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  1. Mmmmmm... Explorer goodness.







  2. Yes we all know you own a 1976, bought by your girlfriend (if I remember correctly). Do you have the T-Tops in yours still? Do the T-Tops and Seth lovers sound similar?
  3. Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:Yes we all know you own a 1976, bought by your girlfriend (if I remember correctly). Do you have the T-Tops in yours still? Do the T-Tops and Seth lovers sound similar?


    Sorry... like any proud "parent"... you tend to pull out your pictures of the "kids".

    I will hush now.
  4. tish, don't listen. Brag all you like and show the pics

    Those War era pics look the same to me



  5. I thought we were playing "you show me yours and I'll show you mine".

  6. Haha. Yea I guess we were playing that, but I still don't have mine, so we'll play more once I get it

    But yea, do you still have the original T-Tops in yours? And can you compare the SH55 and T-Tops for me? If you've tried them? I mean do they sound similar, in the way that the SH55's sound like Edge's explorer?
  7. Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:Haha. Yea I guess we were playing that, but I still don't have mine, so we'll play more once I get it

    But yea, do you still have the original T-Tops in yours? And can you compare the SH55 and T-Tops for me? If you've tried them? I mean do they sound similar, in the way that the SH55's sound like Edge's explorer?


    I've got the T's in mine. I've not used the SH-55's but I've had many recommend them as replacement p'ups for Explorers or Les Pauls (Lads on the U2 Rec list have recommended them, many are tribute Edge's so they are 'tone conscious'.)
  8. Here's my beef. I'm getting the Explorer, and I have an epi les paul. They're both humbucker guitars, so they're going to sound a little similar. But I don't want the explorer to totally take over my les pauls position in my guitar family. I want my les paul to sound beefy, but at the same time a little bit cutting, and the explorer to sound more cutting, not so much beefy. I was thinking of getting the GFS 59's in my Les Paul, I hear they're good and a lot of people go with those for Epi LPC's. Would there be a tonal difference? Is the explorer going to outshine my les paul no matter what? Because I DO NOT WANT THAT TO HAPPEN!!!!

    And have you ever tried the 57/62 Fender strat pickups? I heard them in a cover of Bad and I thought the tone was gorgeous. Any comment on those?
  9. I don't know what kind of music you want to play. But here's my two cent suggestion:

    If you choose PAF- style humbuckers for your LP, you should go for something different in the EX. If you want it to be more "cutting" you could go for ceramic pickups like the SD Dimebuckers or for something like the SD SH4 Jeff Beck - high output Alnico V, very prominent in the high mids. I've been using the JayBee and liked it a lot.

    You can listen to soundsamples on the SD website.

    Alex
  10. Men, yesterday evening I was at a concert my grandfather gave in a village near my house. There I met a guitar player who had tons of gorgeous guitars.

    After the show (by the way, they played covers of The Unforgttable Fire and of Trip Through Your Wires) I went up the the stage and talked to that guitar player (he was called Jose Remesal or something like that).

    We talked for a long time and when I told him I was learning some guitar, etc. he told me... "You wanna play the best guitar on the world?" and I answered "Man, my granfa owns a Gibson Les Paul Artisan and I've played it tons of times!!". He laughed and said "Close your eyes". He put a guitar on my hands and when I opened eyes I had a Gretsch 6128 Duo Jet on my hands. He said "Play it", and all I have to say is:


    OH MY GOD.
  11. Originally posted by Alex:I don't know what kind of music you want to play. But here's my two cent suggestion:

    If you choose PAF- style humbuckers for your LP, you should go for something different in the EX. If you want it to be more "cutting" you could go for ceramic pickups like the SD Dimebuckers or for something like the SD SH4 Jeff Beck - high output Alnico V, very prominent in the high mids. I've been using the JayBee and liked it a lot.

    You can listen to soundsamples on the SD website.

    Alex


    basically, i want U2 sound. I want my explorer to sound like Edge's, and my LP to sound like Edges. Thats basically it. I know he uses vintage pickups (which are hard to find ex. T-Tops & Burstbuckers) So yea. Im trying to get my guitars to sound like his.
  12. If you want your guitar to sound like edge's you should try to replicate his setup. Try vintage pickups in your LP and EX. If you decide for Burstbuckers you could think about equipping the LP with #1/#2 and the EX with #2/#3 for more versatility. The LP will most likely have some more low end anyway while the EX might have a little stronger midrange.

    But no one can promise you that one of your guitars won't outshine the other. This depends on a lot of things, not only the pickups.

    Alex
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