gilmour's black strat

[agent007]

does anyone know for sure what kind of pups gilmour uses in his black strat? they have the pole pieces so if it's emg, then it must be the sv or sav model. i don't know but i would like to find out.

 

[Vasshu the humanoid typhoon]

Re: gilmour's black strat

Old Fender pickups, wound by Seymour

 

[Agustaburn]

Re: gilmour's black strat

Dimarzio claims it's the FS-1. When I asked if it's the same as it was back then I was told it had the same specs. Whatever that means.

 

[Vasshu the humanoid typhoon]

Re: gilmour's black strat

He had that one in the bridge in the 70's!
It is now back to those Seymour made for him...
The guitar has seen plenty of necks, and even a Kahler bridge system.

 

[Philcguitars]

Re: gilmour's black strat

I believe that they're old SD's and can catergorically say NOT EMG. It's Red that has those!

 

[Vasshu the humanoid typhoon]

Re: gilmour's black strat

They are old Fender pickups, Seymor rewinded those, they had a box full of those, grapped three and used those.
When was it Seymour worked in England??

 

[PFDarkside]

Re: gilmour's black strat

I agree with Rid. (If you are asking about his current black Strat, used at Live 8) I also think it has the neck from the Red one used on the Pulse tour.

 

[the guy who invented fire]

Re: gilmour's black strat

Do a serach on the forum...I for a killer article about that very Strat a while back and posted it on the forum...the info is on here somewhere...you might be surprised!

 

[stevie_bees]

Re: gilmour's black strat

I posted a in a thread a while back. It was an excerpt from a Guitarist magazine interview with Gilmour where he talks about the black Strat.

 

[stevie_bees]

Re: gilmour's black strat

Here it is:

This is a quote from David Gilmour from a recent Guitarist interview.
"Which of your many Strats is that black one you played at Live8?"
"I've been using that one since about 1970, it's the one on Comfortably Numb. I bought it at Manny's in New York. I've always used it as a testing ground for trying all sorts of things out. It's had a few different necks on; the original had that bullet [neckplate] and a larger headstock. And it has different pickups. Years ago, I met up with Seymour Duncan and we picked three really nice sounding pickups he had. We rewound those three and they've stayed on it ever since."

 

[Thurisarz]

Re: gilmour's black strat

So what Duncans to use for that Gilmour tone?

 

[Philcguitars]

Re: gilmour's black strat

So what Duncans to use for that Gilmour tone?

Well probably not anything in the heavy distortion range, and I'd say rails are out too.

 

[the guy who invented fire]

Re: gilmour's black strat

So what Duncans to use for that Gilmour tone?

I can tell you this...in the stock Dunan line the closest thing you can get would be an Alnico II Pro set.

 

[claytonc]

Re: gilmour's black strat

You can get the exact set from the Custom Shop.

 

[jeremy]

Re: gilmour's black strat

You can get the exact set from the Custom Shop.

yes you can. a fully wired pick guard passed thru my hands recently but i didnt get to hear them

 

[Philcguitars]

Re: gilmour's black strat

You got to love S.D. Custom shop!

 

[TimmyPage]

Re: gilmour's black strat

yes you can. a fully wired pick guard passed thru my hands recently but i didnt get to hear them

How would I go about asking for them? "The set that you wound for David Gilmour"?

 

[theodie]

Re: gilmour's black strat

yes you can. a fully wired pick guard passed thru my hands recently but i didnt get to hear them

:smack:

Jeremy, how did you let that happen? I would be totally chomping at the bit to try them!

 

[jeremy]

Re: gilmour's black strat

How would I go about asking for them? "The set that you wound for David Gilmour"?

yup, i think that would do it