Quick Pickup Booster Demo - With Tele

Posted By: Stevo

This is a quick demo to try and display the frequency settings. This is my ash tele with a custom shop bg1400 bridge pickup. I played through my plexi reissue, using a mass attenuator for the dirty parts. I used a shure 57 mic. There are no effects and there's not a backing track. Time - Freq Setting 00:00 - none 00:23 - 1 00:50 - 2 01:22 - none 01:40 - 1 02:00 - 2 Pickup Booster Tones

Gibson's Les Pauls Bourns Pots and Circuit boards

Posted By: Stratman

Now that Gibson uses a printed circuit board with Bournes pots and fixed capacitors and wiring jacks. Electronically, the 2008 has a BurstBucker Pro 1 at neck and a BurstBucker Pro 2 at the bridge and Bourne gold-plated pots visible through a smoked translucent control cover; also new is the Neutrik locking output jack tidily inset into the guitar's rim. How many are willing to take that stuff out and replace all of it with Seymour Duncan pups, and old fashion pots and caps? Come on, what do the rest of you think about Gibson's latest (2008) trend to use circuit boards that can not be changed?

Les Paul & related guitars question

Posted By: LesStrat

I have a great ibanez semi-hollow body guitar that has the perfect neck for me. Odie said it's because of the LP scale. IDK, I've never spent much time with LPs. It also has a narrow neck of medium thickness. Is there a Gibby with similar dimensions? Other guitars? I like the tone of LPs. Yet I've been spoiled by the weight of the parker Fly. Talk to me about LP style axes with similar neck sizes to what I've described (Odie might even remember the dimensions).

Antiquities

Posted By: ronlennon

I finally made a decision on what pups to put in my Epi Les Paul Studio (2008 Chinese made).I bit the bullet and put Antiquities in. It really made a difference! Totally changed the guitar's tone and sound. Much more clarity and depth. It is hard to put into words, but when you hear it, you know it. I got a lot of opinions on the post here, Thanks, great place to help decide what you want. Ronlennon

Can filing screws mess up a pickup?

Posted By: jasona84

So I'm getting my explorer up and up, and to put the neck pickup I want in the neck spot it looks like I'll have to file down the screw coming out of the bottom to make it fit. Will this hurt the sound of the pickup at all? I mean it's out of the pickup so it shouldn't right?

Isn't it insane how height adjustment changes the tone so much?

Posted By: RockStarNick

Once again, I was jamming on my Les Paul Standard with the C5 in it, thinking, hmm, sounds a *little* too scooped for me. Got my screwdriver, raised up the bucker probably 1/8 of an inch, and IMMEDIATELY heard a difference. More mids. Fatter treble, thicker bass . Sounds like a different pickup. I'm kinda just blabbing here, but still, its amazing what an 1/8" adjustment can do for tone.

Improving Resonance in a Stratocaster

Posted By: ImmortalSix

Hey guys --- lay on me some tricks about improving resonance in a strat ocaster. I hear some folks sand the neck pocket to get polyurethane out of there, and I hear some folks sand the trem cavity, but I don't exactly know what that one's all about. If someone can hit me with the real deal, or outline in detail how to do some of these ever-so-slightly beneficial tune-ups, I'll appreciate it! -Hunter

Custom 8 paradise!

Posted By: BloodRose

I Just got my order of parts from Wymore today. Thanks for the quick turn around Bro!! Anyhow, got me 4 alnico 8 mags.. So Im gonna Custom 8 my Explorer (from custom) , custom 8 my washburn MG104 and others. Maybe even my Baretta! I have a C8 in my Focus 6000 and one of my washburn Salas' already and I love them!! :fing2:

The Ultimate PAF-style Guide

Posted By: Aceman

When it comes to PAF style humbuckers , there are a lot of choices. Let's see if we can get a fairly comprehensive list and some good tone descriptions. Then, we can reference the thread whenever someone is asking about them. So let's get a list and start adding the tone/details. Here are the ones I think of off the top: Duncan Antiquity Seth 59 A2P Pearly Gates DiMarzio PAF 36th Anniversary PAF Air Classic Gibson 57 Classic

can a jb humbucker be used with a floyd rose?

Posted By: shaggyrun

I have seen that there are pick ups called trembuckers, that are meant to be used with a floyd rose and other tremelo systems. can a standard sh4 jb humbucker be used with a floyd rose or is it not suggested? I am only asking because i have it in a washburn idol 14 right now with a fixed bridge but I want to put it in my new raven which has a floyd rose.

Strat players - ergonomic question

Posted By: Simon_F

How do you avoid your pick colliding with the middle pickup when you're muting strings with the side of your picking hand? Just askin' :)

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