Scooped Mid Strat pickups - Fender Custom 69 and John Mayer Big Dipper

[Tone2TheBone]

What do these types of pickups sound like? Is there anything special that the scooped mid Strat pickups provide over a Standard Strat pickup? I'm trying to imagine how scooped mids would sound like on a Strat pickups...particularly on the neck position. I know Lev has the Custom Shop 69s and I've heard his guitar. I'm curious about the JM Big Dipper pups. Anyone have any experience with the Big Dippers?

[marnold]

I haven't heard them, but the very concept doesn't sound particularly good to me. Wouldn't a scooped-mid single coil be the very definition of thin and brittle?

[LagrangeCalvert]

I was wondering what the John M. Big Dipper pups sounded like as well. I bet they sound great, but I would like to listen to them as well.

[Lev]

they're more versatile than you might think...

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[marnold]

they're more versatile than you might think...
I did a little reading on them and was amazed at how many people wanted a set of those pups without having to buy a Mayer Strat. Apparently Fender doesn't sell them separately. I saw that some company claimed to have made clones of them, but the set was almost $300. I think it was Torres Engineering maybe.

I thought they might be nice for funk, as he demonstrated. I was surprised he could get the Nu Metal sound from them without being noised to death. I read where someone said that he got killer SRV tone from them. My reaction was if you can get killer SRV tone JUST from those pups, you can get it from any pup. I'm still firmly in the "midrange is king" school of guitars.

[Tone2TheBone]

They auction them off on Ebay from the Realiablefender Stratosphere store. Yesterday's auction on just one pup ended at only $154.50 + shipping. Must be pretty good pups huh. ;) Don't know if you'd get the John Mayer tone with them but the idea is right about the same with the way the Texas Specials did. I bet they'd sound pretty good though I outta try them out on JM Strat.