If you had two indentical Les Pauls....

Hootsmon

and you were happy with the burstbucker pick ups in both guitars but you wanted to swap a set of PUPs out for an after market set of HBs, what set of HBs would you choose that would set the guitar apart from the other one?

Funkfingers

Depends on;

• Which exact versions of Gibson Burstbucker are currently in use?
• What sort of sounds the guitar is expected to produce?
• Budget.

Seymour Duncan Antiquity pickups are nice but pricey. The Saturday Night Special and Whole Lotta Humbucker pairs are both interesting in their own way. An open bobbins SHPG-1N Pearly Gates or an SH-1N '59 with an Alnico 4 bar magnet and the metal cover would do me nicely for the neck position.

chris45

http://thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/94963/gibson-mhs-pickups

I have these in a 349 and love them.  As in the above thread they aren’t available as separates but they give a very big difference over my burstbucker LP (even discounting the body difference).  Low output!

jimmyguitar

I’d put a set of Peter Green spec PAFs in it for the ‘out-of-phase’ middle sound or some humbucker sized P90’s?

Hootsmon

Funkfingers said:

Depends on;

• Which exact versions of Gibson Burstbucker are currently in use?
• What sort of sounds the guitar is expected to produce?
• Budget.

Seymour Duncan Antiquity pickups are nice but pricey. The Saturday Night Special and Whole Lotta Humbucker pairs are both interesting in their own way. An open bobbins SHPG-1N Pearly Gates or an SH-1N '59 with an Alnico 4 bar magnet and the metal cover would do me nicely for the neck position.

I guess the latest set of BB

looking for rock and roll but different character to the BB....sort of a thing

no matter

UnclePsychosis

Gold Foils.

Preferably single coil ones. 

Funkfingers

hootsmon said:

Funkfingers said:
Which exact versions of Gibson Burstbucker

I guess the latest set of BB

There have always been three variants. BB1 = underwound, BB2 = "regular" and BB3 = overwound. The more recent versions gain the suffix Pro and a magnet change from Alnico 2 to Alnico 5. (Big clue, there!)

hootsmon said:
looking for rock and roll but different character to the BB....sort of a thing

Magnet swapping should do that. A4 for the neck position and Un-Oriented Alnico 5 for the bridge position.

JerkMoans

I - all too briefly - had a set of OX4 Hot Duanes in an @Elwood loan concept gold top, and they were rather raunchy.

DefaultM

Make your own out of Lego.

SunDevil

If you like the tone and just want ‘different’ then a magnet swap is the way to go.

Unsolder the covers (aka ‘the tricky bit’) and then try going up from the Al II mags you have. When you’re happy, you’re you can choose to re-solder the covers.

If you flip the magnet by accident, so much the better.. 

For the price of a set of Duncan’s, you can by 2 of every magnet going 

p90fool

If you're happy with both guitars but they're too similar, sell one and buy something totally different, or just go on holiday. 

hotpickups

I've put a pair of monty's Humdingers in my les Paul. Sound great 

breezytele

I’ve put humbucker sized p90s (Montys again) in an SG.
He uses a p90 bobbin but just trims the ends of the plastic to fit under the cover
The result  is so good I’m thinking of repeating that with a les Paul.  

adamm82

I quite like the Seymour duncan slash pickups in my les paul.  hmm i need another les Paul.