Les Paul Supreme Pickup Advice.

[Setzer]

I have a Les Paul Supreme and as much as I love the guitar to play and to look at (very very pretty guitar!) I am really not too sure about the pickups.

Here in the UK Bareknuckle Pickups are becoming so popular that it is scary,you wouldnt believe the percentage of people using them.

Anyone here have any experience of Bareknuckle pickups?

Any other recommendations of pups for the guitar would be appreciated.

I play instrumental rock stuff along the lines of Satriani and also SRV type stuff so I would like a nice tight focused clear lead tone that will clean up nicely when I roll back the volume pot.
Because the guitar is hollow I would like a good clean tone(which I have to say is this guitars main weakness to me as I think the clean tone for a hollow body guitar is pretty dire) which would pretty much mean a coil tappable pup.

The neck pickup is ok so Im not too fussed about changing it but if someone here can recommend something then I would be up for changing it too.

 

[Rocky]

I am a total mark for the Duncan Alnico II Pro set.

Just great in every way IMO.

I have used Bareknuckle and they are excellent...but they arent the be all and end all IMO.

 

[Setzer]

I have to say I always liked Duncan pickups.

I will have to search the Alnico's out then,thanks for the info.

Anybody ever tried Lindy Fralin pups? (I think thats the correct spelling) I have heard good things about them.

 

[Rocky]

I have a set in a Les Paul. Very cool pickups.


Vintage vibe to them....not for metalheads

 

[lesterpaul]

I am Mr Bareknuckle!I have them in all of my axes-there are a few that sit just perfectly in a Paul-PAF on steroids??yes, a Mule is the deal!!!I also have a Crawler in a Custom and a Rebel Yell in a Standard-all vintage vibe-Crawler and RY have a tad bit more compression for modern tones,but they all are very open and dynamic-Tim at BK will do what you want-he is very user friendly!

 

[Setzer]

Thanks for the info!

I am hearing great great things about the Bareknuckles and I also heard that they will wind them to whatever specs you want.

I may just have to try one out in the neck of my Paul and see if all the hype is justified.

Which one would you recommend Lester? I play mostly instrumental rock, stuff along the lines of Satriani so somewhere around his tone would be good for me.

 

[Elpelotero]

I'd recommend Dimarzios...That's what vai and Joe use. Very creamy stuff.

 

[Setzer]

I have been hearing good things locally about Tonerider pickups.

Anyone here tried any of the Toneriders? Some guys on a local music forum are raving about how good they sound and they are certainly cheap enough.

Basically the low cost is putting me off,am I wrong?

 

[Setzer]

I have been hearing good things locally about Tonerider pickups.

Anyone here tried any of the Toneriders? Some guys on a local music forum are raving about how good they sound and they are certainly cheap enough.

Basically the low cost is putting me off,am I wrong?

 

[lesterpaul]

a lot of people swear by the Nailbomb pup for that tone...however, if its all satch, we must figure in the fact that you are playing a LP-the VH II, IMo, would be close to the satch tone on "Surfing with the Alien"..so, too , would be a few others-bottom line, the great thing about Bk's is you can email Tim Mills himself,explain exactly what you are looking for, and he will customize it for you-he is the bullocks, as you fellows say... (hope I am right about that...)