This guitar was made with a mahogany Les Paul Special Double cutaway body and a mahogany neck with an ebony fretboard from Warmoth. It has a 24.75" scale length, Gotoh 510 hardware and the pickups are PAF-style GFS Vintage 59 humbuckers. The amp is a 5w Blackheart with an Eminence speaker and a Ibanez TS9 for distortion. Thanks for watching!
In this video, famed guitar pickup winder Lindy Fralin personally demonstrates a set of his stock output Strat replacement pickups against a set of his new Hum Canceling Split Blade Strat Replacements. The new Split Blades are a fully hum-bucking replacement for Strat® style pickups with all the high-end clarity you expect from a traditional single coil. They are available in three outputs (Vintage, Blues and High Output) and two colors (white and black). All 3 sets come with a 10% stronger bridge. This comparison is not scientific but it was recorded in a controlled environment with virtually no enhancement. The signal path for this demo was as follows: Guitar, VVT Lindy Fralin model amp with 1/15", SM57 mic'ed about 18" off the grill cloth, RNC Compressor, Mackie XDR preamp, Apogee Duet, Logic Pro on a Macbook Pro. The signal was recorded dry although a very slight amount of compression was added to reduce clipping and a slight plate reverb was added in Logic Pro for spatial enhancement. Otherwise the sound you hear is the pure, unaltered sound of the pickups through the amp with the volume set on about "3". Learn more about these pickups at www.fralinpickups.com
Guitar World's Paul Riario talks with Larry DiMarzio about his new Strat pickups, his vintage '59 Gibson Les Paul and garage band stories with Gene Simmons and Kiss.
This is the second offering in my Vintage Lab PAF pickup sets, these are wound to Peter Green specs, and include the flipped magnet, and engineered to sound good with neck pickup flipped around as his was. This is a hotter set than the stock VL set, bridge at 8.6K, neck at 8.2K, both alnico 5. These are a little darker due to extra winds, but certainly are full of bite and harmonics galore. I am using the neck adjusted the same way Peter did, with the bass side of the neck slightly below the ring and treble side slightly up over the edge of the ring, as seen in his videos here on YouTube!
I'm using my '73 Vibrolux as usual, blackfaced and turned up for distortion, no pedals, no effects, just guitar and amp.
Please watch my other Vintage Lab video for a more average vintage type set you would find in Duane Allman's guitar etc. I also play my VL set in direct comparison to my real PAF equipped guitar so you can judge how authentic the two VL sets certainly are. Enjoy...
Dave Stephens
http://www.sdpickups.com
1957 Fender Stratocaster Vintage Reissue Japan with Staufer handmade Pickups Blues set Part 3 1966 Fender Vibrolux Reverb Amp Okko Diablo Overdrive Pedal Boss RC-2 Looper www.gregorhilden.de
Larry DiMarzio's original 1959 Gibson Les Paul®
This is the second offering in my Vintage Lab PAF pickup sets, these are wound to Peter Green specs, and include the flipped magnet, and engineered to sound good with neck pickup flipped around as his was. This is a hotter set than the stock VL set, bridge at 8.6K, neck at 8.2K, both alnico 5. These are a little darker due to extra winds, but certainly are full of bite and harmonics galore. I am using the neck adjusted the same way Peter did, with the bass side of the neck slightly below the ring and treble side slightly up over the edge of the ring, as seen in his videos here on YouTube!
1957 Fender Stratocaster Vintage Reissue Japan with Staufer handmade Pickups Blues set Part 3 1966 Fender Vibrolux Reverb Amp Okko Diablo Overdrive Pedal Boss RC-2 Looper www.gregorhilden.de
Fender "The Strat" w. Slider's Vintage pu-s
http://www.southwestrodandcustom.com Two Of a Kind
