new pickups......not your usual fare.....

[Goingdownslow]

Just fitted a new set of pickups on my G&L Legacy USA model.....been shopping around and looking at most of the options and finally settled on a set of Joe Barden S-Deluxe....

Twin blade quarter size true humbuckers with all the twang in the world...totally noise free and great tone and output....'quack' rating on 2 & 4 is excellent as well.....

Not cheap but first impressions are that they are well worth the money...

Tremolo arm is my own modification...the G&L arm is much heavier and longer and not to my taste, I've always preferred the Fender arm....so I bought a L/H arm,but the diameter is too small for the trem hole.....by chance the outer sleeve of a dismantled Neutrik Jack Plug is just the right size on the inner for the arm, with araldite, and the right size on the outer for the trem assembly....fits perfectly and the arm is tensioned with a small grub screw which pushes on a rubber grommet....works great and been like that for 20 years......

`Will do some recordings asap and see what I get....

Yes I am left handed....only at playing guitar though....and yes the strings are on right handed....it all started a long time ago in Monton Green, Eccles when I was 10 and didn't know any better....

[roger bayliss]

Yes nice guitar will have to demo sounds for us.

[Uncle Fiesta]

Yes you wouldn't expect humbuckers to be suitable for 'our' sort of sounds but I sometimes suspect that the pickups themselves may be less significant than the setup, choice of strings and things like that. Not to mention one's own individual playing style of course!

I once fitted a set of DiMarzio SDS-1's to a Strat. Single coils, but 9k DC resistance and ceramic magnets! A real rock pickup, or supposed to be. Sounded great playing Shadows though!

Just remembered, you can hear the guitar in question in the music for this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezVIdZiBJyo

(Forgot to mention, am just about to install a Seymour Duncan JB Junior - which is the same type of pickup as yours - in the bridge position of a Strat. I'll report back when I've had a chance to try it.)