hey sup, i have a squire guitar, i need a humbucker pickup , but a good one! any one recommends me one? axe?

kent armstrong rails humbuckers are excellent. if you currently have single coils you probably won't even need to file / cut your scratchplate. check out the sky range - designed by kent but made in the far east = even cheaper ;)

try wdmusicproducts.com or wdmusicproducts.co.uk

hope this helps! :)

There's lots of great pups out there (DiMarzio, SD, EMG....). Depends on what kind of sound you are after?

well am looking for a decent sound, am a new guitarist ive been playing for a year (not that new :P ) and i have single coil and i think its not good enougth..so ill probally go with dimarzio.

I'd personally go for a Dimarzio FRED. Great all rounder i think and an awesome tone :)

If you like a single sized humbucker DiMarzio, then I'd recommend a Fast Track 2 or ToneZone S. Both are high output pups btw.

do you think if i change the bridge pickup from my squire strat guitar to a mo'joe by dimarzio, will it have a big difference?

heres the pack i bougth almost a yar ago in may of 2005. CLICKSQUIRE STAR!

I also use a squire to joe=life, had mine 15yrs lol , so its doing a good turn :lol: I recently put a Evo on it, improved the sound ten fold(not really hard with the crappy pickups on them :lol: ). Replaced the other two with my own made pickups, all round sound pretty decent, the quality of the guitar is still cheap though and it sounds :( . Personally i would suggest the Fred and Paf pro pickups, they sound sweet, failing that try the Evo , its also has a decent sound ;)

You could look at the HS-2 and HS-3 from DiMarzio. Yngwie uses them, well the HS-3 at least that I know of. I got them in my Strat, they're great. B)

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cool. you should get another guitar, may i recommend a js ;) but seriously i dont think you may want to stay with a strat for ever man, they are for begginers, but probally you love just like i do ^_^ .

i wouldn't call eric johnson and yngwie beginners :lol:

they use a strat? i dint know that, or probally your confusing your self with a esquire not a esquire strat.

Fender Eric Johnson Strat
Fender Yngwie Malmsteen Strat
Fender Stevie Ray Vaughan Strat
Esquires are actually Tele shaped, not Strat shaped
Squiers are made by Fender

hopefully that will clear up any confusion ;)

Not forgetting one of the most famous strat players.............................Jimi Hendrix :rock2:

A squire strat, PLEASE for the love of god, spend your money on a better guitar, you'll thank me for it :)
Such as an ESP ltd series, an M-200 would do ya great :D

-Rich-

i will severely admonish myself, you're so right!!!

jimi!!!!

<not calling you bad or anything, just quoting a saying from where i come from>

a bad workman always blames his tools

i guess it's akin to the "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" thing, but anyway....

i had a squier strat, i found nothing wrong with it at all... gave it to my niece and she still plays it

Yeah, but I've had nothing but bad experiences with squire strats, maybe it's just the bad owners, but I dunno. I had an encore strat copy, and I couldn't believe how much better I could play when I got my ESP M-300, and how much better it sounded :)

-Rich-

No disrespect m8, but my household bills come first :lol: If i could afford all the brilliant equipment , i would be pushing dozen of covers out on here ;) It is a shame,but hopefully i will get a JS-100 one day, i remember trying one in a shop not to long back, man my hands just breezed across the frets like i was Joe himself :lol: Heh i will get there eventually -_-

i've been playing a looooooong time and have never had a "proper" guitar (the most expensive i had was the squier strat mentioned above, i've generally played encores and the like)... i played an ibanez with the wizard II neck a while back and even though it was right handed i could detect an instant improvement in my playing!

really need to get some funds together somehow :blink:

frank dunnery once said that a guitar is only as good as its neck... i reckon he's onto something ;)

While I have to agree that maybe putting an $80 pickup into a guitar purchased for $280 as part of a starter set doesn't make a huge amount of sense, I also have to point out that a really good Strat is an awesome guitar, and very professional-quality in every sense of the word.

It's also worth noting that Joe's signature model is essentially a 2-humbucker stratocaster with a floating trem and a SLIGHTLY thinner neck. ;)

Personally speaking, I never got on with my old strat. Being a big Jimi fan since I was a kid, I always wanted one. When I eventually did get a "proper" strat, it just didn't suit my hands. Shame really. But having said that, they're still great instruments ;)

I also had an Encore strat, what a pile of crap that was. My mate's Squier was *much* better. But then again, you generally get what you pay for.