I've been talking about changing the pickups in my '59 reissue Les Paul for a long time, but it took me a long time to know what I wanted and to find the person who I wanted to have make them for me. Step forward Sunbear Pickups - Stuart goes through a really in depth process to try and match the right pickups for each guitar... and boy, was it worth it! But have a listen and tell me what you think...
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Time Stamps:
0:00 Should I Change Them?
2:30 New PAFs with Vibrolux
3:00 Sunbear PAFs
3:52 Old Bridge PUPs too bright!
4:38 Out of Phase new pickups
6:19 A little bit more on the Vibrolux
7:30 Neck Pickup and muddiness
8:15 Neck Demo 1
9:31 What I had liked about the custombuckers
11:40 Neck Demo 2
13:05 More balance
14:41 The Bridge Pickups were too BRIGHT
15:33 Bridge Demo 1
16:21 Old pups were a sledgehammer!
17:04 Bridge Demo 2
17:57 More demos at the end
18:15 Middle Position Demo 1
19:33 Why out of phase
21:01 Middle Position Demo 2
22:08 Was it worth it?
25:32 More NECK Pickup Demo's
28:41 More Bridge Pickup Demo's
32:58 More middle position demo's
