Two New Billy Gibbons Signature Pickups
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donaldr
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If you listen to the two videos on the website/youtube, they don't sound scooped, at least to my ears.
No they don't, but I think many of the BMT graphs on many pickup pages need to be looked at again.
Rex_Rocker
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The name "Hades Gates" almost made me think it was going to be something else than a slightly overwound PAF-type with an A2 magnet.
I don't doubt these are mid-forward for PAF-types. But I doubt they get JB kinda mid-forward if that's what people are expecting from them.
And on the topic of the Pearly Gates Plus... I had it very briefly on my Strat, but yeah, I thought it almost felt like just a darker '59B.
I don't doubt these are mid-forward for PAF-types. But I doubt they get JB kinda mid-forward if that's what people are expecting from them.
And on the topic of the Pearly Gates Plus... I had it very briefly on my Strat, but yeah, I thought it almost felt like just a darker '59B.
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Rex_Rocker
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Yeah, I agree. And it's all relative too. Like compared to what? A '59? To a Fender single coil? To a Black Winter?
I still have a hard time imagining any low-wind humbucker be more mid-focused than something as overwound as a JB, personally.
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ErikH
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Me neither. And I've used both. Still have some SDs. Love that pickup.
donaldr
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Anyone bought them?
I have a set of EMG Fat55 in my Ibanez and find the high E, B and G strings laking in body and too bright (I imagine that's what a PAF type pickup should sound). Wondering if some A2 pickups could fix it. I can go with a Custom Custom but I thing it would be too much for what I'm looking for (and I would have to hunt for a neck pickup).
I have a set of EMG Fat55 in my Ibanez and find the high E, B and G strings laking in body and too bright (I imagine that's what a PAF type pickup should sound). Wondering if some A2 pickups could fix it. I can go with a Custom Custom but I thing it would be too much for what I'm looking for (and I would have to hunt for a neck pickup).
beaubrummels
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FWIW he calls himself "Billy F Gibbons" in the video.
eclecticsynergy
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I think just-under-9K with A2 is a beautiful neighborhood for bridge humbuckers..
Vintage-plus. I have several in that general ballpark and they're great.
Quite a different feel and voicing from any A5 hums that I know well.
Vintage-plus. I have several in that general ballpark and they're great.
Quite a different feel and voicing from any A5 hums that I know well.
beaubrummels
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Doesn't change the output or sound materially. Bigger bobbins take more wire for the same number of turns, so naturally it will meter with higher resistance, but it's the same pickup.
Chistopher
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I've always wondered what the extent of that is. The difference in string spacing between standard and trembucker is minimal, but how big a difference would it be if you had the same turn count but double the string spacing and thus double the wire length?
hamerfan
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I always had my Ant Bridge (8.6k) with a full charged A2, but the UO A5 was even better.
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