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Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: imijj on June 12, 2015, 09:29:21 PM

Title: Which pickups for Les Paul (C-standard)?
Post by: imijj on June 12, 2015, 09:29:21 PM

I play mostly indie/old school rock/country, but I also really like extreme doomy/stoner-style distortion. Is there a pickup set that I could get that would work for that kind of heavy music while still allowing me to get a warm/usable clean tone?

I run a stereo setup of an Orange Rockerverb 50 MK II and Hovecraft Dwarvenaut 20 into two Matamp 4x12s with Celestion Hot 100's for the dirty stuff, and the Rockerverb's clean channel + a Reverend Hellhound Combo for cleans.

Currently my Les Paul has burstbuckers in it, and I'm just not a fan. My SG has 490 and 498 pickups, and I like them a lot more.

I appreciate any advice you can give.

Title: Re: Which pickups for Les Paul (C-standard)?
Post by: littleredguitars2 on June 12, 2015, 11:11:28 PM

i'm thinking mule personally. or the hotter alternative abraxus

Title: Re: Which pickups for Les Paul (C-standard)?
Post by: darrenw5094 on June 13, 2015, 11:08:53 AM

Warpig for the stoner stuff and it is fine in lower tuning

Title: Re: Which pickups for Les Paul (C-standard)?
Post by: imijj on June 13, 2015, 11:34:00 PM

Can the warpigs even do clean? Would it be weird to have a warpig in the bridge and a more classic pickup in the neck?

Title: Re: Which pickups for Les Paul (C-standard)?
Post by: Dave Sloven on June 14, 2015, 02:48:19 AM

Warpigs can do clean but you need to wind the volume down a long way.

You might want to combine a Warpig bridge with a different neck.  Even a Juggernaut neck might give a better range of cleans.

Title: Re: Which pickups for Les Paul (C-standard)?
Post by: imijj on June 14, 2015, 07:21:48 AM

I see.

Does anyone have any experience with coil tapping the higher gain BK humbuckers? My LP has push/pull coil taps already, and while I don't use it a lot it is something I wouldn't necessarily want to lose.

Title: Re: Which pickups for Les Paul (C-standard)?
Post by: Dave Sloven on June 14, 2015, 07:25:05 AM

Just order the pickups with four conductor wire.

The BKP site has schematics that show you how to wire their pickups to such switches in a variety of configurations, including coil split and series/parallel.  Either mode would cut the output of a Warpig enough to give good cleans.

https://bareknucklepickups.co.uk/main/schematics.php

Won't work with two-conductor wire though.  4-conductor is the default for BKP humbuckers, but just make sure when placing your order.

Title: Re: Which pickups for Les Paul (C-standard)?
Post by: ericsabbath on June 15, 2015, 01:42:34 PM

black dog should do fine, unless you really want more output

in that case, the holy diver works pretty well as a warpig alternative in low tunings, but it's far more versatile