Bogner Pickup Video Demo

[Mr. Willy]

Sorry if this has been posted already. I didn't see it anywhere. Sounds pretty good to me. I dig the neck pickup tone a lot. I'd probably like the bridge better with an Alnico 5 magnet. I guess a pickup demo boils down to several different factors when making a video like this, but with that said, I think they sound pretty good. It'd be nice to hear them with other amps besides a Bogner, but it's a Bogner video. Anyway, they're interesting.

 

[Badronald]

Sound fantastic.
Arcane

 

[Kidkramer71]

Wow sounds amazing !!
But how much is amp ?
How much pickup ?
How much guitar ?
How much player ?
Still made my ears smile !!
Very tasty !!!!

 

[skoora]

Neck positions were great but the bridge tones were really indistinct. Could just be that fuzzy mid wash that Bogner amps can have. It stings as opposes to bites? Didn't help out my interest in the Helios on those bridge position tones.

 

[Anonymous]

So he makes the ultimate PAF and puts them in the perfect guitar to demonstrate them ..... no wait , he uses a Tele.
Douche.

 

[JiMB]

So he makes the ultimate PAF and puts them in the perfect guitar to demonstrate them ..... no wait , he uses a Tele.
Douche.

Maybe it was a last minute thing?
They do sound good, though.

 

['63-Strat]

Sounds great! But, great player too, suspect he'd sound great with most rigs too.

 

[maddnotez]

Wow sounds amazing !!
But how much is amp ?
How much pickup ?
How much guitar ?
How much player ?
Still made my ears smile !!
Very tasty !!!!

You just have to buy them all and play like that guy.

 

[Anonymous]

So he makes the ultimate PAF and puts them in the perfect guitar to demonstrate them ..... no wait , he uses a Tele.
Douche.

Maybe it was a last minute thing?
They do sound good, though.

I disagree.
A Tele is a terrible platform for any PAF.

 

[Anonymous]

I'm not dissing Bogner, I just don't think they sound good in that clip.
It's a shame he chose Arcane too.
I have repeatedly tried to contact Arcane to buy pickups and never got a reply.
My money was spent elsewhere.

 

[maddnotez]

I'm not dissing Bogner, I just don't think they sound good in that clip.
It's a shame he chose Arcane too.
I have repeatedly tried to contact Arcane to buy pickups and never got a reply.
My money was spent elsewhere.

No offense here but why not try one of the dealers???

 

[SLOgriff]

I disagree.
A Tele is a terrible platform for any PAF.[/quote]

So he makes the ultimate PAF and puts them in the perfect guitar to demonstrate them ..... no wait , he uses a Tele.
Douche.

So he makes the ultimate PAF and puts them in the perfect guitar to demonstrate them ..... no wait , he uses a Tele.
Douche.

Maybe it was a last minute thing?
They do sound good, though.

"wolf5150" Thanks so much for your insightful and relative comments! They brought so much to this to this discussion and you seem like such a tone and gear expert!

 

[Anonymous]

I am.
Thanks for pointing out my strengths ;-)

 

[flash6969]

So he makes the ultimate PAF and puts them in the perfect guitar to demonstrate them ..... no wait , he uses a Tele.
Douche.

Wow. What an incredibly insightful & constructive piece of feedback. Not!

 

[Anonymous]

I'm not dissing Bogner, I just don't think they sound good in that clip.
It's a shame he chose Arcane too.
I have repeatedly tried to contact Arcane to buy pickups and never got a reply.
My money was spent elsewhere.

No offense here but why not try one of the dealers???

I've only ever found one dealer.
He was on Ebay and used the identical description for every pickup.
Arcane have a rep for great product so I asked advice on which pickups would suit my needs but he never replied.
I tried 5 times...nothing.

Lollar , WCR and Lindy Fralin all answered within hours.
I chose Lollar this time.

 

[Anonymous]

So he makes the ultimate PAF and puts them in the perfect guitar to demonstrate them ..... no wait , he uses a Tele.
Douche.

Wow. What an incredibly insightful & constructive piece of feedback. Not!

It is and if you took time to consider before getting in my face you'd know why.
Not a single aspect of a Tele suits the voicing of a PAF.
Ash body, maple neck, bridge pickup mount...all wrong.

 

[JiMB]

So he makes the ultimate PAF and puts them in the perfect guitar to demonstrate them ..... no wait , he uses a Tele.
Douche.

Wow. What an incredibly insightful & constructive piece of feedback. Not!

It is and if you took time to consider before getting in my face you'd know why.
Not a single aspect of a Tele suits the voicing of a PAF.
Ash body, maple neck, bridge pickup mount...all wrong.

EVH used an ash body/maple neck combo, I think it works!

 

[paulyc]

I think EVH would disagree pretty damn hard about this last one, as his Frankenstrat was an ash body (northern hard ash, not swamp ash) and a maple neck using a PAF...

edit: you beat me to it

 

[sahlomonic]

Sounds great! But, great player too, suspect he'd sound great with most rigs too.

Yeah Eric Steckel is a fantastic player. He has a vid on YouTube playing a a Tom Anderson Cobra S through a Cornford MK50H . . . . in his bedroom. And it still sounds better than most amp vids we find.

EDIT:

 

[Rdodson]

I think EVH would disagree pretty damn hard about this last one, as his Frankenstrat was an ash body (northern hard ash, not swamp ash) and a maple neck using a PAF...

edit: you beat me to it

Although it has been received dogma for years, Ed's Franky was not northern ash. At least, not baseball-bat 6.5 lbs body northern ash.

It was just furniture-grade ash (southern, lighter, though not swamp ash - which is technically the part of the ash tree under water in a swamp or marsh).

I used to write for the VH website and have talked extensively with Wayne Charvel and Lynn Ellsworth. Lynn was a furniture guy who got the wood and did the cutting. Wayne owned the shop and they used the patterns that Dave Schecter made (yes, he worked there too).

The bodies were all cut from cabinet stock, as that was Lynn's background - doing custom cabinetry in exotic woods. He still has some of the wood from the original blank (or at least did several years ago). He even offered to cut me a body, but he didn't have access to the same templates. When he sold his business to Warmoth back in the day, the rigs came but the body templates did not.

Anyway, the body weighs a little over 4 lbs. Just middle of the road ash.