Wasabi J Posted December 12, 2004 Report Share Posted December 12, 2004 Hey... Just wanted to ask you all. I'm a rock-shred-classic kinda player and an EMG fan, and I wanted to know if you all had any good knock-off pickups you like. I don't core to buy or trade or anything right now, I'm just curious to hear if anyone's got a little back of the shelf cheap crap that gets over looked. For instance, I got this Abilene ALK35DOS from a hock shop, with a blemish in the finish on the tail end, a bit of grime on the chrome, but other than that, in great shape. I was trying to find something that I could make a "wall-hanger" out of, but it turns out, it had these great no-namer pickups in it. The tone from em was really clean, and there was virtually NO hiss... I mean I had to turn up my amp to 11 to get some. The sound was akin to a nice Strat sound, it having a S-S-H setup and all. Best thing was, I found this good guitar for little under $80. Found out, later, brand new, the guitar was $135. I still say it was the greatest money I spent on a guitar, for those pickups alone. Anyhoo... tell me if you found any good stuff like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Librero Posted December 13, 2004 Report Share Posted December 13, 2004 i'm not sure what you mean by "knock-off." i do have these decent ceramic single coils that came from a Chinese strat of mine. if not for the fact that they were terribly microphonic, they would have been nice. the alnico pickups from an old Fernandes strat of mine are good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wasabi J Posted December 13, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 13, 2004 "Knock-off" as in no namers... non big-time ones. Like, not Fender, Seymour Duncan, EMG, etc. I'm trying to look to see if there are some economical replacements to some electronic experiments I plan to conduct. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lizard_King Posted December 13, 2004 Report Share Posted December 13, 2004 My Washburn I have had these Samshin humbuckers in it, great sounding pickups. I play through a Fender Original "65 Twin Reverb 2X12 and it sounds great. Not much of a hiss but has a great bluesy/southern/classic rock tone to them. (If that sounds right lol) Bridge had 4 conductor wires and neck had 2 conductor wires. I couldn't find a wiring diagram for them at all, and no other pickup I have seen has the same color code as these pickups so I played hit or miss and now have the bridge set up the way I wanted it but it took a couple hours to figure it out. Hope that helps some Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benno Posted December 16, 2004 Report Share Posted December 16, 2004 Couple days ago i bought a brand new pickup off ebay to go in my Pacifica 512 neck position. It's a Puretone, humbucker size of single coil pickup. SOunds pretty good, now i have HSH.. Through my MG30 with this pickup the intro to to Sweet Child sounds great!, Thats the sorta sound you get with it. It cost AU$20!! So, wats that like US$16. I say great value for money. Ben Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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