Three pickup Les Paul using Seth Lover pickups

[Clint 55]

Hmmm...this could be an extra option. Something like at phatcat p90?

The PC in the middle works pretty famously.

 

[orpheo]

I would NEVER go with a Phat Cat. I tried. A hundred times. The Phat Cat is too fat sounding (duhh it's in the name). You need something cleaner, less output, to get that quacky tone when you engage a that middle pickup.

 

[orpheo]

Which pickup would you recommend then? A different one than a SL?

JAZZ NECK! And then just one coil! So you get neck humbucker + 1 coil from the jazz, and bridge humbucker and 1 coil from the jazz.

The output will drop dramatically and the already bright sound of the Jazz will give you faux-quacky tones. Makes for an extremely useful tone to be honest. The phat cat needs 1k wind less and weaker magnets (degaussed alnicoV is my favorite). The only phat cat that I use, was customized as such and now, it finally works as intended, but still not a great tone, compared to the JazzN in that spot.

 

[zionstrat]

JAZZ NECK! And then just one coil! So you get neck humbucker + 1 coil from the jazz, and bridge humbucker and 1 coil from the jazz.

The output will drop dramatically and the already bright sound of the Jazz will give you faux-quacky tones. Makes for an extremely useful tone to be honest. The phat cat needs 1k wind less and weaker magnets (degaussed alnicoV is my favorite). The only phat cat that I use, was customized as such and now, it finally works as intended, but still not a great tone, compared to the JazzN in that spot.

I hadn't thought about the jazz but that's an interesting idea.. if you do one coil Plus a humbucker your not going to have complete noise reduction.. but if I was doing this I would try the jazz as parallel to self as well.. now you got me wanting a three pickup so I could try the jazz

 

[gtbguy]

I purchased the Phat Cat for the middle pickup and will be added to the Seth Lover pickups for neck and bridge. I'll wire it with three separate volume controls for each pickup and one tone. It will be interesting to hear how all this sounds.

 

[jeremy]

i liked the phat cat bridge right off the bat but the neck was too fat when they were paired together. mag swaps helped though. i bet it will sound good in the middle though, the extra fatness that i wanted to dial out in the neck should be a nice quality in the middle position

 

[gtbguy]

i liked the phat cat bridge right off the bat but the neck was too fat when they were paired together. mag swaps helped though. i bet it will sound good in the middle though, the extra fatness that i wanted to dial out in the neck should be a nice quality in the middle position

Like one poster wrote, I can always lower the pickup so its not in the way of picking. This will have an effect on the sound further from the strings, I'm thinking.