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Author Topic: Pickups for a bright 1978 Les Paul Custom. Mule or Abraxas?  (Read 8308 times)

darkbluemurder

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Re: Pickups for a bright 1978 Les Paul Custom. Mule or Abraxas?
« Reply #15 on: March 26, 2013, 08:58:37 AM »
Out of your selection I can recommend the Abraxas. The bridge model is really fat sounding without going overboard with output. The neck is clear enough to not muddy things up but is warm at the same time. Excellent set.

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Telerocker

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Re: Pickups for a bright 1978 Les Paul Custom. Mule or Abraxas?
« Reply #16 on: March 26, 2013, 06:52:29 PM »
Abraxas is a good choiche, maybe combined with a Mule-neck.
Mules, VHII, Crawler, MM's, IT's, BG50's.



Gary_Goo

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Re: Pickups for a bright 1978 Les Paul Custom. Mule or Abraxas?
« Reply #19 on: April 02, 2013, 05:05:34 PM »
After listening to all the clips until my head was spinning I think I might give the Abraxas a go. For my more pop/alt indie stuff I tend to use the middle position and neck more for cleaner tones, so the bridge could be used when I need a more rock voice. I think the 14k at the bridge was putting me off the pickup a bit, but now its been pointed out that it uses a different gauge wire that makes much more sense. It kind of makes sense that if you have several guitars that you should give yourself as many tonal options as you can.
One question for HTH Amps though, as you've clearly spent a bit of time using these pickups, so you seem like a good person to ask. How do you rate the clean sounds from these pickups?