Seth Lover/JB Hybrid?

[NT02]

I saw the 59/Custom thread, and it got me to thinking...
What if I took the Seth Lover bridge from my Les Paul and the JB from my G&L Legacy and made a couple of hybrids?
Would it add beef to the LP? Brightness and air to the G&L?

Is this possible with the 2-conductor/4-conductor marriage, and is it worth doing?

Thanks!
Bobby

 

[Aceman]

Re: Seth Lover/JB Hybrid?

Conceptually, I have to say this just sounds wrong. But - we won't know if we don't try!

I think the 59 and the Custom work because they are really the same ilk. One is just a very pumped version.

Seth & JB are different creatures altogether. Might end up really cool, but might end up really crap. I'm not feeling it at all here at the 'concept' stage.

 

[STRATDELUXER97]

Re: Seth Lover/JB Hybrid?

I saw the 59/Custom thread, and it got me to thinking...
What if I took the Seth Lover bridge from my Les Paul and the JB from my G&L Legacy and made a couple of hybrids?
Would it add beef to the LP? Brightness and air to the G&L?

Is this possible with the 2-conductor/4-conductor marriage, and is it worth doing?

Thanks!
Bobby

2 pickups coming from 2 very different places! I'm not feeling it either! ;o) I can't stand the JB actually! ;o)

 

[NT02]

Re: Seth Lover/JB Hybrid?

Cool, this is what I wanted, the voices of experience.
I'll leave my pups intact, and just find the 59/custom hybrid.

Thanks!

 

[STRATDELUXER97]

Re: Seth Lover/JB Hybrid?

Cool, this is what I wanted, the voices of experience.
I'll leave my pups intact, and just find the 59/custom hybrid.

Thanks!

My experience is this....The Seths are pretty forgiving in just about everything..The JB is also a great pickup,but only in the "right" guitar,otherwise I can't stand the JB....Probably because my blues/classic rock styles tell me the JB is all wrong...

 

[bubs_42]

Re: Seth Lover/JB Hybrid?

Your right about that. I'm mainly a blues/rock guy and in the right guitar the JB is incredable. All Korina V I had the JB Killed. That was the last guitar I had a JB. It didn't sound the same in anything else.

 

[frankfalbo]

Re: Seth Lover/JB Hybrid?

I made Seth hybrids before and one thing that really intrigues me is that it is butyrate AND unpotted. So you can take a pickup like a Pearly Gates or 59 that is well potted, and by gently replacing the slug coil with a Seth, you leave the rest of the wax potting intact. Now you have one coil that is looser and more open sounding, but the pickup as a whole is still resistant to microphonics.

 

[Mad Raxz]

Re: Seth Lover/JB Hybrid?

I would try it, if it sounds wrong one can always go back, no permanent damage done.

 

[crguti]

Re: Seth Lover/JB Hybrid?

dimebucker/stag mag hybrid? ...





:dunce:

 

[gripweed]

Re: Seth Lover/JB Hybrid?

Please read the 59/Custom thread. Bach2Rock advises against it.

 

[rumblebox]

Re: Seth Lover/JB Hybrid?

i would never destroy a seth lover by incorporating it with a JB.

 

[Aceman]

Re: Seth Lover/JB Hybrid?

I made Seth hybrids before and one thing that really intrigues me is that it is butyrate AND unpotted. So you can take a pickup like a Pearly Gates or 59 that is well potted, and by gently replacing the slug coil with a Seth, you leave the rest of the wax potting intact. Now you have one coil that is looser and more open sounding, but the pickup as a whole is still resistant to microphonics.

True - but those are all in the same ballpark, so to speak. Classic PAF's.

That JB coil will just pimp slap that seth coil until it shuts up and sits in the corner.

But I could be wrong....

You could make the sme argument about the 59 and Custom. But those sort of tone-average on the output. Same EQ, etc...

Every part of the JB is just more than the Seth. But still, give it a try. Didn't think about the potting factor.

 

[NT02]

Re: Seth Lover/JB Hybrid?

Yeah, I'll just skip it, lol.

Thanks!

 

[zenmindbeginner]

Re: Seth Lover/JB Hybrid?

I made Seth hybrids before and one thing that really intrigues me is that it is butyrate AND unpotted. So you can take a pickup like a Pearly Gates or 59 that is well potted, and by gently replacing the slug coil with a Seth, you leave the rest of the wax potting intact. Now you have one coil that is looser and more open sounding, but the pickup as a whole is still resistant to microphonics.

Great advice and I like to pair a JB2 with a Seth in the neck, so this idea could really work.