what are your favorite pickups???

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Over all, normally-wound P90's, and I like them best in mahogany-slab bodies. Aside from having their distinctive P90 disemboweling character, they are also very good "do-everything" pickups. I never find myself having to do tons of tweaking with setup, electronics, or amp settings when I am using P90's in a mahogany-slab guitar.
 
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I'll throw another one in for P90s. I generally like them in SGs.... :) I just like the sound man... I don't know... it is warm and gorgeous and can be cutting and crisp. Just amazing.

I am a P90 freak.
 
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Howdy,

Duncan vintage Soapbars. They're fantastic in my Gibson LP Special. Smoooth cleans and even better bloozy raunch, especially though my Carmen Ghia or Vibro Champ.
 
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Right now I'm really digging the CC/59 I just put in my Burny. The 59's a bit boomy so I may throw an A2 in it but the CC is middy and bright-angry as hell-in that particular geet. The only way I'd like it any better was if it had a thinner neck, like a 60s profile. I'm hoping to A2 the 500T/496R set in my 93 Classic Plus to get something similar with the neck I like!
 
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JB in my Jackson superstrats, for rock and metal.

PAF types in my Les Pauls for classic rock.

I also use PAF types in the neck of all my humbucker guitars, for rock OR metal, they work perfectly for anything.
 
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Stock SH5 is my favorite bridge pup. I've had it in a number of guitars and it's remarkably consistent. For the neck I really love the AII Pro.
 
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Seth Lovers and the Surfer Antiquities in my favorite strat(blue avatar strat)....They just sound great..
 
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formula73 said:
Right now I'm really digging the CC/59 I just put in my Burny. The 59's a bit boomy so I may throw an A2 in it but the CC is middy and bright-angry as hell-in that particular geet. The only way I'd like it any better was if it had a thinner neck, like a 60s profile. I'm hoping to A2 the 500T/496R set in my 93 Classic Plus to get something similar with the neck I like!
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The AlNiCo 2 500T is a very cool pickup. The 500Ts are wound a bit hotter than the 498Ts. I would imagine it's like a CC+. I used the keeper bar from a JB trembucker and slid a rough cast A2 in with no trouble. I also have a few WCR mags that are cut to be used without a keeper and those work great as well.

The 500T with A2 is one of my favorites. I want to try A8 in there as well.
 
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what are your favorite pickups???
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Well the successful ones of course :D


Anyway...

The 78 in a LP, when I'm on my own gear and can smooth it out a bit. Otherwise the Ants.

The original Antiquity for Strat (Texas hot, stupid name, in any case Seymour got it right the first time).

The pearly gates in a guitar with a tremolo sustain block.

The DD.
 
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Burns TriSonic Brian May pups in my modified Strat, as well as Fender CS 69s neck & Mid, Van Zandt Rock bridge for my main Strat.
 
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So far the Dimarzio EVO in LP type guitars, cause its bright and tight, with good treble and high mids. In Strat style guitars, the Duncan Distortion. Good treble and high mids, good crunch.
 
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xxxplorer said:
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YES

uOpt said:
Well the successful ones of course :D


Anyway...

The 78 in a LP, when I'm on my own gear and can smooth it out a bit. Otherwise the Ants.
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Agreed. The '78 in my DG-335 is pure magic. The antiquities in my Les Paul and strat are pure magic as well. Antiquities just sound "right" to me for what I do, but the '78 is definitely my favorite at the moment. I like most derivatives of the PAF thing, but to me, the Antiquities and the '78 are just killer!
 
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ItsaBass said:
Over all, normally-wound P90's, and I like them best in mahogany-slab bodies. Aside from having their distinctive P90 disemboweling character, they are also very good "do-everything" pickups. I never find myself having to do tons of tweaking with setup, electronics, or amp settings when I am using P90's in a mahogany-slab guitar.
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+ 5 to 15%.

I prefer my P90s ever so slightly beefed up, screw-mounted into a set neck mahogany guitar and through a valve amplifier set to medium-high overdrive.
 
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