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I used to have an RGA121 with a JB in it as well. That was actually the first time I tried a JB. That guitar made every pickup I had in it sound great, though.

I bet a JB on an SG would kill! I feel like SG's naturally spanky nature would offset the slight softness to the attack JB's sometimes can have.

Make sure you play around with pot values if you're not initially 100% happy with the pickup but still feel like it has redeeming qualities. I don't regret having tried the Custom and landing on a CS JB, but I bet the stock JB would've made me happy as well had I tweaked around it a bit.

I was this close to just getting a '59B to make the guitar have the full '59 set, but this JB showed up, and I've never tried CS Duncans. I loved the '59 in the past, but I kinda feared that it would make the guitar too different from my others. I like PAF types for Metal, but I feared it just...

I recently got an LTD EC-400VF that I found used locally for pretty cheap. I initially got it thinking "this would make a great beater guitar", but I ended up loving it. It rings out acoustlcally, and it plays much better than my Gibson, IMO, with the thinner neck and the jumbo frets. That...

The SH-6N is the pickup I have in my Les Paul. I love it in there, but to me, it kinda sounds nothing like the '59. It's a great pickup, but I kinda want this LTD to have a different sound. I think it's pretty common for people who have dual PAF types or other pickup sets where either the...

I don't have a problem balancing out the bridge (500T) and neck (Duncan Distortion Neck) pickups on my Les Paul, though.

I thought it was on the site. It's not anymore, but I could swear they used to describe as "a '59 but hotter and with more low-end". Either way, the regular Custom (not the 5) is pretty bass-heavy. I've had the '59B in the bridge before, and it certainly wasn't like that.

Is the Duncan '59B noticeably higher output, or is it mildly higher output? Also... is it fatter than the '59N? Would running higher value pots offset the extra fatness/warmth from overwinding it?

And bassier. I definitely don't want bassier. :)

I have an LTD EC that I put a Duncan Custom in the bridge in that I like a lot. It has a '59 in the neck. I like it for the most part, I just wished it was hotter so that when switching pickups on a clean sound, there isn't a volume jump and on distorted sounds, it didn't feel as dry and plinky...

Well, the neck profiles are not the same. The fretboard radii. The necks overall are not the same. The placement of the truss rod, the number of frets, the fret size. Pretty sure the bodies aren't the same either. The neck pocket has to be different for the spin wheel truss rod, and most of...

I've only tried the SE and S2 versions, and I agree about the neck profile. I don't hate it, but I certainly don't enjoy it. Maybe if it had a 12" board I'd like it better. But it certainly is chunky. Another thing that I'm not sure I love that I guess is part of that PRS sound with "smoothness...

I doubt it's louder, but it's certainly bigger and more than loud enough.

I haven't played the Krankenstein, but people say the same thing about the Revolution, and I didn't find the Revolution to be that hard to dial in. The only thing you have to figure out with it is the Sweep's usable range is really narrow. Other than that, I guess the FX loop knob does affect...

It was a tube preamp with a solid state poweramp.

FWIW, I think Fishman Moderns do the EMG thing better than newer EMG's nowadays. I believe EMG preamps had one IC changed in the last few years, and they don't quite sound like they used to. Plus they've got the passive voice on top. TBH, I never really liked the passive voice on the Moderns...

Yeah! I think they called it "Silver Sun Burst"... but yeah, LOL. Pretty much. TBH, I never bonded with that guitar as much as I did with my other LTD's. It wasn't bad, but I never really liked the sides and back being silver or the burst being a perimeter burst. Other than that, it was kinda...

Mine is the other way around. I sold the Epi 1959 now, but I'm pretty sure the EC-400VF is around a pound heavier. But it varies a lot from guitar to guitar, of course. The current LTD FT EC's on Sweetwater are all weight-relieved, tho. Epis aren't, as far as I know.

I've never liked the experience of using those FRFR speakers, personally. The feel and sound is just so alien if you're used to amps in the room. It's convenient for monitoring puproses, but that's about it, IMO. I do like the tone and feel of a decent modeler through a tube (or even solid...