all good Twinfan :)
sending off emails are gonna have to wait for awhile, because im not getting these pickups till right at the end of the year, probably even january next year. So i'd rather send the emails when i can confirm the order, so that i can tell Tim what i want there and then, no need to refer back to past emails, know what i mean?
so sometime between now and then, this thread is gonna go underground till i revive it when its time to buy new pickups. but im always up for discussion till then.
how i get whatever tone i want, is by setting the amp just on the verge of overdrive, then leaving an overdrive pedal on forever, dime the level and the treble (sort of like a pseudo treble booster), and just play with the volume and tone knobs to get to the sound i want.
i may be getting building myself a rangemaster clone in the future (which i also plan on just leaving it on forever), and that frees up the overdrive pedal. raising the volume on the amp and the use of the overdrive pedal might be able to get me into the general ballpark of JP's tone, just that not as fat. But thats for another time, i'll experiment with that after getting new gear and all that, shouldnt be too hard to get there, you'd be surprised as to how good the vox ac4tv sounds. the virtue of small amps - turning the volume up :D
though you're probably right, might not want pickups that are too hot. no idea whats the 'hotness' (if thats what we call it) of the stock pickups though, doubt they're that powerful. normal epiphone pickups.
