which humbucker for Yamaha SG500B

[nick_wolf]

seth lover or other paf style pickup would work, maybe lollar low wind imperials?

My aim is to get a decent sound without paying a big amount of money. I believe Lollar are amazing pickups... but also quite expensive. I don't want this to sound like I am for cheap stuff or low quality... It is just that i am convinced pickups are overly priced sometimes.
The Stew Mac PAF are a great choice

[davang55]

A pickup is not going to change the basic vibration pattern of your instrument, and that is what it is transducing into an signal. The concept is similar to recording an acoustic instrument or voice using different mics, you're gonna enhance certain parts of the sound but not change it's basic character. So the important thing is to get a good quality pickup of the right type. There's only very subtle differences in tone anyway. Plus all the other variables:
amp settings, speaker type, damping characteristics of the amp, room acoustics, other instruments in the mix, and the mic you are using to record your sound.

for example i took a cheap pickup out of my epiphone Joe Pass and the sound cleaned up tremendously with the SD Jazz (was a little muddy, resonant peak on the low A string) but it still sounds like my JP, not something else. I'm going to try an SD '59 next for comparison. The Broadway and the L5 both sounded great and similar in that video. I'm glad about that because I have a Broadway coming!

Thanks for that great video BTW!