Troy, what kind of pickups do you have in your Musicmaster?

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#1

@troy

Just curious, they sound pretty good. I’m presuming they aren’t the stock ones.

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#2

You’re in luck, we’ve got a video on this!

Quoting from what Troy wrote in the video description:

Updating a 1963 Musicmaster / Duo Sonic 22.5" scale partscaster with shielding, Seymour Duncan Little '59 humbuckers, and Planet Waves Auto-Trim tuners. The single coils actually sound great — just too noisy for our studio, and we prefer the humbucker sound for high-gain riffing.

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#3

Thanks! I’ve been a diehard humbucker guy, but am always intrigued when people get great tones from single coils.

#4

They aren’t single coils, they are six (!) individual coils, one per string. Totally different design. You can check the Zexcoil site, but they have models that sound like a single coils and models that sound like humbuckers. I got the humbucker-y ones.

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#5

Yeah Zexcoil are wonderful pickups. I was recently shopping there and I’m thinking of going for the vintage/vintage hot 5 set. I love that individual coil sound, the humbuckers sound great too, so not easy to choose…