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I talked everybody out of changing to EMG. One exception was a guy who played loud old school Hardrock with a white strat into a Marshall stack (you get the picture). The big stage lightning, fog machine, stroboscope and such killed his live sound.

I always liked the Custom5 in a SG. Funny enough because I didn't like it in everything else. It's scooped sound goes well with the SG.

I like this vid about 9 tone woods in a identical strat. Most audible differences on the bridge pickup. I liked Obeche most 🤔

Since I have a gaussmeter I can measure the magnetic strength a certain point of the bar. Some magnets are more even chargeable than others. I don't know whether this is a quality factor, since the 50ies magnets are said to be very inconsistent compared to the nowadays magnets.

I like a 300k vol pot in the bridge with a brite guitar/pickup, but never in the neck.

I was shocked everytime i checked a 70ies up to mid 80ies Gibson Les Paul. 300k vol pots, 150k tone pots were standard and even some of them even lower than spec‘d. The lowest was a 120kish tone pot.

I swapped in a A5 and saw an improvement. Less wooley, less mids, more cut. But all in all i am still struggling, but maybe its the guitar - my least favorite one, but beautiful ´99 Gibson Les Paul Classic Premium Plus. Interested in the A3 mod. Any experiences?

Then… Lets put it this was way. Then the decal is a Tommi Iommi, the pickup seems to be a TB-11 (the magnet should have blue marks). Only thing i can confirm the decal was made between 1996 and 2001.

I am feeling really old, since it was the 1971 Concert for Bangladesh. There was probably Don Preston as sideman for George Harrison.(Not the best pic, but click on it to get the full view).

Seymour Duncan had that idea combining two single coils in a humbucker shape decades ago. Its called the SH-3. Its one of the most unpopular humbuckers in his line, even after he a revision from the The Mag (flat mags and A2) to the Stag Mag (staggered mags and A2). How do i know? I am trying to...

Black with red to hot and white with green and bare to ground.

He have one shaw and 3 different t-top, but all t-top are 2nd Generation from 1976 on. A lot of people say that the first Gen. with short magnets sound much fuller without giving up the crisp and well balanced sound. The 2nd Gen. is thinner sounding, which isn’t a bad thing in neck position of a...

The T-Tops started in mid 1967 to 1975. Then decals with the Pat. No. changed to an impressed Pat. No. in 1976. From 1977 on they carried a rubber stamped date. In 1981 Shaw took over and brought his PAF like bobbins. Some rare examples had one T-Top bobbin and one new in mid 1980. From June...

I am a sucker for Pagey’s 70ies sound. A PAF in the neck and T-Top in the bridge makes it.

The series connection of 2 humbucker, which are not splitable, does not make a useful sound. Too much wire in series. For more inspiration look here https://www.seymourduncan.com/resources/pickup/wiring-diagrams