epiphone les paul +good pickups

Re: epiphone les paul +good pickups

some people said that sh4 jb was not good for a clean sound and for crunch

I have the jb/jazz set in my epi lp. I think it cleans up well. But I don't like super cleans. I like a little edge to my cleans. You can lower the pickup and get it cleaner. It's all preference but keep in mind, if you buy from a dealer and don't like it, there is a 21 day exchange policy. You're gonna have to try it to know.
 
Re: epiphone les paul +good pickups

ok
sh4 will be very good with basswood (because the wood will make some clean sound)



if sh4 was not good for crunch, i wouldn't be with all esp with mahogany!!


i thought only sh6 was not good for crunch and not sh4

crunch is important but i think guitar can have crunch with volume too

i wait for my guitar and i will try sh4 but the real problem is that a lot of gibson's pickups are very far from 16k outpout of sh4
and i don't know if sh4 is not better for distortion than all vintage gibson's pickups
 
Re: epiphone les paul +good pickups

with distortion, there is some les paul sound!!!

i read that some people put orange drops and pots? for a better sound
i don't know that

pickups may be good (alnico II epiphone) and someone said that they were like classic 57 but not as expensive as these or sh1
i have old sh1 and sh6


yes, p gates is a treble pickup:)
jazz too
 
Re: epiphone les paul +good pickups

Well, I'd suggest the Seth Lovers for a good clean sound, but unless you get a custom version they're all non splittable as stock.

Nobody probably cares at this point, but 4 conductors Seth Lovers are easy to come by http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odk...onductor&_nkw=seth+lover+4+conductor&_sacat=0

I have a set in an Epi Sheraton with push/pull series/parallel. I think because they are low output pickups to begin with, the parallel mode isn't too exciting, and it really pays off more if you have hotter humbuckers.
 
Re: epiphone les paul +good pickups

i must choose now
it's very very complicated
my guitar has a dark sound so, i must find clean tones but bluesy too (i like the sounds of gary moore, santana, john sykes, sambora, peter green)

i have classic 57 by epiphone and classic 57 by epiphone too

i think that i will try a classic 57 (by gibson) for the warm tone in neck
i think alnico II is the best for my guitar

for the bridge i want harmonics, sustain, feedback

seth lovers or other vintage pickups have microphonic problems (not wax potted sometimes) and not 4 conductors (sometimes)

there is the alnico aph-1 too
i had a sh1 but i like creamy and warm tone of my classic 57 and high MIDS (important)

for the bridge position: i don't know
custom 5 sh14
sh11
dirty fingers (john sykes' pickup in the early 80's)
sh 4 : no !

i would like a dc resistance with more than 8 = 12, 14 but maybe it will be too much
most of LP only have 7-9 dc in the b position

i don't want to try a 498T (i listened to the demos by a website
http://www2.gibson.com/News-Lifestyle/Features/en-us/tone-hunting-0309-2011.aspx

alnico V have a warm tone with more bass than alnico II
it's for good guitars

i thought about the pearly gates in the b position
but has it sustain? feedback? harmonics ?
i don't know

so, classic 57+dirty fingers?
classic 57+ sh1?
aph1+ ?
classic 57+full shred?sh14?
classic 57+ pearly gates billy gibbons?

i must have 4 conductors too avec covered pickups (more MIDs for the neck position and maybe not coverered pup for the b position like jimmy page did in his guitar)
 
Re: epiphone les paul +good pickups

problems were: a dark sound
4 splits
i use a floyd rose
i want wax potted pickups

my last decision is classic 57 ( even if a lot of people don't like it here) +burstbucker 3
(because i don't find BB PRO with 4 conductors)

i thought about the sh2
yes
but i don't want to loose the creamy/warmy sound of C57
 
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