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Dimarzio Air Norton in the Bridge. I'm very impressed
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Dimarzio Air Norton in the Bridge. I'm very impressed
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but put it in a Les Paul and you get a brighter tone with more cut.
The air norton is one of the best pickups I have ever heard in a LP. Hands down. it's got a bit of bite and crunch for rhythm but not so much that leads become dry. Enough output to drive an amp nicely but not so much that it overpowers everything. Cleans up with rolled volume. In the neck its clear, clean, fluid, but also warm without getting syrupy thick.
The AN is amazing.
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Originally posted by orpheo View Postbut put it in a Les Paul and you get a brighter tone with more cut.
The air norton is one of the best pickups I have ever heard in a LP. Hands down. it's got a bit of bite and crunch for rhythm but not so much that leads become dry. Enough output to drive an amp nicely but not so much that it overpowers everything. Cleans up with rolled volume. In the neck its clear, clean, fluid, but also warm without getting syrupy thick.
The AN is amazing.
Joe Sprunt stopped by to demonstrate this beautiful Nash Gibson Les Paul! He is using a Suhr PT-100 amp and is showing all the tonal options this incredible ...
The pickups are replaced with what many of you may balk at as there are so many opinions about Les Paul pickups and tone out there. As always, Bill Nash simply builds a guitar that he would use and leave it at that. So, in his arsenal of personal guitars, his favorite and most versatile LP setup is using a DiMarzio Bluesbucker in the Neck and a DiMarzio Air Norton in the Bridge.
They then re-wire the guitar so the pickups breathe better as well as use the neck pickups tone control as a coil tap for the Bluesbucker, which gives you an amazing strat-like sound from that pickup. Between 1 and 8 on the tone knob it works as a regular tone control, between 9 and 10 it shuts off the second/dummy coil. This gives you a tap without adding switches of push pull pots.
The Air Norton give you bigger output and rich harmonics without going over the top into the tone spectrum of faceless, modern, high output sound that so many specialized humbuckers are susceptible to. These pickups have a lower string pull and a much higher sensitivity to your dynamics and playing style.
Also, as many of you may have figured out, the method Gibson uses for wiring the pots is not optimum. The tendency towards the guitar getting muddy or sounding choked when anywhere but "10". This gets re-worked when we re-wire.Bill Nash Gibson Les Paul Conversion Serial Number NGLP-002This is a Bill Nash Conversion of a 2010 Les Paul (done in April 2010), this is the 2nd one done by Bill for Sound Pure Guitars and is actually one of the Les Pauls featured on their video for their first LP Conversions and the one you he...
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Originally posted by RanchManSandy View Postthe AN is a great pickup, but wtf does "They then re-wire the guitar so the pickups breathe better" mean?
Or highet value pots or lower value tone caps.
Might also be about adding a treble bleed - more 'air' in the highs?
I'm interested in the trick that allows having a tone knob that behaves normally yet gives you a split option at its highest setting.
That sounds pretty intriguing.Last edited by eclecticsynergy; 02-24-2024, 04:21 PM..
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Originally posted by RanchManSandy View Postthe AN is a great pickup, but wtf does "They then re-wire the guitar so the pickups breathe better" mean?
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Originally posted by orpheo View PostSo. I saw something interesting about the Air Norton, something that is very confustng to me.
Some have a brass baseplate, some have a nickel silver baseplate. I wonder why.
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2) the later ones?
if it's 1) i think you have your answer (cost cutting). But i suspect this is not an honest question
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Originally posted by orpheo View PostSo. I saw something interesting about the Air Norton, something that is very confustng to me.
Some have a brass baseplate, some have a nickel silver baseplate. I wonder why.
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