Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: brewboy73 on December 26, 2007, 11:06:50 PM
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Got the new pups installed today!! They sound awesome. The bridge is a coil tapped ceramic Warpig and the neck is a Cold Sweat wired in Series/Parallel. I had Tim use the aged nickel finish on both. Can't wait to replace the EMG's in my other Les Paul. :lol:
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Gratz!
Glad you like 'em. Gonna be a noisy New Year at your house then?
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Looks nice!
Never thought that camo covers would blend so nicely into a traditional guitar.
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Looks nice!
Never thought that camo covers would blend so nicely into a traditional guitar.
It actually works quite well as the covers still reflect some light, it's just not quite so bling.
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Looks nice!
Never thought that camo covers would blend so nicely into a traditional guitar.
That may be becasue theyre not :roll:
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These arent the camo covers. I opted for the aged nickel covers for something a little different. Didn't think that the camo would look that good on a flametop.
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Cool! Is that Desert Burst?
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Yeah, its the Desert finish. Its the closest thing they make now to the old tobacco sunburst in the Les Paul model. I think the tobacco is still available in other models though. This standard has the 60's style neck on it.
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I like that finish so much. If I buy a LP sometime it will be a desert one, but I'll change every hardware, pup covers and rings to black. hehe
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nice paul-what year?if it is 06...07..it is chambered, I believe-I am a lefty and debating on ordering a new one or waititng to find older one w/o chambers-I can't go into the neighborhood store and try one out b/c they are all righties!!if yours is chambered, tell me what you think-its obvious you love the axe-wondering if you can tell any noticeable difference between older ones/newer ones besides the weight
thanks!
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Got the new pups installed today!! They sound awesome. The bridge is a coil tapped ceramic Warpig and the neck is a Cold Sweat wired in Series/Parallel.
How is the wiring/switching done?
Is the difference between series/parallel noticeable or useable enough to make it worth the effort?
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This Les Paul is a 2007 Standard that is chambered for weight relief. I also have a 9.25 pound '59 reissue built in 1989. The 2007 is much brighter and projects a lot further. The 59 is tighter and has more bottom end. My old '76 Custom was 17 pounds and that was very heavy and had a lot of bottom end. I highly recommend the chambered models. I've played quite a few of them when I was shopping for the one that I bought. They are more of a shredders Les Paul. This guitar with the warpig and cold sweat absolutely SCREAMS!! I also have the 60's neck so its a little faster.
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The switching is done by using a push/pull pot. Or you can use a push/push pot(which I dont recommend). There is a major difference in the tone with the coil tap and the series/parallel wiring. Especially with the pups that I chose. Tims really recommended coil tapping the warpig and now I know why. In tap mode, the warpig in the lead channel takes on a very hot single coil pup. Hot enough to still get some serious bottom end. In clean, is has a very bright, glassy tone. The cold sweat in parallel mode is very thin and glassy. I love it. Very bluesy. Using both pups with both in the tap and parallel mode, I swear you can get a Les Paul to sound very close to a Fender. Tone that would make Stevie Ray very proud. I highly recommend this setup if this is something that you are trying to achieve. :D
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.......Oh, one thing I forgot to add. You can also put a push/pull pot on the tone control and wire a coil tap on that same pup that is wired series/parallel on the volume control. This would give you even more versatility. The only problem, if I remember correctly is that the humbucker would no longer be in hum canceling mode. This I would have to check on though to see is this correct. :roll:
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The switching is done by using a push/pull pot. Or you can use a push/push pot(which I dont recommend). There is a major difference in the tone with the coil tap and the series/parallel wiring. Especially with the pups that I chose. Tims really recommended coil tapping the warpig and now I know why. In tap mode, the warpig in the lead channel takes on a very hot single coil pup. Hot enough to still get some serious bottom end. In clean, is has a very bright, glassy tone. The cold sweat in parallel mode is very thin and glassy. I love it. Very bluesy. Using both pups with both in the tap and parallel mode, I swear you can get a Les Paul to sound very close to a Fender. Tone that would make Stevie Ray very proud. I highly recommend this setup if this is something that you are trying to achieve. :D
Cool. Do you have a wiring diagram on how to do the series/parallel thing with the push-pull?
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I had my guitar tech wire mine, due to me not having any experience with it. A diagram comes with the pups, but I think that it was to coil tap. There is a ton wire maps on the net that you can look at or I'm sure that Tim can tell exactly what to do. My install was a little tricky, because my tech had to remove the entire base plate that the original Gibson pots sat in so that the push pots would fit through the Les Paul top. Sometimes you need long stem pots for Pauls.
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thanks,brew-thats what I want to hear-I have an older custom and standard, so it seems a chambered one would only accentuate the arsenal-WOMD!
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No doubt!! My 76 Tobacco custom had the pancaked body. There was the thin strip of walnut inbetween the maple top and the mahogany back. Had so much bottom end that I had to tweak my knobs whenever I switched from my standard to my custom. :lol: