are there any "Unique" sounding pickups yet to be desig

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10/13/2004 6:29 PM
triode rob	are there any "Unique" sounding pickups yet to be desig are there any unique sounding pickup designs   left? what i mean is we have classic p90,   tele, strat and paf tones. what else can you   guys dream up. can i get a pickup with a tone   like no other and with it get my own one   of a kind tone?

 

10/15/2004 6:45 PM

Mark Hammer

Re: are there any "Unique" sounding pickups yet to be de Just about any pickup will change its tone if you change where you stick it under the strings, change its angle, or change its height, or change the strong gauge/scale, or change the body in substantive ways. So you don't even need to go beyond the tried and true of '52 to get "your own one of a kind tone". Given the number of permutations and combinations of that with existing pickups, for me the question automatically turns into "Well, of the traditional objectives that traditional pickups attempt to achieve, is there another or better way of doing it?". I think most builders are preoccupied with that one. Alternatively, some guys just aim for the traditional with a just-for-the-hell-of-it twist and listen to what their experiment produced.     Bear in mind, as well, that you don't need to confine yourself to magnet/coil-based pickups. What about optical?

 

10/16/2004 4:25 PM
Andrew C	Re: are there any "Unique" sounding pickups yet to be desig what kind of tone are you looking for buddy? Inspire us...

 

10/18/2004 3:30 PM

bd

HD Z-90 The most original pickup I have tried so far is the Harmonic Design Z-90....everything else seems to be in the same ballpark. Dimarzio makes some really different stuff but to me they are all bad sounding with poor tonal qualities, IMO. Duncan makes some interesting hotter versions of the same old stuff. I think trying different woods and pickup combinations will yield more of what you are looking for. Even changing bridges, nuts, pot values, the scale of the neck can make big changes to your sound. It seems a lot of guys are going with lower power pups, that will allow you to get real tone differences. I feel once a pickup reaches a certain point they loose their individuality.

 

10/18/2004 8:29 PM
Kyle Cavanaugh	Re: are there any "Unique" sounding pickups yet to be desig I've designed a unique pickup, it's in the prototyping stages as we speak...

 

10/18/2004 10:55 PM
triode rob	what i talking about is this:     there must be some new sounds that   you guys can come up with if you   break out of the mold!   why stick with the same tones   just because they are vintage!     someone do something new!!!!!!

 

10/19/2004 12:29 AM
jason lollar	Just did one but I cant tell you about it untill after the next namm show

 

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