Do super high output pickups need to exist now?

[maddnotez]

http://customshop.seymourduncan.com/slug/

"It's fat, gnarly, and insanely high-output - it's the SLUG. Measuring at 48k DCR"

Those sound awesome

 

[JimmyBlind]

Had aldrich pups in my Suhr. Sounded great and really percussive. Bought a custom 24. Stock pickups were pretty dull and the body didn't really vibrate at all. Switched them out for nail bombs. Guitar sounded better but still really dark in comparison to the suhr.
My mayones has BK jugs. Lower output spec than both the Aldrich and NB.
Drives the amp harder than both those guitars to the point of really having to back off on the volume pot

 

[JimmyBlind]

So just to clarify the above. High output pickups in a bright guitar. Medium output pups in a really dark guitar. Lower output pickups in a really bright guitar. The latter needed taming from the volume pot.

 

[jsp]

Yes.

 

[the4thlast1]

Whatever works for the player!

Steve

Exactly....And sometimes even the guitar itself . Some guitars need a little push to come alive, others already have a natural kick in the ass "built in"

..For example I have a guitar that is very resonant and sustains like crazy, it likes to have medium to lower output pickups in it to sound and feel its best without getting out of control . Another guitar I have is naturally mellower in comaprison , it sounds and responds best with higher output pickups. Now if you play those two guitars back to back they actually sound and feel very similar eventhough the pickups in them are different output , they just balance out the guitars natural response equally well.

 

[moltenmetalburn]

Yes.

 

[Fuego]

Why do some of y'all equate resistance to output? That logic doesn't work because it doesn't take the magnets into account. Output in mv is how to tell the actual output.

 

[moltenmetalburn]

Why do some of y'all equate resistance to output? That logic doesn't work because it doesn't take the magnets into account. Output in mv is how to tell the actual output.

ignorance lol.

 

[Markedman]

That SLUG pick-up did sound good. 48k, man that is hot, so hot I'm intrigued a little, but worried about having one guitar so hot that I have to make radical changes to my amp's settings when switching guitars.
I like a Tom Anderson H3 pick-up in the bridge position. He makes an H3+ and I might give that a try also.
48k, wow.

 

[charvelstrat81]

I think they need to exist because there are several higher output models
out there that have a very Unique and distinct tone and feel that a lower output cannot get.
Now ask me if over 200 different P.A.F copies should be Exist!?!?