Anybody Tried Seymour Duncan Antiquity Pickups?

Goo has.....
I think I have ---

they are very nice --- here is a very interesting concept I read in a story not long ago!

The original hard rock sound was not HIGH POWER PICKUPS through HIGH POWER GAIN AMPS (Like MEsa) the ORIGINAL sound was lower imp pickups through DIMED Marshalls --- "that is the tone" ---
trying to recreate that tone --- with hot pups and high gain amps and stomp boxes is a futile endeavor
 
^ Is that a strat? Are you sure??? :) It has that bite that I really like.

MY SG Junior has that bite and growl, but my SG Special does not - so, I'm hoping to change that.
 
eSGEe said:
Goo has.....
I think I have ---

they are very nice --- here is a very interesting concept I read in a story not long ago!

The original hard rock sound was not HIGH POWER PICKUPS through HIGH POWER GAIN AMPS (Like MEsa) the ORIGINAL sound was lower imp pickups through DIMED Marshalls --- "that is the tone" ---
trying to recreate that tone --- with hot pups and high gain amps and stomp boxes is a futile endeavor
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yes it is the formula...get that volume up & the clarity of a low output...is all i play ..balanced for a killer mid positon
 
Want to make a comment after the great LP comparison recently...the jb/59 is amazing...in the LP. It has a lil more or dif texture that the Gibby equivalents...i like them all..the 59 neck is so full..

Have had 59 bridge/phatcat in LP..amazing. The extra hottness to me is for the diming of leads..very rarely leave it on 10 for any rythym'''here is the pickups i have you can hear them on the songs i do..verys specifc on each & every song..that pickup---into amp into speaker a unit of tone..not just any single part
 
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have
490/490
original T tops
490/498
496/500
Min SD/p90
P90
Nighthawk hum & mini hum(mind blowing chord & rhythm recording guitar)
P rail/carvin j22
Gotoh Orville originals(very very PAF-brite -open -airy)
61 Zebra
Alnico 2(Epi Dot)
JB/59

These are in Gibson Mahogany Bodies very important in a comparison of other bodies & a maple neck will ad snap as well as neck profile..the bigger the better...if you guitar sustains & rings out before you plug it in..it will sound very good into amps...

i wish everybody would learn to play the amp & guitar for a week before..modding & pedals...,might not need a gear site..lol...cause you learned the eq curve naturally..then just influence or enhance...makes life so easy..no noise & all the money on the guitar & amp..why stuff it all thru a tiny chip on the floor...being silly..but that vid on JB...get that guitar in the zone..not much ya want to alter it
 
I like Seymour Duncan pickups in general. They make such a huge variety of pickups, including their Antiquity series. The only SD Antiquity pup that I have is their Antiquity II Tele bridge on my PGK "Esquire" build of a couple years ago. Damn guitar sounds like a proper, uhm... Tele... :D.

Unfortunately I have no experience with SD Antiquity P90s, but I do have a set of their non-Antiquity P90s in one of my Hamers. Their Vintage P90 (SP90-1n) at the neck and their Custom P90 (SP90-3b) at the bridge. IMO, this is an excellent combination that makes for good chemistry. However, I didn't care for their Hot P90 (SP90-2n) in the Hamer's neck position, which I yanked in favor of the Vintage P90.
 
I really like the sound of this Mule Humbucker by Bareknuckle pickups. Go to there site listen to the amp, click on Classic Rock

The Mule humbucker set
 
BFT Gibson said:
i wish everybody would learn to play the amp & guitar for a week before..modding & pedals...,might not need a gear site..lol...cause you learned the eq curve naturally..then just influence or enhance...makes life so easy..no noise & all the money on the guitar & amp..why stuff it all thru a tiny chip on the floor...being silly..but that vid on JB...get that guitar in the zone..not much ya want to alter it
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Also, and I cannot stress this enough, a speaker swap for your amp is going to make a far bigger and more immediate change/impact to your sound than any pickup change ever could.
 
Mail order guitars are like a mail order bride they may look good on the outside but what's on the inside that counts.
I wanted a ES335 I played over 100 of them before I found the one.
My friend Scott got a DT SG and My friend Mark did also I got one to I got the tone turd out of the bunch I put real PAF pickups in it
It sucks to this day. I wish I was tone deaf sometimes.
 
syscokid said:
I like Seymour Duncan pickups in general. They make such a huge variety of pickups, including their Antiquity series. The only SD Antiquity pup that I have is their Antiquity II Tele bridge on my PGK "Esquire" build of a couple years ago. Damn guitar sounds like a proper, uhm... Tele... :D.

Unfortunately I have no experience with SD Antiquity P90s, but I do have a set of their non-Antiquity P90s in one of my Hamers. Their Vintage P90 (SP90-1n) at the neck and their Custom P90 (SP90-3b) at the bridge. IMO, this is an excellent combination that makes for good chemistry. However, I didn't care for their Hot P90 (SP90-2n) in the Hamer's neck position, which I yanked in favor of the Vintage P90.
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I'm confident that the Antiquity PUs will give me what I want. I've also noted a few times people commenting on how good the SD Vintage P90 sounds.

The Gibson P90s in the Special are ok, but a tad bland for me. The Bare knuckle neck P90 (Nantucket) didn't particularly impress me in either the PRS or Epiphone I have it in - I'll probably put it in the Special at some stage to see how it sounds. I also have a Peter Florance P90 (bridge, voodoo) which is very highly rated, but doesn't do much for me in the Epiphone LP Special - I'll probably drop that into the Gibson at some stage, so I have a few pickups to play around with. I'm throwing that horrible circuitboard away too...
 
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