A Mix match on a 70s LP custom

[rollingpap7]

78 LP CUSTOM WITH

Sticking to this combo after about every duncans and gibsons.
It gives you classy yet more subtle rawness.
Anyone putting Necks for bridge like me?
Pancake the body well syrupped!


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[audiocheck]

Re: A Mix match on a 70s LP custom

78 LP CUSTOM WITH

Sticking to this combo after about every duncans and gibsons.
It gives you classy yet more subtle rawness.
Anyone putting Necks for bridge like me?
Pancake the body well syrupped!


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Your bridge is a Seth Neck, but what is your neck pickup? Is that a stock Gibson of the time?

 

[Jeff_H]

Re: A Mix match on a 70s LP custom

The neck pickup is a Burstbucker 1, a modern pickup which I believe is normally a bridge pickup.

I used to have a 59' neck pickup in the bridge of a Les Paul, and I liked it quite a bit. It took away some of the high end bite I didn't like about the 59' bridge, although it did lack a bit of power. Whatever gets you the sound you want is cool.

 

[rollingpap7]

Re: A Mix match on a 70s LP custom

Your bridge is a Seth Neck, but what is your neck pickup? Is that a stock Gibson of the time?

The stock pickups have worn down and I had a time when trying bout 16 pickup combos to duplicate the sound of original and a touch of my taste.
The BB1 in Neck and Seth neck in bridge is my best I’ve try so far and perhaps they were made for each other combination that most are afraid to try.



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[rollingpap7]

Re: A Mix match on a 70s LP custom

The neck pickup is a Burstbucker 1, a modern pickup which I believe is normally a bridge pickup.

I used to have a 59' neck pickup in the bridge of a Les Paul, and I liked it quite a bit. It took away some of the high end bite I didn't like about the 59' bridge, although it did lack a bit of power. Whatever gets you the sound you want is cool.

You’re right.
In case of BB1 & Seth N combo, it is modern vintage and yin and yang. Balance you’d be surprised


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[gregory]

Re: A Mix match on a 70s LP custom

The neck pickup is a Burstbucker 1, a modern pickup which I believe is normally a bridge pickup.

Normally a neck pickup...
http://store.gibson.com/burstbucker-type-1-pickup/

 

[Chistopher]

Re: A Mix match on a 70s LP custom

Yeah, the Burstbucker 1 is a Classic 57 with an almost negligible coil offset and slightly different wind. The literature says that the Classic 57 is what a "perfect" PAF that was supposed to be in the Gibson's of the day, the BB1 and BB2 are what actually came off the assembly lines, due to certain "imperfections" from low quality control in the pickup winding room. And the BB3 is wound a little hotter than the BB2.

 

[Jeff_H]

Re: A Mix match on a 70s LP custom

I had it backwards in my head. I was thinking BB1 bridge and BB2 neck. Regardless, glad you found a sound that works for you.

 

[STLMTLHD79]

Re: A Mix match on a 70s LP custom

I am sort of the same. I always run a fairly hot bridge pickup and a vintage 7-8k neck in my Les Pauls.

My 88 Custom has a Gibson 500T in the bridge and an MJ-wound APH-1 in the neck
My 99 MIJ Epiphone LP Standard has a 80s JB-M in the bridge with a Gibson 57 classic in the neck (soon to be changed to a lightly potted MJ-wound Seth lover SH-55)
My 05 Epiphone LP Custom has a Duncan Distortion in the bridge and a Jazz in the neck

 

[gregory]

Re: A Mix match on a 70s LP custom

I am sort of the same. I always run a fairly hot bridge pickup and a vintage 7-8k neck in my Les Pauls.

Well, not sort of the same. rollingpap7 is running a Seth Neck in the bridge, not a fairly hot pickup by any stretch.

The original pickups in that guitar were likely both T-Tops (~7.5k 42AWG A5)* which are normally considered neck pickus by today's standards.

(*) if memory serves

 

[Aceman]

Re: A Mix match on a 70s LP custom

BB1 and Seth? That should work whichever way.