Re: Has anyone said: This is ridiculous! Let's just go old school and be done with i
Sometimes I find myself just getting lost in the various ammount of possibilities of what pickup to put in what guitar with there being so many choices. Is there anyone like me that said- enough is enough already I'm sick of analyzing pickups and if all I want is the sound of my old favorite records, why don't I just buy what they were all using at the time which was mostly a JB or a Super Distortion.
Well if you're spending more time tinkering - changing out pickups, tubes, hardware, etc - than playing your guitar and making music, then it's probably time to stop and make sure you have your priorities straight.
OTOH, your assessment of pickup options that were available in the old days isn't entirely complete. I suspect there was a fair amount of customization, tinkering, pickup re-winding, modding and so forth going on. Your favorite artist may have just used a Les Paul with a Super Distortion into a Marshall but was the Marshall modified? Was the Super Distortion rewound? Did his JB have the magnet swapped? There was some experimentation going on.
It starts to sound like the stuff the guys on this forum are tryng all the time. Our favorite artists had guitar techs to do all the tinkering.
Most of us here are not pro musicians. We work day jobs and make music when we get off work because that's what we love to do. I often have to remind myself to keep the focus on practicing, writing and making music. There's a tone I'm after and I'm still trying out different gear to see what will get me closest to it, but in the mean time, I hafta make playing the instrument or writing songs the main priority.
