| Personally, I think Seymour Duncan pickups are excellant. I recently
replaced my Telecaster pickups with quarter pounders, and have noticed
a huge difference in output, harmonics, tone. The guitar sounded
really dead before, but the Duncans have brought it back to life.
As far as the '59's are concerned, these are very authentic copies
of the PAF pickups in both sound and looks. Some people may dissagree,
but in some regards the Seymour Duncans may be better than buying
original PAF's and installing them in your guitar, because the old
original pickups would tend to vary greatly from one to the next
as far as the number of windings, type of wire and potting used,
output, and color of bobins, but the Seymours will be consistant,
and are available in any color bobbins you want including black/black
white/white, or zebra black/white.
One other consideration you might consider is the use of a coil
cut switch, which cuts the pickups down to single coil, for that
"thin" sound. Rather than just having 3 sounds available, you would
essentially have 6 sounds available. The only problem being, where
do you place the switch. Some people drill a hole and install another
toggle switch, but I believe you can possible get a pot with a pullout
function that will facilitate the coil cut, without drilling any
holes in your guitar.
Either way, Seymour Duncan pickups get my vote of confidence !!
Mark Jacques
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| A couple more thoughts about pickups. As long as you are using
dual coil humbuckers, you should be totally happy with Duncans.
However, if you use single coils, and are fussy about noise,
switching to a Duncan single coil may give even more noise,
as it puts out a stronger signal, and picks up hum and noise
better. I have seen many people replace single coil pickups
in their Fenders, and other guitars with EMG low impedence
active pickups, as these offer a wide range of tones, and
totally noise immune operation. I know you are talking Dual
coil 59's so this is not a concern, just thought I'd mention
this for your information.
Mark J.
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| Article 31168 of rec.music.makers.guitar:
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Date: 17 Oct 1994 18:28:05 -0400
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In article <1994Aug5.122955.23341@mlb.semi.harris.com>,
mgp@suntan.mlb.semi.harris.com (Mike Porter) writes:
I'm not on too often but try giving me a call... will be in Texas next
week for the Arlington Vintage Guitar show. Hope to help you...SWD
805-964-9610- ask for Ken, Phil or Tim.....SWD
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