Dial in this tone...Pearly Gates, '59's, or other

Dial in this tone...Pearly Gates, '59's, or other

  • Saturday Night Specials

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • 59's

    Votes: 5 50.0%

  • Pearly Gates

    Votes: 1 10.0%

  • Other

    Votes: 4 40.0%
  • Total voters
    10
Re: Dial in this tone...Pearly Gates, '59's, or other

Do you have the guitar yet? I think the 498t that comes in the Standard would get pretty close to those tones, especially if you roll of a hair on the volume. I use the 498t with a Duncan 59n in mine. The 59 set should be great for those tones too.
 
Re: Dial in this tone...Pearly Gates, '59's, or other

Idk about foghat but..

Lizzy= les paul deluxes with minihumbuckers into 100w nmvs
Angus= sg with late pat#/T tops into nmv marshalls...jtm and jmp

I would go with
1) Any number of T top clones with covers
2) a set of 59s with the roughcast a5 mags they originally came with and covers to shave off some high end
3) inexpensive fix-buy a used 490t, throw some short 5 magnets into the 490t and the 490r the guitar comes with. This is fairly similar to a set of T tops,and you are only out $75 bucks for the pickup and 6 or 7 bucks for the magnets.
 
Re: Dial in this tone...Pearly Gates, '59's, or other

I like the 59's with roughcast mags....

But yeah...try it stock first
 
Re: Dial in this tone...Pearly Gates, '59's, or other

Lonesome Dave used mostly P-90s in DC Les Pauls and Les Paul Jrs. Rod Price tended to play PAF Les Pauls and later SGs with A5 pickups. 59s would work fine for Foghat. Fralins would work great too.
 
Re: Dial in this tone...Pearly Gates, '59's, or other

Every time I come to this forum, I leave wanting a set of 59's with roughcast a5 magnets.
 
Re: Dial in this tone...Pearly Gates, '59's, or other

Fast forward to 39 minutes to hear a great old set of Duncan 59s
 
Re: Dial in this tone...Pearly Gates, '59's, or other

To be fair, I think even an epi mudbucker would sound good through that vox.
 
Re: Dial in this tone...Pearly Gates, '59's, or other

LtKojak said:
If it's so, what exactly is stopping you? :confused:
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Money, mostly. I've been spending it on so many other things lately. Some necessities (car repairs, clothes, food), and some non-necessities. I got a new amp - Blackstar ID60, and bought Metallica tickets for my nephew. I've also got birthdays and Mother's Day coming up too. Sometimes I wonder though, if the 59's would sound like my WLH's in my guitar. WLH's have roughcast A5's. If there isn't going to be much difference in sound, I wouldn't bother. Someone here once mentioned a retailer that sells unpotted 59s. I'm more intrigued by those because I love unpotted pickups. But seeing as I have an SG, I don't want the treble to be too in-your-face.

Sometimes though, I just don't feel like leaving my guitar at the shop. I get antsy if I go without playing for a few days lol.
 
Re: Dial in this tone...Pearly Gates, '59's, or other

Saturday Night Specials or Whole Lotta Humbuckers would be my choice. They won't nail everything, but with a few EQ and gain adjustments between bands, you can get really, really close.
 
Re: Dial in this tone...Pearly Gates, '59's, or other

I'm going to raise a few hackles here. I don't use humbuckers much at all; the only guitars I have them in are some Ibanez RGs I keep around mostly for session work. Honestly there's only one that even comes out anymore and it's a custom body with Ibanez parts. It has a Screamin' Demon at the bridge and an Alnico II Pro at the neck. Now, this is the ONLY guitar I take when I think a producer is going to want humbucker hard rock sounds, and I have never ever been asked to switch guitars no matter what it happens to be plugged into, or what kind of sound we're trying to get. We can always dial in what we want.

I think people make too big a deal over very minute differences between pickups that can easily be compensated for with EQ.
 
Re: Dial in this tone...Pearly Gates, '59's, or other

2ndhandband said:
I'm going to raise a few hackles here. I don't use humbuckers much at all; the only guitars I have them in are some Ibanez RGs I keep around mostly for session work. Honestly there's only one that even comes out anymore and it's a custom body with Ibanez parts. It has a Screamin' Demon at the bridge and an Alnico II Pro at the neck. Now, this is the ONLY guitar I take when I think a producer is going to want humbucker hard rock sounds, and I have never ever been asked to switch guitars no matter what it happens to be plugged into, or what kind of sound we're trying to get. We can always dial in what we want.

I think people make too big a deal over very minute differences between pickups that can easily be compensated for with EQ.
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This is probably true. But playing music for lots of people has as much to do with feel as the overall sound. If certain types of gear makes a player feel they can play their best, then the end goal is accomplished.
 
Re: Dial in this tone...Pearly Gates, '59's, or other

Mincer said:
This is probably true. But playing music for lots of people has as much to do with feel as the overall sound. If certain types of gear makes a player feel they can play their best, then the end goal is accomplished.
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I dunno... I use the one guitar for pretty much everything I ever want humbuckers for, and can always get what I want. By the same token all of my Strats have either Duncan Antiquity or Fender Custom shop reproductions of early 60s strat pickups, and I never have a problem getting the variety of single coil tones i need from that. The only thing i can't get is tele sounds... there is magic in a classic tele bridge. But overall I think people stress too much about what their guitars give them and don't think enough about the rest of the signal chain.
 
Re: Dial in this tone...Pearly Gates, '59's, or other

Oh me too. I hate switching guitars. I have one main guitar, and do every gig with that...and bring one backup with an almost identical setup. But that is what makes me feel 'right'. Other people have their own ideas, though. Good thing there are choices!
 
Re: Dial in this tone...Pearly Gates, '59's, or other

Mincer said:
Oh me too. I hate switching guitars. I have one main guitar, and do every gig with that...and bring one backup with an almost identical setup. But that is what makes me feel 'right'. Other people have their own ideas, though. Good thing there are choices!
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There are practical reasons to stick with one guitar for a show, or to switch between guitars that are very similar in tone. As a soundman I kinda hate guys who are making radical tonal shifts in the middle of a show. It screws up everything! Especially if they're not smart enough to know that you CAN NOT switch from a Tele to a Les Paul without re-EQing your amp. I remember seeing Aerosmith back in the 90s and Joe Perry switching guitars every song and it seemed for the first 30 seconds or so of each song the guitar was either lost in the mix or cutting your head off until the soundman compensated for it. Who needs that?
 
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