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Re: JCF - APC order shipped
See, this is where our opinions differ. I compare them to EMG's for two reasons 1) simply because they look like EMG's [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] but 2) because to me, the EMG is the pinnacle of high gain pups, and the mainstay in all my axes. These APCs are lauded as some of the best pickups ever from a number of forum members, and if they can top EMGs, they will become my number one.
There are a lot of things flawed with what you said. To start, not everybody holds every pickup company equal. They have no reason to do so, that’s why there are MANY pickup companies with MANY different kinds of pickups they are not all equal. I don't think pickups are like foods. If you tried to tell me you just like to be open to new pickups for the sake of being open and trying new things, I'd call you short sighted, confused, and just plain mistaken. The purchase and trial of a variety of pickups are a means to an end, rather than an end in and of themselves. People play a variety of pickups in order to find the tone that is subjectively best for them.
As for the idea of being the everyman's boutique pickup, that simply makes you sound arrogant. In my eyes, there are three or four MAJOR pickup companies for hum bucker equipped guitars. Dimarzio, SD, and EMG. (You could throw in Gibson or something else, it's all fine.) People are putting them in their guitars because out of the major options, EMGs are the pickup which suites their needs best. When you pigeon-hole a group of customers as "kids" you condemn the purchase of EMGs as some sort of trend. This again is a poor move on your part.
Finally, simply because you do not have an ultimate pickup, does not mean others don't as well. I have an ultimate pickup, and when I purchased my APC, I wasn't looking to expand my tonal pallet, so to speak, but rather to find something even more impressive than the EMG.
See, this is where our opinions differ. I compare them to EMG's for two reasons 1) simply because they look like EMG's [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] but 2) because to me, the EMG is the pinnacle of high gain pups, and the mainstay in all my axes. These APCs are lauded as some of the best pickups ever from a number of forum members, and if they can top EMGs, they will become my number one.
There are a lot of things flawed with what you said. To start, not everybody holds every pickup company equal. They have no reason to do so, that’s why there are MANY pickup companies with MANY different kinds of pickups they are not all equal. I don't think pickups are like foods. If you tried to tell me you just like to be open to new pickups for the sake of being open and trying new things, I'd call you short sighted, confused, and just plain mistaken. The purchase and trial of a variety of pickups are a means to an end, rather than an end in and of themselves. People play a variety of pickups in order to find the tone that is subjectively best for them.
As for the idea of being the everyman's boutique pickup, that simply makes you sound arrogant. In my eyes, there are three or four MAJOR pickup companies for hum bucker equipped guitars. Dimarzio, SD, and EMG. (You could throw in Gibson or something else, it's all fine.) People are putting them in their guitars because out of the major options, EMGs are the pickup which suites their needs best. When you pigeon-hole a group of customers as "kids" you condemn the purchase of EMGs as some sort of trend. This again is a poor move on your part.
Finally, simply because you do not have an ultimate pickup, does not mean others don't as well. I have an ultimate pickup, and when I purchased my APC, I wasn't looking to expand my tonal pallet, so to speak, but rather to find something even more impressive than the EMG.
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