crusty philtrum
Vintageologist
Re: Which pickup/guitar combos are you 100% satisfied with?
Hi all
I recently put a pair of hybrids into the Hamer Studio Custom in my pic here.
The neck is a 59/Jazz and the bridge is a 59/Custom ...both are A5 magnets, both have Gibson covers. I retained the original Hamer 300k custom-taper pots. This guitar now sounds stunning for a huge range of styles. Every nuance of the wood and technique come through, clean or dirty, and sometimes it's hard to concentrate on playing because i just wanna stop and listen to a chord or note, and marvel at just how good an electric guitar can sound. ( I only hear my guitars through tube amps, i have heard they plan to replace vaccuum tube technology with some new device called a 'transistor' but believe me, that is not going to happen....)
I have a 1974 Telecaster Custom with the original Wide-Range humbucker at the neck and a Fralin bridge pickup, using 1 Meg pots (which were standard for these guitars, and the secret for getting the big humbucker to sound good). After 25 years of different bridges, bridge pickups and pots, this guitar is finally sounding better than it ever has, from fat jazz tones to twang and bite and scream.
The great thing about getting settled with a guitar....when you know it is 'right'....is that you can finally look at the amplifiers and get to know exactly what they're doing for your sound, and even better.....you can spend more time working at being a better player.....i have no excuses now....if i don't sound good.....it's simply that i need to work harder, not buy more pickups (so now the money i save on pickups can buy better capacitors for my amps, hehe).
Hi all
I recently put a pair of hybrids into the Hamer Studio Custom in my pic here.
The neck is a 59/Jazz and the bridge is a 59/Custom ...both are A5 magnets, both have Gibson covers. I retained the original Hamer 300k custom-taper pots. This guitar now sounds stunning for a huge range of styles. Every nuance of the wood and technique come through, clean or dirty, and sometimes it's hard to concentrate on playing because i just wanna stop and listen to a chord or note, and marvel at just how good an electric guitar can sound. ( I only hear my guitars through tube amps, i have heard they plan to replace vaccuum tube technology with some new device called a 'transistor' but believe me, that is not going to happen....)
I have a 1974 Telecaster Custom with the original Wide-Range humbucker at the neck and a Fralin bridge pickup, using 1 Meg pots (which were standard for these guitars, and the secret for getting the big humbucker to sound good). After 25 years of different bridges, bridge pickups and pots, this guitar is finally sounding better than it ever has, from fat jazz tones to twang and bite and scream.
The great thing about getting settled with a guitar....when you know it is 'right'....is that you can finally look at the amplifiers and get to know exactly what they're doing for your sound, and even better.....you can spend more time working at being a better player.....i have no excuses now....if i don't sound good.....it's simply that i need to work harder, not buy more pickups (so now the money i save on pickups can buy better capacitors for my amps, hehe).
/ PG(b) (yeah, that's it over there on the left in my avatar) The neck does great jazz and blues and just cries with distortion. The bridge growls with distortion, and does nice Robben Ford/Larry Carlton at edge of distortion. Single coil-wise, all 4 coils give very musical, usable tones! Great dynamic response. I find I use this one over my Strat to get those Knopfleresque tones.
