New Signature Lynch and Hammett pickups?!

Re: New Signature Lynch and Hammett pickups?!

emaccarthy said:
Under lock and key has George’s best tone. Just listen the first 3 tracks on that record. Absolute perfection. BFTA is a close second though. Nice and gritty. The solo in heaven sent pretty much has it all.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Click to expand...

Talk like that is heresy and will get you burned at the stake.
 
Re: New Signature Lynch and Hammett pickups?!

I read somewhere about a story that Maricela Juarez wound a special pickup George in 1987 maybe that pickup was used in the BFTA recording and it sure is the Dokkenbucker. watch these videos [VIDEO]
/www.seymourduncan.com/forum/showthread.php?260590-Dokken-Bucker"]http://https://forum.seymourduncan.com/showthread.php?260590-Dokken-Bucker[/URL] https://forum.seymourduncan.com/showthread.php?260590-Dokken-Bucker http://www.woodytone.com/2009/11/10/george-lynchs-woody-smoke-mirrors-gear/
 
Re: New Signature Lynch and Hammett pickups?!

The secret sauce in George's tone is the maple bodied guitars. I have a solid maple '82 Charvel that had an old DDJ/59J combo that I swapped for a JB/Jazz set. That guitar into a clean boost, then into my '72 Superlead is BFTA. Of course, I will never have George's hands, but all the ingredients are there.
 
Re: New Signature Lynch and Hammett pickups?!

his line of guitars has alder bodies...
guess he got old and maple is too heavy to carry...
 
Re: New Signature Lynch and Hammett pickups?!

Which line? The ESP sig models are still maple as far as I know. The man is alowed a break every now and then
 
Re: New Signature Lynch and Hammett pickups?!

Ayrton said:
One of the most discussed topics in all the internet.

George used a Distortion for most of BFTA, but there were some parts where the guitar used had a JB.

Aspen Pittman's purple '71 Superlead, with a Tube Screamer, and a Fostex 4 track recorder boosting it.

For the recording of the "Back For The Attack" album in the summer of 1987, George went for a more stripped down form of setup in the studio. The direction he took involved a very minimal amount of gear. Effects were of the old-school variety on this album. And the amp selection was kept at Marshall simplicity. Just like the album before this, he got stuck using amps he could not own.

"I borrowed heads from Aspen Pittman of Groove Tubes. He had a collection of all these old Marshalls that I just worshipped! He let me use an old purple and old red one. But he will not sell them," recalls George.

Effects like Vox wahs, Fuzz Faces and Mu-Tron Octave Dividers were present here. But the only consistently used pedal was the Ibanez TS-808, which remains with George to this day. This version of the Tube Screamer contains the Malaysian RC4558D chip-based op-amp technology from 1980. The TS-808 produces a silky, creamy distortion, especially when used with an already overdriven tube amp. It is not a gainy distortion pedal, but a very distinctive overdrive.

One newer piece of technology used in these recordings was the Sustainiac Model-B system. The Sustainiac, made by Maniac Music, Inc., was a two piece unit that included a dual floor pedal and a string driver transducer that was bolted to the back of the headstock of the guitar. The floor unit, the Sustainiamp, takes the signal, amplifies it and sends it to the transducer mounted on the back of the headstock. The transducer produces sound vibrations transferred to the strings, sustaining them for as long as you fret any note on the guitar. The mystery of the little black box on the back of some of George's guitars is revealed!

Thankfully this is still archived.

https://web.archive.org/web/20031219041025/georgelynch.com/rigs/studiorigs/studio.html
Click to expand...

Good stuff there, thanks for sharing.
 
Re: New Signature Lynch and Hammett pickups?!

I always just shake my head when the latest new "Once upon a time" bucker is released.

Every one of these guys got famous with tone from a stock Duncan or DiMarzio. Does their latest tonal whim really give you that much of a chub anymore?

As soon as Back For The Attack popped up I just went "distortion..."
 
Re: New Signature Lynch and Hammett pickups?!

Well, in this case we have a contemporary document confirming that it is an old "trade secret" being let out. Or it might be – I don't really know what this humbucker is going to be. But if this is what we hope, the Lynch pickup is a late 80s and not a late 2010s creation.
 
Re: New Signature Lynch and Hammett pickups?!

Joey Voltage said:
I always thought the tone of that record was kinda buzzy especially the isolated guitar tracks. Not terrible when mixed, but on their own nothing too special.
Click to expand...

How it sits in the mix is a big part of what makes it so good. What it sounds like in solo means absolutley nothing (and this is a big problem with alot of bands and how they all set their tone individually and not to compliment each other...but I digress).

Personally, the tone on BFTA is one of my fav's.

