I'm looking at changing my black RG750 to give it that classy JEM7PBK look (i.e. Black body & p/guard with white pups, knobs, switch).
I can get new pickups for quite cheap and selling the stock IBZUSA pickups will probably cover most of the costs. Basically, the upgrade is a catalyst to spend a bit of time with the Breed or Evo pups and I may sell this guitar after I’m done. (I’m GAS’ing heavily for a Wolfgang). I know most of you guys are smarter than the average bear when it comes to pups. But I'd luv to know from a regular buyer's point of view, which of these pups (Breeds, Paf pros or Evo's) would most appeal to potential buyers of this guitar? Btw, these guitar’s are much rarer in Australia than they are in the states so I’ll probably get a reasonable price.
I’m probably going to go with the Evo's only because they’d appeal to the ‘shredder’ guys and they outsell the other two by a country mile as replacement pups. But I don’t want to rule out the other 2 pups because of their obvious quality.
Just so y’all know, I've got a set of paf pro's in another Ibanez RG. Luv them. The only thing that I miss is the screaming high notes, especially past the 12th fret. I’ll be picking up neck f spaced breed for the bridge of my other Ibanez as well due too so many glowing reviews.
BTW, I don't know if anyone has seen the clip of Vai playing the Seville expo in 1992. He's using a JEM7PBK and does 'For the love of God' for the first time live. You can easily tell they are paf pro's by the tone and he's forever double-triple picking high notes to keep them sustaining. I've got the DVD of him playing the Astoria and there's certainly no issues with sustain (Evo's).
I wonder which pup he'd use if he joined another band and had to do rhythm and lead ala DLR band?
Apologies for the long post but any opinions would be great
I can get new pickups for quite cheap and selling the stock IBZUSA pickups will probably cover most of the costs. Basically, the upgrade is a catalyst to spend a bit of time with the Breed or Evo pups and I may sell this guitar after I’m done. (I’m GAS’ing heavily for a Wolfgang). I know most of you guys are smarter than the average bear when it comes to pups. But I'd luv to know from a regular buyer's point of view, which of these pups (Breeds, Paf pros or Evo's) would most appeal to potential buyers of this guitar? Btw, these guitar’s are much rarer in Australia than they are in the states so I’ll probably get a reasonable price.
I’m probably going to go with the Evo's only because they’d appeal to the ‘shredder’ guys and they outsell the other two by a country mile as replacement pups. But I don’t want to rule out the other 2 pups because of their obvious quality.
Just so y’all know, I've got a set of paf pro's in another Ibanez RG. Luv them. The only thing that I miss is the screaming high notes, especially past the 12th fret. I’ll be picking up neck f spaced breed for the bridge of my other Ibanez as well due too so many glowing reviews.
BTW, I don't know if anyone has seen the clip of Vai playing the Seville expo in 1992. He's using a JEM7PBK and does 'For the love of God' for the first time live. You can easily tell they are paf pro's by the tone and he's forever double-triple picking high notes to keep them sustaining. I've got the DVD of him playing the Astoria and there's certainly no issues with sustain (Evo's).
I wonder which pup he'd use if he joined another band and had to do rhythm and lead ala DLR band?
Apologies for the long post but any opinions would be great
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