To change the pickups for the mustang

weeping_moon · Post by **weeping_moon** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 2:02 pm

What do you folks recommend? I want fat sound, sustain and a hell of distortion.. And no im not throwing in a double humbucker...
I changed on one of my guitar.. But have another mustang to.. So i thought it would be nice with some advice.
Here is the first guitar i changed the pickups on:

So can you also upload an image of the changed pickups on your mustang guitar...

Thom · Post by **Thom** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 2:05 pm

Where are you based and what sort of money do you want to spend?
What did you put in your other Mustang and how do you want these new pickups to differ from those?

weeping_moon · Post by **weeping_moon** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 2:10 pm

its dimarzio pickups.. one air norton in the bridge and a dp186 in the neck position.
its wonderful sound in those mics.. i hated the orginal mics that was there before. the sound was so thin, no sustain, the tone died out directly..
i could recommed these to anyone on a competition mustang..

weeping_moon · Post by **weeping_moon** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 2:14 pm

the sound became fat and loud... the mics was putted in as 2 humbuckers.
now i want more fatter sound and louder..
so i thought of air norton in neck and a super distortion s in bridge...

hows the sound from seymore ducan hot rails?

Thom · Post by **Thom** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 2:26 pm

I'm not a massive fan of rail pickups - they sound a bit brittle to me.
I used to have Seymour Duncan JB Jr pups in my Mustang. They were pretty good.
If you want a MASSIVE single coil sound - get a Bareknuckle Sinner for the bridge position: LINKY.

weeping_moon · Post by **weeping_moon** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 2:31 pm

could you upload a picture of your guitar so i can see how it looks?
what do you think of dimarzio?

Thom · Post by **Thom** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 2:40 pm

It's just a regular Strat-sized pickup, so will fit under any cover you put it under - strat or Mustang.

I've got no experience of dimarzio pickups.

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 2:44 pm

I use Hot Rails, cheap ones at that not even Duncans.
The Mustang gives me a heavy sound with a Hot Rail, I also use it in a Punk band, they stand up to humbuckers IMO.

weeping_moon · Post by **weeping_moon** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 2:59 pm

yeah.. i dont use cheap ones. i want the best quality...
so dimarzio or duncan is the pickups for me.

Sparky · Post by **Sparky** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 3:30 pm

How about some Lace Sensors? Since you're all about spending money, I assume you have no interest in GFS? What a shame.

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 3:53 pm

weeping_moon wrote:yeah.. i dont use cheap ones. i want the best quality...
so dimarzio or duncan is the pickups for me.

yeah, the subtle differences are so apparent through a distorted 60w stack

I dont blame you for wanting the best, we all set out that way, but i realised i was paying an extra Â£50 just for a brand name in this case.

weeping_moon · Post by **weeping_moon** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 5:04 pm

Sparky wrote:How about some Lace Sensors? Since you're all about spending money, I assume you have no interest in GFS? What a shame.

What are you talking about? Lace sensors? Whats that? GFS?
Whats a shame? Im talking about pickups here, nothing else!

Sorry for my bad english, but im from finland...

DanHeron · Post by **DanHeron** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 5:12 pm

weeping_moon wrote:
Sparky wrote:How about some Lace Sensors? Since you're all about spending money, I assume you have no interest in GFS? What a shame.
What are you talking about? Lace sensors? Whats that? GFS?
Whats a shame? Im talking about pickups here, nothing else!

Sorry for my bad english, but im from finland...

GFS are a brand of pickups. Good pickups. They are cheap though, so you wont be interested.

Thom · Post by **Thom** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 5:13 pm

weeping_moon wrote:Lace sensors? Whats that? GFS?

Both types of pickups. This will help answer those questions: LINK

weeping_moon · Post by **weeping_moon** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 5:22 pm

DanHeron wrote:
weeping_moon wrote:
Sparky wrote:How about some Lace Sensors? Since you're all about spending money, I assume you have no interest in GFS? What a shame.
What are you talking about? Lace sensors? Whats that? GFS?
Whats a shame? Im talking about pickups here, nothing else!

Sorry for my bad english, but im from finland...
GFS are a brand of pickups. Good pickups. They are cheap though, so you wont be interested.

Okay, i dont really know about any other good.. So thats why i asked all of you here at shortscale, thats done this change on your mustang guitar.

Thom · Post by **Thom** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 5:24 pm

Timhulio recommends these - he will do a custom wind if you contact him too.
http://www.catswhiskerpickups.co.uk/

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 5:30 pm

weeping_moon wrote:
Sparky wrote:How about some Lace Sensors? Since you're all about spending money, I assume you have no interest in GFS? What a shame.
What are you talking about? Lace sensors? Whats that? GFS?
Whats a shame? Im talking about pickups here, nothing else!

Sorry for my bad english, but im from finland...

respect to you for trying - not many English would do as good as you at speaking Finish!

Okay Bare knuckle pickups are expensive UK hand wound pickups that are highy regarded. GFS are guitarfetish.com pickups which are cheap but also highly regarded. Lace sensor make pickups particuarly regarded for there active pickups, this makes them very popular with metal players.

I can personally say if you want the quality of Bareknuckle but a good price try catswhiskers pickups in the uk.

Big price does not always equal better quality or sound.

Hope that helps.

weeping_moon · Post by **weeping_moon** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 5:51 pm

Black Cat Bone wrote:
weeping_moon wrote:
Sparky wrote:How about some Lace Sensors? Since you're all about spending money, I assume you have no interest in GFS? What a shame.
What are you talking about? Lace sensors? Whats that? GFS?
Whats a shame? Im talking about pickups here, nothing else!

Sorry for my bad english, but im from finland...
respect to you for trying - not many English would do as good as you at speaking Finish!

Okay Bare knuckle pickups are expensive UK hand wound pickups that are highy regarded. GFS are guitarfetish.com pickups which are cheap but also highly regarded. Lace sensor make pickups particuarly regarded for there active pickups, this makes them very popular with metal players.

I can personally say if you want the quality of Bareknuckle but a good price try catswhiskers pickups in the uk.

Big price does not always equal better quality or sound.

Hope that helps.

Thanks for all your help.. Next time i change the pickups on my white mustang.. I will check up these alternatives...

weeping_moon · Post by **weeping_moon** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 5:54 pm

Now if anyone has a picture white changed pickups on a mustang, show them to me!!! Please!!

clarkbar · Post by **clarkbar** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 8:44 pm

i use hot rails. and i love em. great tone and they get the job done.

here's a link to a pic of my mustang with the duncans
http://i906.photobucket.com/albums/ac26 ... G_2461.jpg