pick up reccomendations please

Martian · **Posted:** Wed Sep 02, 2009 10:59 am

Scot06 wrote:

cvilleira wrote:

Scot06 wrote:

cvilleira wrote:

IRISH TOUR Single Coil Set

Take on the Texas Longhorn with real Irish passion. Gritty, bright and hot, these will cut through the smokiest of clubs night after night.

The Irish Tour single coil set comes with flat profile Alnico V magnets and extra winds of 42 guage plain enamel wire to really drive the front end of your amp hard.
Reverse wound, reverse polarity middle pickup as standard for hum cancelling in position 2 and 4 of a 5 way switch, this set is powerful yet articulate and extremely versatile with bags of single coil character.

Traditional cloth 'push back' cable and fully wax potted to prevent microphonic feedback, the Irish Tour set will have you over hot coals for life - guaranteed!
http://lothsonguitars.com/bareknuckle-pickups.html
Get away from the mundane and live a little. You will be supprised what you get when you try some of the less common commercial name brands.
Rio Grande pickups are smoking good as well.
http://www.riograndepickups.com/index.html

Thanks for the info cvilleira. I do like the tone on the Irish Tour. Nice clean tone. I wish the Rio Grande pups had a sound sample. Kinda hard to buy a pup without hearing it first.

I put a set of Irish Tours infor someone and was blown away at the sound. I tend to shy away from the common Seymour Duncan's because I tell My customers find your own sound of course some want the Seymour's or some other because thats what everyone else uses. Sometimes its a cost matter.

SD's don't really interest me. Not sure why. Maybe it is because its what everyone else has.

I am interested in staying with Fender Pups or pups offered by Fender. But I am in no way set in stone on that. Just a preference at this point.

But I won't rule anything out. What ever will do what I want and sounds the best doing it is what I want to go with.

Basically I just want something that can handle some SRV a little Jimi and some Metallica and sound great with each of them.

If you want to stick with Fender, I'd go with a CS69 for the neck, a Fat 50s for the middle and a Texas Special for the bridge.

orvilleowner · **Posted:** Wed Sep 02, 2009 11:00 am

Martian wrote:

If you want to stick with Fender, I'd go with a CS69 for the neck, a Fat 50s for the middle and a Texas Special for the bridge.

That almost sounds like the Robin Trower Strat's set up ... is it?

I'll answer my own question:

Quote:

The Robin Trower Signature Stratocaster guitar pays homage with two custom ’50s single-coil Strat pickups in the neck and middle positions, and one Tex-Mex™ single-coil Strat pickup in the bridge (of sighs!) position. Trower’s namesake model also sports a large ’70s-style headstock and a custom C-shaped maple neck.

Scot06 · **Joined:** Sat Aug 22, 2009 3:56 pm **Posts:** 287

I never really thought about it much. But I don't know much about humbuckers in general. If sticking with the HSS set would be better for what I'm looking for then I'd be ok with staying with this type of set up.

Would a HSS set up handle everything from SRV to Metallica and everything in between better then a SSS set up?

budglo · **Joined:** Fri Jan 02, 2009 3:17 pm **Posts:** 1986

Sounds like you need something with some bottom end to them.Maybe check into some texas specials .They have good bottom end and handle overdrive really good, other than that , i would be open to other pickup manufacturers as well.It will give you more options.

Scot06 · **Joined:** Sat Aug 22, 2009 3:56 pm **Posts:** 287

I am in no way set no Fender on pups. Just what I would prefer. But now after to listening to some other pups I'm re-evaluating that preference.

I'm open to what sounds good and gives me what I want.

cvilleira · **Posted:** Wed Sep 02, 2009 11:08 am

Martian wrote:

cvilleira wrote:

I put a set of Irish Tours infor someone and was blown away at the sound. I tend to shy away from the common Seymour Duncan's because I tell My customers find your own sound of course some want the Seymour's or some other because thats what everyone else uses. Sometimes its a cost matter.

And sometimes the Duncans are exactly what is required tonally without having to ridiculously overpay for a very simply constructed pickup.

Cost does have things to do with it and Seymour duncan are OK I would not do the set up the way you suggested though. The SSL -6 is more of a Bridge Pickup that combined with a SSL-2 in the middle and neck is a good satup and commonly done. In fact I have done them that way. SSL-6 is to hot for the middle.

Ceri · **Posted:** Wed Sep 02, 2009 11:24 am

cvilleira wrote:

Martian wrote:

cvilleira wrote:

I put a set of Irish Tours infor someone and was blown away at the sound. I tend to shy away from the common Seymour Duncan's because I tell My customers find your own sound of course some want the Seymour's or some other because thats what everyone else uses. Sometimes its a cost matter.

And sometimes the Duncans are exactly what is required tonally without having to ridiculously overpay for a very simply constructed pickup.

