Abraxas anyone?

[Brow]

Hey guys.

I've started thinking (already) about changing the pickups in my PRS Cu22 and having spoken to Tim, he said that the 3 most popular sets for a PRS would be VHIIs, Crawlers or Abraxas.

I already have VHIIs in a HH Strat, and a Crawler in the bridge of a HSS Strat so I'm looking slightly more towards the Abraxas for a different flavour.

I don't remember reading too much about these pickups, so thought I'd ask any users of them to chime in!

Thanks.

Craig

[TwilightOdyssey]

Abraxas neck = great

[Brow]

Abraxas neck = great

Hi Ben.

Didn't the other guitarist in TO have an Abraxas in the neck of 1 of his guitars for a while?

[HTH AMPS]

The Abraxas is on my 'to try' list for sure, they'll go in my Les Paul std. 

I'm thinking they'll be FAT with a smooth and full top end, the perfect blues/rock soloing pickup.  Well, thats the impression I have of them in my head.

[Philly Q]

I'm thinking they'll be FAT with a smooth and full top end, the perfect blues/rock soloing pickup.  Well, thats the impression I have of them in my head.

Yeah, me too, but it is very much in my head.  :lol:

I imagine they'd be a little too warm and smooth for an all-mahogany guitar, but great for something with mahogany plus maple, like an LP, Yamaha SG... or PRS.

[PhilKing]

Hi Craig,

I have an Abraxas set in a Hamer Sunburst and it sounds great.  The TO song Outlanders has a great example of an Abraxas neck pickup when Jimmy plays his intro - it is very Floyd'y sounding.  The bridge is bright with a hint of compression in the tone (as you would expect),  and as a set they go together very nicely.  I had VHII's in my PRS Artist II (22 fret, hardtail), but changed them to Mules as I wanted a bit more open sound, the VHII's sounded great but they were a little to bassy for the sound I was after from that guitar. 

Phil

[Catalyst77]

I'm thinking they'll be FAT with a smooth and full top end, the perfect blues/rock soloing pickup.  Well, thats the impression I have of them in my head.

Yeah, me too, but it is very much in my head.  :lol:

I imagine they'd be a little too warm and smooth for an all-mahogany guitar, but great for something with mahogany plus maple, like an LP, Yamaha SG... or PRS.

I have a Yamaha SG and was thinking about an Abraxas set - for the whole Satana feel. 

Are they not essentiall a hotter version of the Mule?

[Brow]

Thanks for the info guys.

If the Abraxas ARE a hotter version of the Mules then that should suit me just fine :D

Pickups for this guitar may have to wait a month or so, so lots of time to change my mind yet!  :roll:

[badgermark]

I'm tempted by putting an abraxas neck into my tele, just waiting on confirmation from our man Tim. Man is a legend, and a pretty good fella with the old pickup designing/building.