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Hi all,
I've fallen in love with a '74 Gibson SG which I recently acquired but the pickups are squealing with any considerable gain. As I'd quite like covered ones anyway, I'm tempted to just replace them (time is against me too).
Any recommendations? Output around 8.5k and I understand they're ceramic magnets. The neck pickup has a lovely warm jazzy sound when not driven hard and the bridge pickup has that nice Angus Young-like bite when similarly driven a little (think Ride On or something). I'd quite like something similar.
Any thoughts?
Thanks!
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I got some low-winds which transformed my SG from the 57 Classics in there
I had an SG Standard in 76, I loved the sound, (Reference: Jimmy McCulloch / Wings Live over America).
If you can check your pick ups are not faulty, I'll swap you a pair of Gibson 57 Classics for them?
@veldt666 Sadly they're not the originals. Mighty Mite 1400s, I believe.
My band, Red For Dissent
My band, Red For Dissent
I also have shed but I don't think Spence makes them anymore or it got a hit and miss delivering them, shame as they're great pickups too
(formerly customkits)
For my SG i went with Montys Pafs https://www.montysguitars.com/products/montys-paf-pickup-set
they have that "hollow" sound that all good pass seem to exhibit, more like a hum free P90 than a humbucker.
I also use Pafs from:
Bareknuckle Pickups (mules) which suit Les Pauls really well imho.
Mojo Pickups, Marc is a wizard and i have four guitars using his pups, all of them sound immense to my ears. There is a reason Patrick James Eggle chooses Mojo to outfit his guitars.
I haven't used any Pafs from Oil city but.... Having used their other offerings I'm sure they would be great too.
The only ones i haven't owned of the big hitters in the UK are the OX4's. that being said, i have played guitars with them in and they have that hollow p90 vibe too.
so in short choose a company and go for it.
I’ve been looking at both his paf copies and vintage voiced humbuckers and can’t make my mind up between the two. Got no need or great desire for a dead copy paf pickup in terms of appearance and spec, but definitely do want that paf hollowness of tone. Was going to post on here asking if anyone had tried both and could advise.
It really depends on your taste as all of them are different flavours
I will get some demos done at some point with the normal mojo paf and low wind and i still want to swap magnets around just to hear the difference
I forgot I also put his standard paf in a set neck strat with a split coil and that's bloody good too, nice rock tones roll volume down cleans up nicely and the split coil gives another tone
(formerly customkits)
It was the low winds that were getting most of my attention. How do they compare to Montys which seem very similiar and are are price, bar using alnico4’s (in the montys)?
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I will now get some magnets from Marc just to see how that affects the low winds, going from alnico 3 to 4
I've got access to a real 58 to compare, I was pretty close with his vintage pafs last time but I've made a couple more Lp's since then and they're having both vintage relic types
My set neck strat gets in the sg terriotory with his standard bridge paf
It's made of limba so its got mahogany type tone
I'll get some good demos done when they're finished
also look up the guitar show on you tube, it's Ramon goose playing mojos
Mike Bradley on you tube did some demos with the montys and mojos
these are the mojos, I like the tone of them
(formerly customkits)
Getting the neck neck right is so important, as I use the neck and mod positions far more than I ever do the bridge on its own.
If you're going handwound I've had great things from Creamery, Mojo and most recently OX4. Basically all the commonly-mentionned guys are great. I've never heard a bad word about @TheGuitarWeasel's Oil City pickups and I'm sure I'll be going his way soon enough.
The chap at OX4 recommends A4 magnets based on what I've asked for (as above) with low winds. My only concern is the non-potting, as isn't this likely the problem with my existing pickups squealing?
A bit confused, as is often the case...
My band, Red For Dissent