Cost does have things to do with it and Seymour duncan are OK I would not do the set up the way you suggested though. The SSL -6 is more of a Bridge Pickup that combined with a SSL-2 in the middle and neck is a good satup and commonly done. In fact I have done them that way. SSL-6 is to hot for the middle.

Not going to get involved in a brand vs brand debate. But I do have a couple of sets of Bare Knuckle Pickups, and they do sound nice! I have a Sultans single-coil set and a pair of Black Dog humbuckers. Good!

Mind you: I thought they were expensive where I live, but seeing the price Stateside - wow! That's a lot to charge for a bit of scatter winding...

Cheers - C

Martian · **Posted:** Wed Sep 02, 2009 11:26 am

cvilleira wrote:

Martian wrote:

cvilleira wrote:

I put a set of Irish Tours infor someone and was blown away at the sound. I tend to shy away from the common Seymour Duncan's because I tell My customers find your own sound of course some want the Seymour's or some other because thats what everyone else uses. Sometimes its a cost matter.

And sometimes the Duncans are exactly what is required tonally without having to ridiculously overpay for a very simply constructed pickup.

Cost does have things to do with it and Seymour duncan are OK I would not do the set up the way you suggested though. The SSL -6 is more of a Bridge Pickup that combined with a SSL-2 in the middle and neck is a good satup and commonly done. In fact I have done them that way. SSL-6 is to hot for the middle.

"Viva La Difference."

But I know you feel you have to have the last word so, it is your's.

Scot06 · **Joined:** Sat Aug 22, 2009 3:56 pm **Posts:** 287

Since I don't know anything about humbuckers. Can someone explain them to me. What is the idea behind them and what are they best used for?

bluesdog88 · **Joined:** Thu Apr 16, 2009 7:56 am **Posts:** 59

Scot06 wrote:

Since I don't know anything about humbuckers. Can someone explain them to me. What is the idea behind them and what are they best used for?

Google is our friend:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humbucker

Scot06 · **Joined:** Sat Aug 22, 2009 3:56 pm **Posts:** 287

bluesdog88 wrote:

Scot06 wrote:

Since I don't know anything about humbuckers. Can someone explain them to me. What is the idea behind them and what are they best used for?

Google is our friend:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humbucker

thanks bluesdog88. I've already done that search and read that article. But I was hoping to get more of a musicians answer as to how they sound and why they use em. What I got out of that article was they sound fatter.

the answer I'm looking for is why choose a humbucker and 2 singles over 3 singles? Or more simply- what is the advantage of having the humbucker instead of just 3 singles?

From what I can gather it is a fuller fatter sound.

budglo · **Joined:** Fri Jan 02, 2009 3:17 pm **Posts:** 1986

If you go with the hss configuration you can use the neck/ middle pickups to cover alot of srv/hendrix stuff.Although Hendrix used the bridge pickup quite a bit.For Metallica i would think a humbucker would be better suited.The humbucker does well for higher gain stuff.

Scot06 · **Joined:** Sat Aug 22, 2009 3:56 pm **Posts:** 287

budglo wrote:

If you go with the hss configuration you can use the neck/ middle pickups to cover alot of srv/hendrix stuff.Although Hendrix used the bridge pickup quite a bit.For Metallica i would think a humbucker would be better suited.The humbucker does well for higher gain stuff.

Thanks budglo, that's kind of long the same line of thinking I had. If that's the case then the HSS config would fit my needs the best. I would think.

anyone else have an opinion on this?

cvilleira · **Posted:** Wed Sep 02, 2009 12:07 pm

Martian wrote:

cvilleira wrote:

Martian wrote:

cvilleira wrote:

I put a set of Irish Tours infor someone and was blown away at the sound. I tend to shy away from the common Seymour Duncan's because I tell My customers find your own sound of course some want the Seymour's or some other because thats what everyone else uses. Sometimes its a cost matter.

And sometimes the Duncans are exactly what is required tonally without having to ridiculously overpay for a very simply constructed pickup.

Cost does have things to do with it and Seymour duncan are OK I would not do the set up the way you suggested though. The SSL -6 is more of a Bridge Pickup that combined with a SSL-2 in the middle and neck is a good satup and commonly done. In fact I have done them that way. SSL-6 is to hot for the middle.

"Viva La Difference."

But I know you feel you have to have the last word so, it is your's.

Why would you say that? I just don't agree with a SSL6 in the middle that is like a hard rock texas blues pickup and to put it in the middle position of two old school vintage subdude sounding pickups :shock:

I enjoy your knowlwdge but I am sure not going to agree with you on that. I am sorry if I hurt you feelings not laying praise at your feet It had nothing to do with getting the last word. Odd that you feel it was an attack on you anyway I was just helping to OP from making what I think is a mistake.

Your welcome, no problem., anytime, aim to plaese :lol:

Ohh Thats not Me!

No arguments here Matian we all have knowledge to add in someway and we are not going to always agree. Just don't take it personal.

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