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I think the things that make me shudder are the things that probably make every winder wonder why he does what he does: unrealistic wants: 'I'd like this mini humbucker to sound just like a Fender Wide Range ... oh and be in 'camo' finish, and to be sub £80.00 ...'. Or I want to sound just like .......... (insert name of artist here).
We are not miracle workers, we just use our experience to give you guys the best sound we can. Sometimes you don't listen to us: when you adamantly say you want a 17k alnico 2 humbucker with a cover ... and we say that it'll be mud city ... and you say ... but 'such and such' on this or that forum says that's just what I need, so make it please. We go okay you're the boss ... then the set comes back in two weeks ... guess why ... then the guy asks to swap the unsalable custom set for the pickups you originally recommended. Meh, you take the hit, swap the pickups, and put it down to good customer relations.
Yes, those are real examples of things I've been asked for ... and for pickups that sound like plum cake a with lemon zest top end! Please, please, please no food related sound descriptions!!!!
Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog 7 String.org profile and message
If you're not getting there though, I can sell you an amp blanket.
Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog 7 String.org profile and message
”Need a new bass pickup making. Yeah. Bass.
Precision mate.
Yeah split coil.
Sound? Come on, nobody gives a shit what the bass sounds like..
Next week? Lovely, I’ll paypal.”
So dealing with muppets like me should be the least of their worries!
I used to change pickups in my guitars a lot, quite obsessively in fact, despite the fact I've never played a gig in my life. Made some good choices. made some terrible ones - it's a learning process. I certainly got very good at soldering. So I think they do make a difference, especially in a broad-brush way - ceramic vs. alnico, high output vs. low output.
What I don't get is the endless nitpicking over the seemingly infinite number of hugely expensive PAF replicas out there. I'm sure they're all very good, but the differences are so subtle... it's cork-sniffing of the highest order.
It was the same with pedals obsessing over which builder had the best fairy dust until I built a load of them and realised a huge part of the differences in pedals I’d previously had was down to parts tolerances and very minor mods.
If I ever did "need" some pedals I would probably just go Boss. Not Hugo Boss.