Duffy
New Member
Yeah, those are real good stock pickups. Put some raw nickel/silver covers on them and see what you think. You can brush the covers with a scotch brite pad if you like the looks of the ones on some of those top of the line PRS USA guitars. It's easy to do and the covers are about five dollars each from Philadelphia Luthier tools - they have a website. I have bought over five sets and still have two sets to put on.
My next set are going on my SE Santana, Santana Yellow - an awesome guitar. I can't stand the look of zebra pickups and find them very out of place looking and unsightly. Solid cream pickups or solid black I like. The Dimarzio "SuperDistortions" come stock in solid cream humbuckers and look good on most guitars. I saw a video of Greg Allman playing a black strat with a pair of cream humbuckers on it with his new band on YouTube the other day. The guitar looked old so I suppose they were "SuperDistortions", the first aftermarket humbuckers and they still sound really great today. Try one some day if you get a chance, they are inexpensive, about sixty dollars a piece, compared to around a hundred each for the really good Gibson's and Seymour Duncans. Plus the sound is remarkable with strong upper mids and restrained highs with zero ice pickiness and a full bass tone. They make many a guitar sound great.
My next set are going on my SE Santana, Santana Yellow - an awesome guitar. I can't stand the look of zebra pickups and find them very out of place looking and unsightly. Solid cream pickups or solid black I like. The Dimarzio "SuperDistortions" come stock in solid cream humbuckers and look good on most guitars. I saw a video of Greg Allman playing a black strat with a pair of cream humbuckers on it with his new band on YouTube the other day. The guitar looked old so I suppose they were "SuperDistortions", the first aftermarket humbuckers and they still sound really great today. Try one some day if you get a chance, they are inexpensive, about sixty dollars a piece, compared to around a hundred each for the really good Gibson's and Seymour Duncans. Plus the sound is remarkable with strong upper mids and restrained highs with zero ice pickiness and a full bass tone. They make many a guitar sound great.