Reckless Abandon
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? I am guessing the evo's were not around then. Was it a breed?
what pups did vai use with DLR?
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Re: what pups did vai use with DLR?
I just check Dimarzio's site. Breed 1997 so it was not them.
PAF pro?
Only one I could find that fits the years he played with DLR. But they came out in 86. He recorded with roth in 85? Right?
I just check Dimarzio's site. Breed 1997 so it was not them.
PAF pro?
Only one I could find that fits the years he played with DLR. But they came out in 86. He recorded with roth in 85? Right?
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Green Meanie had a XN2 in it for years and years...
Green Meanie had a XN2 in it for years and years...
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I would put my money on PAF Pro's if he used anything but the Green Meanie and its a good chance he had them in it too. He was a Dimarzio posterboy for that model around that time if memory serves. They had him and Sheehan in the ads IIRC
I would put my money on PAF Pro's if he used anything but the Green Meanie and its a good chance he had them in it too. He was a Dimarzio posterboy for that model around that time if memory serves. They had him and Sheehan in the ads IIRC
strangegrey
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+1 on the PAF pros...It was the first replacement pup I bought at the tender age of 15....thinking I was going to sound like Vai after I wired it up.....boy was I disappointed!
BTW, Let me add...I later replaced the PAF pro with a JB....and low and behold, I sounded like Vito Bratta!
+1 on the PAF pros...It was the first replacement pup I bought at the tender age of 15....thinking I was going to sound like Vai after I wired it up.....boy was I disappointed!
BTW, Let me add...I later replaced the PAF pro with a JB....and low and behold, I sounded like Vito Bratta!
Majestic
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Re: what pups did vai use with DLR?
I always thought Vai's pickup after the X2N was the PAF Pro 2, prior to the Evolution.
That's right....PAF Pro 2.
Either way, I suppose an 8k PAF-type pickup with an A5 magnet in a floating-whammy guitar would have enough high-end for his aggressive tone, for sure. Ouch.
I always thought Vai's pickup after the X2N was the PAF Pro 2, prior to the Evolution.
That's right....PAF Pro 2.
Either way, I suppose an 8k PAF-type pickup with an A5 magnet in a floating-whammy guitar would have enough high-end for his aggressive tone, for sure. Ouch.
Reckless Abandon
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thanks
thanks
mind_transplant
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Though I've never encountered one in person, some Vai fanatics have mentioned this to me before. As I recall it was similar to the PAF Pro but had a ceramic magnet.
Fusion1 said:
Though I've never encountered one in person, some Vai fanatics have mentioned this to me before. As I recall it was similar to the PAF Pro but had a ceramic magnet.
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I was hopeing that Wayne Guitars site would of listed the type of pickup they use in the reproductions of the Green Meenie but they do not... Doesn't Vai's Flexable album list the strat as having the X2N pickup in the gear credits... The first DLR album was not long after that..... The Green Meanie i think is the first guitar i heard of being made basswood... been thinking of stripping my basswood strat that i mess up the router job on and turn it into my own Green Meanie....
On a side note somewhere sitting in a tape vault somewhere is a cover tune that was meant to go on to one of the DLR solo albums with Vai.... It was bumped at the last second for another tune... Anyway the tune is called Kids In Action by Canadian guitarist/frontman Kim Mitchell.... The piece is a work out on the guitar from his 1982 Kim Mitchell EP now out on cd in the USA on Wounded Bird Records.... I would of loved to of heard Vai's take on this tune!
WhoFan
I was hopeing that Wayne Guitars site would of listed the type of pickup they use in the reproductions of the Green Meenie but they do not... Doesn't Vai's Flexable album list the strat as having the X2N pickup in the gear credits... The first DLR album was not long after that..... The Green Meanie i think is the first guitar i heard of being made basswood... been thinking of stripping my basswood strat that i mess up the router job on and turn it into my own Green Meanie....
On a side note somewhere sitting in a tape vault somewhere is a cover tune that was meant to go on to one of the DLR solo albums with Vai.... It was bumped at the last second for another tune... Anyway the tune is called Kids In Action by Canadian guitarist/frontman Kim Mitchell.... The piece is a work out on the guitar from his 1982 Kim Mitchell EP now out on cd in the USA on Wounded Bird Records.... I would of loved to of heard Vai's take on this tune!
WhoFan
