Guys. I have been playing with stormy mondays for two weeks. Now it is time to make my review. :)
1. My les paul custom sounded more natural, imagine the sound of this guitar unplugged.
2. The bass response is not big and unnatural or artifitial like with the stock pickups
3. I have more clarity and smothness, with creamy mids, mores highs and harmonics are more clear that I used to have. I dont need to push the treble buton from my amp above the 10 o'clock.
4. The neck pickups gives me that tube sound, not like a strat, more like a real gibson with body and character. If I want a trully tube sound à la SRV or Hendrix I would have bought a nice USA Strat.
5. These pickups respond better to string playing intensity, such as when I play the strings hard my hamp gets right the way overdriven (note: I use a lot the volume and tone pots to manage amp overdrive). When I turn the volume for 2 or 3 position I get better clean sounds witth more harmonics than I have with stock Pickups. I can play easier clean rythm chords.
6. The setup is very well balanced, I change a lot from Bridge/neck in my style of playing and I feel the same tone and character is there, I don't feel any difference in that when I am changing from bridge to neck
Finally: I AM CRAZY WITH THIS CHANGE ON MY GUITAR. I will not put any sound clip in here because that's the wrong way to evaluate pickups. You will ear my guitar wood, picking, cables, amp stages, tubes, Speakers, mics, recording, room ambiance, mp3 digital encoding, your speakers..etc..etc.
If you have money, talk to TIM and give it a try. The only thing I can say is the points above.
..Keep on rocking
