How Much Difference Do New Pickups Make To Your Guitar Tone?

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How Much Difference Do New Pickups Make To Your Guitar Tone?

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4 жыл бұрын

Have you ever wondered how much difference putting new and better quality pickups in your guitar makes to your tone? I certainly have, so I bought the Seymour Duncan Hot Rodded Set and had them installed in my Cort M600 to find out.
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@Dmitryrusss 11 ай бұрын

Thank you bro! On the record, the difference is almost invisible, and the live guitar began to sound amazing.

@jrdoughty13 Жыл бұрын

From what I can hear, clean is a night and day difference. Once you put on the distortion your pickups were secondary to your effects

@angusorvid8840 2 жыл бұрын

Both sets sound good, but the Duncan set is a lot crisper. I find that the Duncan JB/Jazz set is at its best in set neck mahogany guitars. Very crisp, great harmonics, really cuts through, sounds great clean, etc. Great classic rock tones. Great video, great playing.

@panchopicapiedra1902 3 жыл бұрын

Great riffs man

@JasonAyalaSpare 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you 🤘

@saloguitarr222 4 жыл бұрын

Nice video 👏🏼🙌🏼

@JasonAyalaSpare 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you 🙌

@scorpyto 2 жыл бұрын

cover - muddy, without cover - bright. It all depends on the style you are playing. Probably removing the covers from the original pickups will have almost if not exact the same tone as the SD. Considering the price of the SD I would first try removing the cover.

@swaggadiesstudio Жыл бұрын

I second this. unless you have some really bad cheap pickups that are barely magnetic, they all do essentially the same thing when made correctly.

@gerardoromano3436 Жыл бұрын

Cort M600 Duncan Designed pickups stock are designed to use covers, they are part of the magnetic field, IF you remove the covers (not an easy tasj BTW) the results are unpredictable, pickup magnetics parameters go down the toilet once you remove the covers. I did it to this same guitar as the one on the vid Cort M600 just the trem version (M600T) and didn´t like the reults at all. Not worh the effort. Without covers the sound was harsh and spicky and clean tone was awfull with almost no highs and prominent lows. Just a waste of time and effort. And I can use a soldering iron, imagine pay a tech to do that job.

@PetrisonRocha Жыл бұрын

New set has more clarity to it but the old one sounded pretty good already.

@WW-1995 2 жыл бұрын

Since the pickup cover impact the sounds, this comparison can't work.

@sunnytaufiq07 Жыл бұрын

I prefer the old original pick up for clean as it's more mellow. But with gain felt it almost identical. Unless for crunch the SD sound more crispy.

@dimitritsopanian1146 4 жыл бұрын

Seymours are absolutely amazing, what I notice about them compared to full blown pickups like EMG’s and Bare Knuckles is they have more chord definition when using full blown distortion and high gained tones, obviously that too depends on the tone and amplification you are using, but I’d love to get my hands on some Seymour Duncan’s one day

@JasonAyalaSpare 4 жыл бұрын

They are so much more defined and the split neck sounds just like my strat. I haven't put it down since I got it back.

@angelserrano5583 3 жыл бұрын

Hello, what songs did you play? They sound really great. Amazing vid btw. Thanks!

@JasonAyalaSpare 3 жыл бұрын

Most of the examples come from the same song which is one of mine called The Eternal Grudge.

@stephanbriansoares3370 3 жыл бұрын

He played O Preço by Charlie Brown Jr

@stephanbriansoares3370 3 жыл бұрын

The sound is different from a les paul?

@the72u7h4 3 жыл бұрын

Hmm, seeing this I wonder if it's even worth it at all. Other than a lower output compared to a high output pickup, I can't really hear much diff except between going single coil and humbucker on any pickup which is obvious.

@moxieallen5428 3 жыл бұрын

If you cant hear the difference than your not far in the tone journey. One day you will notice and become a snob like the rest of us gear heads. My les paul has burstbuckers and I call them boomer pickups cause it has that classic rock sound. But that's a tone I'm not 100% looking for. I need that crisp clean cutting edge sound. I'm installing dave mustaine pickups in my guitar tomorrow and its gonna make a HUGE difference.

@josephwalton487 2 жыл бұрын

@@moxieallen5428 No, I think you are blind. As well as anyone else noticing a difference to the pickups in this video. One key element to point out in this video is the completely different mic placement he has for the stock vs the Seymours. To make this video more accurate that mic needs to be in PRECISELY the same position, regardless of ANY change made to the guitar. When he plays on the stock pups...note the mic stand nowhere near a freaking cabinet of any kind. Yet, when he plays the Seymour Pups the cab has the mic in "the spot". Essentially making this video highly inaccurate. To the point of being laughable. As well as a bullshit, utter asshole move to pull on a company's products just to push a "popular" brand's products.

