Cheap pups that suprise with great sound!

[Inazone]

The rail humbuckers on my old Dean EVO Phantom were fantastic. Very similar in tone (in mahogany) to the DiMarzio PAF Pro. Best no-name pickups I've ever played.

Some of the Kent Armstrongs in the `90s Jacksons were great too. I can get a dead-on Slayer sound through the JP-10 bridge `bucker in my SL2, and the neck JVA-1 on my old AT2T had the best clean tone I have ever heard from a humbucker.

[TommyD]

Cheap pups that suprise with great sound!

> I always liked the tone of the Carvin M22SD,and they were 45 bucks when I bought some last. I really like the adjustable poles too,lets me set them to match the radius of the bridge so I get a better bite on the D and G strings,without losing output on bends. Kinda like a Dimebucker with a raised rail. Tommy D.

[Dave L]

+3 on the GFS´s.

I tend to believe there´s a time and place for just about anything. An Ibanez V8 (the V7 is the neck version, right?) ended up being the best pickup in the world for my buddy´s Peavey Vandenberg, eliminating about fifteen different "name" pickups in the process even though it sounded bad in the Ibanez it once came out of. Go figure!

[mm2002]

For good cheap bridge pups, the Duncan Designed HB-102B, and Ibanez V-2 are both pretty damned decent. The V-2 is my favorite of the two though.

[maxboost]

GFS lil puncher tele (neck), crunchy PAF, dream180 (neck). Ibanez (Dimarzio design MIJ ??)v1,v2, v8, inf1&2, BillLawrenceUSA xl500, Dillion Avalanche (johnson?)and a few no names.

Don't like the Jackson j80c tho. Sound like ass when palm muting.

[ambitotpuphang]

Used pickups. They surprise with great sound and go cheaper then new ones.

[heartfielder]

Gotta say the Ibanez V7 & V8 pups on the RG 570's are f%$#in' great !!! love 'em !!! Check 'em out, you can have some cheap on Ebay or the like.

[DaveC]

I have a strat with a dimarzio class of 59 and two vintage fender pups.
I recently put a squire signiture pup in the midle position of a CX291(Sd hot rails at bridge) It sounds loads better than the more expensive pups on the strat

[spencer4hire]

Duncan Designed HB-103B. Love that pickup. My SC1 Surfcaster had it and my
DX6 does too. Sounds like a Duncan Distortion with an edge.

[LastInLine]

I had an Ibanez Talman (a mercy purchase from a friend who needed money) which had 3 lipstick tube single coil p/u's. They had the most amazing clean to slightly distorted sound. Think SRV type tone. If the neck on that guitar wasn't so thin I would have held onto it.

[86barettaguy]

Kramer Quad-rail pickups are awesome.

what guitars did you try them in? Had them in my bolt-ons and they didn't really shine there, pretty muddy (compared to the DiM dual tone that recently went into my other bolt-on). But I seem to recall them sounding better in a neck-through with the licensed floyd swapped for an OFR...

[straycat]

Side note DiMarzio makes The V series and USA IBZ pickups for Ibanez.

[slash-ed]

IIRC, that's true for the Dimarzio-Ibz, but not for the V series.

[Dreamland_Rebel]

the J50bc is quite impressive in an alder body, even without the preamp.

[JetFixxxer]

Duncan Designed HB-103B.

+1