NPUD! Planet Tone Blues Heritage set for my Les Paul

Music&Chaos

Music&Chaos

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Hello all,

These beauties just arrived 😍 😍

They look great. The measurements are also custom fit for my Gibson LP.

The neck measures 49.2 mm pole spacing and the bridge 50, should match up perfectly.

Looking forward to wiring these up and seeing how they sound.

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I am definitely a lead player but love some gnarly nasty rhythm guitars.

To describe the way my music sounds - emo, heavy, jazzy, funky, weird. Does that help?

I go between crushingly heavy, to snappy clean, odd timed fusion rhythms and melodies.

For whatever reason, i was inclined to tune my Les Paul guitar to D standard to try these out.

My first 40 minutes with these pickups were really...fun? Surprising. Not as expected.

Brief initial description, further in depth detail and review to come.

Neck:
The neck pickup is so surprisingly vocal it is unreal. A certain woody/snappy nature, but still full and controlled. I found the pickup to feel balanced but open and airy in a way.

Middle:
This is really woody and poppy. Like, I did not think a Les Paul could get here. This reminds me of something like a strat if it were super fat or something. I don't know how to quite explain it but the cleans in this position are really beautiful. The lead tones are really fun and usable here.


Bridge:
Definitely in the vintage territory, so I keep thinking. it definitely is. Liek a classic PAF but with more. It still has this 'woody' nature to it that I initially thought I may not like. I was thinking "Uh oh. I may want something more modern, more aggressive or pushed."

This thing takes gain amazingly. It doesn;t really 'push' your amp, it just pushes the frequencies that you want if that makes sense?

I could NOT stop doing vibrato and pinch harmonics and laughing my ass off for whatever reason because they sounded so good.

Again, will not super punch your amp but is full, rich, but somehow woody and snappy and vocal.

Absolutely eats up gain and keeps up with dropped tunings.

I wonder what they would sound like in a 7 string.....?


Definitely the opposite of pickups like my Dimarzios or even something like Burstbucker (III).


Took me a bit to get used to them, but so far, I am very happy with my decision


More to come!
 
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These kill for drop tuning! I have been ripping this Les Paul in D standard and these pickups are just screaming and chugging along. Had no clue a classic PAF with a bit 'more' would be so damn wonderful.

Played these again with fresh ears this morning. Absolutely killer pickups. I am very glad I took a risk on these. The vocal nature is just ridiculous, and the guitar focuses on the portion of the note you want and is very articulate, without picking up extra 'noise'.

These make your guitar have the ability to absolutely "wail".

I do not use that term often, if ever.

Really cool set and Jose is great to work with.

Highly, highly recommend.

I wonder if they would work well for a 7 string....?
 
That's great that you're very happy with those pickups. I've always heard good things about their products.
I have been impressed with the sets I have tried. Some aren't my thing, but they are the thing described.

I have a buddy into 50s style pickups and he loves theirs.

I am more into modern music but love something that is not compressed and sterile.

These work really really well with a .015 value in the neck and .022 in the bridge.

If you wanted a bit more punch and top end, the .015 works well in the bridge as well.


With sales hitting all the time, pretty reasonable entry to try me out.
 
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