Black Winters in a Les Paul?

[Frater106]

Anybody try Black Winters in a Les Paul? Are the mids too over the top? What Duncan metal pickups seem to work best in a mahogany single-cut? Thanks!

 

[Aceman]

I have never put a BW in a Les Paul (or any other guitar). However - BW's being a 'more refined' Distortion....

Gibson themselves put 500T's in Les Pauls, and I LOVE my Duncan Distortion in my #1 LP. So based on what I have read/heard about the BW, and my knowledge of those other two pickups - not at all! The mids on those pickups brick the crunch and aggression. So for metal - no problems at all.

In Mahogany Single cuts, and playing general metal-styles, I use and love both the Distortion, and the Custom. And sometimes a JB.

 

[Hsb]

I have a Distortion bridge, BW neck in a mahognay/maple Iceman, love the combo.

I do want to try the BW bridge and have a guitar Im not digging the Custom/Jazz combo in

 

[Rex_Rocker]

I've had the BW Bridge in my Epi and my Gibson, and I didn't think the mids were too much. Yes, they're there in abundance, but the Black Winter is more about the agressive kind of mids rather than the fat kind of mids that a Les Paul naturally has.

 

[beaubrummels]

I had a set in my LP Studio for a while. In that guitar, they were very flat and sterile, the most active-sounding passive pickups I ever experienced. The only set that required me to really tweak my amp to get more character out of them. They sounded good, but that was just unexpected.

That same bridge in my Jackson is a different story. Was like a Distortion with a slightly warm mid-bump. Just the right character, worked with my amp setup as is.

 

[Mincer]

An LP with Black Winters was my first exposure to the pickup. The mids aren't like Slash mids, because the bass is really tight. It is warm, for sure, but in a much more modern way than, say a Custom Custom.