Ibanez Powersound

Pickup features: passive
Impedence or other specs: its stock

Model of guitar or bass: RG320
Position: all positions
Pickup being replaced:
Other pickups on guitar: powersound
Artists using this pickup: poor guitarists
You musical style(s): good shit
Reason for pickup change: none

Perceived output level: the bridge pickup isn't too shabby its medium... neck is low
Tone: neck: muddy, bassy bridge: middy twangy
Sonic evaluation: crate... Gx30M

For which styles and positions is this pickup (un)suitable: the powersound2 (bridge) is nice but the PS1 is pretty bad

Comments: every1 should stop bitching about stock pickups. This a decent stock pickup for a guitar , shit its all about the player, not the equipment

Pickup features: Humbucker
Impedence or other specs: Wouldn't have a clue.

Model of guitar or bass: Ibanez RG320QS
Position: all positions
Pickup being replaced: Nop, need some ch-ching!
Other pickups on guitar: 2 of the blighters
Artists using this pickup: Nobody hopefully,
You musical style(s): Rocky stuff as well as others
Reason for pickup change: Did I say I need money?

Perceived output level: Seems to be fairly medium, your amp will need to to a bit of work. Wouldn't recommend playing loud, gets microphonic as with all entry stock pickups.
Tone: Both are quite warm clean and distorted, round and slightly toppy.
Sonic evaluation: OK, playing the RG through an AVT-50 combo, on clean channel, pickups are warm and articulate, in split mode, they sound fairly spanky, particularly the inner coils of bridge and neck pickups in parallel, good for funky chord stuff. Neck pickup in parallel is slightly warmer, good for those Little Wing moments. Neck pickup does decent jazz while bridge is toppy and round.
Distorted, the bridge pickup is the only worthwile one as all other positions get a bit muddy. Bridge pickup sounds good, just wish it was hotter.

For which styles and positions is this pickup (un)suitable: Rocky stuff and more, suits quite a few styles to my surprise. Remember, squeals kick in at higher-than-bedroom levels.

Comments: If it was destroyed or stolem I think my guitar would be too, what a question haha! Been playing for 8 years, own 2 classicals and 2 electrics. I like it's versatility, when I was looking at them I was skeptical cos they're mostly shit but my ones happen to be decent, I think it's the consistency problem. I compared them with the stock pickups of my retired Epiphone and these sound much better, more character and the added versatility of the splits, the Epiphone just sounded plain dull and I thought about how I was able to play that thing for 4 years. Got the RG cos it's better and seems worth upgrading. Just wish these pickups were a bit hotter and brighter but I can't really complain, in the end it's more about the playing itself than gear.

Pickup features: humbucker
Impedence or other specs: i dont know this

Model of guitar or bass: Ibanez rg170
Position: all positions
Pickup being replaced: none
Other pickups on guitar: more powersounds
Artists using this pickup: some loser
You musical style(s): any kinds of music
Reason for pickup change:

Perceived output level: dont know
Tone: shitty
Sonic evaluation: ibanez rg170 -> crybaby wah->laney lc30

For which styles and positions is this pickup (un)suitable:

Comments: i dont like this, i wont change it. im just going to wait to get a new guitar. ibanez should put better stock pickups in their guitars.

Pickup features: passive humbucking pickup
Impedence or other specs: wtf?!

Model of guitar or bass: Ibanez RG320
Position: all positions
Pickup being replaced: came stock
Other pickups on guitar: onlu powersounds
Artists using this pickup: little kids without enough $$$ for a good guitar, me
You musical style(s): punk, nu metal
Reason for pickup change: i didn't change the f@#$%ng pu! it came stock!

Perceived output level: medium hot
Tone: weak, cheap, muddy, overall CR@P!
Sonic evaluation: Marshall SS 30 watter

For which styles and positions is this pickup (un)suitable: punk, nu/thrash metal, unsuitable for everything, muddy distortion, okay punk dist.

