What pickups for Zeppelin's: SINCE I HAVE BEEN LOVING YOU & TEA FOR ONE?

Re: What pickups for Zeppelin's: SINCE I HAVE BEEN LOVING YOU & TEA FOR ONE?

I think the duncan custom shop has some JP pickups

In his signature Edwards he uses a duncan Custom in the bridge and '59 in the neck, so i'd say those are probably the closest duncan offers outside of the CS
 
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drew_half_empty said:
In his signature Edwards he uses a duncan Custom in the bridge and '59 in the neck, so i'd say those are probably the closest duncan offers outside of the CS
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He wasn't using anything like that in the bridge when he was in Zeppelin.
 
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JohnnyGuitarCA said:
You forgot to mention the solid graphite neck with stainless steel banjo frets and blue LED position markers! :cool2:
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of course the blue leds - and make sure the pickup is wired for a left handed axe, then turned upside down for the reverse stagger sound.
 
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Page could probably have gotten the desired tone from almost any guitar and pickup combination. "It Might Get Loud" helped show Page's innate ability to achieve tone whereas the Edge needs massive amount of effects. My best guess is that even if you had an exact duplicate of Page's LP you still won't get his tone…but keep trying.
 
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Just get a PAF type set of pickups and you'll get close.
 
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A good LP with PAF style pups and a 1959 Super Lead will get you there. Saw Page do this song at the Garden with his #1 LP and only a Wah and Phase 90 before his Marshalls. Some Echo was used for the main solo. Sounded great!
 
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^ Unholy destroyer of christ i wish i had seen that. what year?

Ever since I got a 23-year-old Les Paul with duncan antiquities (vintage output + old magnets are key) and my Box of Rock i've been sounding like Jimmy Page accidentally all day. You wanna hear Jimmy Page play "Raining Blood"? Bring a six pack bro.

You want your bridge pickup on full volume to be "solo" tone. You need an amp or pedal that will react to your volume knob and pick touch in such a way that if you back it up to 7 or 6 then it's drastically cleaner than 8 or 9. I set my neck pickup pretty high and my bridge pickup REALLY high...enough so that the neck pickup is the cleaner one but i can still use it for milky solos when i want to.

But also remember that Pagey got his tone whether he was using a 58 Standard into a wall of old cranked Marshalls or a beat-up Telecaster into a cranked five watt Champ. It's more about understanding how the guitar and amp interact with eachother than it is about which logo is emblazoned across them.
 
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Empty Pockets said:
But also remember that Pagey got his tone whether he was using a 58 Standard into a wall of old cranked Marshalls or a beat-up Telecaster into a cranked five watt Champ. It's more about understanding how the guitar and amp interact with eachother than it is about which logo is emblazoned across them.
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Exactly. Remember, he used the Tele that Jeff gave him on the first album, as well as here:


Yeah, you can obviously tell it's not a Les Paul even without looking, but it still sounds like Page. Nobody will ever sound like him, or guys like May, Hendrix, Slash, Clapton, etc. It's so much more than gear.
 
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LtKojak said:
Sorry, VINTAGE blue leds, not that cheap chinese stuff you can get nowadays.

You gotta know your LEDs, pal! :naughty:
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Yeah i know what you mean. I put in a set of the new hi-brite ones, but they just don't seem to have the same vibe or mojo of the older ones out of the korean factory. I was thinking of getting some hand wired for me by this cherokee shaman that i heard about on another forum, but i think i will wait to see if i can find some NOS.
 
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gibson175 said:
I was thinking of getting some hand wired for me by this cherokee shaman that i heard about on another forum, but i think i will wait to see if i can find some NOS.
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Well, I wanted to get a Haitian Voodoo priest to consacrate the guitar, but he's unavailable at the moment because he was coursed by a Gipsy woman.

Darn it!
 
Re: What pickups for Zeppelin's: SINCE I HAVE BEEN LOVING YOU & TEA FOR ONE?

Empty Pockets said:
^ Unholy destroyer of christ i wish i had seen that. what year?

Ever since I got a 23-year-old Les Paul with duncan antiquities (vintage output + old magnets are key) and my Box of Rock i've been sounding like Jimmy Page accidentally all day. You wanna hear Jimmy Page play "Raining Blood"? Bring a six pack bro.

You want your bridge pickup on full volume to be "solo" tone. You need an amp or pedal that will react to your volume knob and pick touch in such a way that if you back it up to 7 or 6 then it's drastically cleaner than 8 or 9. I set my neck pickup pretty high and my bridge pickup REALLY high...enough so that the neck pickup is the cleaner one but i can still use it for milky solos when i want to.

But also remember that Pagey got his tone whether he was using a 58 Standard into a wall of old cranked Marshalls or a beat-up Telecaster into a cranked five watt Champ. It's more about understanding how the guitar and amp interact with eachother than it is about which logo is emblazoned across them.
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+1 Empty Pockets. Saw Zeppelin a few times, but that concert was 75'. He was really "On" that night and you're right, he's a Master capable of getting great tones out of a lot of different gear!:1:
 
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tmmblues said:
Page could probably have gotten the desired tone from almost any guitar and pickup combination. "It Might Get Loud" helped show Page's innate ability to achieve tone whereas the Edge needs massive amount of effects. My best guess is that even if you had an exact duplicate of Page's LP you still won't get his tone…but keep trying.
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Tmmblues

The Edge and Jack White's jaws were dropping when Jimmy Page started playing some of the Zep songs. He sounded fantastic of course and you could see those two guy's are huge fans of his. It Might Get Loud the movie is on Comcast on demand for free. I watched it twice. I'm a fan of all three of these guitar players. Jack White is a very interesting guy and I learned quite a bit about him in the movie. When I heard one of his songs on the radio a few years ago, I though this guy is the most interesting guitar player I've heard in a very long time.
 
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