humbucking pickup

[pool shark]

hey guys
whats a good humbucker pick up?
i play punk-rock and a little ska and a little living end (obviously)
i got a guitar with three single coils and get real bad hum when im practising drives me nuts and just want to know which humbucker is the way to go

cheers

[Fritz]

so you currently have single coils ??

in that case i'd just do what i did to one of my teles...
Put a humbucking replacement in.. I went for a dimarzio fast track II. did the job.. hotted the guitar up quite abit

[tanguyen]

On the topic of pickups, I have a guitar in the shape of a Fender (an Ashton to be precise) and it's currently got two humbuckers. Is it possible to fit in a hilotron in there or do humbuckers and hilotrons have different dimensions sizewise?

[pool shark]

so you currently have single coils ??

in that case i'd just do what i did to one of my teles...
Put a humbucking replacement in.. I went for a dimarzio fast track II. did the job.. hotted the guitar up quite abit

yeah man i dunno if my pickups are faulty or not i know that single coil pickups can pickup the electromagnetic radiation shit when i took my guitar in for a service i asked him to check the pick ups but i dont think he did the cunt

and how much did that set you back? did you that yourself?

[Fritz]

Yeah I put it in myself and purchased the pickup for $160 I think.

For the other guy... Hmmm i'm probably the biggest Gretsch head in the country (apart from chris cheney and maybe john @ guitar crazy) so its gotta mean something when I say Dont put in a hilotron.. They have insanely weak output and dont do guitars justice in my opinion. Go filtertron or dynasonic before hilotron

[thelivingvines]

I would go with filtertrons or maybe some seymour duncans- I have some custom ones fitted to a godin and they are awesome pick ups. No idea of the cost in aussie dollars though.

[pool shark]

im not aussie im a kiwi lol

i heard the seymour duncun invader was sposed to haul ass

[damo0945]

seymour duncan invader is the hottest seymour duncan pickup, it costs $200-$300, tom delonge (blink 182) uses them in his strats, theyre frickin loud

the hottest gibson pickup is a dirty fingers, i dont know what its worth, tom delonge uses them in his gibson things (ES-330).

[mel_bound]

not everyone wants to sound like Blink 182 though :p

[pool shark]

yeah he had cool strat tho not a big fan of his gibson though. its like a chocolate colour isn't it?

[tanguyen]

So it's possible to put in a TV Jones pickup into a normal (if you could say normal) guitar without having to carve out some wood from the guitar?

[Fritz]

should be fine

[damo0945]

not everyone wants to sound like Blink 182 though :p

yeah but theyre probly good pickups for a big loud sound