EVH pickup rabbit hole

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SH-5 Duncan Custom or the EVH Wolfgang pup is the only EVH style pup you'll ever need.
I like Pete and his stuff but certainly can "over-engineer" things.
 
While I totally agree that these vids can occasionally be a bit over the top, Pete’s energy and enthusiasm are absolutely infectious and I come away from every video with knowledge that I didn’t have before and likely would not have found anywhere else. I will say, my biggest beef with the amp deep-dive vid was that the guitar Pete used with the traditional 6 screw trem and ceramic mag pickup was lightweight basswood. The stripe guitar in this video (being hard ash and weighing as much as a Les Paul) should be more representative for how the various windings and magnets would have interacted with Ed’s OG Franky.
 
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Imho, as long as your amp can cover those territories, your cab has proper speakers and your playing is good, pickups are not that much relevant, more like details and nuances.
 
PDC said:
While I totally agree that these vids can occasionally be a bit over the top, Pete’s energy and enthusiasm are absolutely infectious and I come away from every video with knowledge that I didn’t have before and likely would not have found anywhere else. I will say, my biggest beef with the amp deep-dive vid was that the guitar Pete used with the traditional 6 screw trem and ceramic mag pickup was lightweight basswood. This guitar is more representative for how the various windings and magnets would have interacted with Ed’s OG Franky.
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Ed's "og franky" was Ash.
 
Samhain said:
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Ed's "og franky" was Ash.
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That’s exactly what I’m saying, but probably did not word it clearly. In Pete’s ‘deep-dive’ EVH amp video, his 6-screw bridge strat was basswood. He had a hard ash strat in the mix, but it had a Floyd. And I can really tell the difference between how Floyd equipped guitars and traditional 6-screw Trem guitars react with pickups.

By contrast, Pete describes the B/W stripe guitar in this pickup vid as being hard ash and weighing as much as a Les Paul. This guitar also has a 6-screw style Trem as opposed to a Floyd. So I’m betting the Ash striped guitar in this pickup vid will be a bit more representative of how the pickups interacted with Ed’s OG Frank than the basswood guitar that Pete used in the Deep Dive amp video.
 
IMO the Van Halen recipe is the most over-hyped/over complicated guitar thing since the birth of the internet especially the last 15 years.
Same for the Slash AFD thing.
Most of it is all about marketing music gear and very little about VH-1.
Its incredibly easy to get those tones if you know what your doing without buying all the "officially licensed" gear.
Pete is a likable guy and great player but also a pundit for marketing music gear.
 
Well, I thought the EVH Frankenstein pickup, the one marketed by Fender/EVH, was going to be snake oil. But I got one and it's probably my favorite pickup. I then wanted to put one in an EBMM Axis, but wanted it black/creme, with four conductor wire to coil split it and short legs to drop it right in like DiMarzios. Jalen made it for me and it's so awesome and a lot cheaper than the EVH one. Ordered another one a few weeks later and it's in my old Kramer Pacer now.
 
Samhain said:
Most of it is all about marketing music gear and very little about VH-1.
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Whatever's left is our own stupidity at chasing unicorn dust.

When I was 16 I bought a jazz-box cause I was convinced that THAT was the secret
to being able to play and sound like Steve Howe on The Yes Album.

On a related note, how many vintage original PAF's were ripped out of Gibsons and
replaced with the OG Dimazio Super Distortion pups when they first arrived in the 70s?

Cause we were all told you HAD TO have them to sound like your favorite heavy rock guys.






(who in many cases were playing vintage original PAFs on the records)

:doh::doh::doh::doh::doh:
 
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panhead said:
Just pick one and go shit that craziness
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Exactly. Honestly I didn't even make it past the halfway point. Especially when Pete points out that diff pickups sound better for diff albums and then even diff songs sometimes. So really, whatever feels and sounds good when you play it in the room. Right now I love my JB with alnico II I think it is the perfect pickup and the stock Gibson bridge pup that is in my explorer. Sounds killer. Dimarzio 36 anni in the neck is prob my favourite neck pickup. That simple. I remember the SH-5 being cool but lacking for me. Super Distortion a little tubby. So for me, anything alnico 2 with tight bass and/or a PAF/Hot PAF that is open and not compressed. Doesn't matter who designed it.
 
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An over-wound A2 humbucker & a 100 watt Marshall is a great starting point.
 
Dimarzio 36 are great pups!

I'm loving the Suhr SSH+ and SSV set in the Strandbergs. No plans to touch em.
 
Kapo_Polenton said:
Honestly I didn't even make it past the halfway point.
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Lol, I think I fell asleep 3x and really only caught the first 8 or so.

I dropped cable so this is my TV. An hour and twenty of PT playing the same licks with smallish tone differences...that's good TV folks.
 
I think the problem nowadays is with gear and technology that allows us to play quiet and since many of us are bedroom/basement rockers that play quiet most of the time and the 7-8k pickups just do not sound "hot" enough when playing quiet.
 
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And even called it a VH or something. I think thats what pissed Eddie off...using his name.
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So that's the custom and not the custom custom .. custom custom SH-11 is missing bite for me. But i think it is a good point about bedroom volumes vs insane volumes..and plexis.
 
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