Tremolos & Tuners
Schaller
Gotoh
Grover
Wilkinson
HOSCO are *not bad* and their price is decent.. but Wilkinson and Grover (as of the time of writing) give the best price vs quality.
Grover have been making their machinehead tuners further afield than western countries (Wilkinson does this regularly but.. see what I write next) but the quality slips, such as the Epiphone Grovers which are very bad quality and slip quite often. The Wilkinson 'Grover style' Tuners are much better than actually Grovers so.. that's a bad mark for Grover.
Sperzel.. I don't have experience like I do with the above but Sperzel don't make tremolos so.. I didn't include them directly, but instead as a reminder put them here, as they are popular.
Floyd Rose.. has what seems an excellent new trem system. But he doesn't do machineheads, hence here. But I'll note you don't really need good ones with his system. Pickups Premier* Gibson Fender DiMarzio Seymour Duncan Bareknuckle Mid-Tier DiMarziclone (japanese) Iron Gear Entwistle Artec Bill Lawrence Artec are in between budget and mid-tier, having had personal experience (and I own a couple of Artec pickups currently) they are very much good pickups for the money. My fav Artec is their wide-range.. which handles both surf rock and high gain, not the best pickup that has ever walked the earth.. but it manages it without any muddiness, and with decent clarity, although the high gain side could do with a beef up. Pickups I do not own or have experience with: Bare knuckle Iron Gear No idea if these are good or bad or whatever.. they seem to be popular and this isn't a review of all these manufacturers.. just listing them here. Manufacturers I have experience with: Gibson.. my fav humbucker is from them.. the 491T, I put it in the neck for near infinite sustain under high gain (I own 2). Epiphone did a P100 hum cancelling P90 which I also loved (and also own 2 of). Fender single coils are decent, their long rumoured 'DiMarziclone' humbuckers, excellent for high gain. I have noiseless Rev.D they are the only ones that do both clean and high gain (clean is nowhere near as good as the others however.. it does handle high gain!) I had a post on the Fender forums about this but after checking it seems with the closure of Tinypic and Tindeck.. we don't have much other than a conversation. Did a video of it:
The clean sound was the best I'd ever heard iirc.. the high gain was 'tragic the gathering'.
Floyd Rose.. has what seems an excellent new trem system. But he doesn't do machineheads, hence here. But I'll note you don't really need good ones with his system. Pickups Premier* Gibson Fender DiMarzio Seymour Duncan Bareknuckle Mid-Tier DiMarziclone (japanese) Iron Gear Entwistle Artec Bill Lawrence Artec are in between budget and mid-tier, having had personal experience (and I own a couple of Artec pickups currently) they are very much good pickups for the money. My fav Artec is their wide-range.. which handles both surf rock and high gain, not the best pickup that has ever walked the earth.. but it manages it without any muddiness, and with decent clarity, although the high gain side could do with a beef up. Pickups I do not own or have experience with: Bare knuckle Iron Gear No idea if these are good or bad or whatever.. they seem to be popular and this isn't a review of all these manufacturers.. just listing them here. Manufacturers I have experience with: Gibson.. my fav humbucker is from them.. the 491T, I put it in the neck for near infinite sustain under high gain (I own 2). Epiphone did a P100 hum cancelling P90 which I also loved (and also own 2 of). Fender single coils are decent, their long rumoured 'DiMarziclone' humbuckers, excellent for high gain. I have noiseless Rev.D they are the only ones that do both clean and high gain (clean is nowhere near as good as the others however.. it does handle high gain!) I had a post on the Fender forums about this but after checking it seems with the closure of Tinypic and Tindeck.. we don't have much other than a conversation. Did a video of it:
The clean sound was the best I'd ever heard iirc.. the high gain was 'tragic the gathering'.
Seymour Duncan.. never liked SD's. I own two.. and they are OK.
Really like DiMarzios.. I own a couple at least, the original ones from the 70s. I'm a big fan of DiMarziclones too.. in fact I coined that: 'DiMarziclone' that's how much I like them :D
Entwistle.. I own a load of Aldens and all their pickups are Entwistle's.. really big fan of his stuff.. I collect Aldens.. I have an XG Special, XG-HR (3 pickup) XG Standard, Bluesline Custom Plus, Corsair.. I also have a 'Jazzcaster; which I swapped the neck out on and reworked.. because I really hated that razorblade neck!
I redid the headstock to say 'Shaw' and re-dubbed it.. the Javacaster :D
Artec.. considered a 'budget brand' however.. the real 'budget brands' are no names.
I have a wide-range of theirs and a couple of single coil sized humbuckers. Like I say above.. it handles surf rock and high gain decently.
To sum up.. while some mid-tier will affect the return value of your guitar, DiMarziclone probably will not, especially if they are in the original japanese guitar they came with.
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*(ones .that won't devalue your guitar)
*https://forums.fender.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=109458&p=1219322#p1219322
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