Alnico 2 bridge pup (in between Pearly Gates & Custom Custom)

[JDLM]

I'm looking for a great, musical Alnico 2 bridge humbucker to pair with a Pearly Gates neck on my Robin Savoy. This guitar is kinda of a cross between a 335 and a Les Paul. It's semihollow but with a solid mahogany body and maple top. It's sounds very open and ringing sounding acoustically.

I have a Custom Custom + Pearly Gates neck combo on a similar guitar, but I want to try another alnico 2 bridge pickup with a bit less output and compression than the Custom Custom but a bit more output than a Pearly Gates bridge. What do you recommend?

Many thanks!!!

 

[Mark Le Comte]

Re: Alnico 2 bridge pup (in between Pearly Gates & Custom Custom)

Pearly/Custom hybrid, A2 59/custom hybrid, A2 brobucker, 78. Maybe a dimarzio virtual hot paf if you can find one.

 

[gregory]

Re: Alnico 2 bridge pup (in between Pearly Gates & Custom Custom)

Unless you want to swap magnets, it's either an APH-1B or an APH-2B from the list of standard production pickups. I'd probably go with the APH-2B.

 

[Masta' C]

Re: Alnico 2 bridge pup (in between Pearly Gates & Custom Custom)

Here are my two votes:

'78 Model

Screamin' Demon w/ A2

 

[hamerfan]

Re: Alnico 2 bridge pup (in between Pearly Gates & Custom Custom)

Ask MJ for a BG (Billy Gibbons) Pearly Gates Bridge Humbucker.

 

[GuitarDoc]

Re: Alnico 2 bridge pup (in between Pearly Gates & Custom Custom)

I'm not familiar with that guitar so what you say doesn't seem to make sense...

"a cross between a 335 and a Les Paul. It's semihollow but with a solid mahogany body and maple top"?

It's semi-hollow but a solid mahogany body!! What the heck are you talking about?!

 

[jeremy]

Re: Alnico 2 bridge pup (in between Pearly Gates & Custom Custom)

the only thing in the normal production line thats between those two is the aph2b

 

[AJK1]

Re: Alnico 2 bridge pup (in between Pearly Gates & Custom Custom)

Ask MJ for a BG (Billy Gibbons) Pearly Gates Bridge Humbucker.

Yep, good advice, i have one and they are superb, and a little hotter than the Std ones

 

[JDLM]

Re: Alnico 2 bridge pup (in between Pearly Gates & Custom Custom)

It's built like a Les Paul (one piece mahogany back + maple top) but it has the dimensions and f holes of a 335.

 

[eclecticsynergy]

Re: Alnico 2 bridge pup (in between Pearly Gates & Custom Custom)

A more affordable alternative to the Customshop Pearly Gates bridge might be to find a used Pearly Gates Plus and drop an A2 mag into it.

I'd second the recommendation for an A2 powered 59/Custom Hybrid too though. Demon with an A2 was another good possibility.

I almost hesitate to suggest it but GFS makes an 11K A2 pickup called the VEH that's good sounding. Nice match for a bright guitar- it's warm & rich but it has a little coil offset and it isn't dark or wooly sounding. At $35 it's another inexpensive option.

My personal choice out of these four would be the A2 Hybrid, I think.

Brobucker is stellar in a bright guitar. Nice vintagey feel with its standard degaussed A5; I don't think you'd need to swap it out for an A2.

 

[GuitarDoc]

Re: Alnico 2 bridge pup (in between Pearly Gates & Custom Custom)

It's built like a Les Paul (one piece mahogany back + maple top) but it has the dimensions and f holes of a 335.

So, are you saying that it is a chambered 335 as opposed to a semi-hollow 335?

 

[eclecticsynergy]

Re: Alnico 2 bridge pup (in between Pearly Gates & Custom Custom)

So, are you saying that it is a chambered 335 as opposed to a semi-hollow 335?

I think he might mean a solid maple top rather than plywood like all the ESs. I don't know anything about Robins. I think when they first came out, they used to come loaded with Rio Grande pickups.

 

[brentrocks]

Re: Alnico 2 bridge pup (in between Pearly Gates & Custom Custom)

SETH LOVER ALL THE WAY

 

[jeremy]

Re: Alnico 2 bridge pup (in between Pearly Gates & Custom Custom)

i love the seth but it has less output than the pearly

 

[gregory]

Re: Alnico 2 bridge pup (in between Pearly Gates & Custom Custom)

I guess APH-1B vs PGB is a good example of higher DCR != hotter. Either that or the website is off (again). Thanks for the correction, Jeremy.

 

[AJK1]

Re: Alnico 2 bridge pup (in between Pearly Gates & Custom Custom)

I'm looking for a great, musical Alnico 2 bridge humbucker to pair with a Pearly Gates neck on my Robin Savoy. This guitar is kinda of a cross between a 335 and a Les Paul. It's semihollow but with a solid mahogany body and maple top. It's sounds very open and ringing sounding acoustically.

I have a Custom Custom + Pearly Gates neck combo on a similar guitar, but I want to try another alnico 2 bridge pickup with a bit less output and compression than the Custom Custom but a bit more output than a Pearly Gates bridge. What do you recommend?

Many thanks!!!

So, what did you decide to buy ?

 

[JDLM]

Re: Alnico 2 bridge pup (in between Pearly Gates & Custom Custom)

So, what did you decide to buy ?

I don't know yet. I'm thinking since I'm gonna see Maricela at namm better ask her directly. If not, I'm thinking of wizz pafs. I know these are alnico 4 and not 2, but I played a lester with wizz and the tone was to die for. They may not be exactly what I need for that guitar, but always wanted to try those; maybe 'tis the time.

 

[jeremy]

Re: Alnico 2 bridge pup (in between Pearly Gates & Custom Custom)

fro the price of the wizz, you can have mj make you exactly what you want in the custom shop. not that i havent thought about getting a dark burst set myself. and swapping the magnet to a2

 

[JDLM]

Re: Alnico 2 bridge pup (in between Pearly Gates & Custom Custom)

fro the price of the wizz, you can have mj make you exactly what you want in the custom shop. not that i havent thought about getting a dark burst set myself. and swapping the magnet to a2

Yup. I'll see MJ at namm next month so I'll ask her. That's my first choice the most logical option for this guitar. It's just that I just came across those wizz's on a friend's guitar and got that inner thing that says, "I wanna have that thing too." Thanks for the info. Cheers!

 

[Lewguitar]

Re: Alnico 2 bridge pup (in between Pearly Gates & Custom Custom)

Ask MJ for a BG (Billy Gibbons) Pearly Gates Bridge Humbucker.

This.

The CSPGb from the Custom Shop has a little more output and has slightly less edge to the treble than the stock version.

I prefer it.

But I prefer the stock PGn neck pickup.

So if you have a stock PGn the two would sound great together...at least to me.