What should a buyer ask when he wants a new pickup?
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Snake Aces
Singlecut Slut
Re: What should a buyer ask when he wants a new pickup?
That would have been great too though!
That would have been great too though!
Re: What should a buyer ask when he wants a new pickup?
OK, I made a resume of all the good ideas you mentioned, please let me know if it's good:
-Can we take a step back? What pickup are you using now and how do you think it is lacking? Why do you want to make a change? If we have a reference as to where you are today we might be able to help you get where you want to go.
To help, we need to know the guitar design and woods, & the genres played. We need a starting point: what PU's are in the guitar now and what they sound like. Then: what you like and don't like about them.
A good way to start is describe what your current pickup is lacking...is it weak? Is it shrill? Is it bland? etc. Basically try and describe what it is you are lacking and awnser the following questions:
What guitar are you using now?
What amp are you plugging it into?
What kind of music are you playing?
What don't you like about the sound you are getting now?
What player or what songs do you want it to sound like?
What's your budget?
Regards!
OK, I made a resume of all the good ideas you mentioned, please let me know if it's good:
-Can we take a step back? What pickup are you using now and how do you think it is lacking? Why do you want to make a change? If we have a reference as to where you are today we might be able to help you get where you want to go.
To help, we need to know the guitar design and woods, & the genres played. We need a starting point: what PU's are in the guitar now and what they sound like. Then: what you like and don't like about them.
A good way to start is describe what your current pickup is lacking...is it weak? Is it shrill? Is it bland? etc. Basically try and describe what it is you are lacking and awnser the following questions:
What guitar are you using now?
What amp are you plugging it into?
What kind of music are you playing?
What don't you like about the sound you are getting now?
What player or what songs do you want it to sound like?
What's your budget?
Regards!
DrNewcenstein
He Did the Monster Mash
Re: What should a buyer ask when he wants a new pickup?
If this is a person in your store, hand them a guitar and listen to them play. Technique may be their problem. Maybe they suck so horribly that the stock pickups don't sound right? In which case, getting them better pickups might just make them sound better at sucking.
Definitely agree with the suggestions here, though. The inquirer has to be able to put into coherent words the desired end-result, and not use vague terminology that is open to interpretation like chewy, Jupiterish, clandestine, or Ernest Borgniney.
I don't care what guitar god said their tone was "chewy" or "brown" or "Catherine Zeta-Jones' left butt cheek". It does not compute.
Articulate
Grainy
Spiky
Bassy/Boomy
Muddy
Middy
Trebly
Weak
Hot
Tight
Loose
Round
Fat
Thin
Dark
Bright
Dirty
Clean
Chunky
Beefy
Those are pretty much easy to grasp as far as definitions go.
Campbell's Cream Of Restroom Soupy is not.
If this is a person in your store, hand them a guitar and listen to them play. Technique may be their problem. Maybe they suck so horribly that the stock pickups don't sound right? In which case, getting them better pickups might just make them sound better at sucking.
Definitely agree with the suggestions here, though. The inquirer has to be able to put into coherent words the desired end-result, and not use vague terminology that is open to interpretation like chewy, Jupiterish, clandestine, or Ernest Borgniney.
I don't care what guitar god said their tone was "chewy" or "brown" or "Catherine Zeta-Jones' left butt cheek". It does not compute.
Articulate
Grainy
Spiky
Bassy/Boomy
Muddy
Middy
Trebly
Weak
Hot
Tight
Loose
Round
Fat
Thin
Dark
Bright
Dirty
Clean
Chunky
Beefy
Those are pretty much easy to grasp as far as definitions go.
Campbell's Cream Of Restroom Soupy is not.
