Pickups for a Les Paul thread #984756256

[ericsabbath]

bright is good

Certainly easier to tame brightness than add it.

precisely
unless he had a quite thin sounding guitar, which is never the case with a real les paul

[darkbluemurder]

Fully agree to the brightness statement. Since I never played the Emerald my vote would have to go to the Rebel Yell, though.

Cheers Stephan

[Slartibartfarst42]

While I think the Rebel Yell will do well, I think the Emerald would be better. I've used both neck and bridge Emeralds and they have wonderful tone. The Emerald is my favourite neck pickup. The bridge was too bright for my PRS but I think it will work a dream in your Les Paul. The other option I'd seriously consider for the bridge (and I'm surprised nobody has mentioned it) is the Cold Sweat as it is beautiful for a Les Paul and is well suited to most of the styles you mentioned.

[fhn_lopes]

Indeed, you're guys are right about brightness. What I said is maybe an A2 could sweeten the highs but not tame then, if you understand what I'm saying, just make them sound more rounded, but anyways, hard to imagine a les paul sounding too bright as a Strat.
I'm happy with my tone with the VHII and the alder strat, but my pourpose with this axe was to get as close as I could to the early van halen tone. And I'm getting it in spades for that to say.

Now for the Les Paul I want someting else, and as said, I like bright open tones from les pauls, but not as bright or "thin" as Slash for example. I figure that the Emerald Set is the best option for me, thanks guys. Just need to work on selling some stuff here prior to ording. And wait for the exchange to get a bit better  :lol: :lol: :lol:

Cheers

[Philly Q]

And wait for the exchange to get a bit better  :lol: :lol: :lol:

Could be a long wait then! 

[fhn_lopes]

yeah, unfortunately. But If I sell some of my cr@p here the exchange won't matter that much...