SD SH-5 Custom Is The One

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There is a video of Pete Thorn doing a demo of his Suhr 68 with a parts-caster and a Dimarzio Super D and at a the end of the demo he literally turns every knob to 10 and plays eruption and it is absolutely 99% there.......the other 1% being Ed's hands
 
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Christopher Caruana said:
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There is something special about the sound of the SD. The cool thing is Thorn nails the tone with ease on the Suhr.
 
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LLL said:
If that's the case, then you are next in line for an SH-5 Custom.
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If I had more guitars I'd probably go for one just to try it out. I do have a couple CCs and love what those do, though.
 
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Big Flannel said:
Realistically, a pickup isn't going to get you anywhere near Eddie's tone.

Look, you can waste as much money as you want on vintage Plexi amps and Duncan Customs but you don't have his hands. I saw a video that Jolly shared on FB the other of Eddie playing through his new amp upgrades. He was using a wolfgang with wolfgang pickups and guess what, he sounded EXACTLY like Eddie.

Approximation and Imitation are fine if it makes you happy, but wasting time and money trying to "nail" his tone is futile.

I respect a lot of musicians and have heard guitar tones from professionals as well as members of this forum that I have great respect for and thought "Man, that's a smoking tone." but no matter what guitar or amp they use, they always sound like themselves.
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Agreed. Any one thing won't get you there. Saying that you made a cake with organic butter misses the mark if the rest of the ingredients are garbage.

To me, it's not so much that I want to nail his tone for my own use to be a clone, but that nailing his tone teaches me things that I can use in other contexts. For instance, a big part of the EVH tone is how he picks, his vibrato, the way he bends, and how much pressure he applies to the fretboard, amongst a million other things.

You take any one of those ingredients and mix them up with other quality ingredients and you come up with something new. I have a lot of influences but nobody would say that I sound identical to any one of them, but I sound like I do because I have obsessed over certain aspects of their playing and tone.
 
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SnakeAces said:
Anybody who spends $1000 just to get this effect to try to get EVH or Page tone probably has a few screws loose somewhere. However, if you buy one to get your own tone, more power to you.

Yes, the "Echoplex with the TIS58 @ 22v" is still for sale: http://www.fulltone.com/products/solid-state-tape-echo but it's gonna cost you a grand
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Oh, I definitely have a few screws loose. That's why I spend so much time here. :)
 
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That's a hell of an amp. It's funny...all the butt****ery built into my M-1000 and I just play it with the guitar volume.

Mostly because clean is for girls, but hey...
 
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Alright, here's a clip showing the range of the SH-5 Custom pickup from "clean to mean".

I used to think every high output pickup out there couldn't clean up good. This is one of the very few.

Tone is tapped straight off the SM57 - no DAW eq, LA2A-style compression, Sunset Studios Echo Chamber iR

(clean tone about 2/3rds in)

Jamie's Cryin'
 
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How is that clean? Any pickup can clean up providing your guitar is wired properly and you're familiar with it. Sounds like old Malcom Young clean.

Slight dirt.

I'm not knocking the Custom-great pup, but your clip proves what, exactly?

LLL said:
Don't quit your day job.
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Yeah, don't.
 
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Speaking of the DiMarzio Super Distortion, I've never had one but I've heard them plenty of times.

I'd be willing to bet they (the DiM SDs) don't clean up as good as the SH-5.
 
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You meant to say "clean up well," like I wish my kids did.

Also, congratulations on figuring it out!
 
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