On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:52:49 +0100, usenet@alienrat.co.uk (Woody)
wrote:

>Chris Bolus  wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:43:41 +0100, usenet@alienrat.co.uk (Woody) wrote:
>> 
>> >Chris Bolus  wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:35:16 +0100, Nige
>> >>  wrote:
>> >> 
>> >> >In article ,
>> >> > Chris Bolus  wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >> But seeing the reaction my post has brought, I'll obviously be as
>> >> >> popular as a bacon butty at a barmitzvah, so perhaps I should just stay
>> >> >> home anyway ;-)
>> >> >
>> >> >Tripe. Get your arse to Buxton and bring that LP with the tasty 
>> >> >Dimarzios in it to counter the Hondo naysayers. 
>> >> 
>> >> It's funny, but since I got my H|H VS Musician, I play the DiMarzio'd
>> >> Hondo less than the other one, which has an Epiphone and a no-name
>> >> pickup, but sounds better. 
>> >
>> >See. I said Hondos were rubbish!
>> 
>> But they're both Hondo!
>
>You can put good pickups on a pig, it is still a pig! hmm.. that doesn't
>work really!
>
>I wasn't impressed with the epiphone standard pickups, I replaced one of
>them on my explorer for seymour duncans, and they are much better.
>
>Having said that, I think all of these things are amp related. I was
>pretty dissapointed with the pickups on my new ibanez. Certainly when
>practicing the notwigan song the telecaster kicked the snot out of it.
>
>This was through amplitibe 2. Not in volume, the ibanez was almost
>clipping, but the telecaster cut above the track volume.and was much
>clearer to hear. This was with '80s rock lead' which is a marshal based
>thing.
>Yesterday I was playing around with the amps, and played it through a
>american clean valve (probably fender based) but with a bit of a volume
>boost, and it really sang in a way it hasn't before and had a great
>tone.
>so some pickups just sound much better through different amplifiers.

I've found over the last 30 years that you can get away with single
poles on a tranny, but for humbuckers you NEED a valve amp - uless you
really want toneless distortion/sustain.

Pete