New green Les Paul day coming soon. Epi Les Paul Muse, which uses the "new" gigantic open book headstock
Put together a package with this, an SKB soft case, and two special order DiMarzio pickups in my Sweetwater cart. Asked my salesman for a package deal, and he shaved about 10 percent off. That's enough for me, since I gladly would have paid full price.
I have some minor plans for this one. Nothing crazy. But I could not resist the sage green metallic color with a black back.
All I will be doing is putting zebra DiMarzios in (which are actually the traditional zebra, not reverse zebra, like Duncan "zebra" is), black pickup rings, black pickguard, black switch indicator ("poker chip"), black knobs, and dyeing the fretboard black. Maybe a tuner swap down the line, so that it has keystones or classic white butterbean buttons.
I had Sweetwater slot the nut for 12s with a wound G, and set up with 11s with plain G. They are also softening the fret ends. IME, with those two changes, the current Epis play very well.
As for the ProBuckers, I like the neck model quite a lot in both positions, but the bridge model is too hot IMO. It actually sounds better in the neck position to me, believe it or not. If you're going to be an overly fat and smooth sounding pickup, might as well do it in a position that I switch to in order to get fatness. I don't like overwound bridge pickups; they muddy up the bridge position. I want snap, clarity, and "stringiness" from the bridge position, and I don't care if it means the pickup has to be a little bit quieter in order to get it.
Based on my experiences with these pickups (which I do actually like in my V, once I swapped their positions), I knew I wanted something else this time. I got a PAF Master Bridge (7.69K, A4, output 278) for the neck position, and a PAF '59 neck (8.2K, degaussed A5, output 202) for the bridge position. Both were ordered with long legs, braided/shielded leads, and "glossy vintage" (i.e. butyrate) bobbins. Nice that you can special order any PAF style pickup with these "vintage" components without much extra charge.
Put together a package with this, an SKB soft case, and two special order DiMarzio pickups in my Sweetwater cart. Asked my salesman for a package deal, and he shaved about 10 percent off. That's enough for me, since I gladly would have paid full price.
I have some minor plans for this one. Nothing crazy. But I could not resist the sage green metallic color with a black back.
All I will be doing is putting zebra DiMarzios in (which are actually the traditional zebra, not reverse zebra, like Duncan "zebra" is), black pickup rings, black pickguard, black switch indicator ("poker chip"), black knobs, and dyeing the fretboard black. Maybe a tuner swap down the line, so that it has keystones or classic white butterbean buttons.
I had Sweetwater slot the nut for 12s with a wound G, and set up with 11s with plain G. They are also softening the fret ends. IME, with those two changes, the current Epis play very well.
As for the ProBuckers, I like the neck model quite a lot in both positions, but the bridge model is too hot IMO. It actually sounds better in the neck position to me, believe it or not. If you're going to be an overly fat and smooth sounding pickup, might as well do it in a position that I switch to in order to get fatness. I don't like overwound bridge pickups; they muddy up the bridge position. I want snap, clarity, and "stringiness" from the bridge position, and I don't care if it means the pickup has to be a little bit quieter in order to get it.
Based on my experiences with these pickups (which I do actually like in my V, once I swapped their positions), I knew I wanted something else this time. I got a PAF Master Bridge (7.69K, A4, output 278) for the neck position, and a PAF '59 neck (8.2K, degaussed A5, output 202) for the bridge position. Both were ordered with long legs, braided/shielded leads, and "glossy vintage" (i.e. butyrate) bobbins. Nice that you can special order any PAF style pickup with these "vintage" components without much extra charge.
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