After recently having a great experience with GFS Mean90's in a Les Paul, I'm wondering about the GFS Retrotron Liverpool pickups (A5 humbucker-sized Gretsch-like pickup).
I'm specifically considering them for an Epiphone Elitist 335 I have, which has '57 Classics in it. I find them to be a little too warm for my taste. Plus, I'm a huge Soundgarden fan, and Cornell's signature ES 335 with Lollartrons sounded GREAT at the recent iTunes festival. But, I don't think I want to drop a set of $175 APIECE pickups in an Epiphone guitar, even though it's a Fujigen factory guitar that's very good.
I'm also just considering starting by swapping the pots in it, which I assume to be 300k, for 500k's to see if that gets me closer to the brighter, more open top end I'm looking for without changing the pickups, but being a semi-hollow it's sort of a pain in the ass to do that and then decide I need to pull it all back apart because it didn't get me where I wanted to go...
Anybody use the Liverpools in a semi-hollow? I know it's a longshot, but anybody directly compare the Liverpools with Lollartrons? Or, should I just start by swapping pots?
Thanks!
I'm specifically considering them for an Epiphone Elitist 335 I have, which has '57 Classics in it. I find them to be a little too warm for my taste. Plus, I'm a huge Soundgarden fan, and Cornell's signature ES 335 with Lollartrons sounded GREAT at the recent iTunes festival. But, I don't think I want to drop a set of $175 APIECE pickups in an Epiphone guitar, even though it's a Fujigen factory guitar that's very good.
I'm also just considering starting by swapping the pots in it, which I assume to be 300k, for 500k's to see if that gets me closer to the brighter, more open top end I'm looking for without changing the pickups, but being a semi-hollow it's sort of a pain in the ass to do that and then decide I need to pull it all back apart because it didn't get me where I wanted to go...
Anybody use the Liverpools in a semi-hollow? I know it's a longshot, but anybody directly compare the Liverpools with Lollartrons? Or, should I just start by swapping pots?
Thanks!
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