That Peter Green pickup thing (again!)

guitars4you

I'm led to believe that after G Moore sold that LP he used various replicas and Custom Built LP's from Gibson with BK  replica p/ups fitted on a few of them - If any one knows how good the original p/ups and BK versions are then it is GM and he used those BK versions for a while on a few guitars so some big compliment in there

paganskins

Emiel said:

the volume drop is very large with both pickups at equal volume. Only at the quietest bits they might have gone for the full OOP effect. It's very clear when they do. 

I suspect my Gibson Country Gent may have a backwards pickup. It had had the wiring buggered about with and was quiet in the middle position which I assumed was due to the modded wiring – previously it had only master vol and master tone so I couldn't roll a bit of one pickup out of the mixed position.

It's been rewired back to factory spec and is still quiet in the middle but roll one volume down to 7 and it comes back up to expected output – just like @Emiel's description above.

It's not a problem as my go to middle tone is bridge with the neck rolled down a bit anyway comparatively. I suppose at some point I could get someone knowledgeable on pickup construction to have a look just out of curiosity to see what's going on but I don't plan to try and have it remedied.

ICBM

paganskins said:

I suspect my Gibson Country Gent may have a backwards pickup. It had had the wiring buggered about with and was quiet in the middle position which I assumed was due to the modded wiring – previously it had only master vol and master tone so I couldn't roll a bit of one pickup out of the mixed position.

It's been rewired back to factory spec and is still quiet in the middle but roll one volume down to 7 and it comes back up to expected output – just like @Emiel's description above.

It's not a problem as my go to middle tone is bridge with the neck rolled down a bit anyway comparatively. I suppose at some point I could get someone knowledgeable on pickup construction to have a look just out of curiosity to see what's going on but I don't plan to try and have it remedied.

Yes, that sounds like they are out of phase.

SunDevil

Does 6 months count as a necro thread?

@icbm was commenting back in Oct about how the Greenie burst has something special going on that's more than just the out of phase thing.

Came across this old Gary Moore and Phil Lynott OGWT recording: https://youtu.be/W9xyWxXyOOg

Take a look at timestamp 1:08 - neck pup only and you'd not mistake it for any other Lester

FelineGuitars

BKP wind their neck PG blues pickup with heavy formvar wire as well as the magnet being flipped.

rlw

SunDevil said:

Does 6 months count as a necro thread?

@icbm was commenting back in Oct about how the Greenie burst has something special going on that's more than just the out of phase thing.

Came across this old Gary Moore and Phil Lynott OGWT recording: https://youtu.be/W9xyWxXyOOg

Take a look at timestamp 1:08 - neck pup only and you'd not mistake it for any other Lester

and no bottom E string - that's spooky.