Pearly gates plus! hot or not?
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Benjy_26
25's Nemesis
Re: Pearly gates plus! hot or not?
Maybe the Custom Custom will work for you. It's big, fat, and round. It roars with distortion and it cleans up quite well. Its split tones are rather good as well, which should make it work well in conjunction with your middle pickup. Some people say that in a strat it gets close to EVH's post 1984 tones. I have one in my maple Carvin DC-127T and i can play anything from country to funk all the way to hard rock and metal with this thing.
Maybe the Custom Custom will work for you. It's big, fat, and round. It roars with distortion and it cleans up quite well. Its split tones are rather good as well, which should make it work well in conjunction with your middle pickup. Some people say that in a strat it gets close to EVH's post 1984 tones. I have one in my maple Carvin DC-127T and i can play anything from country to funk all the way to hard rock and metal with this thing.
sufferinrewind
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Re: Pearly gates plus! hot or not?
I'd agree here. It's a medium output, hot PAF. It'll rip with distortion, but it'll clean up nicely. Won't overdrive your amp like hot pups will, like a DD would. Basically, it's good if you like PAF tone, but want a little more "oomph!" from it under gain, and since it's got A2 mags, it won't sound shrill in your strat like some A5 pups might.
Benjy_26 said:
I'd agree here. It's a medium output, hot PAF. It'll rip with distortion, but it'll clean up nicely. Won't overdrive your amp like hot pups will, like a DD would. Basically, it's good if you like PAF tone, but want a little more "oomph!" from it under gain, and since it's got A2 mags, it won't sound shrill in your strat like some A5 pups might.
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Lewguitar
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Re: Pearly gates plus! hot or not?
The PG+ is an alnico 5 PGb made for Fender. Regular PG's use alnico 2. Other than that they are the same pickup.
The PG+ has more bass and more treble and less midrange. When a pickup has less midrange than another pickup it sounds brighter and treblier compared to that other pickup.
But the PG+ is not a hot pickup. It's a vintage 50's style pickup similar to the 59B.
Lew
The PG+ is an alnico 5 PGb made for Fender. Regular PG's use alnico 2. Other than that they are the same pickup.
The PG+ has more bass and more treble and less midrange. When a pickup has less midrange than another pickup it sounds brighter and treblier compared to that other pickup.
But the PG+ is not a hot pickup. It's a vintage 50's style pickup similar to the 59B.
Lew
Zhangliqun
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Re: Pearly gates plus! hot or not?
From what I understand, the PG+ is just a PG with an Alnico 5 in it. I haven't tried the swap on one but my best guess is that with the PG not having real strong mid-mids and low mids, an Alnico 5 would make it even scoopier.
You can bring your PRS over one of these nights when you come to get O-Bucker #3 and we can try the swap though.
OlinMusic said:
From what I understand, the PG+ is just a PG with an Alnico 5 in it. I haven't tried the swap on one but my best guess is that with the PG not having real strong mid-mids and low mids, an Alnico 5 would make it even scoopier.
You can bring your PRS over one of these nights when you come to get O-Bucker #3 and we can try the swap though.
Alvin Lee Fan
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Re: Pearly gates plus! hot or not?
Is the PG+ trem spaced?
Is the PG+ trem spaced?
sufferinrewind
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Re: Pearly gates plus! hot or not?
Yep. It's for Fender guitars.
Alvin Lee Fan said:
Yep. It's for Fender guitars.
Alvin Lee Fan
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Re: Pearly gates plus! hot or not?
No
Yep
:dunno:
No
Yep
:dunno:
Benjy_26
25's Nemesis
Re: Pearly gates plus! hot or not?
The PG+ is NOT a trembucker. I have a couple lying around and they are all normal spaced. They have to be to fit in the standard spaced covers I got from Martinsixstringcustoms.
BTW, while the PG+ is not a hot pickup, it is consistently the hottest Duncan PAF I've come across. I did a back to back comparo between a standard PG (8.4k) and a PG+ (8.8k) with an alnico II mag. My findings are explained above.
kaffimann said:
The PG+ is NOT a trembucker. I have a couple lying around and they are all normal spaced. They have to be to fit in the standard spaced covers I got from Martinsixstringcustoms.
BTW, while the PG+ is not a hot pickup, it is consistently the hottest Duncan PAF I've come across. I did a back to back comparo between a standard PG (8.4k) and a PG+ (8.8k) with an alnico II mag. My findings are explained above.
Alvin Lee Fan
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Re: Pearly gates plus! hot or not?
Thanks Benjy.
Thanks Benjy.
Voxman
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Re: Pearly gates plus! hot or not?
it is a Trembucker.as lew said,they are made by SD for fender heheheheheheehe.
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BTW, while the PG+ is not a hot pickup, it is consistently the hottest Duncan PAF I've come across. I did a back to back comparo between a standard PG (8.4k) and a PG+ (8.8k) with an alnico II mag. My findings are explained above.
it is a Trembucker.as lew said,they are made by SD for fender heheheheheheehe.
BachToRock
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Re: Pearly gates plus! hot or not?
From what I remember per Evan... the PG+ has a few more windings than the standard PG
From what I remember per Evan... the PG+ has a few more windings than the standard PG
