Riff Raff Bridge and Mule Neck Sound Clip

[GGOMEZ]

It's a Page tribute demo with some bluesy and messy endings. I used my Gibson Les Paul Custom, pic attached, Riff Raff in the bridge position and Mule on the Neck. Humbucking normal wiring. I start with the clean signal, neck pick up.  I then engage a Fuzz Face Clone for the riff of How Many More Times which is with the Mule neck pick up and then some messing around of how you can get some sort of octavia effect from the pedal. I then switched to the Riff Raff bridge pick up and rolled the volume down a little bit for the Black Dog riff. You will note that it cleans up and you can really identify the notes. After I switch to the middle position with both neck and bridge pickups for Dazed and Confused. Then the blues on the neck pickup with volume rolled down almost half way. To complete this clip is my favorite setting with a sort of octavia sound and then mess around with the two knobs and abuse my guitar a little. These pickups are truly magic and best suit my guitar and sound I am after.

Amp is a Plexi combo clone and recording was through a Roland/Boss Micro mini studio.

The pedal is a Fredric Silicon Fuzz Face Clone.

Thanks TIM for recommending this pickup combination!


Please do let me know what you think about te sound. Apologies for sloppy playing.

G

[Ronnie Robinson]

Excellent - good playing and lovely tone. I look forward to hearing more. As for the the preferred sounding - the Mule for me.

[GGOMEZ]

Thanks Ronnie. I also have a PRS McCarty Model. These guitars around amazing with the stock pickups. Did you change yours for Mules?

Cheers,

G

[Ronnie Robinson]

Yes, the stock neck pickup was great but I just did nt like the bridge- the mule in the bridge is however excellent 

[ericsabbath]

nice clip

I bought a riff raff intending to put it in my '81 les paul standard or my '73 lp custom, but it ended up in my heavily beaten up '96 mccarty custom and I really couldn't take it out anymore
huge improvement over the stock prs pickup (that wasn't bad at all)

[GGOMEZ]

Thanks Eric.

In my view, the thing about most PRS is that the electronics, including pickups and wiring are quite good in comparison to those in Gibson. My LP Custom sounded ok but I was missing that bit of bite on the bridge. I bought a Seymour Duncan JB and it was too much output and out of balance with the stock neck pick up so I changed for Classic 57 at Neck and Classic 57 plus at bridge and it really improved the tone. The problem was that I wanted a more versatile sound and have more options in terms of wiring (out of phase and coil spliting) so after some research I order a balanced set of these combo (Mule Neck/Riff Raff Bridge) and they work very well.

Not sure if I would change my pickups on the PRS though, they do sound amazing but again, I will never know if I do not try it. Do you have any clips of your McCarty with the Riff Raff?

Cheers,

G