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Super 3 was years ago. It's described as a Super Distortion with less treble and crunchier mids, and a hair more output. My tastes and gear have changed substantially (I last used it 13 years ago), but I remember it fondly. Last time I used it was to A/B with my Les Paul, and I remember the Ibanez with a Super 3 (fixed bridge, mahogany body) gave the Les Paul a fair run for its money.
Transonic is very thick, growly lower mids, a lot of power. Makes single notes much fatter than the JB I had in there before. Not a lot of treble but a fair bit of presence.
Duncan Distortion I haven't really A/Bed with other pickups but I did use it on tour last year, got compliments on my tone from a singer of all people! The wind is similar to a JB, so the ceramic magnet is the main difference. A bit more bite, presence and power than the JB. I like it.
A surprising alternative to a JB is an Oil City Eruption I bought off a forumite. It was a custom order with Alnico II magnet (the plot thickens because Ash told me he'd never made an Alnico II Eruption, but I've got the paperwork which says Alnico II on it clear as day). You'd think at 9.5k the Eruption would have less output than the JB, but in my guitar it was actually louder. Ash told me it's because the thicker wire produces less resistance, but there are actually more turns of wire on an Eruption than the JB.
I know some people will disagree but I've always had poor results mixing different makers' pickups in one guitar - especially DiMarzio and Duncan. I like both - generally prefer Duncans - but in the same guitar they just don't sound right together irrespective of the exact models. DiMarzios all seem to have a slightly rough, fuzzy characteristic whereas Duncans are cleaner and clearer - put the two in the same guitar and either the DiMarzio sounds muffled or the Duncan sounds shrill, or both.
I just changed a pickup in a friend's new guitar this morning, for that exact reason - it came with one of each and it just didn't work, it sounded exactly that - muddy on the DiMarzio and shrill on the Duncan. We swapped the Duncan for a spare DiMarzio he had, and instantly the whole guitar sounded more 'together' and right despite the two DiMarzios being more different in spec and voicing than the original DiMarzio and the Duncan were... it was a DiMarzio PAF and a Duncan '59B, swapped for a Tone Zone.
I'm sure I will get a lot of lols for this but it's something I've consistently noticed.
The question I've always found it the answer to is "what pickup is oddly thin-sounding and lacking a decent tone despite having what looks like an ideal spec on paper"?
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
slightly hotter too.