They are the most famous pickup maker in the market with DiMarzio. Swapping an already good pickup for an aftermarket one is mostly customization to get the specific tone and feel you like (factors such as attack, EQ, output, compression, clarity noise-cancellation etc).
If the pickups are bad, your guitar won't sound the best. The pickups are what transforms the vibrations from your string into the signal that goes to your amp. Higher-end models of the same brand oftentimes come with name-brand pickups, such as Seymour Duncan, Dimarzio, EMG, Bareknuckle, Lace, etc.īasically what makes them popular is that they are widely available, offer a huge variety of pickups for different musical styles and they sound good. Those pickups usually don't sound great, that's why a lot of people replace them. Especially brands like Epiphone, Squier, LTD, Ibanez and many other far-east made guitars use their own pickups in lower-end to mid-tier models to cut costs. Many more affordable guitar models come with the company's own brand of pickups, which may or may not sound great. Most "pickup X vs pickup Y" comparisons on YouTube are really badly recorded. It's a subtle difference, but to my ears worth the change. I replaced them with something else, still sounded like the same guitar, but clearer lows and smoother upper mids. Personally I've never been a fan of Gibson Pickups, I find them a little muddy in the lows and they've got some kind of upper mid hump that I find a bit harsh.
Often one of the biggest differences between two pickups is how they feel to play and how they respond to pick attack, which is something that's pretty much impossible to demo. You'd change pickups when you want a bit less of something or a bit more of something else. Even if the same player with the same guitar/amp/settings is demoing multiple different pickups it can be difficult to hear the difference just because of Youtubes audio compression. Then when it comes to the demo, well, first there's the players style to consider, the amp he's using, the settings of the amp, the way the amp is mic'd and any post processing done on the video before uploading it, then of course the insane amount of compression youtube then adds to the audio of said video. First off, you can install the same pickups in 3 different guitars and they'll sound slightly different in each one.
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