Comments: at the time, i was a little kiddie looking through f^cking guitar center for "cool" guitars, staring in awe at the amazing looking fenders, gibsons, and such. i sucked at guitar, i worshipped tom delonge (f*ck me!) and couldn't tell the difference beetween a humbucker and a single coil. i noticed the ibanez guitars, and dug them cuz they played well, had a cool bridge, and looked so "heavy metal" (superstrat body shape). i've been playing for close to a year and have heard gibson les pauls, fenders, ibanez AXs and RGs, and in my opinion, these are the worst stock pus ive ever heard. weak clean sound, muddy distortion, the only thing it is good for is maybe some distorted punk. if you are planning on getting a guitar with these pickups, i urge you to either replace them with dimarzios (for metal and other rock), seymour duncan (if you dig punk, also great for any distorted style), or emgs (heavy, f^cking metal!), or just get the cheapest ibanez guitar up the ladder with the "v" pickups.

Pickup features: humbucking passive
Impedence or other specs: what now?

Model of guitar or bass: Ibanez GAX 70
Position: all positions
Pickup being replaced: im not
Other pickups on guitar: just powersounds
Artists using this pickup: me
You musical style(s): noise
Reason for pickup change: Im not changing them!

Perceived output level: i dont know they seem friggin fine to me
Tone: they're pretty well balanced
Sonic evaluation: im using them with a marshall avt50 head, another 50 watt head i built out of an old tube radio.a dod death metal distortion, 14 count them 14! home made super fuzzes 5 boss fuzz pedals, a couple home made distortion/filter pedals i call filtortion pedals. and numerous modulation effects.

For which styles and positions is this pickup (un)suitable: i basically play noise with metal tossed in. I dont know what grunge is but im told i play it. I just play slow some times. the pickups are great for me i can get feed back with them and my amp alone. but they work fine ro classic rock and blues.

Comments: Id get another ibanez with the same stock pickups. I love these pickups. i have other guitars and i always keep the stock pickups, i dont want to throw away money to get emg's though one of my favorite guitarists uses them (tom morello) but emg's are weak if not used with distortion or overdrive. i like seymour duncan jb's but like i said i dont want to use the same damn pickup like everyone else.

Pickup features:
Impedence or other specs:

Model of guitar or bass: ibanez gsa 60
Position: all positions
Pickup being replaced: i'm just comenting
Other pickups on guitar:
Artists using this pickup: i know this kid, he plays the same three power chords over and over again callin them songs, i think he has these in his guitar
You musical style(s): whatever hits me
Reason for pickup change: i can't stand these, gunna go for some seymours

Perceived output level: hot, as they say, (the (h) has distortion with out drive, but that crappy, "my guitar is crap" sound)
Tone: singles are very bassy, the humer is not as bad, but it makes that up for muddness, i need a bass pre amp turned to bright to keep them decent
Sonic evaluation: fender london reverb, sometimes i use this digi tech dist pedal-board thingy, but not mostly ( 3 kuz the songles sound good with soem eq adjustment)

For which styles and positions is this pickup (un)suitable: i play punk, (distored power chords real fast) in this band, but we're not really a band

Comments: if these were taken with out the guitar (its a nice looker) i'd jsut get new, real, PU's sooner

Pickup features: Humbucking
Impedence or other specs:

Model of guitar or bass: GAX 70
Position: all positions
Pickup being replaced: none, but I'll be replacing these with a pair of Gibson pickups.
Other pickups on guitar: none
Artists using this pickup: who the hell would?
You musical style(s): punk/ alt.rock/grunge/classic rock
Reason for pickup change: stock pickups.

Perceived output level: has a fair output level...pretty balanced and in line with most others in its price range
Tone: kind of a mid tone...not too good bass response unless tweaked thru effects, high can kill the ears if you have the guitar volume up too loud
Sonic evaluation: right now, I have a crappy little Ibanez amp. The tone on it sucks, so it doesnt help my guitar's case too much. I've played the same model guitar/pickup thru a Line 6 amp and found it to be adequate.

