Electric guitar pickups

[matthez_ong]

Hi, i wanted to get a single coil humbucker for my strat, changing my bridge pickup to the single coil humbucker. Been looking around n there's so many models in the market. Any recommendations?? Thanks!!!

 

[gsonique]

Start with the type you want before heading for the brand you want ...at least you are more specific to your needs !

we have low, vintage, medium and high passive or active ... :wink:

 

[edder]

get the Duncan lil59 or a Jb Jr.

 

[matthez_ong]

How abt GFS pickups? The price seems quite cheap. Bare Knuckles Apache seems a good choice but i heard it's quite ex, any idea how much it cost?

 

[fgl]

Get a set of fender hot noiseless or vintage noiseless pick ups.

About $280 for the whole set including pots etc..

worf it...

get some softies, get some.

 

[I_M_Ken]

well, provide us with more information on styles of music u play and also what kinda tone are you looking for

 

[gsonique]

I have installed and tried the GFS .... not bad ...you get what you pay!

As for BK ... :roll: save your money!

Best go for what you want considering also the kinda of guitar in use.
Most pup manufactures are pretty spot on the character of their products ya.

 

[matthez_ong]

Thanks for the info man!!! I would like to get a nice heavy rock sound, nice lead sound when doin solo...something like tt.

 

[gsonique]

then go for medium or low output !!

Low output doesn't mean no power aye ....

 

[I_M_Ken]

3 single coils?

For Heavy rock and humcancelling i would go with the Seymour Duncan Cool Rails/PATB Single Coil stack/Patb single coil stack.
Its a great combo for heavier styles of music.

Or if u want true single coils, Seymour SSL6/SSL2/APS2 (bridge to neck) for great versatility

 

[Jay_Clones]

For 3 single coils..

I recommend (actually Mike of standardvalue told me at it) the Lace Holy Grails.
U still retain the single coil twang/quack and VERY quiet.
It cost me $295 for a set of 3.
I had it on my Morris strat...really liked the sound.
Now it's wif KC of Maestro for some re-fret job.

 

[subversion]

if your strat is a fender, best to retain single coils in there, just do away with the hum by getting a stacked unit instead 8)

 

[bin4christ]

ken: can the pickups u mentioned handle malmy kinda playing?

 

[MadWerewolfBoy]

malmsteen's setup is really odd... he uses very very low output hum cancelling pups and a lot of overdrive through pedals... they work great cause its dead quite and sounds neat...

but for that u need good distortion/overdrive pedals to get a tone near his

 

[subversion]

IMO that's not odd, that's being wise.

medium/ low output pickups are more responsive to higher drive levels, be it from pedals/ amps. the great deception here is from EMG (or some other active units for that matter)- yes they are high output but it's because the low output pickups are boosted by a pre-amp circuitry before it reaches the amp.

 

[I_M_Ken]

bin4christ: i as someone said, malasteen uses low output hum cancelling pup.

well, if u have the same amp, pedals, racks as he does im sure it can sound close.
anyway for single coils i prefer single coil tone rather than stacked/single coil size humbuckers.