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Topic: Pickups guitar les paul (Sloe gin, great flood on royal albert hall )

Hi everybody,
I have a question ,
what are the pickups les paul ? that joe uses on "great flood and sloe gin" in the royal albert hall DvD)

Thank you

Quentin
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Re: Pickups guitar les paul (Sloe gin, great flood on royal albert hall )

Should be the Burstbuckers that come in the Custom Shop/JB Les Pauls.  Joe keeps the pickups stock in most of his guitars.

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Re: Pickups guitar les paul (Sloe gin, great flood on royal albert hall )

About the burstbuckers #2 and #3, how close does it sounds to SD 57 pickups??

I have a sdandard with those ones, and i saw that #2 that names hot 57, am i wrong??

Is it a similar sounds??

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Re: Pickups guitar les paul (Sloe gin, great flood on royal albert hall )

i've found burstbuckers can vary from one to another.  doesn't matter if it's a II or III.  duncan builds good stuff, but i've found some variances in those too.  i've had several humbuckers made by kevin smth of smits pickups in murfreesboro tenn.  he does great work & really nails the tone.  read his reviews on harmony central.  i've been very pleased with his work.  he's a player & serious about tone.  i have 4 from him for several lp's.  brought alot of color out of those lp's.  i had tried burstbuckers, a 57 & 57+ gibson, & a duncan jb.  smits wins cool cool cool

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Re: Pickups guitar les paul (Sloe gin, great flood on royal albert hall )

doc wrote:

i've found burstbuckers can vary from one to another.  doesn't matter if it's a II or III.  duncan builds good stuff, but i've found some variances in those too.  i've had several humbuckers made by kevin smth of smits pickups in murfreesboro tenn.  he does great work & really nails the tone.  read his reviews on harmony central.  i've been very pleased with his work.  he's a player & serious about tone.  i have 4 from him for several lp's.  brought alot of color out of those lp's.  i had tried burstbuckers, a 57 & 57+ gibson, & a duncan jb.  smits wins cool cool cool

I'm ordering some Charlie 5's for my strat. I was recommended to smits handwounds from another player who says he is "the guy" too. I was planning on buying a humbucker set for my Explorer (that presently has EMG's), but I just got a killer deal on some Texas BBQ pickups from Rio Grande pickups.

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