One thing Ive noticed about Seymour Duncan>Dimarzios.......

[VonBonfire]

Well he's retarded then because Gibson (famously) has had excellent QC and has come out with great new models and specs the last few years

My LP classic is like a 2021 or something and is well under 9 pounds, as are like half of the Les Pauls I pick up

Me and others have tried to tell him that and various other things (like hey maybe it's time to adjust some pickups) but like I said, he's good enough on guitar to the point think he knows everything. "Hey I'm a guitar instructor"....yup, he has a bunch of instructional videos.

 

[DanTravis62]

Me and others have tried to tell him that and various other things (like hey maybe it's time to adjust some pickups) but like I said, he's good enough on guitar to the point think he knows everything. "Hey I'm a guitar instructor"....yup, he has a bunch of instructional videos.

Wild

Gibson hasn't had bad QC and 10+ pound LPs for like a decade now

That's one of those situations though, where just like owning the gear doesn't mean you can use it effectively, just playing the guitar doesn't mean you know how tone works necessarily. They are all non-overlapping magisteria.

 

[The Polish Hammer]

I was a complete DiMarzio user for yearsssss.
For some reason decided one day to try a Seymour Custom-Custom in my Les Paul.
It was like night and day. Sounded like everything was turned up another 5 "clicks".. Absolutely LOVE the Custom Custom in my guitars now.
Lower the pole pieces two turns and raise the pickup. It's Godly sounding.

 

[Rottweiler]

I have been fortunate to not have to do a lot of pole piece rasing. But when you tilt the pickup a certain direction and play, you may hear certain notes with muted volume, or too much gain. You can lower the whole thing then raise a few of the pieces to give one a lower position for that one string. You can play a chord and notice one not not popping. I don't understand how you don't hear it and want to adjust

Definitely. I really learned this when I replaced P90s 20 years ago. You can only shim them to raise and there is a point where the pole pieces are the last step to get a nice even response across all strings.
Once I trained my ears, I can notice the string imbalance in my humbuckers also. Pickup and pole piece height can really make a big difference. I recently re did mine as it has been a few years and I'm mostly playing through my GPDI IR

Maybe it was the JD Gibson tech videos where I saw to match the pole pieces to the neck / bridge radius? Anyhow, I think some people make tiny height adjustments, don't notice enough of a difference, then write it off as though it doesn't matter.

 

[The~Kid]

Hot Rails or Cool Rails on a nice Tele is amazing tbh...... Just a fantastic paring IMO and IME *_*

 

[Speeddemon]

I was a complete DiMarzio user for yearsssss.
For some reason decided one day to try a Seymour Custom-Custom in my Les Paul.
It was like night and day. Sounded like everything was turned up another 5 "clicks".. Absolutely LOVE the Custom Custom in my guitars now.
Lower the pole pieces two turns and raise the pickup. It's Godly sounding.

Wow, that's almost opposite of my experience with the CC. I found it very, very squishy, middy and mild/too polite sounding.
FWIW,
I have the following Duncan pickups currently installed as bridge pickups, including the 3 'brothers' of the CC:
- SH-16 Custom/59 Hybrid in my Burny Randy Rhoads LPC from '83. (Oh btw @DanTravis62, that's a 12lbs guitar and it sounds awesome... But yeah, my left shoulder has a 'creak'... )
- SH-14 Custom 5 in my ESP Horizon NTII. (Had a JB in it stock)
- TB-4 JB in my Kramer SM-1
- TB-5 Custom in a no-name H-S arched top superstrat

Plenty of experience with a few others too: TB-6 Distortion in my Charvel So-Cal was fun; instant thrash machine.
But the CC ain't my thing.
I had a similar experience with the DiMarzio Breed Bridge model; too polite and bland. More low end than a CC though.
Breed Neck is a different beast FYI.

 

[The Polish Hammer]

Wow, that's almost opposite of my experience with the CC. I found it very, very squishy, middy and mild/too polite sounding.
FWIW,
I have the following Duncan pickups currently installed as bridge pickups, including the 3 'brothers' of the CC:
- SH-16 Custom/59 Hybrid in my Burny Randy Rhoads LPC from '83. (Oh btw @DanTravis62, that's a 12lbs guitar and it sounds awesome... But yeah, my left shoulder has a 'creak'... )
- SH-14 Custom 5 in my ESP Horizon NTII. (Had a JB in it stock)
- TB-4 JB in my Kramer SM-1
- TB-5 Custom in a no-name H-S arched top superstrat

Plenty of experience with a few others too: TB-6 Distortion in my Charvel So-Cal was fun; instant thrash machine.
But the CC ain't my thing.
I had a similar experience with the DiMarzio Breed Bridge model; too polite and bland. More low end than a CC though.
Breed Neck is a different beast FYI.

That's so weird the CC didn't do it for you..
It's a moderate output pickup but (for me) the picking response and the tight, but not too wooly bottom end make the guitar really easy to play.
Had a Duncan Distortion in a guitar once and it was just too "smeary" sounding for me.
JB's are great thou... They like any guitar you put one in.
Kramer SM-1... Good God I want one of those soo bad.