Vintage pickup for clean on a Les Paul

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I want to swap the Custom 5 in my Edwards Les Paul. I'll leave the other custom 5 in the bridge FOR NOW, but the neck one's gotta go.

what do you recommend. I'm looking for IMPRESSIVE cleans and vintage feel and tone.

which buckers? maybe a P90? which one?
 
C5 in the bridge is a good with a Pearly Gates, or Jazz in the neck in my experience.
 
Dimarzio PAF 36th Anniversary Neck for humbucker tone, Dimarzio Bluesbucker for P-90 tone, or Dimarzio Humbucker from Hell for Strat tone. SD Phat Cat Neck is also good for P-90 tone.
 
Hmmmm ihow's the bluesbucker compared to the phat cat? I think I want a p90ish tone. I play clean and bluesy break up kidda thing 85% of the time. But I don't want a split coild sound since I already own two strats. I want a p90 or nice vintage humbucker tone
 
I am happy with the SD Jazz in the neck of my '73 LP custom. Seems pretty vintage overall, that guitar has a growl overall, but the cleans are nice on the neck...
 
Ayrton":vii06bsw said:
C5 in the bridge is a good with a Pearly Gates, or Jazz in the neck in my experience.
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You'll get lots of replies, but none better than this one :thumbsup: Those are hands down my two favorite Duncan neck buckers...they do cleans extremely well and they're awesome under high gain too.
 
SD Phat Cat is a great pickup. It is, as the name implies, quite phat. It's got a real beefy low end to for a single coil. Mine is like a 9.4k winding, real hot and loud. Not a sparkly clean. It kind of has that single coil sharpness and bite, but a very full beefy sound. Great pickup, if that's what you're looking for.
 
Hmmmm not really into "beefiness" since I won't play singing leads through it. I want a. BB king kind of tone.

I'll be playing cleans most of the time
 
Man, I'd want some kind of open PAF type in the neck. That being said, I don't have mine yet, so I can't really testify to what they sound like. Vintage pups are always pretty low number of windings because that's all they could really do originally. A lot of pups now simulate this tone. I could not tell you which one is the best clean. SD Seth Lover, SD 59, Dimarzio PAF, SD SPH-1, Gibby 57, Gibby Burstbucker series. It's a much sought-after tone. I am only beginning to experiment with it. I hope I don't have to buy all of these pups to figure it out.

The SD JZ neck is okay. I have one in my Schecter C1. I actually like the versatility of the pup more so than any specific property. It has a good clean, but a lot of people find it sterile. It's a pretty dense, hotrodded sound to my ears. I typically use parallel coils for jazz on the C1 not the SD JZ humbucker by itself. It gives you a much milder clean that I find appropriate for jazz. I don't find the JZ to be good for blues either. A little to tight and not open enough.

Someone may take me to school on this, but this is just my experience.
 
I´m not a big fan of using neck humbuckers for clean tones, I´m more of a singlecoil man in that regard, but I did like the Lundgren Smooth Operator for that application.
 
Ancient Alien":8t03nwoo said:
SD Jazz.
Sweet, warm, full, no mud.
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Yep, I much prefer the Jazz to the '59 in the neck. Too much bass with the '59.
 
check out some of the Fralin stuff... pretty cool sounding pickups and very VINTAGE vibe
 
I will be about your 5th or 6th vote for the SD Jazz, must mean something,,,,,PG would be my next choice, the next maybe Ant., but not mixed with a C5. Boutique wise, I hear lots of great things about Mules, Crossroads, Legends, Stepens Design, but I have NO personal exp with any of these.
 
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