Okay, so I'm one of those people who really likes Earl Slick (Bowie's guitarist). Last week I noticed an ad on Guitarfetish for new Slick guitars and pickups. I saw the specs and price for the set called "lead." Lead bridge is basically an older metal-output pickup at around 13K wiring. It sounds about as loud as my Invader. The neck pickup is about 9K, and on accident, I flipped the humbucker inside the mounting ring (the screws face the bridge not the neck), but had too busy of a schedule to take the time to flip it around again, and I'm still genuinely impressed with the set. Under extreme gain, both pickups respond well to harmonics, rapid picking, tapping, and other various tricks. They're G spaced but the polepieces seem big enough to handle F-spacing alright. Clean, these pickups shimmer. I don't think I've ever had a better clean sound...
A+ so far
Will edit after I play them through my all tube Blackstar on Monday.
Total cost for the set? About $61
A cool FYI, the wooden boxes the pickups come in are actually not bad, and it seems like each box is made (at least partially) by hand, as each of the two boxes was different in a number of ways.
Guitar used for review:
Epiphone 2002 Les Paul Standard
Amp:
Peavey Vypyr 15W
Preferred Settings:
Bridge: Volume 10 Tone 10
Neck: Volume 10-7 Tone 7
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Sorry about the poor photo conditions, not exactly my home set-up, it's campground rig (vypyr wherever it will fit, and whatever guitar I bring that weekend)
Thanks for reading!
-selling the stock Alnico Classics from this Epi on the trading post btw-
A+ so far
Will edit after I play them through my all tube Blackstar on Monday.
Total cost for the set? About $61
A cool FYI, the wooden boxes the pickups come in are actually not bad, and it seems like each box is made (at least partially) by hand, as each of the two boxes was different in a number of ways.
Guitar used for review:
Epiphone 2002 Les Paul Standard
Amp:
Peavey Vypyr 15W
Preferred Settings:
Bridge: Volume 10 Tone 10
Neck: Volume 10-7 Tone 7
Sorry about the poor photo conditions, not exactly my home set-up, it's campground rig (vypyr wherever it will fit, and whatever guitar I bring that weekend)
Thanks for reading!
-selling the stock Alnico Classics from this Epi on the trading post btw-
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