melody maker

[CaffeineJunkie]

hey guys

was looking at getting one of these....



has anybody owned/own/played one of these (thoughts??) and are the pickups on this a weird shape/size or are they just standard tele/strat pups??


cheers

CJ

[CJ]

my monitors terrible, i can't see that at all, but don't they have P90's in them?

[CaffeineJunkie]

nope, they released some recent ones with a single p90/p100 at the bridge, but this is the reissue (i think), with two single-coils

[PhilKing]

I don't know what the new pickups are like, but the originals are great.  They have a pickup which sits somewhere between a strat and P-90 in tone, a really great sound.

These are 2 originals that I have at home at the moment (sounds a bit Blue Peterish!).  I am selling them for my friend's family.

[CaffeineJunkie]

I don't know what the new pickups are like, but the originals are great.  They have a pickup which sits somewhere between a strat and P-90 in tone, a really great sound.

These are 2 originals that I have at home at the moment (sounds a bit Blue Peterish!).  I am selling them for my friend's family.

kool, so would you recommend leaving the stock pickups in there?? or do you know if tim could rewind them to have a BKP twist to the original tone???

[noodleplugerine]

When he says Originals - He means ORIGINALS.

The last generation with the single P90 were cr@p imo.

Sambo has one and loves his though.

[CaffeineJunkie]

When he says Originals - He means ORIGINALS.

The last generation with the single P90 were cr@p imo.

Sambo has one and loves his though.

yeh i spose, but dya think tim would be able to recreate such a distinctive sound??

and sambo does seem too... but then he also loves his hat .... nuff said

[noodleplugerine]

When he says Originals - He means ORIGINALS.

The last generation with the single P90 were cr@p imo.

Sambo has one and loves his though.

yeh i spose, but dya think tim would be able to recreate such a distinctive sound??

and sambo does seem too... but then he also loves his hat .... nuff said

Never mind the sound - I think the build quality on all these cheap Gibsons are plain terrible.

[CaffeineJunkie]

Never mind the sound - I think the build quality on all these cheap Gibsons are plain terrible.

yeh but i can't find anybody else who makes the melody maker

[Philly Q]

Going back to the original question, from the video on the Gibson site it looks like the pickups on the new Melody Maker are made from one coil of a humbucker.  So it should be easy enough to get them rewound or get new ones custom made.  

The original 50s/60s Melody Maker pickups had a bar magnet as a "blade" polepiece under a solid cover.  They're not the same size as any conventional single-coil.  Here's mine  :D :

[CaffeineJunkie]

Going back to the original question, from the video on the Gibson site it looks like the pickups on the new Melody Maker are made from one coil of a humbucker.  So it should be easy enough to get them rewound or get new ones custom made.  

The original 50s/60s Melody Maker pickups had a bar magnet as a "blade" polepiece under a solid cover.  They're not the same size as any conventional single-coil.  Here's mine  :D :

very nice

wouldn't it be less 'single-coil sounding' with one coil of a humbucker?? kind of like a split humbucker??

[Philly Q]

wouldn't it be less 'single-coil sounding' with one coil of a humbucker?? kind of like a split humbucker??

Exactly, assuming it has steel polepieces and flat bar magnet(s) at the bottom of the pickup.  In that case, it'll probably sound like a "P90 lite".

Or they might have used individual alnico magnet polepieces, in which case it'll sound more like a typical single-coil.

Either way, I'd guess it's overwound for a bit of extra power.

[CaffeineJunkie]

wouldn't it be less 'single-coil sounding' with one coil of a humbucker?? kind of like a split humbucker??

Exactly, assuming it has steel polepieces and flat bar magnet(s) at the bottom of the pickup.  In that case, it'll probably sound like a "P90 lite".

Or they might have used individual alnico magnet polepieces, in which case it'll sound more like a typical single-coil.

Either way, I'd guess it's overwound for a bit of extra power.

hmmm sounds interesting... as long as it sounds ridiculously indie i don't really mind what it consists of :D

[sambo]

just get an Orange and playing a tin can with 6 pieces of dental floss tied to twigs at each end will sound indie. thats my advice anyway.

[dave_mc]

Never mind the sound - I think the build quality on all these cheap Gibsons are plain terrible.

yeh but i can't find anybody else who makes the melody maker

does it have to be a melody maker? i mean you could look into gordon smith or something along those lines...