Les Paul with Super Distortion

[pskorz]

Okay, I just got it back today from Omaha’s finest guitar/amp repair: Les Paul studio with Duncan 59 neck and Dimarzio super distortion bridge (series/parallel push/pull).

I’ve been playing with it for about a half hour now. It’s everything I was hoping it would be and MORE. Utterly spectacular. Sound and volume-wise, they are perfect together!!

 

[Frater106]

I’ve got a maple-neck Les Paul that’s sounded great with every pickup I’ve tried in it (498T, 498T with an A8, Alternative 8, Custom 8, Burstbucker 3, Dimarzio Norton, PATB-1, and probably more I’m forgetting), but the Super Distortion was the only pickup I couldn’t pull out of it fast enough. It was just way too dark for that guitar. It probably would’ve been great on an inherently bright guitar, or if my other guitars were dark too so I could EQ the crap out of it to compensate.

Lots of people love the Super D in a Les Paul, and you may too, but I wanted to give you a heads up that it is inherently a dark-sounding pickup.

Could you talk to me about your experiences with the Custom 8 and the Alternative 8? My current bridge pup is a Duncan Custom (ceramic mag.) for reference. Thanks!

 

[Frater106]

Okay, I just got it back today from Omaha’s finest guitar/amp repair: Les Paul studio with Duncan 59 neck and Dimarzio super distortion bridge (series/parallel push/pull).

I’ve been playing with it for about a half hour now. It’s everything I was hoping it would be and MORE. Utterly spectacular. Sound and volume-wise, they are perfect together!!

Tell me about the Super Distortion, please. I’ve never used one. My current bridge pup in a Les Paul Custom is a Duncan Custom for reference.

 

[Securb]

Tell me about the Super Distortion, please. I’ve never used one. My current bridge pup in a Les Paul Custom is a Duncan Custom for reference.

The SD is a strange animal. Such a wide variety of guitar players have used the SD with drastically different results. Randy Rhoades, Tom Sholtz, and Kurt Cobain all have iconic and easily recognized tones. However, all of them sound distinctly different. I would say the common thread with the SD is the articulation and touch sensitivity.

Here is a review I wrote up on the Telecaster Super Distortion

http://www.tmrzoo.com/2013/48280/re...ar-pickup-your-telecaster-cant-get-any-hotter

 

[Bill Dennis]

I am looking for something to approximate the the Destroyer tones on early VH. I think a SD in a LP is probably not fa off the mark. The SD would fall right in line with the examples you gave. I like the Duncan Custom, but I find that SD pickups tend have more in the low mid than the Dimarzio equivalent so I think the Super distortion is the better fit for a LP

 

[Dave Locher]

Oh, if you want low mids you definitely want a Super D!
Long-term user here. Thick & rich & articulate goodness...

 

[Aceman]

I am looking for something to approximate the the Destroyer tones on early VH. I think a SD in a LP is probably not fa off the mark. The SD would fall right in line with the examples you gave. I like the Duncan Custom, but I find that SD pickups tend have more more in the low mid than the DImarzio equivalent so I think the Super distortion is the better fit for a LP

I think a SuperD is a fine pup for doing VH style tones, especially early ones. The pickups tends to ad the "brown" moreso than the amp, or at least you can use a little less gain to get there.

 

[ErikH]

My Dean ML has 2 Super Distortions. The neck I wired in parallel. That guitar actually does really well for VH I/II tones. I stumbled upon it by accident messing around with a Marshall amp plugin in AmpliTube. And it is good for so much more. It can be really diverse if you allow it to be and work your controls and pick/finger attack.