Wich Pickup can you use, on your Electric Guitar for a good recording

[musicopro]

Well mis amigos, i think is very important the mics that you use, the angle of caption, how far you put the mic in front of your amp, but i think in my opinion, that pickups are also very important. In my experience i`ve tried dimarzio, seymour duncan, tone rider, luthiers pickup, etc, and is very diverse it depends mostly in wich style of music do you play, and what guitar you use and what color of sound you prefer. So i will make a simple list for each style and guitar ok i hope this can be usefull:

1. Blues: Dimarzo class of 55, any tonerider, telecaster pickups, custom single pickups works good to, and of course stratocaster standar pickups, gibosn pickups works good to, but they dont have that clarity.

2. Funk: this is very simple for my opinion theres oly one choice Stratocaster STandard pickups, some ibanez prestige, can br good to, but i really dont think so heehe

3. Metal: is easy any high power pickup like seymour duncan distortion, Dimarzio Super distortion, etc etc

4. Rock: medium power pickups, alnico 2 pro, paf pro, evolution, tone zone,
humbucker from hell, screamen demon etc.

Well i hope you gave me your own opinion on this item so, enjoy music don´t fight with it, so long bye

but off course you can play any style with any pickup you want saludos byebye

[uab9253]

I am a firm believer in that it is oversimplifying to say this pickup for this style, that for that. Although some pickups do have a completely unique personality, I have done acceptable funk tracks on a Super Distortion and Death Metal on Seymore Pearly gates. Lace sensors are their own beast as well, and I can almost always pick out the EMG's, which I don't care for unless Zakk Wylde is using them.

That being said, I wouldn't strongly disagree with any of your assessments, just to add that you can use whatever you need if other conditions are right. Ted Nugent used to crank some serious rock on a big old hollowbody Gibson Birdland Jazz box.

[musicopro]

i don´t think so, thats kind of relative, off course you can play with any pickup you want, any style but, you can added more color with this examples, i mean play funk with a Stratocaster instead of a bc rich with a trembucker distortion for my ear at list sounds better with the first option, i´m just recomended some choices for other people, buy off course you can always choose what any you want if you want to play jazz for example with a warrior jackson with a emg 88 pickups and sounds good for you, well my friend is your option cheers byebye

[russv99]

Tone is important but it's not worth getting too hung up about it as long you can get something of quality. Don't forget the difference between a single coil and humbucker etc etc is completely lost on the average non-guitar playing listener. Plus amp distortion and eq\compression in the recording process can alter the tone beyond what you started with on the guitar.

[musicopro]

well nobody seems to make any help on this item, but if you have something important to say, and not just argue with the obvius things, pleae give us an opinion or any comments about PICKUPS hehehe so long a i still got the hope that someone say somthing good and not just been socha ano than you bye

[uab9253]

So is it correct to say that only if we agree with your list 100%, that is the only acceptable response? I think most were agreeing with the basics of your list but to say one size fits all is not correct. If that feels like arguing, then I guess it is.