leevc5
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Just a thought, take it leave it, but please don't bash me.:boggled: I am sure that many if not most of you have known this all along but I have just come to recognize it.
Certain guitars and pickups are naturally meant for each other. The pickup's properties and the shape, body wood, neck and electronics of the guitar are almost a perfect fit for each other.
I've been playing around with pickups (too many to mention) and guitars for many years. Putting P-Rails into a guitar and finding it come alive as if the pups and guitar were meant for each other brought me to this conclusion. As I look back now I see it with my other guitars, for example:
-My ES-335 and Seymour Duncan 59s work in unison like no other pickups I tried in it:
-My Les Paul and Seymour Duncan Seth Lovers were a perfect match until I found the Fishman Fluence Classics. The Seths are still a great match but the classics having two voices per pickup and voice one almost exactly like a Seth led me to replace the Seths.
-My HSH strat has a Jazz neck pickup that fits so well it is much of the time my go to guitar.
-And finally the thing that started all this. Replacing GOTOH pups in an Ltd. VI with P-Rails and triple shots. The transformation was awesome, that old guitar was reborn and now an absolute delight to play.
I recognize that obviously there is a third critical component: the player which brings in a significant subjective factor to all this as well.
You can look at resonant peak, Q factor, inductance and so on until you are blue in the face and it might put you in the ballpark but nowhere near home plate.
I would really like to hear about any of your experiences with pickups and guitars fitting "magically" together.
Again, just a thought as I wait for the wood glue to set on a speaker cabinet I am building.
Rock on and prosper.
Certain guitars and pickups are naturally meant for each other. The pickup's properties and the shape, body wood, neck and electronics of the guitar are almost a perfect fit for each other.
I've been playing around with pickups (too many to mention) and guitars for many years. Putting P-Rails into a guitar and finding it come alive as if the pups and guitar were meant for each other brought me to this conclusion. As I look back now I see it with my other guitars, for example:
-My ES-335 and Seymour Duncan 59s work in unison like no other pickups I tried in it:
-My Les Paul and Seymour Duncan Seth Lovers were a perfect match until I found the Fishman Fluence Classics. The Seths are still a great match but the classics having two voices per pickup and voice one almost exactly like a Seth led me to replace the Seths.
-My HSH strat has a Jazz neck pickup that fits so well it is much of the time my go to guitar.
-And finally the thing that started all this. Replacing GOTOH pups in an Ltd. VI with P-Rails and triple shots. The transformation was awesome, that old guitar was reborn and now an absolute delight to play.
I recognize that obviously there is a third critical component: the player which brings in a significant subjective factor to all this as well.
You can look at resonant peak, Q factor, inductance and so on until you are blue in the face and it might put you in the ballpark but nowhere near home plate.
I would really like to hear about any of your experiences with pickups and guitars fitting "magically" together.
Again, just a thought as I wait for the wood glue to set on a speaker cabinet I am building.
Rock on and prosper.
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