Tone Slinger wrote:Yep, so now the question is whether that black paf in there was rewound at that point or not. Eddie claims it was. The Duncan '78 is,imo, very similar to what Ed had. It lets a Ash strat retain its 'Stratiness' but at the same time has just enough balls.
Could be? we can go back and forth about this till doomsday and to be honest it wont ever prove what eddie used?
What i dont agree with about the 78 theory is that there is not one single clip of it doing VH I through a stock plexi like eddies was said to be. There are plenty of clips of ceramics doing it.
Many say the 78 is nothing more than duncan hype and eddie never even used one?
It is odd that the 78 or EVH as it was first called never surfaced until the 2001?
I find it really strange that not one single person ever called duncan before that and requested a VH pu?
A guy that did contact duncan in 87 was told to get a duncan custom by seymour himself!
So i ask WHY was the 78 not recommended by duncan?
chasintonez wrote:I have used a Duncan Custom from way back. I had a guitar built for me by Performance guitars back in '87 (Yes I am an old dog:-))
Back then, before there was endless choices of pickups like there is now, I called Seymour and actually got to talk with Seymour himself. I of course was an Eddie freak back then and was having Performance building me a guitar (basic super strat) to do the Eddie stuff.
Seymour told me to put a Duncan Custom in it. Now...this was in '87. While there are many more options available now, back then it was Seymour's answer to Ed's tone.
It is a bit hotter than the standard PAF, but I was able to get pretty good tone out of it for VH. It is a bit more brash due to the ceramic mags, but it has more top end bite and clarity than the Custom Custom. I have a Custom Custom as well in an Alder hot rodded strat and to me it seems more like a "Stone in Love" lead type of tone more so than the Eddie Tone. Ed's early tone almost has a twangy clear top end without a lot of gain. It is like more power than saturation and gain.
I can still pull good Ed tone with that Custom with the right amp tweaks!