@richardx4456 3 жыл бұрын

Can you recommend us to try Aliexpress Pickups, can't afford SD pickups at the moment lol

@WW-1995 2 жыл бұрын

Any aliexpress Pickups with a lot of orders and with a minimal score of 4.5 is good.

@user-lx3dn9bt9e 3 жыл бұрын

If you removed the covers from the stock pickups you'd get very similiar if not the same result really

@scorpyto 2 жыл бұрын

that is true

@jeffroberts_tunes 2 жыл бұрын

To my ears the old pickups *so* much better both the mellow and driving tones. The new ones are nasal and have a lot more extraneous noise on the high end. IMO of course.

@MadScienceHacksTV 3 жыл бұрын

Hate to say it but, I prefer the old pickups.

@JasonAyalaSpare 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, the recording doesn't really do it justice. But still, it's a subjective thing.

@MadScienceHacksTV 3 жыл бұрын

@@JasonAyalaSpare Depends if you're looking for note separation (modern HB) or a little breakup (50s PAF). I've heard some really expensive pickups sound really bad simply because the pickup heights were all wrong. They both sound good...and if you told me that you paid $150 for either set, I'd believe you.

@MadScienceHacksTV 3 жыл бұрын

Oh and that's a beautiful guitar! If it's made in Indonesia, I can imagine that the build quality is as good as anything out of USA or Japan.

@JasonAyalaSpare 3 жыл бұрын

@@MadScienceHacksTV It's Korean (I think) bought it new in the mid 2000's.

@MadScienceHacksTV 3 жыл бұрын

@@JasonAyalaSpare I have a Cort KX5FR (made in Indonesia) and I still can't believe how well made they are ...for the money.

@jasonism123 2 жыл бұрын

The stock m600 comes with Duncan Design pickups right?

@JasonAyalaSpare 2 жыл бұрын

No, it came with generic PAF style pickups.

@jasonism123 2 жыл бұрын

The last M600 that came out already had Duncan design pick ups. You can check videos here in KZfaq.

@JasonAyalaSpare 2 жыл бұрын

@@jasonism123 cool, I didn't know that.

@montewalsh5038 2 жыл бұрын

Yes, as of 2014 when my M600T was made they did. I wouldn't change them.

@JesusBxd 3 жыл бұрын

Me gustó más las de cobertura metálica 😅 creo que son las que trae de fabrica.

@donaldsmith4249 Жыл бұрын

I actually liked the sound of the original pickups better, would you be interested in selling them?

@JasonAyalaSpare Жыл бұрын

I've had a few people say that.

@markrichardson5442 Жыл бұрын

Not sure what the cost was ?. From my experience, the sound you get from expensive pickups does not warrant the change. Also if you have weak pickups, compensate with your Amp and Effects.

@lumberlikwidator8863 Ай бұрын

Sorry but I liked the factory pickups better. I have a guitar with SD ‘59s in it and another with a Custom Custom bridge and a Jazz in the neck, and I don’t like the way either one sounds. I guess I’m just not into Duncan pickups.

@Dthraco 3 жыл бұрын

I had a PRS CE 24 that had this mid-range ‘honk’ about it. Swapping the pickups helped, but the guitar’s tonal character remained. In the end, it’s the guitar - the woods and it’s tone that make the biggest effect on it’s tone. (IMHO)

@lone-wolf-1 7 ай бұрын

Yes! Completely agreed! Most common opinion is that the pickups are everything. But they never listened attentive to the unplugged sound. I noticed that whatever pickups are on the guitar, from clean to medium gain, the voicing of the sole guitar always shines thru if plugged in. If you try to change the sound strictly with pickups, the characteristic sound of the naked guitar can clash with the frequency spectrum of the pickups. Often the pickups take away from the frequencies the guitar can do the best, or accentuate the frequencies wich are mediocre on that particular guitar. I only change pickups if they can not replicate all the sound I hear unplugged and compliment the unplugged sound. Then I chose individually a pickup wich additionally compensates what I maybe miss on the unplugged sound. But first of all I tweak on the hardware and construction of the guitar to improve the unplugged sound. Pickups are always the last parts I change! For most people it‘s the first (beside tuners). I swap tuners to locking only for sound reasons or/and for additional headstock weight. And if she sounds perfect unplugged, I often don‘t want to swap the pickups anymore.