about alnico classic humbucker in epiphone les paul?

[steve barnabas]

What is the carracter of alnico classic humbucker?what is sound like? vintage or modern?
can i play 60s rock n roll, psychedelic rock, blues rock or hard rock with it? or i have to replace or mix it with seymour duncan/gibson (what type?) pickups?... for information, my guitar is epiphone les paul

 

[jeremy]

Re: about alnico classic humbucker in epiphone les paul?

are you talking the stock epiphone humbuckers? if so they are ok but nothing special. the neck is fairly vintage sounding, not good vintage sounding like a paf but along those lines. the bridge version is a little hotter than vintage but not as hot as a distortion type humbucker.

you could play all those styles with the pups but there are other options that would sound better. if it was my guitar for those styles i would put a sh1 59n in the neck and a sh5 custom in the bridge. classic les paul neck tones and hotter more modern bridge tones that are still usable for lots of styles

 

[Jay 77]

Re: about alnico classic humbucker in epiphone les paul?

are you talking the stock epiphone humbuckers? if so they are ok but nothing special. the neck is fairly vintage sounding, not good vintage sounding like a paf but along those lines. the bridge version is a little hotter than vintage but not as hot as a distortion type humbucker.

you could play all those styles with the pups but there are other options that would sound better. if it was my guitar for those styles i would put a sh1 59n in the neck and a sh5 custom in the bridge. classic les paul neck tones and hotter more modern bridge tones that are still usable for lots of styles

+1 to that. I have that exact combo in my LP, and can play nearly any style with it.

 

[steve barnabas]

Re: about alnico classic humbucker in epiphone les paul?

how if i put jazz model in neck and pearly gates in bridge?

 

[jeremy]

Re: about alnico classic humbucker in epiphone les paul?

i will never say no to any one putting a pearly gates bridge in a les paul, love that pup

that could be a cool combo in a dark guitar, not classic les paul tone from the neck but very usable

 

[dwightfrye63]

Re: about alnico classic humbucker in epiphone les paul?

I went with SH-55's in both posn's of my Epi LP Standard and love them. Not hot pickups by any means but they allow the true sound of the guitar to the amp I think. Then the amp takes care of distortion required. I use it wiyth a Valveking 100 so not really super high gain amp by any means. However since the pickups are not potted I find if I do set gain too high I can get a bad microphonic squeel. The pickupsthemselves definately make me think while I play as they seem to pick up your playing, nothing to mask sloppiness. Which is good for me as I am no guitar god by any stretch of teh imagination. In a nutshell they make me want to play more so I can only improve.