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The Pickup Place / Re: Rick Derringer pickups description from Steve Blucher
« Last post by kookaburra on August 13, 2024, 11:23:40 AM »I take it that this is a discontinued model?
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Everything you wanted to know about .... / Re: PAF Joe
« Last post by satch_jr on July 28, 2024, 07:30:34 AM »hey there, it's been a while I wasn't here,
Still have my paf joe, which I love on my basswood body Ibanez and alder body Kawai aquarius.I bought 4 years ago a PRS custom 24, core series, from 2007. I tried last friday the paf joe in beck position in place of the PRS vintage bass.Well, what a disappointment, since I could rely to almost every "bad" comment regarding the paf joe: somewhat bright but the dull attack was unbearable to me. What a bummer that was...the vintage bass is back in the PRS and the joe in the aquarius...
Still have my paf joe, which I love on my basswood body Ibanez and alder body Kawai aquarius.I bought 4 years ago a PRS custom 24, core series, from 2007. I tried last friday the paf joe in beck position in place of the PRS vintage bass.Well, what a disappointment, since I could rely to almost every "bad" comment regarding the paf joe: somewhat bright but the dull attack was unbearable to me. What a bummer that was...the vintage bass is back in the PRS and the joe in the aquarius...
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The Pickup Place / Re: Al Dimeola Bridge
« Last post by nienturi on July 20, 2024, 02:39:49 AM »I've got mine. Soon i'll put its place.
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The Pickup Place / Re: Pickups for dark guitar
« Last post by gregr on July 14, 2024, 06:37:36 PM »Full shred set, most definitely.
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You'll not be happy with them until you boost the bass at your amp a bit. Doing this makes them thump and be super tight as the same time.
Like the JB and other “bright” higher output pickups, the Full Shed doesn’t present as all that bright until the tone starts to saturate. It isn’t particularly bright at the cleaner end of the spectrum compared to a pickup with less wire which appears more in line with the original poster’s needs.
Good cleans and overdrives, some distortion tones.
The Full Shred is nothing more than a Seymour Duncan Custom with an A5 magnet and two screw coils populated with Allen bolts. Between the two, the Custom is the brighter pickup; much brighter than the Full Shred when played clean or crunchy.
Now if the aim is a hotter-than-vintage Seymour Duncan with an aggressive top end, the Perpetual Burn is a better choice for the amount of gain the OP is describing, though I will still point to the leaner, lower-output Screamin’ Demon. The Custom (and its variants), the Perpetual Burn, and the Screamin’ Demon are all 43AWG.
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The Pickup Place / Re: Dimarzio LiquiFire Review
« Last post by nienturi on July 13, 2024, 04:49:13 AM »I like the Liquifire in the neck of Ibanez RG's and a PRS SE245 I have. Another neck pickup that is actually really similar, but a tad smoother is the Gravity Storm neck.
I haven't tried it before. Thanks for your addition btw
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The Pickup Place / Re: Dimarzio LiquiFire Review
« Last post by greenlion on July 12, 2024, 07:54:10 AM »I like the Liquifire in the neck of Ibanez RG's and a PRS SE245 I have. Another neck pickup that is actually really similar, but a tad smoother is the Gravity Storm neck.
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The Pickup Place / Re: Rick Derringer pickups description from Steve Blucher
« Last post by JohnnyGtar on July 10, 2024, 06:53:41 AM »Thanks for posting info on a very rare set, really appreciated.
Cheers Stephan
Glad to do it. :-) I think I may get a set of those sometime down the road.
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Everything you wanted to know about .... / Re: DLX Plus
« Last post by darkbluemurder on July 09, 2024, 09:00:50 AM »Meanwhile I found out that the DLX Plus neck (DP-162) is a great bridge pickup, too. Similar to the DLX Plus bridge but a tad brighter, a tad more high midrange and a bit tighter in the low end. Can be easily tamed with the help of the tone control. Highly recommended.
Cheers Stephan
Cheers Stephan
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The Pickup Place / Re: Pickups for dark guitar
« Last post by darkbluemurder on July 08, 2024, 05:40:26 AM »I have a guitar that was dark with almost all pickups I tried. The big problem was the neck spot - everything PAF and remotely PAF sounded like a big mudfest. Bridge pickups were less of a problem - most I liked though none I loved.
The first marked improvement I got with a Lollartron (bridge) in the bridge and a Lollar Firebird in the neck - much clearer overall. The set I ended up with in that guitar was a set of Fralin Twangmasters which are split coil humbuckers (just like Precision bass pickups). That cured the muddy neck pickup syndrome for good. The bridge, however, is a lot brighter than a typical PAF - sounds more like a hot rod tele so if you are going for a humbucker tone that would not be my recommendation.
Full shred neck model works well in some guitars but I disliked it in others.
Cheers Stephan
The first marked improvement I got with a Lollartron (bridge) in the bridge and a Lollar Firebird in the neck - much clearer overall. The set I ended up with in that guitar was a set of Fralin Twangmasters which are split coil humbuckers (just like Precision bass pickups). That cured the muddy neck pickup syndrome for good. The bridge, however, is a lot brighter than a typical PAF - sounds more like a hot rod tele so if you are going for a humbucker tone that would not be my recommendation.
Full shred neck model works well in some guitars but I disliked it in others.
Cheers Stephan
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The Pickup Place / Re: Rick Derringer pickups description from Steve Blucher
« Last post by darkbluemurder on July 08, 2024, 05:32:11 AM »Thanks for posting info on a very rare set, really appreciated.
Cheers Stephan
Cheers Stephan