Author Topic: Pickups for vintage Les Paul tone (Read 6633 times)

rockguitarstar · « **Reply #15 on:** February 16, 2007, 11:27:39 PM »

cant help you much on the neck nailbomb. I have a mule with an Alnico II magnet in my PRS and it does a great Slash impression. When I was considering pickups I heard the Crawlers and a VH II in the neck may suit your needs as well as match up well with your existing bridge. Slash uses Alnico II magnets so that would be something to consider. If you havent already email Tim and he will set you down the right path. All of their pickups are great man you can go wrong...

LazyNinja · « **Reply #16 on:** February 16, 2007, 11:33:28 PM »

To be honest I think your best bet is to get a different guitar that's made of mahogany and put decnt pups in. An Ibanez RG wont have the depth or the sustain of a Les Paul which is Slash's signature tone. Not knocking your guitar, I love RGs, but it's just not made for that kinda tone imo.

Doog · « **Reply #17 on:** February 17, 2007, 03:09:31 AM »

I already have two other guitars that have mahogany bodies (epi sg and fender tele fmt with seymour duncans), the reason I want to change the neck pickup in the rg is because the inf3 that came as stock is too muddy. if I wanted to exactly replicate slash's sound then yeah I'd get a les paul, put a couple of seymour duncan alnico II pros in and have done with it, but I'm talking about just a rough idea of what I'm going for and that was the best description I could think of

but yeah I think I'll get in touch with the company directly and see what they suggest. cheers for the replies

carlaz · « **Reply #18 on:** February 17, 2007, 01:22:30 PM »

I find that the Crawler neck (which, I believe, is the same as the slightly cheaper Abraxas neck) can get you in the ballpark -- even within the bases -- of some very fine Slashy tones. Sure, the Crawler/Abraxas neck is technically hotter than Official Slash Pickups, and has a different magnet, but you can indeed get that vibe pretty well IMO. And it's just a great neck pickup anyway! :)

I imagine you could balance the Mule neck with the NB bridge -- people have been very happy with Warpig bridge, Mule neck combos as I recall! -- but my sense is that the Crawler/Abraxas neck might sit in there easier.

Philly Q · « **Reply #19 on:** February 17, 2007, 01:56:41 PM »

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Agree with Carlaz, I was going to suggest the Abraxas/Crawler neck too.

It is hotter than vintage, but that would match better with the Nailbomb - and I'm not very familiar with RGs, but my impression is that they're designed to work with higher-output pickups.