78' custom in a PRS Custom 24?
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Funkfingers
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Re: 78' custom in a PRS Custom 24?
First question: How old is the PRS?
The pickup cavities of early PRS Custom guitars were routed to accept uncovered humbuckers. The squared off edges of a metal HB cover will foul the rounded corners of the cavity.
First question: How old is the PRS?
The pickup cavities of early PRS Custom guitars were routed to accept uncovered humbuckers. The squared off edges of a metal HB cover will foul the rounded corners of the cavity.
Re: 78' custom in a PRS Custom 24?
It's a 2011 model.
QUOTE=Funkfingers;3125702]First question: How old is the PRS?
The pickup cavities of early PRS Custom guitars were routed to accept uncovered humbuckers. The squared off edges of a metal HB cover will foul the rounded corners of the cavity.[/QUOTE]
It's a 2011 model.
QUOTE=Funkfingers;3125702]First question: How old is the PRS?
The pickup cavities of early PRS Custom guitars were routed to accept uncovered humbuckers. The squared off edges of a metal HB cover will foul the rounded corners of the cavity.[/QUOTE]
Re: 78' custom in a PRS Custom 24?
Any idea how the 78' compares to the EVH version Eddie has out there now?
Any idea how the 78' compares to the EVH version Eddie has out there now?
the 78 is a amazing pup if you want a tweaked PAF. i love them,i did sell two of the three i had,regreted it so fate stepped in and then i won a custom wound pup of my choice guess what i got? LOL
love that one the most.
AudioWonderland
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Re: 78' custom in a PRS Custom 24?
Not really close. The 78 is a 9k wind. The new EVH version is 14k and much much closer to a CC than anything else
Not really close. The 78 is a 9k wind. The new EVH version is 14k and much much closer to a CC than anything else
Re: 78' custom in a PRS Custom 24?
the 78 is the pup that was made BEFORE ed put a floyd rose trem on his guitars, the EVH frankie pup is the pup seymour made for him after the floyd to thicken the tone, the prototype was really close to a stock CC but over the years the magnet aged and the pup got slightly damaged from touring and abuse so you are basically hearing
1st record is the SH5 in frank and IMHO the destroyer since they sound so much alike,second record is the 78,third also 78 and stock ibanez super 70's on a borrowed destroyer, fair warning is a combo of les paul and frankie with the SH5 with a mag swap to alnico II and the CC was born. these tracks have the floyd rose and required edd to get a fuller tone pup with a smoother top(A2 from the ceramic in the SH5) diver down is a mystery,some think he went back to the 78 and some say it is the hybrid?
the 78 is the pup that was made BEFORE ed put a floyd rose trem on his guitars, the EVH frankie pup is the pup seymour made for him after the floyd to thicken the tone, the prototype was really close to a stock CC but over the years the magnet aged and the pup got slightly damaged from touring and abuse so you are basically hearing
1st record is the SH5 in frank and IMHO the destroyer since they sound so much alike,second record is the 78,third also 78 and stock ibanez super 70's on a borrowed destroyer, fair warning is a combo of les paul and frankie with the SH5 with a mag swap to alnico II and the CC was born. these tracks have the floyd rose and required edd to get a fuller tone pup with a smoother top(A2 from the ceramic in the SH5) diver down is a mystery,some think he went back to the 78 and some say it is the hybrid?
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Re: 78' custom in a PRS Custom 24?
Wow old post of mine! OK, so I ended up opting for the EVH Frankenstein humbucker. It was a good pup but I ended up not keeping it. I found it too bright. The pickups I'd like in my Custom 24 the most were:
PRS 59/09
Suhr SSH+
SD Custom 5
Wow old post of mine! OK, so I ended up opting for the EVH Frankenstein humbucker. It was a good pup but I ended up not keeping it. I found it too bright. The pickups I'd like in my Custom 24 the most were:
PRS 59/09
Suhr SSH+
SD Custom 5
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Glorioso
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Re: 78' custom in a PRS Custom 24?
Thanks. I am concerned about A5 because everyone says that it doesn't work well in Mahogany...then everyone says not a big deal. I just posted in the pickup lounge.
https://forum.seymourduncan.com/sho...cific-custom-shop-pickups-Please&goto=newpost
Thanks. I am concerned about A5 because everyone says that it doesn't work well in Mahogany...then everyone says not a big deal. I just posted in the pickup lounge.
https://forum.seymourduncan.com/sho...cific-custom-shop-pickups-Please&goto=newpost
Re: 78' custom in a PRS Custom 24?
It's all so subjective. I think in the end you just got to try it in your rig and see how it rolls.
It's all so subjective. I think in the end you just got to try it in your rig and see how it rolls.
eclecticsynergy
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Re: 78' custom in a PRS Custom 24?
I've never heard anyone say A5 doesn't work in mahogany. I've heard some say the JB doesn't do well in mahogany, but my experience has been different. (Full disclosure: only one of my JBs is in an all-mahogany axe, so my sample size is limited to that one.) Anyway the general consensus seems to be that the JB is touchy only in certain individual instruments, not in all mahogs.
A5 has been the most-used pickup magnet for fifty years and I'd be quite surprised if a majority of mahogany guitars in existence today didn't have A5 pickups.
I've never heard anyone say A5 doesn't work in mahogany. I've heard some say the JB doesn't do well in mahogany, but my experience has been different. (Full disclosure: only one of my JBs is in an all-mahogany axe, so my sample size is limited to that one.) Anyway the general consensus seems to be that the JB is touchy only in certain individual instruments, not in all mahogs.
A5 has been the most-used pickup magnet for fifty years and I'd be quite surprised if a majority of mahogany guitars in existence today didn't have A5 pickups.