PATB-3 in les paul?

[SF audio]

I know the PATB-3 blues model is meant for trem guitars - how does it sound in a Gibson standard les paul? Thinking of doing it...

Thanks

[tubecrunch]

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Me too. Bump

[51501984]

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Someone here did it a few years back and posted a pic of it in Paul

[AlexR]

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Too fat. Its designed to make a strat fat, so an already thick sounding guitar its too much....unless of course you're teenaged and play through a line 6 with fully scooped mids.

[orpheo]

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alex, have you really tried it?i have and its amazing. i tried it in 5 les pauls and all 5 were amazing. it has the grit and girth of the 59, sweetness of the seth and edge and raunchyness of the pearly gates.

i am getting tired of all the hearsay. no one seems to be willing to TRY something, to look beyond specs. the patb3 in a les paul has been discussed several times and i even wrote a blog about it. it is the third hit in google if you enter seymour patb3 les paul. doing a search aint thay hard....

[orpheo]

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for the record. that last paragraph is on me, on a personal title.

[AlexR]

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Yes I've done it.....I wouldn't bother saying that unless I had.

Your Les Pauls are of the Warmoth bolt on neck variety are they not??

[orpheo]

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Yes I've done it.....I wouldn't bother saying that unless I had.

Your Les Pauls are of the Warmoth bolt on neck variety are they not??

Amongst others, I have 2 1959 replica's (not gibsons!) with lightweight mahogany and brasilian rosewood. and in exactly that kind of guitar I stuck the PATB3 in (but also in 2 warmoths and 1 crimson to get a real good grasp on the tone of the pickkup). I think that having les pauls with real honduras lightweight mahogany makes a huge difference. Think '1959' les paul (and yes, I tried those too ). In hamers, PRS-ses, the patb3 would rock, but in a gibson not so much because gibsons sound, by default, less clear, open and chimey than those older gibsons (or proper '59 replica's).

[ArtieToo]

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A few months ago I acquired my 1st LP. It's an EPI Les Paul Custom. I threw in a PATB-3 that I had on a shelf. It became one of my favorite guitars. The PATB-3 in an LP is a match made in heaven.

[SF audio]

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A few months ago I acquired my 1st LP. It's an EPI Les Paul Custom. I threw in a PATB-3 that I had on a shelf. It became one of my favorite guitars. The PATB-3 in an LP is a match made in heaven.

So the midrange "honk" isn't overwhelming in the les paul?

[ArtieToo]

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Not to me. This combination seems to be almost perfectly balanced. I'd almost call it a "hi-fi" tone.

[orpheo]

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Artie is spot on. It would be a grave mistake to assume the patb3 cannot work in a less paul type guitar. Idem dito for the screaming demon.

[SF audio]

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Well, after installing the PATB-3 in my les paul, I have to agree with those who say it is too much. I find it too piercing in the high end, I guess some call it that hi-fi sound but it's just not my deal....

I can see where it would work well for some classic rock sounds, but I prefer the super distortion that was in there before...

One PATB-3 for sale!

[hamerfan]

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I had in a 1999 les paul classic and liked it in a way. Very clear, but full and a great piano like bass. In the realm of a c5 but not as scooped IMO