blackba
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Inspired by @glpg80 and his killer 76 lp custom, I am considering a pickup change in my Les Pauls. The 73 LP custom I have black top suhr thornbuckers with the option for series/parallel on the push pull tone pots. Love the pickups in this guitar, it always sounds thick and mean. Learned long ago that I don't need hot pickups in it for it to rock. Pickup is when I got it with stock T top in the neck and a Rio Grande BBQ in the bridge. Never heard the stock T top bright. It does have 500k pots. Read good things about the T Tops, so considering putting them in.
The 03 LP standard LE in blue has a pair of suhr Aldrich pickups, again with the option for series/parallel with the push pull tone pots. I am finding these days I am using the pickups in parallel mode and missing the sweetness I typically get from lower output pickups. The neck does handle gain the best I have heard, but just not thinking I need the output. I do like that the guitars are pretty different. I am considering moving the black suhr thornbuckers over to this guitar, but unsure how it will look without having the nickel covers. I could put the nickel covers from the stock BB pros on as well or just buy new suhr thornbuckers in which I would get a TB plus for the bridge.
I generally play 70s and 80s hard rock, with metallica being about as hard as I get these days. Typical amps are mesa mark IVA, soldano HR25, marshall silver jubilee, vox AC50.
The 03 LP standard LE in blue has a pair of suhr Aldrich pickups, again with the option for series/parallel with the push pull tone pots. I am finding these days I am using the pickups in parallel mode and missing the sweetness I typically get from lower output pickups. The neck does handle gain the best I have heard, but just not thinking I need the output. I do like that the guitars are pretty different. I am considering moving the black suhr thornbuckers over to this guitar, but unsure how it will look without having the nickel covers. I could put the nickel covers from the stock BB pros on as well or just buy new suhr thornbuckers in which I would get a TB plus for the bridge.
I generally play 70s and 80s hard rock, with metallica being about as hard as I get these days. Typical amps are mesa mark IVA, soldano HR25, marshall silver jubilee, vox AC50.
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