I also watched a few shitty youtube videos of people who changed their pickups to the Liquifire/Crunch Lab set but didn’t provide comparisons. I didn’t have any misguided belief that new pickups would make me able to play better – they won’t. I like John Petrucci’s work, even though I don’t sound like him, and can’t play like him. I eventually settled on what I figured was a safe bet: a Dimarzio Liquifire and Crunch Lab set, which are marketed as a set from Dimarzio based around John Petrucci from Dream Theater. I also don’t live in an area that features a “hear what stuff sounds like” store, so I can’t just go try pickups out. You can listen to a video of some well-known guitarist playing pickups on their custom guitar, but no comparison with other pickups in that same guitar, or even details about what huge rack of effects and settings they’re using with those pickups. At least some pickup manufacturers have little videos or samples, but not much in the way of comparisons. Guitar manufacturers sell guitars on their websites pretty much through images alone, like that means anything to a buyer. “Vintage output”, “sterile edginess”, “smooth mids”, “Useless numeric value of parameter.” I don’t want to read about how pickups sound, I want to hear how pickups sound. Most of the pickups are marketed based on what I’d consider nebulous terms. There are, I believe, a hundred million companies that make guitar pickups. This led to the first problem: what to exchange them with? Maybe they were too boomy? Maybe they lacked definition? I don’t know, but I’d managed to convince myself I didn’t like them.įast forward to 2014, in order to deflect my increasing frustration with music I decided I would actually change the stock pickups out for something new. I can’t even articulate what it was I didn’t like about them. While I like the guitar I’ve always felt that I wasn’t happy with the stock pickups, the Ibanez INF1 and INF2. In late 2011 I bought a stock Ibanez S420 guitar, which I’ve used for most of my musical projects since then.
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