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thegummythegummy Frets: 4389
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I put P90s in a LP style guitar because I already have one with PAFs. I already have a Strat too and am very happy that they're all significantly different flavours.

So if I wanted to add a new pickup type to the family, what would be best to go for that is again significantly different enough to be its own thing next to those 3?
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  • AlegreeAlegree Frets: 665
    tFB Trader
    High output humbuckers?
    Alegree pickups & guitar supplies - www.alegree.co.uk
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  • normula1normula1 Frets: 640
    Filtertron, Tele? I'm in the process of building a guitar with wide range humbuckers.
    my trading feedback: http://thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/115582/normula1
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  • FunkfingersFunkfingers Frets: 14412
    Rickenbacker-style single coils.
    Dyna-Sonic
    Gold foil
    Firebird small humbucker
    You say, atom bomb. I say, tin of corned beef.
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  • meltedbuzzboxmeltedbuzzbox Frets: 10339
    Charlie Christian pickup
    The Bigsby was the first successful design of what is now called a whammy bar or tremolo arm, although vibrato is the technically correct term for the musical effect it produces. In standard usage, tremolo is a rapid fluctuation of the volume of a note, while vibrato is a fluctuation in pitch. The origin of this nonstandard usage of the term by electric guitarists is attributed to Leo Fender, who also used the term “vibrato” to refer to what is really a tremolo effect.
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  • SteveRobinsonSteveRobinson Frets: 7014
    tFB Trader
    Piezos
    Lacquer demos here: https://www.manchesterguitartech.co.uk/category/finish/
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  • chris78chris78 Frets: 9273
    A tele bridge pickup and gold foils
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  • stickyfiddlestickyfiddle Frets: 26927
    Happy to be the first to suggest Jazzmaster - lovely pickups and lovely guitars

    Also Filtertron, Firebirds and WRHB
    The Assumptions - UAE party band for all your rock & soul desires
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  • NelsonPNelsonP Frets: 3389
    edited April 2019
    Wankers

    https://www.premierguitar.com/articles/28806-sheptone-introduces-the-wanker-humbucker
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  • KittyfriskKittyfrisk Frets: 18681
    I refer you to  @gringopig's  & @stickyfiddle's latest threads on pickups.
    The ruins of my lifetime opinions & experience are still smouldering & I are mostly crying myself to sleep...
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  • thegummythegummy Frets: 4389
    Alegree said:
    High output humbuckers?
    That was one of my first thoughts - would they be different enough from PAFs (once amp gain has been compensated for) to be a separate option as much as, say, P90s?
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  • sweepysweepy Frets: 4180
    Filtertrons
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  • SassafrasSassafras Frets: 30289
    Sustainiacs.
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  • p90foolp90fool Frets: 31523
    Gold foils
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  • ICBMICBM Frets: 72253
    thegummy said:
    Alegree said:
    High output humbuckers?
    That was one of my first thoughts - would they be different enough from PAFs (once amp gain has been compensated for) to be a separate option as much as, say, P90s?
    Yes. More so, in fact.

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  • merciful-evansmerciful-evans Frets: 419
    Got an archtop? How about a Kent Armstrong Smooth Sam.
    I sometimes think, therefore I am intermittent
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  • 57Deluxe57Deluxe Frets: 7332
    Gold Foils again...
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  • FunkfingersFunkfingers Frets: 14412
    merciful-evans said:
    Got an archtop? 
    How about a Seymour Duncan Custom Shop “Johnny Smith” mini humbucker? 
    You say, atom bomb. I say, tin of corned beef.
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