syxxstring Posted September 30, 2003 Report Posted September 30, 2003 starting to spec out a strat project wondering if anyones tried the Duncan Quarter Pounder pickups. theyve always intrigued me for some reason Quote
ansil Posted May 24, 2004 Report Posted May 24, 2004 my old guitra player had these in his jackson and sweared by them personally i liked my pjmarx better but they don't make those anymore so for a stacked humbucker i would go with the quarter pounders Quote
frank falbo Posted May 25, 2004 Report Posted May 25, 2004 Well they're not stacks. They are great pickups. I had one in the bridge of my first guitar I built a long time ago. (I was playing it in the basement that day) They are very strong, and very thick sounding for a single. But the coils are tall so they are still clear. To me they are like a really good tele bridge pickup sound. Strong and thick without the squeaky wimpy treble. I have it in the neck of another guitar now and it's pretty good there but its almost a little muddy and humbuckerish. Its not really P-90-ish like I've heard some people describe it because of the tall coil and the large magnets. A P-90 will be more rude sounding with a fatter more garbled midrange. All in all I don't think you'd be disappointed. Oddly enough, it's not really like any of the Tom Andersons either. But I do have it combined with 2 other TA's in the guitar now. I don't know your pickup combination, but I would suggest using a TA in the middle position if you're going to have one. The QP will be too blasty for a middle position. But neck is good and bridge is really good. They used to do a QP tapped pickup, too. Maybe that's a good idea for the middle and neck. Quote
syxxstring Posted May 25, 2004 Author Report Posted May 25, 2004 Wow, almost a year later and replies show up. I wonder now what my plans were then? Quote
Jester700 Posted June 14, 2004 Report Posted June 14, 2004 I'm looking for a HOT S.C. pup for my H-S-H baby. It has a DiMarzio HS2 (top coil only) in the middle. I LIKE this setup, but I want to screw the middle pup down as far as possible because I have terrible picking technique... But the HS2 gets too soft & thin that way, so I'd like to replace it with something hotter. Not for an overwound sound, just so that it'll still give me nice quack in position 2 & 4 after I "countersink" it. I never use that pup alone. The quarter pounder sounded like a good candidate. Any other ideas? Quote
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