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Post subject: Guitar Pickups Company’s & Cost
Posted: Tue May 18, 2010 6:20 pm
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When you buy a cheap guitar like a Hammer Slammer or a Fender Squier. They both come with poor sounding pickups.

Even if you but a expensive guitar like a Gibson Les Paul or a Fender American Standard. I see people all the time swap out their pickups for Seymour Duncan’s or
DiMarzio’s.

Why don’t the big guitar companies get with the big pickup companies and offer guitars with the pickups people want in them? It seems like it would benefit both sides.

Also I have heard than all pickups cost about 5.00 dollars to make. It doesn’t matter if it’s a pickup from a department store cheap guitar or a 3000 dollar Gibson. Why make bad sounding pickups if the cost is the same?

Like the Seymour Duncan’s or the DiMarzio’s. If it cost around 5.00 bucks to make, why are they about 60 to 90 dollars new? I’m sure the pickup company’s buy everything to make there pickups in bulk. The Bobbins, Magnets, Wire, and Wax.

I know they have Advertising and Research and Development cost. It just seems like a pickup should be about 35 to 40 bucks tops.


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Posted: Tue May 18, 2010 9:12 pm
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you're paying for all the overheads of the factory, not to mention wages and salaries.


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Posted: Wed May 19, 2010 12:54 pm
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simply they have name or brand that comes payment for brand. wuality and assurance.


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Post subject: Re: Guitar Pickups Company’s & Cost
Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 12:40 pm
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spyhawk36 wrote:
When you buy a cheap guitar like a Hammer Slammer or a Fender Squier. They both come with poor sounding pickups.

Even if you but a expensive guitar like a Gibson Les Paul or a Fender American Standard. I see people all the time swap out their pickups for Seymour Duncan’s or
DiMarzio’s.

Why don’t the big guitar companies get with the big pickup companies and offer guitars with the pickups people want in them? It seems like it would benefit both sides.

Also I have heard than all pickups cost about 5.00 dollars to make. It doesn’t matter if it’s a pickup from a department store cheap guitar or a 3000 dollar Gibson. Why make bad sounding pickups if the cost is the same?

Like the Seymour Duncan’s or the . If it cost around 5.00 bucks to make, why are they about 60 to 90 dollars new? I’m sure the pickup company’s buy everything to make there pickups in bulk. The Bobbins, Magnets, Wire, and Wax.

I know they have Advertising and Research and Development cost. It just seems like a pickup should be about 35 to 40 bucks tops.


Hello!

Ibanez are a pretty big company and use DiMarzio’s in a lot of they're high end guitars.

Bulk buying will lower the cost but i'd hate to think how much Fender paid out for the manufacture of the SCN's. Samarium Cobalt, as i understand it, is not cheap even at bulk prices.

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Posted: Sun May 23, 2010 8:06 am
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You're not merely paying for the sum of the parts. Rather, you are paying for the knowledge that went into the finished product utilizing those particular parts.

Those who bristle and claim that on general principle they are getting ripped off reminds me of those who think 44 cents postage to mail a letter is too high. Consider if you had to take the letter to its destination yourself. All of a sudden, a whole slew of logistics must be dealt with where in terms of means to an end, one is in fact, getting a bargain.

As always, this is merely IMO where YMMV.

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Posted: Tue May 25, 2010 2:15 pm
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My first guitar was not the largest company. guided by the price and I do not regret.


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Post subject: Re: Guitar Pickups Company’s & Cost
Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 8:11 am
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spyhawk36 wrote:

Why don’t the big guitar companies get with the big pickup companies and offer guitars with the pickups people want in them? It seems like it would benefit both sides.



People just like to tinker. If the guitars came with Seymour Duncans and Dimarzios, people would change them out to Fenders or Kinmans or Lace.

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Posted: Fri May 28, 2010 5:43 am
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Troublecall wrote:
spyhawk36 wrote:

Why don’t the big guitar companies get with the big pickup companies and offer guitars with the pickups people want in them? It seems like it would benefit both sides.



People just like to tinker. If the guitars came with Seymour Duncans and Dimarzios, people would change them out to Fenders or Kinmans or Lace.


This. Though, if the stock pickups are good enough, there's no reason to swap them (I swapped out the pickups on my Strat; my Yamaha's kept its stock soapbars). Unfortunately, a lot of the Fender stock pickups are nothing to write home about. They sound good, but pale once you put them next to a really good set of pickups in a direct comparison through a good amplifier. If I bought a Strat and it came with CS 54s or 69s, I'd probably keep it stock; but the standard pickups on the Standard, Highway 1s, and even American Standards could be better. But, I guess that's what the CP series is for. :)


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Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 5:00 pm
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People DO like to tinker is one explaination. the other is that what sounds "crappy" to you may sound fine to someone else. Understandably the sound produced by any pickup can be "reformed" by any number of outside sources-ie preamps and other such things. Then there is always the variable of cables and the amps themselves and how well everything "shakes hands" with everything else. Too many variables. The biggest one being the individual player of said guitar, how (s)he strikes the strings, with what guage pick, what type of music they play and what brand/guage of strings they are using.

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