benji657
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from people who've tinkered with pickups in their Gibson Les Pauls.
I have had all kinds of pickups in my LP....the original burstbucker pro, CC, C5, 59, Marshallhead, Seth, JB. I currently have the seth in there, because frankly, i'm tired of tinkering.
Truth is, I really don't hear a dramatic eq difference in playing situations, be it through a laney lc15, marshall 1974X, or a JVM.
My ears aren't crap, I can point out a few differences listening to the clips on the duncan website. Not only that, my dad has a few pieces of high end audio equipment, and I consider myself to have a keen sense of hearing.
It's like my gibson les paul's inherent tone dominates so much that pickups aren't really big determinants in my tone. It's a very raunchy thick tone.
In the neck, i've tried the marshallhead, 59, and the seth. Again, little, if any differences.
Now, the question is, are most LP neck positions inherently thick? Sometimes overly so?
I went with my friend to pick him out a strat, we played a bunch of strats, and finally found a john mayer sig that totally destroyed the others, including a clapton sig. The neck position especially, was untouchable. My friend bought that one on the spot.
I realize that strats and les pauls are different animals, and I think my main problem is trying to make my les paul neck sound like a fender single coil neck. Ideally, my setup would be a fender single coil neck and a les paul bridge hb.
Maybe some people will say it was due to the Big Dipper pickups in the strat. It brings up the question, then why could I distinguish differences between various pickups in various strats? Maybe the john mayer guitar had the "it" factor and could sound great even with 'big crapper' pickups. And then, why is my les paul immune to pickup changes? Is its fundamental tone that dominating? To confuse matters more, in my strat with a CC in the bridge, I can tell the difference between an alnico 5 and an alnico 2.
Thanks for reading and dealing with the confusing questions.
I have had all kinds of pickups in my LP....the original burstbucker pro, CC, C5, 59, Marshallhead, Seth, JB. I currently have the seth in there, because frankly, i'm tired of tinkering.
Truth is, I really don't hear a dramatic eq difference in playing situations, be it through a laney lc15, marshall 1974X, or a JVM.
My ears aren't crap, I can point out a few differences listening to the clips on the duncan website. Not only that, my dad has a few pieces of high end audio equipment, and I consider myself to have a keen sense of hearing.
It's like my gibson les paul's inherent tone dominates so much that pickups aren't really big determinants in my tone. It's a very raunchy thick tone.
In the neck, i've tried the marshallhead, 59, and the seth. Again, little, if any differences.
Now, the question is, are most LP neck positions inherently thick? Sometimes overly so?
I went with my friend to pick him out a strat, we played a bunch of strats, and finally found a john mayer sig that totally destroyed the others, including a clapton sig. The neck position especially, was untouchable. My friend bought that one on the spot.
I realize that strats and les pauls are different animals, and I think my main problem is trying to make my les paul neck sound like a fender single coil neck. Ideally, my setup would be a fender single coil neck and a les paul bridge hb.
Maybe some people will say it was due to the Big Dipper pickups in the strat. It brings up the question, then why could I distinguish differences between various pickups in various strats? Maybe the john mayer guitar had the "it" factor and could sound great even with 'big crapper' pickups. And then, why is my les paul immune to pickup changes? Is its fundamental tone that dominating? To confuse matters more, in my strat with a CC in the bridge, I can tell the difference between an alnico 5 and an alnico 2.
Thanks for reading and dealing with the confusing questions.
