Anyone try the EJ Custom neck??

[ranalli]

I have an Humbucker from Hell currently but I want to try something different with a single-coil like sound....I wonder if anyone has tried one of these.

I like nice bright neck pickups.....so these are in the ballpark...just wondered what people thought.


A Custom might be going in the bridge....there will be an output mismatch possibly but not sure really.

 

[jony]

Re: Anyone try the EJ Custom neck??

I wish I did.. Waiting a response...

 

[jony]

Re: Anyone try the EJ Custom neck??

That gretsch sound... :slurp:

 

[ranalli]

Re: Anyone try the EJ Custom neck??

I guess nobody has used them really yet.....like many Dimarzios they're a very niche pickup with an unconventional humbucker sound.

 

[wildstar]

Re: Anyone try the EJ Custom neck??

I've had one. And I also have a Humbucker from Hell. The EJ Neck is very very similar. It does sure sound Gretsch-ish. Great pickup!

I don't think you're going to notice much change from the HFH. If you'd like a single-coil-ish tone in the neck, but something pretty different from the HFH, try the Virtual PAF Neck! Very chimey, bell-like, and single-coil-ish, but unmistakably a humbucker.

 

[ranalli]

Re: Anyone try the EJ Custom neck??

How is it different from the HFH?? I'm not familiar with Gretch's....what's that sound like??

The HFH is a great pickup, but something is missing and I'm not sure what. It also seems to have an above average amount of string pull for some reason which kind of annoys me.

What I really want is the sound of an EMG 60( I know just get a 60) but I'm getting a Custom most likely in the bridge and want matching polepieces, etc.

The Virtual PAF neck was another option although I was afraid that wouldn't be bright enough.....but it's still up in the air....some of the really low output PAF type stuff *does* have single coil like qualities....my Classic '57 sure did.

 

[wildstar]

Re: Anyone try the EJ Custom neck??

How is it different from the HFH?? I'm not familiar with Gretch's....what's that sound like??

The HFH is a great pickup, but something is missing and I'm not sure what. It also seems to have an above average amount of string pull for some reason which kind of annoys me.

What I really want is the sound of an EMG 60( I know just get a 60) but I'm getting a Custom most likely in the bridge and want matching polepieces, etc.

The Virtual PAF neck was another option although I was afraid that wouldn't be bright enough.....but it's still up in the air....some of the really low output PAF type stuff *does* have single coil like qualities....my Classic '57 sure did.

I think the VPAF neck is very bright! It was too bright for what I was looking for in that guitar.

The EJ Neck is lower power than the HFH, I believe. That might help with the string pull. I'll try to describe the difference better: the EJ Custom felt and sounded like a humbucker to me, but maybe closer to a mini-humbucker or P-90. Super bright and present, but just warm and fat enough around the edges to be a humbucker. In comparison, the HFH sounds 100% single-coil to me. It quacks like a duck!

Hope that's helpful...

 

[Benjy_26]

Re: Anyone try the EJ Custom neck??

I use my Sheraton with Phat Cats to play country.

I vote for the Phat Cat/Custom combo.

 

[ranalli]

Re: Anyone try the EJ Custom neck??

I use my Sheraton with Phat Cats to play country.

I vote for the Phat Cat/Custom combo.

I would definitely try the Phat Cat...but they are ugly as sin.


I kind of like Dimarzio's approach better....really wacked out sounds in standard humbucker housings...a true hot-rodded humbucker design.


Although the Bluesbucker may be another option...looks kinda hot though.

 

[St_Genesius]

Re: Anyone try the EJ Custom neck??

I'm really very curious about the EJ Custom pups in general, though I'd either be looking at a full set oof EJs, an EJb/Jazzn combo or perhaps a set of TV'trons. Of those, the EJ is really the most unknown quanitity, though. No one I trust seems to have ever played them and DiMarzio has no clips. The Harmony Central reviews are, as usual, pretty useless.

 

[Benjy_26]

Re: Anyone try the EJ Custom neck??

The Phats look like a normal covered 'bucker from 15 feet away. Heck, my guitar playing buddies don't see the difference in my guitar until I point it out to them.