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What's your favorite type of pickups?
SCN 11%  11%  [ 6 ]
Vintage Noiseless 15%  15%  [ 8 ]
Alnicos 23%  23%  [ 12 ]
EMG 11%  11%  [ 6 ]
Seymour Duncan 13%  13%  [ 7 ]
Dimarzio 8%  8%  [ 4 ]
Other 19%  19%  [ 10 ]
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Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 8:45 pm
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I like 3-4 of the ones you posted. I am kinda partial to the Dimarzio brand. Bands like Maiden and Kiss use them just to name a couple. Also YMS uses them too. I play with the Alnico 3's in my HWY 1. They are also really good. :)

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AlNiCos, especially Texas Specials !! And I like Lace Sensors, too.


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Pete Biltoft's Vintage Vibe SP90. It's a P90 sized to fit in a Strat slot; you get the girth and warmth of a vintage P90 but maintain the spanky sparkle of a Stratocaster...and they're quiet, too. I put a set in my Fiesta Red 1962 US-made ReIssue Strat, and YEEE-HAAA!

I also like the smaller G&L MFD pickups (they're in the S-500, the Nighthawk/Skyhawk and several others).

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i have realy fallen for the alnico3 pickups
very versatile pickups.


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I voted "other"....I'm a big fan of the P-90 pickups. Noisy, but they're fine pickups imo. :roll:


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The Seymour Duncan Alnico II Pro pickups sound great on my
1998 MIM '60s Classic Stratocaster.

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vintage noiseless is my preference

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I have Fralin Blues Specials in my Telecaster and they're awesome for that guitar. I have Seymour Duncans' in the Strat, hot rails in the bridge (w/ push-pull coil tap), classic stack in the middle and vintage rails in the neck position, and I love that set-up for that guitar. So it really just depends on the guitar and tone one is looking for. :)


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Seymour Duncans
YAAAAY

So many quality choices!

Never mind the "Duncan Designed" rubbish. Everyone has to jump on the overseas outsourcing bandwagon.

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I could only pick one on your poll but I like the following
SCN
Fender CS Fat 50s
Fender CS 69s
Seymour Duncan SSL-5s 8)


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I really like the Custom Shop 60 Relic pups. CS54s are not bad either.


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Like the SCN's

but also like the Texas Specials and Tex-Mex pups.

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I like all the Custom Shop Fender pickups. But my favorite ones are the CS69s and the Texas Specials. The stock pickups for the 08 Am. Std. sound really nice too.


+ 1 here for CS 69's


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I have Fralin's in 5 of my strats. They get my number one vote.

I've got Texas Specials in a couple strats, they're OK.

To my suprise, I've recently been liking the vintage noiseless in a couple of my other strats recently.

I had hot noiseless in one strat and hated them, because they were too bright, but then I moved them to my fretless strat, and they seem to do ok there.

The stock fender pickups in my 63' and 74' strats (not reissues) sound really good also. :D

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I voted for SCNs. I upgraded a MIM Standard Tele and a Classic Series 50s Strat with them and they're remarkable.

I like Texas Specials and Vintage Noiseless, too.

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