Hi, does anyone knows what pickups did Blues use in his Yamaha Plaid guitar, on the Plaid era? I saw a picture of his guitar and the pickups were SD's but they're not the PATB-3 parallel axis trembucker because the magnets are round like the normal pickups. I would really apreciate if someone tells me, I love his tone on the Plaid album. :fingersx:
Blues Saraceno pickups
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51501984
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Re: Blues Saraceno pickups
Inside the insert of the Plaid cd Blues thanks and endorses Seymour Duncan. There`s also a pic of him with his plaid Yamaha guitar and you can tell that the pickups have the Seymour Duncan logos on them but they are clearly not PATB-3s. I`m guessing they were 59s but that`s just a guess.
Inside the insert of the Plaid cd Blues thanks and endorses Seymour Duncan. There`s also a pic of him with his plaid Yamaha guitar and you can tell that the pickups have the Seymour Duncan logos on them but they are clearly not PATB-3s. I`m guessing they were 59s but that`s just a guess.
Re: Blues Saraceno pickups
Exactly, I got the Plaid cd last week and when I saw the pics I noticed the pickups were not the PATB-3s
damn I love his tone on that album...
Exactly, I got the Plaid cd last week and when I saw the pics I noticed the pickups were not the PATB-3s
damn I love his tone on that album...
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51501984
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Re: Blues Saraceno pickups
Yep , Akira can hang with the best of them. I wish I could find out the gear and pickups he was using around Thunder In The East era.
Yep , Akira can hang with the best of them. I wish I could find out the gear and pickups he was using around Thunder In The East era.
Re: Blues Saraceno pickups
Love the guitar in your avatar EXCEPT the clubby looking headstock.. Ive actually seen pics of EVH playing one too..
Love the guitar in your avatar EXCEPT the clubby looking headstock.. Ive actually seen pics of EVH playing one too..
51501984
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Re: Blues Saraceno pickups
You mean this one?
Where do you think Akira got the idea , everything can be traced back to EVH:haha:
You mean this one?
Where do you think Akira got the idea , everything can be traced back to EVH:haha:
Johtosotku
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Re: Blues Saraceno pickups
They can't be '59s if they have the logo on them, can they? Or have they come with the logo earlier on or would he have gone the custom route to get ones with it?
They can't be '59s if they have the logo on them, can they? Or have they come with the logo earlier on or would he have gone the custom route to get ones with it?
Evan Skopp
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Re: Blues Saraceno pickups
From Mr. Saraceno himself:
Thanks Blues!
From Mr. Saraceno himself:
Hey Evan,
In that scotch tape plaid guitar I believe that they were 59's in it (two bridge pickups as per usual)....Those were the pre cursor to the Trembuckers.... The sound improved drastically once the patb's came along.... Helped out the tremolo guitars a bunch ... kinda gives them a little more mids that the tremolo removes..... I have always just use two bridge trembuckers even though the neck pickup spacing is a little wider ... They just match up well to my ears.... Hope this helps.
Viva la Seymour Duncan!!!!
-Blues
In that scotch tape plaid guitar I believe that they were 59's in it (two bridge pickups as per usual)....Those were the pre cursor to the Trembuckers.... The sound improved drastically once the patb's came along.... Helped out the tremolo guitars a bunch ... kinda gives them a little more mids that the tremolo removes..... I have always just use two bridge trembuckers even though the neck pickup spacing is a little wider ... They just match up well to my ears.... Hope this helps.
Viva la Seymour Duncan!!!!
-Blues
Thanks Blues!
Kosh Naranek
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Re: Blues Saraceno pickups
I may have to try scoring a second Blues Trembucker to try it out in the neck position along with the bridge Blues Trembucker I have!
I may have to try scoring a second Blues Trembucker to try it out in the neck position along with the bridge Blues Trembucker I have!
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Wow! thanks a lot , that really helped me a lot. I'm sory but I don't know much about this pickup is there only one '59? because in the pickup section it says there is the SH-1 '59 and the TB591b. Wich one these is Blues talking about?
Wow! thanks a lot , that really helped me a lot. I'm sory but I don't know much about this pickup is there only one '59? because in the pickup section it says there is the SH-1 '59 and the TB591b. Wich one these is Blues talking about?
Jeff_H
Dean Hardtail Fanologist
Re: Blues Saraceno pickups
I haven't tried the PATB-3, but I have the Original Parallel Axis TB (TB-2?) and it absolutely smokes in my floyd equiped superstrat. I think of it as the "Custom Custom" of the PATB series, with the PATB-3 being the 59', and the "Distortion Trembucker" being, well, the Distortion!
Awsome pickups....I just wish they came in double creme!
I haven't tried the PATB-3, but I have the Original Parallel Axis TB (TB-2?) and it absolutely smokes in my floyd equiped superstrat. I think of it as the "Custom Custom" of the PATB series, with the PATB-3 being the 59', and the "Distortion Trembucker" being, well, the Distortion!
Awsome pickups....I just wish they came in double creme!
daemon barbeque
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Re: Blues Saraceno pickups
Man i tell that any given day to every demanding player!Great PUs.Really great range and mojo.I am not turning back to Distortion!
Man i tell that any given day to every demanding player!Great PUs.Really great range and mojo.I am not turning back to Distortion!
daemon barbeque
Zuhahahaologist
Re: Blues Saraceno pickups
Well ,i can't say that PATB2 is similar to distortion.They are very different in nature.The bite ,harmonic structure ,midd voicing ,bottom ,punch.All different.
PATB suits to the Custom Custom i think .
Well ,i can't say that PATB2 is similar to distortion.They are very different in nature.The bite ,harmonic structure ,midd voicing ,bottom ,punch.All different.
PATB suits to the Custom Custom i think .
