in 11k guise it sounds like a '59 that just won a drunken bar fight), and the SSL-1; pure, simple, strat goodness.
 
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GuitarDoc said:
If it doesn't sound good, and if guitarists don't like it, it's not going to sell. Obviously, the PU that sells the best is going to be the one that people like the most (that includes tone, quality, marketing, customer relations, etc).

A company's bottom line is sales and profits. How it gets there is the customer's bottom line. In the end, they have to be one and the same or the result is failure.

Really nothing to disagree about if you know about running a successful business.
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Man, I don't think YOU can tell mr. Evan Skopp how to run a sucessful business. Not now, not EVER.

'nuff said.
 
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Evan Skopp said:
Considering that his name is on every pickup and he's co-founder of the company, you'd be surprised at how singularly focused he is on tone and quality. Revenue is probably in his Top Five (maybe...), but it's definitely not Number One.
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This reminds me of a question I don't think I've seen on here yet...

Since you know Seymour very well...

What are Seymour's personal favorite pickups his company makes?
 
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I use a different lot of Seymour Duncan pups in different guitars to play different styles of music in different amps.

There is no best of the best; however, 59, JB, P-rails, and Antiquity pups are equally loved by myself for all the reasons that SD pups make - TONE

They sound really nice in the different guitar yet right combinations of wood, strings, guitar metal, pedals, and amps.

I do not know of any other pup maker who has succeeded as Seymour Duncan has in this aspect of the music industry, even Leo does not come close!
 
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Lake Placid Blues said:
It would be the Antiquity Texas Hots or the Antiquity Surfers.
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Those are my faves and I use them in my favorite Strat: Surfers for the neck and middle and Texas Hot Custom for the bridge pickup.

The PGn is my favorite neck humbucker.

The '78 is my favorite bridge humbucker.

I like the 59's too, and if they were all I had to work with I know I could still get my tone and I would still be very happy.
 
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Best is so subjective. The answers are as varied as "favorite pickup" questions. It's all a matter of opinion and taste.
 
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I've had a JB in my SG for about 10 years. Since I stumbled across this forum I've considered the descriptions of various other pickups but haven't come across anything that would appear to be an improvement on the JB. I know a lot of you like the C5 but I don't like the idea of the scooped mids. I've tried a couple of guitars with PAF type pickups and come to the conclusion that I don't like them - too toppy and not enough mids. The JB seems to nail it for me - just the right amount of output, fat midrange, bags of character, sounds great clean. I do think it starts to lose definition with lots of gain but it was designed in a time when amps had nowhere near as much gain as many of them do now. If you're into just breaking up/medium 70's type gain I don't think it could really be improved.
 
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LtKojak said:
Man, I don't think YOU can tell mr. Evan Skopp how to run a sucessful business. Not now, not EVER.

'nuff said.
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Not trying to tell Evan how to run a business. Just really agreeing that producing a product that pleases the customers keeps you in business. My business is ONLY about sevice (no product sales at all) and I understand this principle very well. I'm certain that it also applies to selling a product that your customers value enough to buy. That keeps you in business and keeps you serving the community. If you don't make the bottom line, you don't stay in business and you don't provide a product that you're proud to put your name on.
 
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I like the warmth and sweetness of the Antiquity buckers. In a Les Paul, I just don't see how you could choose the '59s over the Antiquitys.

I haven't tried the Strat surfers, but the Texas Hot Antiquity set in one of my G&L Legacys is terrific.

Bill
 
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