POLL: What brand of pickups do forum users prefer?

[nightlight]

Asking about the brand you gravitate towards when you get a new guitar that doesn't sound the way you want it to. You can select two.

 

[cobrahead1030]

Suhr for modern
Fralin for old school

 

[Detroit1973]

depends on the guitar. i have some with EMG's & those are being trasitioned to either SD or MCP. I also have 1 guitar that has a duncan distortion in it & that might be changed for a MCP Afwayu.

 

[ners]

BKP in a few guitars but I do love my Lollar Imperials.

 

[Robostyle]

Wolfetone

 

[VonBonfire]

Gibson and Lollar.

 

[Findthetone1]

I'm not particular to a certain brand. What works best in that guitar I guess.

There is lore of a RigTalk local pickup winding legend that went by the brand name of ToneNerd. His pickups were so magical, that panties drop at the mere mention of them. Alas, he made the journey to the Land of the Rising Sun to stand upon the mountain and prophesize to all that listen, rendering his musical magical pickups unavailable....for now (we hope).

 

[fusedbrain]

MCP for the most part. My #1 pickup choice is the Detroiter neck and bridge for low-medium output (bridge is 9k-ish).
Afwayu for the heat in the bridge position (16.5k) if thats what I want for that guitar.
MCP T-wrecks are great for a low output t-top thing @ 7.5k + or -.
The 2nd degree bb's are good too, but I prefer the Detroiters with just that little bit extra juice.

I also really like the Duncan custom 5 for a slightly brighter and scooped tone vs the Afwayu. Bottom end is a touch bigger too, but can be a bit much in an already beefy sounding guitar.
Another guy on here says its the best pickup duncan makes, and I agree

Most pickup companies have a few models I find sound good, but every time I switch a guitar back to MCP's, it just sounds better.

 

[Fusionbear]

Suhr never lets me down. I have them on most of my guitars...

 

[jasonP]

I have 2 Fender HSS guitars with Suhr pickups, one with an Aldrich and other with SSH+ with V63+ and V63's.. really like Suhr pickups.

 

[Noch]

emg just always ready to record. premixed it feels. solid.

 

[Nitrobattery]

Suhr. I have them in my 5 Suhr guitars and I've been slowly switching my non-Suhr guitars over to their pickups as well.

 

[Hiwatts-n-Gibsons]

Whoever makes a good version of the pickup I'm wanting. Might be TV Jones, Duncan, Gibson, Lollar, etc...

Going by whose pickups I've had the most of it would be between Gibson, TV Jones, and Lollar.

 

[Brain Becker]

EMG baby

 

[Chase42147]

When I was a teenager, I was obsessed with EMG's, and actives in general. Now I always use Seymour Duncan passives (particularly the JB and Distortion)

 

[stephen sawall]

Fender, Gibson, EMG, Seymour Duncan currently.

JB and Distortion are probably my favorites.

 

[angelspade]

Wild to see EMG in the lead. I love them...use them about 60% of the time.

 

[inyarak74]

Aldrich in Les Paul, emg eclipse

 

[itsgoodnow]

Suhr, Mojotone, BKP, Lundgren. Depends on the guitar but those tend to be the ones that stick around.

 

[nightlight]

I'm quite partial to the EMGs in my favourite guitar, but I haven't thought about swapping the pups in other guitars to them. I also like BKPs, with three different types in my guitars. The OEMs that came with my ESP Ronnie Wood are also sick sounding.