For which styles and positions is this pickup (un)suitable: I play punk, so the pickup is ok. I have no real problems with it for this kind of music, but I'm replacing the pickups for a better overall sound. on the GAX, there should be one pickup in the middle, cause its too much bass at the neck and too much treble at the bridge.

Comments: I think the pickups are ok for punk, they're overall ok if you have a good amp or a good effects processor or pedal. I'd love it if someone stole the pickups out of my guitar, it would just give me a reson to buy better ones sooner. Fits nicely with the distortion on my (don't laugh) DOD Grunge pedal.

Pickup features: worst pickup ever
Impedence or other specs: it's crap

Model of guitar or bass: GAX 70
Position: all positions
Pickup being replaced: pretty soon these will be replaced
Other pickups on guitar:
Artists using this pickup: none
You musical style(s): Rock, Metal
Reason for pickup change: well i'll be taking these pieces of shit ou soon because they're so terrible

Perceived output level: Hot times zero, minus 43
Tone: Bassy, Muddy, Shitty
Sonic evaluation: I'm using a GAX 70 through a Boss Metal Zone into a Marshall MG30RCD and these pickups make it sound like crap. Not even the Metal Zone could make these things sound any better.

For which styles and positions is this pickup (un)suitable: I play rock and metal and these pickups are unsuitable. The only style they would be good for is punk but that's not saying much........

Comments: I hate everything about these pickups and will soon be replacing them with some EMG's. Oh and I didn't mean to offend anyone by the above statement about punk... well actually I did(I'll include my email for any death threats).

Pickup features: humbuck
Impedence or other specs: its a shitty stock humbucker

Model of guitar or bass: Ibanez 270DX
Position: all positions
Pickup being replaced: replacing the powersounds with seymour duncan invaders
Other pickups on guitar: stock powersounds
Artists using this pickup: dont make me laugh, none.
You musical style(s): hardcore, metal, rock, some down home rock too
Reason for pickup change: these are pieces of shit.

Perceived output level: crap
Tone: muddy
Sonic evaluation: im using an ibanez toneblaster 50R amp, and ibanez DS-7 distortion pedal.

For which styles and positions is this pickup (un)suitable: this pickup is ok for playing clean, but with distortion...you wont sound like anything you're trying to play

Comments: if these pickups were stolen, id laugh because the theif is the one getting ripped off.

Pickup features: HSH
Impedence or other specs:

Model of guitar or bass: Ibanez RGR 270 DX
Position: all positions
Pickup being replaced:
Other pickups on guitar:
Artists using this pickup: No one in their right minds... but me thinks most high gain Ibanez widdlers have at least grazed them.
You musical style(s): Anything physically possible to preform. This guitar is a fun toy.
Reason for pickup change: Well they came with the guitar, so I sort of had to take the whole thing. Bought the RG for its neck, not the P.Us.

Perceived output level: Made for high output and low budget.
Tone: About as articulate and responsive as a brick. But I did find one good thing about them; the oh-so-80s pinched artificial harmonics seem to love these mics.
Sonic evaluation: A Fender US std Strat with EMG DG 20, Ibanez `81 AS200 and now this one. Mostly just for widdling. All go through a Line 6 Pod. the RG 270 makes me create the worst tones imaginable. Great when the strings are fresh, but lifeless within a week. Gonna get some Seymour Duncans for neck and middle, and a DiMarzio for the bridge. Think that`ll turn things up a notch.

For which styles and positions is this pickup (un)suitable: This is a good oldfashioned superstrat, you all know what its for. The pickups arent a good match for anything but the thrashcan.

Comments: Gonna get rid of these as soon as my wallet allows it. The guitar itself is great, but these pickups dont do them justice.
At higher gain-levels, no pickup is really articulate. But even my Super 58 loaded AS200 keeps the notes apart better than this on the pods mesa-o-matic tones. Theyre ok for beginners, but once your ear begins to find the value of good tone, you`ll probably get rid of them.