I've just bought a very cheap single HB Epiphone LP Junior, bolt on neck but mahogany neck and body.
Although the original pickup is really not that bad (ceramic 8, 16.9K), I'd like a less aggressive tone, my intention was to put in a P90 (I'm still waiting for a GFS Mean 90), and detune the guitar two steps down.
In the meantime I remembered that I had a SD '59 Neck around: my only complain about it is the slight mid scoop eq it has, so I started looking for an A2 magnet I was sure I had somewhere
I didn't find it, I think it'll come out when it won't be useful as usual, but, surprise! I've found an UOA5 coming form a hybrid experiment that I forgot, so I put it in the '59 and I swapped the guitar pickup.
...WOW!!
Smooth tone, pretty low volume (the pickup reading is 7.45K) but enough to crunch a bit my Peavey C30 in, just the right amount of mid, balanced, great dynamics with a slight compression on top in distortion.
Tomorrow I'll test it with a decent volume, now it's too late, but this guitar coupled with this pickup sound surprisingly good.
Ciao,
Marcello
Although the original pickup is really not that bad (ceramic 8, 16.9K), I'd like a less aggressive tone, my intention was to put in a P90 (I'm still waiting for a GFS Mean 90), and detune the guitar two steps down.
In the meantime I remembered that I had a SD '59 Neck around: my only complain about it is the slight mid scoop eq it has, so I started looking for an A2 magnet I was sure I had somewhere
I didn't find it, I think it'll come out when it won't be useful as usual, but, surprise! I've found an UOA5 coming form a hybrid experiment that I forgot, so I put it in the '59 and I swapped the guitar pickup.
...WOW!!
Smooth tone, pretty low volume (the pickup reading is 7.45K) but enough to crunch a bit my Peavey C30 in, just the right amount of mid, balanced, great dynamics with a slight compression on top in distortion.
Tomorrow I'll test it with a decent volume, now it's too late, but this guitar coupled with this pickup sound surprisingly good.
Ciao,
Marcello
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