How to get a Les Paul sound on a whammy guitar

[revolution]

Re: How to get a Les Paul sound on a whammy guitar

Get a vintage output bridge humbucker and try mounting it to the wood instead of using the mounting ring. That seems to roll off some highs in the bridge. I did not like doing that in the neck but it was pretty decent in the bridge. Some say there's no difference in body mount vs ring mount...I KNOW that there is. I prefer ring mount because I like treble but if you want some LP body "ummph" try mounting a low output bridge p'up to the body. My 2 cents.

 

[Farkus]

Re: How to get a Les Paul sound on a whammy guitar

I found something interesting by experimenting.

Duncans and many aftermarket pickups sound sweet and smooth, which is why people yank ruder sounding Gibson pickups out of their Gibsons and replace them.

On wimpy sounding Floyd guitars, do the opposite....put rude sounding Gibson pickups in them, and forget about the spacing issue...it's a non issue.

Take something like an Ibanez with Floyd, and put Gibson 498T/490R LP pickups in it, and it'll automatically give it a Gibson type tone. I did it a couple times on basswood superstrats, and it was exactly what I wanted to hear, even though I didn't like those pickups in a Gibson.

And those are easy and cheap pickups to buy used, because there's a lot of guys here with them sitting in their junk drawers, thinking nobody wants them.

+1

I did the exact same thing with a Washburn superstrat build. A local shop owner had gotten a custom shop Les Paul and didn't like that it came with uncovered humbuckers. So I picked up the set for 100 bucks and started to experiment. That set in the average sounding Washburn sounded thick and meaty...not as thick as they would in a Les but a massive improvement over stock.