Also, for those curious about 'Under Lock and Key' here's right from Mr Wagener himself:

Obviously George's tone is coming from the way he plays, out of his hands, but since you asked:

The setup for George's guitar tone on "Under Lock And Key" was as follows:

We had two Marshall heads and two Laney heads, not sure which models, but one of them was a Plexi. We had cabs in three different rooms: two cabs were placed in the big room at Amigo, one connected to a Marshall, the other connected to the Laney. The Marshall was responsible for the high end part of the sound and the Laney was set to take care of the low end. There were 14 (fourteen) mics set up in that room in various psoitions around the cabinet and some further away to get some room tone. The second Laney was sent into a very dead room and had a Boss chorus pedal in front of it, set to very slight chorus. The second Marshall was sent into a small, tiled bathroom, to add a different room tone. Those 16 mics came in on the Mci 500 console mic pres. They were bussed to one bus and that bus had a Urei 530 EQ on it (best guitar EQ ever). George mentioned that he always gets a great tone with his Fostex 4track recorder when it's in total overdrive, so I asked him to bring it in. So after the 530 everything was sent to the Fostex 4track, which lived under a packing blanket under the console, so nobody would see it. The Fostex was on stunn, completely overdriven and was sent on to the 3M 32 track dig machine from there.
Click to expand...
 
Re: New Signature Lynch and Hammett pickups?!

Flake said:
https://www.espguitars.com/pages/2018-product-preview

According to this, we will see a new Duncan bridge pickup and a new EMG set, the guys over at Santa Barbara perhaps you want to “lynch” ESP for the spoiler?


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Click to expand...

glad to hear Kirk is getting a new pickup set bearing his name. About time, he deserves it.
Wonder how Mr. Lynch's new set will perform in comparison to the Screamin Demon his signature ESP came with.
 
Re: New Signature Lynch and Hammett pickups?!

The big question is, will the Hammett signature be optimised for wah use? :D
 
Re: New Signature Lynch and Hammett pickups?!

Kamanda~SD said:
How it sits in the mix is a big part of what makes it so good. What it sounds like in solo means absolutley nothing (and this is a big problem with alot of bands and how they all set their tone individually and not to compliment each other...but I digress).

Personally, the tone on BFTA is one of my fav's.

Also, for those curious about 'Under Lock and Key' here's right from Mr Wagener himself:
Click to expand...

Obviously George's tone is coming from the way he plays, out of his hands, but since you asked:

The setup for George's guitar tone on "Under Lock And Key" was as follows:

We had two Marshall heads and two Laney heads, not sure which models, but one of them was a Plexi. We had cabs in three different rooms: two cabs were placed in the big room at Amigo, one connected to a Marshall, the other connected to the Laney. The Marshall was responsible for the high end part of the sound and the Laney was set to take care of the low end. There were 14 (fourteen) mics set up in that room in various psoitions around the cabinet and some further away to get some room tone. The second Laney was sent into a very dead room and had a Boss chorus pedal in front of it, set to very slight chorus. The second Marshall was sent into a small, tiled bathroom, to add a different room tone. Those 16 mics came in on the Mci 500 console mic pres. They were bussed to one bus and that bus had a Urei 530 EQ on it (best guitar EQ ever). George mentioned that he always gets a great tone with his Fostex 4track recorder when it's in total overdrive, so I asked him to bring it in. So after the 530 everything was sent to the Fostex 4track, which lived under a packing blanket under the console, so nobody would see it. The Fostex was on stunn, completely overdriven and was sent on to the 3M 32 track dig machine from there.
Click to expand...

It's nuts hearing some of these guys and the kooky lengths to how they studio'd up the guitar tone (assuming they're not pulling our leg)

Side note: That Urei 530 EQ... the bands used are just like the MXR 6-Band (minus some freqs of course) instead of the typical 125, 250, 500, 1k, 2k, 4k. I find those selective bands (a la Urei 530 EQ, MXR 6-Band) are better for guitar than the latter.
 
Re: New Signature Lynch and Hammett pickups?!

OK - so Duncan Distortion into a cranked Fostex....
 
Re: New Signature Lynch and Hammett pickups?!

Lynch will probably have a screaming demon type pup with an 8 mag. He said that’s what sound he liked. Who knows with hammett
 
Re: New Signature Lynch and Hammett pickups?!

Any news on the Hunter pickup, now that NAMM is in rapid approach?
 
Re: New Signature Lynch and Hammett pickups?!

I am not sure any or all products were officially released yet. I learn about these things when y'all do.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

Mincer
Billy Gibbons Signature Pickups: Hades Gates™ Humbuckers in Eliminator Red!
Replies
9
Views
469
Aceman
Aceman
Mincer
Two New Billy Gibbons Signature Pickups
2
Replies
38
Views
1K
hamerfan
hamerfan
SFW
Pickup suggestions
Replies
7
Views
180
Calsip
Calsip
Lewguitar
Derek Trucks has some new pickups in his SG
Replies
11
Views
1K
Erlend_G
Erlend_G
The Dali
Three new builds
Replies
7
Views
131
The Dali
The Dali
Back
Top