pickup for praise and worship music in a les paul...

[Youngpup]

Re: pickup for praise and worship music in a les paul...

I just installed a custom custom and a Stag Mag in the neck of my LP. I am going to stick with that combo. I love the CC for the bridge it gives the brigde the warmer vintage tone I am looking for and the Stag is awesome in the the neck. Real clear and chimie. The in a little hoter then the bridge but I like it so much I think I will have a Stag custom wound to fit my CC.

Tyler

 

[Butch Snyder]

Re: pickup for praise and worship music in a les paul...

What's the difference between secular and Christian music besides the lyric content? I play in my church's praise band and have used Strats, Ls Pauls, Teles, my Variax, etc... I play the same rig in church that I do in the clubs. Why would there be a difference?

 

[twoheadedboy]

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There isn't really much of a difference between the two. However, c-rock guitar tones tend to be a little on the wussy side. Less bite, less punch, etc, especially if it's playing live in a church.

 

[Butch Snyder]

Re: pickup for praise and worship music in a les paul...

There isn't really much of a difference between the two. However, c-rock guitar tones tend to be a little on the wussy side. Less bite, less punch, etc, especially if it's playing live in a church.

Not mine....

 

[twoheadedboy]

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I would consider you an exception then. Listen to any well-recorded live worship performance. The guitars will probably have all the life sucked out of them and be slightly buried in the mix.

 

[Butch Snyder]

Re: pickup for praise and worship music in a les paul...

I would consider you an exception then. Listen to any well-recorded live worship performance. The guitars will probably have all the life sucked out of them and be slightly buried in the mix.

Yep, you're right about that; and if I was the guitarist for the Lakewood Church band, it probably would be a lot more subdued than it is now. I wouldn't mind that; especially if I got to play with Israel Houghton. We play a lot of their songs and our worship leader lets me pretty much do as I want. It's a Nazarene church but they enjoy their rockin' guitar...

 

[twoheadedboy]

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My church plays pretty modern stuff, but my congregation can't handle the rockin' guitar, so I end up using mostly clean, stratty sounds, and the occasional twangy, slightly overdriven humbucker sound. I'm about to get a guitar with p-90s. We'll see how that goes.

 

[Fuddy Duddy]

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tone4days,

I got my model number a bit wrong--it is an i88.13--your Brian Moore is *exactly* the one I have (even the wood grain & color look exact)! Thanks for the confirmation/reassurance about the JB. Now I need to decide between the Jazz or the Alnico II Pro for the neck pup. Sounds like a tough decision!

while you are in there, you might want to consider putting in a 5 way switch instead of the 3 way switch ... you can drop a "P-type" megaswitch to get the 5 combinations found on PRS guitars ... every single one of the combinations is humbucking, and the #2 and #4 position are very fun indeed to approximate 'strat-ish' or 'tele-ish' tones ... wonderful for chimey clean chords (add a touch of chorus to taste )

Hmmm--I'm very intrigued by this idea! But I don't understand how all 5 positions could still be humbucking--with 2 humbuckers, aren't there only 3 possible pickup combinations? Wouldn't #2 and 4 need to be split coils in some way? Please let me know what your #2 and #4 positions are! Also, I tried to google the "P-type megaswitch" and couldn't find much info--do you know if it goes by a different name and where I could find one? Thanks!

 

[Fuddy Duddy]

Re: pickup for praise and worship music in a les paul...

What's the difference between secular and Christian music besides the lyric content? I play in my church's praise band and have used Strats, Ls Pauls, Teles, my Variax, etc... I play the same rig in church that I do in the clubs. Why would there be a difference?

Hi Butch,

You make a very good point! There really is no difference musically between Christian rock and secular rock. I guess I was thinking in a worship situation (for my church), I want to enhance the overall effect of the music without calling too much attention to myself. That being said, there certainly are times to just let it rip! But my original concern was that I didn't want pickups that would sound overly harsh or brittle to make me stick out like a sore thumb.

 

[Butch Snyder]

Re: pickup for praise and worship music in a les paul...

I guess I was thinking in a worship situation (for my church), I want to enhance the overall effect of the music without calling too much attention to myself.

That is absolutely the main idea...

 

[JimiHWannaBe]

Re: pickup for praise and worship music in a les paul...

I use a seth lover in the neck and and a 59 in the bridge for my humbucking tone at church, it works nice a very smooth round sounding mixing of the Alnico 2 and Alnico 5 sound. I can imagine a set of antiquitys would sound even better. Playing in church I generally look for a very very very warm round tone when I solo the hot stuff just doesnt seem to work.

 

[Fuddy Duddy]

Re: pickup for praise and worship music in a les paul...

Playing in church I generally look for a very very very warm round tone when I solo the hot stuff just doesnt seem to work.

JimiHWB, what do you mean by hot stuff? Would you put the JB in that category?

 

[Fusion1]

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Aquire the Fire is a band? I thought it was the event itself, featuring a bunch of christian bands...

 

[twoheadedboy]

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Yeah, ATF isn't a band. Maybe they put together a band for the event or something.

 

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well, people just here the standard pop christian music and then determine that it's all slow, boring stuff.

they havent heard dilerious, or Kutless

the pearly gates looks like it'd be pretty cool, or the screamin demon :laugh2:
maybe the WFD humbucker with the F****** rails :smack:

 

[twoheadedboy]

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Yeah, they may not be slow and boring, but they aren't to original. Delirious is CLEARLY ripping off U2's sound constantly. They've openly admitted to it.