When experimentation fails (succeeds?)

[misterwhizzy]

I've been back through a series of bridge pickups in my Les Paul recently looking for what's right. I thought the 59 with unoriented A5 was the ticket for a bit, but I did miss the slightly more pronounced attack of something with a bit more output, so I swapped in the Custom Custom, which my guitar likes better than any of the other magnets in the family. But it just wouldn't clean up with the volume rolled back. Anyways, the experiment with the 59 and the Custom ended back where it had started a while back. And knowing me, it probably won't end where it has for now. But it's taking a break at this stop for a while.

Long story slightly less long, I don't know why I ever change from the Crazy 8. There's nothing about it that doesn't sound or respond exactly the way I want. Unbelievable dynamics, not too hot, cleans up perfectly, beautiful thick crunch, etc. It really does everything I want a bridge pickup to do without being harsh or getting lost. Yes, it looks unorthodox, but who's looking at it?

(As an aside, has anyone ever used a Demon in the neck with the Crazy 8 bridge? The 59 just doesn't want to keep up volume-wise.)

For no real reason besides curiosity, I had thought recently about starting a thread about interest in designing another user group pickup, and I still might, but I think this will delay the urge for a while longer.

 

[eclecticsynergy]

Re: When experimentation fails (succeeds?)

Might be worth trying an A8 in the 59B.

 

[Discharged]

Re: When experimentation fails (succeeds?)

I had thought recently about starting a thread about interest in designing another user group pickup

Really? Don't you even bother, man. Don't you remember how it developed and ended last time, and the time before that as well?

For the record, design-by-comitee never, ever worked. Period. You can take that to the bank.

/Peter

 

[Chistopher]

Re: When experimentation fails (succeeds?)

The Fuglybucker neck is an excellent pickup, but that's coming from a guy who didn't have to keep up with the design process.

And if we did start a new forum pickup, I'd vote for a 5-2 Stag Mag with coil mismatch.

 

[Jeff_H]

Re: When experimentation fails (succeeds?)

The Brobucker seems to have worked, as did the C5. Just saying it's possible with someone strong enough in charge of the forum side to keep the insane suggestions from bogging things down. The SD company would also need to set some guidelines surrounding what is marketable, if they are interested in marketing another forum pickup at all.

 

[Chistopher]

Re: When experimentation fails (succeeds?)

I think the reason the C5 and 59/C were so easy to get made into pickups was because enough people could make the pickups themselves and liked them. The big wigs caught wind of how highly people thought of these pickups and then started to sell them as production pickups.