Jim Gaustad - Guitar Pickups and the Roth Era VH Guitar Sound

[JohnnyGtar]

Because some of us are into it, that's why. LOL

 

[Rackman]

"They don't sound that different do they?"

Sums that shit up nicely

If I had to pick the Seth Lovers seemed nice. Might have been the guitar though. But I like them in a lot of guitars.

 

[johnny q]

^^^ This. I thought the same thing after watching Pete Thorn's Van Halen pickup shootout. The "lowly" Duncan 59' bridge model hung right in there with everything else and sounded quite dandy. The variances between models was slight, there was not one that blew everything else away.

 

[marvcus]

^^^ This. I thought the same thing after watching Pete Thorn's Van Halen pickup shootout. The "lowly" Duncan 59' bridge model hung right in there with everything else and sounded quite dandy.

 

[Kapo_Polenton]

Really, the wind makes the most diff in the sense of gain and compression but variances are also coming from the unique characteristic of the chunk of wood you put them into. I would play any of these gladly.

 

[Lightning]

You would get a bigger difference from a overdrive/distortion pedal instead of changing pickups,like added more gain/overdrive/ distortion if you need to add that to your sound

 

[SoooRad]

You would get a bigger difference from a overdrive/distortion pedal instead of changing pickups,like added more gain/overdrive/ distortion if you need to add that to your sound

That isn't the point of this exercise though. Overdrive pedals also impart a character that can't be dialed out, and sometimes (pretty much every time) I don't want the sound of an overdrive pedal, I'd rather have a different output pickup driving my amp in a different way.

 

[Meanjoegreene]

When I watched those demos most of them were close. I remember the pariah white being the one that stood out a bit.