Pickups
We Generally like to utilize the Custom Shop Seymour Duncans in our guitars because these are, in our opinion, the best pickups for tone available on the market. They have so many different tone configurations available for every style of music and every players specific needs. When playing guitar for a few years, and then playing with other musicians including a second guitar player, you will find that in the end it is tone that matters. What happens, is that with everyone in the room playing together, there are what are called sound cancellations. With some people, they just simply turn their amp louder to get heard through these cancellations. What this eventually evolves into is a loudness contest. And all this does, is to eventually get someone in the rehearsal angry because it only sounds like a great big wall of noise.
So the cure for this problem is Tone! When you have tone in your sound, you are able to actually hear yourself through the sound cancellations, and then there is no need to turn louder than everyone else in order to be heard. Seymour Duncans are specifically designed with this exact thing in mind.
We also offer our customers EMG pickups when they want them. But our experience is that these pickups do not pick up the tone of the wood like a good Custom Shop Seymour Duncan will. And we are presently working on our very own pickup configuration from Seymour to get the crunch of an EMG active pickup that many people want, but the tone of a Seymour passive pickup.
EMG's have the ability to isolate the High end frequencies much like a Metalzone pedal. They also cut much of the mid range frequencies out of the sound so that you can get that fuzzy crunch. But this is all done electronically inside the pickup, and you never get the actual sound quality from the tonal characteristic of the wood of your guitar. So in the end, it has been said that an EMG will make a cheap guitar sound good, and it will make a high end guitar sound horrible. So now you will need a really good processor to tweak your sound if you want some of the tone you lost from the EMG.
On the flip side of this coin, A good Seymour will make a cheap guitar sound exactly for what it is, like junk. And it will make a high end guitar sound exactly for what it is, a fine tuned musical instrument with an unbeatable tonal quality. In the music industry this is referred to as "fat" sounding. And with the right amp, and a good preamp, nobody can touch it. So the choice is up to you!
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