Many of us are always looking for the holy grail of pickups anyways here are the answers :
Van halen's interview with jas Obrecht
And how many are part of your act?
See, what I do mainly is I use one a year. Like the first year, supporting the first album, I used the black-and-white-striped one. That was actually the original. It was not rear-loaded. It had a pickguard which I cut out myself, and it had an old Gibson P.A.F. The thing I always do to the pickups is I pot them. You dip them in paraffin wax, which cuts out the high, obnoxious feedback. It’s kind of a tricky thing, because if you leave it in there too long, the pickup melts [laughs].
And you used a Gibson P.A.F. or a copy of one?
A Gibson.
Is that the guitar you had when I did the first [1978] Guitar Player story on you?
Yeah.
sources : http://jasobrecht.com/eddie-van-hale...979-interview/
for the shark destroyer it was ibanez super 70's pickups
as you can see the bobins are black and it can't be mighty mites.
That’s not the one that had the chain in it.
You mean the – what do you call those things?
You had one that you cut with a chainsaw . . .
Yeah, yeah. That was originally an Ibanez Destroyer, and it was one of the original ones, which are actually as good or better than the original Gibsons, because they’re made out of korrina wood, which is real rare, hard-to-work-with wood. It’s real light wood, but real toney. Ibanez stopped making them out of that wood, probably because it’s too hard to work with. They started making them out of ash, and those are turkeys.
So it is clear that what was in the frankenstrat during the songs using whammy bar was an overwound paf : aka the 78 model. Eddie said that this one was his ES-335 PAF in another interview.
then eddie for VH2 during some time (record sessions) the bumblebee used a 70's version of dimarzio paf (8.29K ) which is very close to the 59 model (it is alnico 5), i red it in an old interview too.
then with the floyd rose he changed for a dimarzio super disortion which he changed the magnet that's the fair warning and women and children first era.
What kind of electronics went into that one?
The pickup that’s on the picture is not really what I used. It’s like when we did the photo session for the album cover, I’d just finished painting it and slapping it together, and I just stuck some garbage pickup in there I wasn’t actually playing, just so it would look like a complete guitar. But I’ve tried a bunch of different pickups in there. I took the pickup out of the first one and put it in there, and it didn’t sound too good. So what I did is I took a DiMarzio pickup – I don’t really go for those, because they’re real distorted. See, I like a clean sound, but with sustain. I hate the fuzz-box, real raspy sound. I don’t particularly go for that.
It’s old now.
Yeah. DiMarzio pickups have real big magnets – that’s how they get their power – so what I did is I took a DiMarzio pickup and put the P.A.F. magnet in it and I rewound it, which took a long time.
Now it is clear :
78 model/ ibanez super 70's = VH1
Dimarzio PAF from the 70's or if you want something close duncan 59 = VH2
Dimarzio Super distortion from the 70's with an alnico 2 magnet bar or if you want something close custom custom or evh frankenstein = fair warning and women and children first
1984 : The kramer 5150 had a JB (i saw an old interview of MJ of duncan's talking about that). The guys at ernie ball music man confirmed it when they repaired the broken headstock. Plus the kramer 84 model has a jb too.
90's : air norton and tone zone.
the pickup we see on the frankenstrat isn't the same that was used in 1978. It is a clone of the modified super distortion used by eddie in his bumblebee and this pickup was made by seymour duncan to make it look like a PAF. It is a 14k alnico 2 pickup aka : the same as the custom custom, IM1, Frankenstein duncan or evh pickup. The only differences are in the calibration of the magnet.
Van halen's interview with jas Obrecht
And how many are part of your act?
See, what I do mainly is I use one a year. Like the first year, supporting the first album, I used the black-and-white-striped one. That was actually the original. It was not rear-loaded. It had a pickguard which I cut out myself, and it had an old Gibson P.A.F. The thing I always do to the pickups is I pot them. You dip them in paraffin wax, which cuts out the high, obnoxious feedback. It’s kind of a tricky thing, because if you leave it in there too long, the pickup melts [laughs].
And you used a Gibson P.A.F. or a copy of one?
A Gibson.
Is that the guitar you had when I did the first [1978] Guitar Player story on you?
Yeah.
sources : http://jasobrecht.com/eddie-van-hale...979-interview/
for the shark destroyer it was ibanez super 70's pickups
as you can see the bobins are black and it can't be mighty mites.
That’s not the one that had the chain in it.
You mean the – what do you call those things?
You had one that you cut with a chainsaw . . .
Yeah, yeah. That was originally an Ibanez Destroyer, and it was one of the original ones, which are actually as good or better than the original Gibsons, because they’re made out of korrina wood, which is real rare, hard-to-work-with wood. It’s real light wood, but real toney. Ibanez stopped making them out of that wood, probably because it’s too hard to work with. They started making them out of ash, and those are turkeys.
So it is clear that what was in the frankenstrat during the songs using whammy bar was an overwound paf : aka the 78 model. Eddie said that this one was his ES-335 PAF in another interview.
then eddie for VH2 during some time (record sessions) the bumblebee used a 70's version of dimarzio paf (8.29K ) which is very close to the 59 model (it is alnico 5), i red it in an old interview too.
then with the floyd rose he changed for a dimarzio super disortion which he changed the magnet that's the fair warning and women and children first era.
What kind of electronics went into that one?
The pickup that’s on the picture is not really what I used. It’s like when we did the photo session for the album cover, I’d just finished painting it and slapping it together, and I just stuck some garbage pickup in there I wasn’t actually playing, just so it would look like a complete guitar. But I’ve tried a bunch of different pickups in there. I took the pickup out of the first one and put it in there, and it didn’t sound too good. So what I did is I took a DiMarzio pickup – I don’t really go for those, because they’re real distorted. See, I like a clean sound, but with sustain. I hate the fuzz-box, real raspy sound. I don’t particularly go for that.
It’s old now.
Yeah. DiMarzio pickups have real big magnets – that’s how they get their power – so what I did is I took a DiMarzio pickup and put the P.A.F. magnet in it and I rewound it, which took a long time.
Now it is clear :
78 model/ ibanez super 70's = VH1
Dimarzio PAF from the 70's or if you want something close duncan 59 = VH2
Dimarzio Super distortion from the 70's with an alnico 2 magnet bar or if you want something close custom custom or evh frankenstein = fair warning and women and children first
1984 : The kramer 5150 had a JB (i saw an old interview of MJ of duncan's talking about that). The guys at ernie ball music man confirmed it when they repaired the broken headstock. Plus the kramer 84 model has a jb too.
90's : air norton and tone zone.
the pickup we see on the frankenstrat isn't the same that was used in 1978. It is a clone of the modified super distortion used by eddie in his bumblebee and this pickup was made by seymour duncan to make it look like a PAF. It is a 14k alnico 2 pickup aka : the same as the custom custom, IM1, Frankenstein duncan or evh pickup. The only differences are in the calibration of the magnet.
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