What pickups is Jake E Lee using in this?

Re: What pickups is Jake E Lee using in this?

Supposedly at that time he was using a SD Allan Holdsworth model bridge which is a development of the JB while the neck and middle single coils are Dimarzio SDS-1's. The guitar has a Gibson scale neck and a fixed bridge also.

According to his website the amp is a stock Marshall a JCM 800 if I remember correctly and he is using EV12's in the cab.

I have played his ESP signature guitar and the pickups aren't that great. Also it has the short scale neck with tiny vintage frets. I thought the short scale was comfortable but the frets made it hard to play.
 
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Re: What pickups is Jake E Lee using in this?

idsnowdog said:
Supposedly at that time he was using a SD Allan Holdsworth model bridge which is a development of the JB while the neck and middle single coils are Dimarzio SDS-1's. The guitar has a Gibson scale neck and a fixed bridge also.

According to his website the amp is a stock Marshall a JCM 800 if I remember correctly and he is using EV12's in the cab.

I have played his ESP signature guitar and the pickups aren't that great. Also it has the short scale neck with tiny vintage frets. I thought the short scale was comfortable but the frets made it hard to play.
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Close but no cigar.

The guitar is a 1973/4 Strat, scale length is 25.5"
The pickup could be a JB, the AH or a DD, as he used all three during that period.

The ESP model is supposed to have medium jumbo fret from 1-12 and vintage from 13-22. I owned one and that was one of my favourite features about it. The stock humbucker blew, but the singles weren't bad, but definately not SDS-1 calibre.
 
Re: What pickups is Jake E Lee using in this?

Right, I've read almost every interview in the guitar magazines FWIW and I never saw the DD listed. Almost 90% of the interviews mentioned the JB and the rest AH.
 
Re: What pickups is Jake E Lee using in this?

i found it so strange when i first heard that Jake's white Charvel was really a 70's Fender hardtail with a reshaped headstock and new paint... Did Charvel make a Jake E Lee signature model copied after the original? i'm sure there was a model made for him as i had seen some in Blue and Red.....

WhoFan
 
Re: What pickups is Jake E Lee using in this?

WhoFan said:
i found it so strange when i first heard that Jake's white Charvel was really a 70's Fender hardtail with a reshaped headstock and new paint... Did Charvel make a Jake E Lee signature model copied after the original? i'm sure there was a model made for him as i had seen some in Blue and Red.....

WhoFan
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Charvel "Holdsworth" model
 
Re: What pickups is Jake E Lee using in this?

The JB does have that mid presense as heard in those clips.

Always loved his tone!
 
Re: What pickups is Jake E Lee using in this?

I thought he used a JB with Allan Holdsworth pole pieces..or is that basically a Holdsworth model? I definetly know that Jake uses the JB with different pole pieces.
 
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