What do the pro's use?

[That90'sGuy]

Re: What do the pro's use?

When it comes to single coils I use only Seymour's pickups. I have some Fralins and Rio Grandes and Van Zandts. But they're not in guitars and I'll probably sell them someday soon.

However I do really like Joe Barden's pickups and his rails pickups are humbucking but they do not sound like Seymour's. The Barden's are my favoite single coil size humbuckers.

I have a set in my '54 Tele and a set in my G&L SC-3. Excellent pickups.

I gotta say, I never thought I'd be a Duncan fan, but there is something special with the Duncan single coils. My favorite humbuckers are Wolfetones, but the Duncans just do such a great job of keeping that traditional quack and bell like tone with the warmth and versatility of modern pickups (at least with the APS-2s and the APST-1). I tried jiving with Van Zandts, but in my particular guitar they were too thin. With the Duncans I can use them with both of my amps with pretty good success (the Vox does really bring out that chime though).

 

[Bludave]

Re: What do the pro's use?

Fenders noiseless pickups as well as Kinman's IMHO just sound sterile. You may not have hum, but the tone is deteriorated. I play Tele's and Strat's. I use a 2 amp rig & I was getting some ground loop as well as 60 cycle hum. My main Strat is a Clapton signature Strat with the original Lace sensors not the noiseless pickups. I prefer the tone of these over the noiseless pickups. I also have 2 Strats setup with Antiquity pickups..... both Surfers & Texas hots. These pickups are very vintage in design and I do get some 60 cycle hum. When I bought these I ordered a R/W R/P middle pickup & the hotter bridge pickup. The R/W R/P helps a lot, but there can still be some. It will never be silent. What I did is tried a HumX do eliminate more of it as well as some ground loop hum I was getting. It worked well so now I have one in front of each amp. Give it a try. The Humx eliminated about 80% of the hum I was getting.

http://www.zzounds.com/item--EBTHUMX