Re: Custom Custom Sound
Fiesta Red said:
Hi,
I have heard that this pickup can get the later Van Halen sounds, like 1984 and Fair Warning. Is this the case? What is the history of this pickup? Was it truly invented for VH?
-Mark
you really want the thruth??? :smack:
OK here goes,
back in 1977 ed got the idea of dumping a old 1961 PAF into his then FENDER strat that he was using at dances and backyard parties
he kept getting yelled at by the other band members about the strats buzzy thin tone.
So he thought "he why not have the electronics of a gibson in my strat??
BRAIN STORM!!!!!!!!!!! :laugh2:
anyway he took out a '61 gibson P.A.F out of his ES 335 he butchered :smack:
then he wanted to remove the cover of this '61 P.A.F, damaged one coil in the process :smack:
so his girlfreind at that time her dad was into electronics and ed took the damaged P.A.F to him to try to fix it.
they dad looked it over and did not want the challenge :laugh2:
so ed sought out the best pup rewinder and maker in california(can you guess who???? :laugh2: )
thats right Mr seymour duncan!
seymour rewound ONE coil(the damaged one obviously!) of this P.A.F for ed
then ed used this rewound P.A.F to break all new ground(tone,style,you name it!)
a few years later(approx 1981) ed then wanted a bit more output so he had seymour make him a P.A.F sounding pup but with more output
the custom-custom is born!
when ed hooked up with EBMM they had a deal with dimarzio which is why ed did not use duncans in his EBMM sig axe.
bottom line,
ED used both the original P.A.F that seymour rewound and the seymour made custom-custom in his guitars from fair warning all the way to F.U.C.K
which is when ALL dimarzio's are used and man you can tell! :smack: :laugh2:
