Good pickups for Les Paul???

MarcInMemphis · Post by **MarcInMemphis** » Sun Jul 10, 2005 2:15 pm

I've got a gibson les paul studio and I'd like to replace the pickups (Gibson 490 R 498 T). Notes on the high E string sound thin and at high volume the guitar feeds back if I don't keep my hand on the strings to muffle them. The rhythm pickup is ok, but high notes with the treble pickup sound brittle and thin. I play rock music. I'd like to get a pickup that sounds good doing bluesy stuff like ACDC as well as heavier stuff like Iron Maiden. I've heard Burstbuckers and Seymour Duncan Alnico II pickups are good. Any other suggestions??

GIBSON Les Paul · Post by **GIBSON Les Paul** » Sun Jul 10, 2005 2:25 pm

I got Burstbuckers in my LP Standard and have never looked back. Amazing. Cant speak for Seymour Duncans though.

tonejones · Post by **tonejones** » Sun Jul 10, 2005 9:33 pm

http://www.highorderpickups.com

Do a search on them here and at the plexipalace BBs.......

I put a Maximus in the bridge position of my '76 LP and it rocks!!!

Cost me $55 for a maximus (that's shipping included!!!) and they blow any SD I've ever had out of the water!!!!

Country Boy Shane · Post by **Country Boy Shane** » Sun Jul 10, 2005 11:21 pm

That's like asking what type of toilet paper to use. Prepare for years of confusing pickup searching and swapping

Flames1950 · Post by **Flames1950** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 12:10 am

www.highorderpickups.com

Jeff is da man........

Zoso · Post by **Zoso** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 2:48 am

I concur on the High Orders. Best pickups I've ever had.

rjgtr · Post by **rjgtr** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 10:52 am

WCR pickups are my favorites in a LP.

Billy Batz · Post by **Billy Batz** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 1:51 pm

Ive never seen so many people give the same rave about another pickup then the High Orders. I have a set on order (that are long overdue at this point). As far as I know the only PUs wound anything like the way PAFs were wound and cheap as all hell which may change sooner rather then later. From what I remember he isnt upping to a full price until he's done all the practical research or whatever then can do it fulltime. I cant wait to try them. Until then Ive had luck with custom shop Duncans (ok but expensive as hell) and Fralins (same thing).

rjgtr · Post by **rjgtr** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 3:37 pm

Here's the address of WCR = http://www.crcoils.com/. I was very impressed with the clips of the Fillmores and ordered a set. They are some of the nicest pickups I have ever heard, a little on the hot side of the PAF range and very articulate. Best of all, the respond very nicely to volume changes and don't get mushy at lower volumes.

The high orders look interesting, but he needs to be careful. Cream and Black pickups are patented by Dimarzio (no kidding), so Dimarzio are the only ones who can offer them.

NY Chief · Post by **NY Chief** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 3:45 pm

rjgtr wrote: Cream and Black pickups are patented by Dimarzio (no kidding), so Dimarzio are the only ones who can offer them.

I just bought several Duncan JB's in cream and black. What I haven't seen is a double cream JM.

rjgtr · Post by **rjgtr** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 3:49 pm

Maybe that's it. I just know Dimarzio holds a patent on one of the cream variations. Duncan will sometimes send Antiquities out in the "wrong" color combination if you order covers for them, but Dimarzio is serious about it. Then again, the patent could have run out recently.

NY Chief · Post by **NY Chief** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 4:36 pm

Could be. I have a Super Distortion that I put in my LP in high school and that is ,er, a little more than 25 years ago,

Zoso · Post by **Zoso** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 6:10 pm

Yeah, it's the double cream that Dimarzio has the rights to, which is bullshit since Gibsons had them in their guitars long before Dimarzio was even conceived. But maybe it has expired now, cause the new Jimmy Page signature LP has a double creme in it (just like his original GIBSON, imagine that). But who knows, maybe they had to pay some fee to Dimarzio for using it. I just think it is friggin' insane that you can trademark a color combination of pickup bobbins. I'm just glad no other makers are that big of a prick or I guess we'd be very limited in our color selection.

tonejones · Post by **tonejones** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 11:28 pm

Here's the address of WCR = http://www.crcoils.com/. I was very impressed with the clips of the Fillmores and ordered a set. They are some of the nicest pickups I have ever heard

Let's hope so at those prices!!!!!

I wish I could afford to try them (not gonna spend as much on pickups as I could to get a decent used axe......)

JasonC · Post by **JasonC** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 12:44 am

Wow! I'm sure those WCRs are great sounding pickups, but $100 more then the SD custom shop I bought and damned near 5 times more then the HOs!?!? They'd better be down right spectacular!

I for one can only agree that Jeffs Pickups are the best I've ever used.