Your Favorite Electric Guitar Pickups

[clintj]

Humbuckers: Gibson 57 Classic

Tele: the factory set in mine. Twisted Tele and Broadcaster.

Strat: bought a custom set from Tom Brantley (he used to work for Lindy Fralin and now does repair work and custom sets) and they are superb.

[Jeff Scott]

Favorite of mine are toasters.

[Dru Edwards]

Originally Posted by Jeff Scott

Favorite of mine are toasters.

Hey Jeff, what are toasters?

[Jeff Scott]

Originally Posted by Dru Edwards

Hey Jeff, what are toasters?

These are.

[perttime]

Any love for Filtertrons or their more powerful variations?

[Dru Edwards]

Thanks- Rickenbacker pickups.

Originally Posted by Jeff Scott

These are.

[chasapple]

Originally Posted by Dru Edwards

What are you favorite electric guitar pickups? Stock pickups can be great (or terrible) but sometimes you need something else to bring you the tone you're looking for, such as going from a PAF pickup to a modern hot pickup.

So I am 1-2 years in with electrics. Single coil and humbucker both.

No prior experience. Acoustic guy for 30 yrs.

What I have learned:

1. Most single coils suffer with buzz in the signal. At least in my tiny studio room and I only record direct into DAW with plugins like Helix native. NOT 60 cycle hum, not a grounding problem. Even when you shield the internal cavities.

The only quiet single coil pickup I could find for my tele are Fishman Fluence. I put in the Koch model. Absolutely completely zero buzz. Finally problem solved.

2. Humbuckers vary in their output levels. Some are so powerful it can be hard to get a workable clean tone, even with riding the volume knob. For me, Seymour Duncan Jazz humbuckers work for me.

-Charles

[Dru Edwards]

Originally Posted by chasapple

So I am 1-2 years in with electrics. Single coil and humbucker both.

No prior experience. Acoustic guy for 30 yrs.

What I have learned:

1. Most single coils suffer with buzz in the signal. At least in my tiny studio room and I only record direct into DAW with plugins like Helix native. NOT 60 cycle hum, not a grounding problem. Even when you shield the internal cavities.

The only quiet single coil pickup I could find for my tele are Fishman Fluence. I put in the Koch model. Absolutely completely zero buzz. Finally problem solved.

2. Humbuckers vary in their output levels. Some are so powerful it can be hard to get a workable clean tone, even with riding the volume knob. For me, Seymour Duncan Jazz humbuckers work for me.

-Charles

Hey Charles, the single coil buzz peaks my interest (as opposed to 60 cycle hum). I wonder what is causing the buzzing? Do you hear the buzz when you play or only when you stop playing?

Humbuckers... you're right, high output humbuckers can overdrive the amp even when clean. I find a big difference between my DiMarzio Super Distortions and my '57 Classics. Depending upon what I'm playing I will prefer one over the other which is why a diversity of pickups are important to me.

[Jeff Scott]

Originally Posted by Dru Edwards

Thanks- Rickenbacker pickups.

There are different types of Rickenbacker pickups. Toasters and vintage magnetic horseshoe pickups are my preferences over the others they make/made.

[M Sarad]

My '58 Les Paul Jr 3/4 has a screamer original P90.
My '65 Melody Maker has T Top PAFS from the same period.
I'm a big fan of HarmonicDesign pickups. I have them 8n my Tele and the P90s in my PRS McCarty.