Ibanez Pups

[wangdexian]

Duncan Designed pups are outsourced and built by some other company, but designed by SD.

 

[neuro182]

Compromise?

ooh. any compromise in the quality of the sound??

 

[subversion]

Duncan Designed is aimed at replicating the original Duncan tone but they differ in sharpness & responsiveness (eg: harmonics), that's how i feel after trying many along the way. you cannot purchase Duncan Designed pickups here- not available as off the shelf offering...

 

[neuro182]

Active or Passive?

something lyk an active & passive pickups?

 

[gargamelesp]

nope, active and passive are totally different things altogether.

just think of duncan designed as one particular model in the duncan range, but a mediocore model as such. but if you like the tone, theres no stopping you. But theres a reason why they are found only on the lower end guitars.

This is unlike dimarzio and the dimarzio-ibz pickups, where dimarzio designed that particular model to be fitted on fairly high end ibanez models

 

[neuro182]

oic.. kewl.. maybe its gonna be a fun journey discovering them.

 

[hullabalooeeks]

I think u just get a good pup and dun care too much. Its not like u get an evolution u'll get Vai's sound, or u get Fred den u get Joe sat sound. The pup makes very little contribution to the overall sounding. U dun have their racks, their effects, their amps... U cannot follow their sound la. I think u just have to find ur own tone and be happy.

Anyway i'm not happy with mine at all. haha

 

[neuro182]

Yup yup

yea i agree w u.. i wan something that sounds me which is very hard to find, so i hafta depend on the kinda sound i hear frm those artistes to derive the pups i need u c.

 

[hullabalooeeks]

Its very simple, just go for popular pups combi like paf-pros, evos, fred, jazz/jb.... They'll sound much better than ur stocks. den work on ur sound from there.

 

[pooo]

Re:

oic.. kewl.. maybe its gonna be a fun journey discovering them.

LoL it can serve to be stressful and irritating at times. I'm most often suffering from that.

 

[neuro182]

well e onli suff'ring for me is the pocket bec diff pups combine w diff guit body material & diff amp can cause minor/major diversity. i mean wat sounds good on a guit & a certain amp, may not sound as well as its on another guit w/without the same amp.

okie its getting confusing over here, but well i jus gotta keep trying.

i combined EMGs w my old EX agathis body & it sounded not bad, but not as good as it'd on a mahogany body (amp not yet included in the pic yet).

 

[thor666]

hmm SD website has a Tone Wizard section if no one has mentioned yet... 8)

http://www.seymourduncan.com/website/SDToneWizard/index.shtml

on a side note, my washburn guitar is maple neck, alder body, floyd rose equipped with invader, hotrails & screaming demon. nothing that SD Tone Wizard recommends. so yeah. *shrugs*

 

[neuro182]

Kewl

Awesome man!

 

[pooo]

I don't think the tone wizard helps me one bit. The general idea is there, but i'd rather test it out first hand to see if i like it or not.

 

[neuro182]

Thanks

hmm.. so far e recommendations look good but i hafta try it out b4 i noe if its suitable for me

thanks anyway.

 

[SpaTanS]

paisey guys but what's hum-sing-hum or hum-hum-sing or hum-sing-sing all about ? i only know it's HSH or HHS or HSS ?? thanks

 

[neuro182]

Rite

yes u r absolutely correct Hum-Sing-Hum = H-S-H

 

[SpaTanS]

Re: Rite

OOH !!! Humbucker-Single-Humbucker (double-single-double) ? rite ??? :lol:

stupid me ... thanks gerald !

 

[neuro182]

Haha

no la.. i also stunt wen i 1st saw it.. haha.. hum-sing-hum? lyk wtf?

 

[SpaTanS]

haha ... i saw that in SDtonewizard website ... and was thinking, what's Hum-Sing-Hum or HSH or HHS ?? kekekeke ... then it struck me as i was replying ...