Stratman
Guitaris Maximus
Re: I have discovered why the Epiphone Pickups suck!!!
Re: I have discovered why the Epiphone Pickups suck!!!
From Gibson’s web page… Check it out for your self!
http://www2.gibson.com/Products/Electric-Guitars/Les-Paul/Epiphone/1959-Les-Paul-Standard.aspx
Hearing is Believing
To capture the work of all this classic tonewood, a pair of US-made BurstBucker™ pickups, the most accurate renditions of the original PAF that Gibson has ever made, translate all this warmth and woody resonance into a sweet, vocal electric tone, via high-quality electronics such as a Switchcraft™ toggle switch and Mallory 150™ tone capacitors.
Made just like the originals, with unpolished alnico II magnets and non-potted coils, these pickups include the unevenly wound coils that were a part of the magic of original PAFs, a result of the lack of automatic shutoffs on Gibson's winding machines in the late 1950s. Seth Lover, who invented the humbucker, always said they wound the bobbins "until they were full.”
When two coils in a pickup have a different number of turns, that variation puts a little "edge" or "bite" on the classic humbucker sound. That's the sound BurstBuckers replicate. The neck pickup is a Burstbucker-2 and is wound in the range of Gibson's '57 Classic. The bridge pickup is a Burstbucker-3 and is slightly over-wound with a hotter output that works well in combination with the BB-2 in the neck. One listen and you’ll think you have a 1959 in your hands!
Re: I have discovered why the Epiphone Pickups suck!!!
Besides living in Qingdao, China on and off again, last time just ½ block away from Gibson / Epiphone’s Qingdao factory...
From Gibson’s web page… Check it out for your self!
http://www2.gibson.com/Products/Electric-Guitars/Les-Paul/Epiphone/1959-Les-Paul-Standard.aspx
Hearing is Believing
To capture the work of all this classic tonewood, a pair of US-made BurstBucker™ pickups, the most accurate renditions of the original PAF that Gibson has ever made, translate all this warmth and woody resonance into a sweet, vocal electric tone, via high-quality electronics such as a Switchcraft™ toggle switch and Mallory 150™ tone capacitors.
Made just like the originals, with unpolished alnico II magnets and non-potted coils, these pickups include the unevenly wound coils that were a part of the magic of original PAFs, a result of the lack of automatic shutoffs on Gibson's winding machines in the late 1950s. Seth Lover, who invented the humbucker, always said they wound the bobbins "until they were full.”
When two coils in a pickup have a different number of turns, that variation puts a little "edge" or "bite" on the classic humbucker sound. That's the sound BurstBuckers replicate. The neck pickup is a Burstbucker-2 and is wound in the range of Gibson's '57 Classic. The bridge pickup is a Burstbucker-3 and is slightly over-wound with a hotter output that works well in combination with the BB-2 in the neck. One listen and you’ll think you have a 1959 in your hands!
