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Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: DimeZakk on August 26, 2010, 01:04:11 AM

Title: Pickups for a Les Paul Axces
Post by: DimeZakk on August 26, 2010, 01:04:11 AM

Hey guys!

This time I am asking for a friend who is going to join the dark side (aka bkp's)...
He is playing a Gibson Les Paul Axces (with a stop tail brigde) through a Marshall JVM with a Vitnage30 cabinet.
He plays in a heavy rock band and has a lead style VERY similar to Slash.

In his words, he wants low to medium output, a little bit more bass (stock are Gibson 498t/496r), present chords, pronounced tone when playing picking runs and a singing lead tone for the bridge and a very thick and smooth lead sound for the neck. Both pickups need to be very versatile and have good cleans too!

Title: Re: Pickups for a Les Paul Axces
Post by: FELINEGUITARS on August 26, 2010, 09:49:43 AM

I feel tempted t suggest either mule or PG Blues (but get the 4 conductor version and have the neck pickup IN PHASE)

Title: Re: Pickups for a Les Paul Axces
Post by: Mr. Air on August 26, 2010, 10:13:00 AM

My vote goes to the mules just like Feline.

Title: Re: Pickups for a Les Paul Axces
Post by: Telerocker on August 26, 2010, 11:12:14 AM

when Mules are the cake for Kravitz, they will do fine.

Title: Re: Pickups for a Les Paul Axces
Post by: DimeZakk on August 26, 2010, 10:00:05 PM

A complete Mule set? I only heard the neck so far and I think that it will fit his needs perfectly but is the mule bridge able to pull of some heavy Rock riffing? I did not further explain it but the riffs they play are closer to Metal than to Rock sometimes (think Metallica in the Load/Reload era). Can the Mule bridge pull of such a highgain Heavy Rock rythm tone?

I'll be interested to see what Tim himself recommends!