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I was just looking at the Pickup Brand Central (list of pickups) which is a great thread by the way link below.
https://www.unofficialwarmoth.com/index.php?topic=27243.0
In the guitar world there are some who will just buy a guitar and get on and play it. At the other end of the spectrum are tone chasers or even cork sniffer levels of seeking out minutiae and refinement.
Back in the day you really could not get replacement pickups like you can today. The first I remember were DiMarzio, EMGs and Seymour Duncan. And the options for traditional or noiseless pickups are a great option to have.
If we look at guitars folks describe the main guitar types you might need as a Strat, Les Paul, Tele and 335 and certainly with those four stock you are likely to get most classic tones. Perhaps add a Super Strat with a Floyd and EMGs in an HSS config and then you are most likely there.
Add in tuning your guitar, good technique, amp and effects and really how much difference are we going to get between variants of certain styles of pickups?
Clearly a single coil strat type pickup is different to a Humbucker such as a PAF or PAF style. But if you take just strat pickups as an example the numerous variety of brands and overwound, underwound, vintage, unicorn wax dipped under a waxing moon where does it end?
So the poll above is just a bit of fun, but I am interested in what your view is. Have pickups just reached a level of market saturation for wire wrapped round a magnet and a law of diminishing returns have arrived or tone nirvana may be in the next pickup?
https://www.unofficialwarmoth.com/index.php?topic=27243.0
In the guitar world there are some who will just buy a guitar and get on and play it. At the other end of the spectrum are tone chasers or even cork sniffer levels of seeking out minutiae and refinement.
Back in the day you really could not get replacement pickups like you can today. The first I remember were DiMarzio, EMGs and Seymour Duncan. And the options for traditional or noiseless pickups are a great option to have.
If we look at guitars folks describe the main guitar types you might need as a Strat, Les Paul, Tele and 335 and certainly with those four stock you are likely to get most classic tones. Perhaps add a Super Strat with a Floyd and EMGs in an HSS config and then you are most likely there.
Add in tuning your guitar, good technique, amp and effects and really how much difference are we going to get between variants of certain styles of pickups?
Clearly a single coil strat type pickup is different to a Humbucker such as a PAF or PAF style. But if you take just strat pickups as an example the numerous variety of brands and overwound, underwound, vintage, unicorn wax dipped under a waxing moon where does it end?
So the poll above is just a bit of fun, but I am interested in what your view is. Have pickups just reached a level of market saturation for wire wrapped round a magnet and a law of diminishing returns have arrived or tone nirvana may be in the next pickup?