Nice! Keen to hear about it, the bloke who makes them seems like a top guy
Yep. Like I said, he was real good to talk to. Very honest and up for a chat.
It’s nice supporting local blokes too. I wish there was more about in the pickup/pedal market.
He does a set called the Sunbury, which seem like a nod to Lobby Loyde. Super hot. Id love to put a set into an SG…but I dont have an SG…or the dough.
One day maybe.
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Love my SG, got it off some kid who’s folks got it for him but he never liked guitar haha
Long story short, SGs are awesome
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I think Ive mentioned it here before, but just before covid I sold an all original 1974 Gibson SG for not a lot (but what it was worth at the time) because it was collecting dust and I needed the dough for something else…
Theyve gone up in value since… like a lot. But its not really that aspect that upsets me. Its just that I really ■■■■■■■ miss it. It was a Brown Gnarly Beast of a thing…my heart hurts…
Sometimes it literally keeps me up at night…
I’ll always love you Brown Hornet…
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If you could have it back one more time and play one more riff what would it be?
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I couldn’t narrow it down to a single riff. Id need about half an hour with it, maybe the orange amp, a fuzz pedal, a wah and I would be going on a cosmic fuzz drenched voyage deep into the darkest corners of the ■■■■■■■ Universe…
Only then I’d achieve some sort of closure.
Edit: and a handfull of mushrooms
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Ok, so I just got guitar back today.
My guitar man did an amazing job as usual and the guitar is playing like a dream. Fret nibs gone. Frets polished and dressed. Full set up and new hummies installed…
Its playing like a dream…but.
…I gotta say, I dont think Im in love with these new pickups. I dunno if its because theyre different or because Im just not digging them. But I’m sorta…yeah…dunno.
This will sound weird but theyre very ‘stratty’. Which as being mainly a strat man sounds like a nice idea. But this is a Les Paul. I want Beef. THROB! MEAT! Thats whats fun about playing them!
Ive fiddled around with the height, but man, I dunno. At the monent, Im a bit flat on them.
Im starting to think I shoulda just bought covers for the ones I had.
They might grown on me, but worst case scenario is I sell em and put my old ones back in.
Ah well. I’ll stick with em for a while. My guitar guy has my main strat at the moment for a set up, so I have a couple of weeks of just playing the LP. They may grow on me. They sounded great threw my 71 fender twin (but everthing does) but pretty average threw the marshall and the orange.
Ya gotta try these things I spoze.
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Thanks for getting back to me, bit of a shame you’re not digging em m, but it happens. At least they’re not super high priced. What made you not like the originals the Les Paul came with?
I’m still lurking around forums to suss out some pickups for my Epiphone Sheraton. Like the sound of SD Seth Lovers but not cheap that’s for sure
I’ve got SD Antiquities in my Les Paul, and really love them. They are an aged version of the Seth Lovers, so I imagine they sound very similar.
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So they didnt come with the original pickups in them (2nd hand guitar).
They came with some Slash Alnico 2 pickups in them. And to be perfectly frank, they sounded great. Thing is, Im just not really a Slash or GnR fan. I mean, I appreciate what they’ve contributed to the world of rock, but theyre just not my thing.
So I figured if I have a set that sound great modelled from a bloke I aint all that into, it can only get better if I put in a set thats modelled off a bloke I actually really do dig (Peter Green).
Man, I was wrong.
Ive had more of a play.
They suck. I want Slash back.
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That’s annoying, worth a shot at that price point
Back to Slash it is then
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DiMarzio make some great Les Paul style humbuckers, I’ve got some in an old 70’s Japanese gold top copy.
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I played one in a southern rock influenced metalcore band for a while. I loved it. Just needed a good gate to keep the high gain in check.
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I’ve got SD Anico II Pros, which I’m pretty sure are the same as the Slash set, and they sound pretty good to me. I’m not trying to emulate slash. I think they are basically a slightly hotter PAF pup. You can also coil split them, which I’ve done with a push/pull pot.
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What’s next @Doggatron?
If you get the opportunity what guitar is joining the man cave in the future?
I still have SG lust. Then guitar wise Im pretty much done. Ive got two strats, an LP so an SG would just finish it all off nicely for me.
But I still have a heavy Marshall itch to scratch. The Origin is ok, but its a bit of a toy. Id love like a propper JTM45 style, whether it be Marshall or even Friedman or something. But Friedmans are so expensive. You can get 2nd hand marshall JTM45s for 2k if you shop around. But Friedman Dirty Shirleys are like 4k. But man they sound good.
One day.
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I can happily advocate for the Friedman IR series. The new IR-J looks good, as I said above I have the IR-X and my youngest brother got the IR-D. I’ve run the IR-X into the power stage of a Hiwatt T20 and also my Laney GH100 and it sounds mint through both. Being a valve pre instead of fully emulated makes it for mine.
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I may have been a bit hasty on these humbuckers.
I spent the morning fiddling with the height. They seem to like it low. Then I spent the last two hours plugged into this:
They take fuzz very very well. It was very fun. Never got muddy like hummys can with fuzz. Even on the neck pick up. Stayed tight and responsive the whole time.
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