JackBootedThug
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iT IS SCOOPED BUT JUST RIGHT IMO....sorry about yelling...duh...
napalmdeath
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I'm a fan as well. Great in a Super Strat, or Les Paul. Tight, clear, punchy.
hammered
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I’ve got one in an ash Strat style at the moment, had it in a alder Strat a few years back . Thru my Soldano or Splawn and Greenbacks my ears don’t find it scooped
Rex Rocker
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That sounds great!
NinjaRaf
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Pretty different. The Omega is more mid focused and feels lower output by comparison.
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Lightning
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I found this article about the Seymour Duncan sh5 custom which I already knew BUT it wasn’t designed for Eddie.
“It’s not really old news to some people that Eddie Van Halen appears to have been one of the earliest big-name fans of the Duncan Custom. In an October 1979 issue of Guitar Player magazine, the Custom is advertised as “(Van Halen)”. The same ad was seen in the December 1979 issue, sans the “(Van Halen)”. LOL! That Eddie! For a guy that didn’t want people to copy his tone, he sure sells a lot of gear with his name all over it. HaHa!
But to be clear, Eddie was digging the Custom as an existing product and it is not a design that was made for him. The origin of the Custom model has more to do with how someone that was ordering some parts slipped up. Seymour made the best of the situation and came up with a new design to make use of an oddball purchasing snafu.”
“It’s not really old news to some people that Eddie Van Halen appears to have been one of the earliest big-name fans of the Duncan Custom. In an October 1979 issue of Guitar Player magazine, the Custom is advertised as “(Van Halen)”. The same ad was seen in the December 1979 issue, sans the “(Van Halen)”. LOL! That Eddie! For a guy that didn’t want people to copy his tone, he sure sells a lot of gear with his name all over it. HaHa!
But to be clear, Eddie was digging the Custom as an existing product and it is not a design that was made for him. The origin of the Custom model has more to do with how someone that was ordering some parts slipped up. Seymour made the best of the situation and came up with a new design to make use of an oddball purchasing snafu.”
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JohnnyGtar
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Which issue of GP says that?
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Lightning
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I didn’t post that or say that(lightening said)
JohnnyGtar
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OK, my bad. How do you know that's what happened? I don't doubt you, I just dig knowing how gear that I love came into being.
shar-vell Dan
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Ed sent Seymour a "cease & desist" letter over that ad.
1984_5150
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Some of us are dead serious about it.
Here's my entries - I'm calling it the SD Custom as well.
Guitar Player Oct '79 I snagged off e-bay:
Clips don't lie, either. Guitar loaded with a pre-1983 Custom.
Here's my entries - I'm calling it the SD Custom as well.
Guitar Player Oct '79 I snagged off e-bay:
Clips don't lie, either. Guitar loaded with a pre-1983 Custom.
Redneckstomp
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Duncan Custom was Erik Rutan's go to pickup before he was joining CC. So, this pickup will be good for downtuned death metal with no problem.
shar-vell Dan
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In the 70's mag ads were the only way you could get upgrade gear and some of it wasn't legit.
You didn't find out til after you got it.
Ed also sent a S & D letter to Wayne Charvel & Grover Jackson after Ed saw some GP on the strip playing a clone of his Bumble Bee built by Grover & Wayne.
A good friend of mine had an original BB but he ended up selling it for a lot of money to a collector b/c he couldn't really gig with it or take it out of the house for fear of something happening to it.
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