"introdoos myself again"

Shawnvs · 2009-09-11T19:20:30+00:00

Hi. This will be my 2nd introduction, but I need to post some pics of my gear. ? Been playing since I was 13, im 28 now. ? Been teaching since 2001 at The National School of Arts, St.Stithians College, American International School (but the idiot running it now Mr.Haller managed to succesfully disband a afterschool music centre that ran for 11 years; in 2 weeks) and a short stint at St.Davids College. I have been playing pro since 2001, toured the country probably 3 times with all the gigs... Many many corporate gigs (big clients), too many club gigs and counting. I play for an original band now; or have been for a few years. This great rock band is called MRS.B, and is probably the best original band out at the moment in south africa, but I doubt we'll last long coz were all mostly starving and getting old (I know I am, coz im not gigging for money at the moment, original music does not seem to pay anymore). I am also taking a little break from playing TOO MUCH, I have become seriously dissilusioned with my career choice as musician. Seriously, I'm starving and finding it impossible to survive physically and financially. So, I'm focusing on teaching for the next few years while I study something that'll give me the dayjob I hate and I'll be coming home everynight and loving my guitar again; right now I'd rather burn/sell my gear so I can get out of debt ??? ?. Anyhow look at my gear, I guess that and my cat (missing cat) are the reasons why I still do this. I have some beautiful equipment, and some great effects. AMPS:JCM800 50 WATT 1982 VOX AC15 AXES: GIBSON DELUXE 1980 HOHNER (STEINBERGER COPY) IBanEz Custom pre1980 (Les paul copy) Cort Acoustic steel string (just for fun) Jackson ps4 (im selling) PEDALS: KOASS PAD 3 VOX TONELAB LE PLEXI-TONE DISTORTION PEDAL LINE 6 FILTER MODELER OCTA-SWITCH

Shawnvs

I bought mine from Andy's, and all they could get probably were the sm1... Oh goodness, I just went online and saw the models. I'll have a look and see what I got. I'm not too happy with my mini, I can do with higher output, but I do admit that seymour duncans have a way to bring out colour in your guitar.

*I am looking for some info on the guitar that was used on the song Satisfaction sang by Otis Redding, I want that sound*

aja

Yeah the SM-1 is the vintage one. IMO, on paper, the SM-2 looks like a good one!

EDIT: there are also different versions for bridge and neck: SM-1b and SM-1n. The bridge has higher output I think, so maybe they gave you the wrong one.

AlanRatcliffe

Shawnvs wrote if anyone knows other mini-humbuckers please let me know.

Almost anything is a vast improvement over the overly microphonic originals, but I'm not a huge fan of the Duncans I've used.

Also look at the Lollars: http://www.lollarguitars.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=LGP&Product_Code=239&Category_Code=humbucker-pickups
DiMarzio have the Firebird style (closed cover) in vintage and hot.
Pete Biltoft at Vintage Vibe guitars also makes them to order and will wind them as hot or cool as you like.

singemonkey wrote I hated the mini-humbuckers. Best move I ever made, imo, was swapping them out for P-90s. Not hard to make a sound out of those ?

Agreed. Another great range of tones.

singemonkey

Well, P-90s do need screws going into the body, but completely out of sight. They do fit straight into the mini-hum cavities. But yeah. Any decent replacement has got to be an improvement imo.

Shawnvs

I would prefer p90's. I thought i'd have to "rout" the pickup cavity bigger to make it fit.

BTW I had a listen to the examples of those mini humbnucker soundclips. The seymour's sound better, but marginally.

singemonkey

Shawnvs wrote I would prefer p90's. I thought i'd have to "rout" the pickup cavity bigger to make it fit.

BTW I had a listen to the examples of those mini humbnucker soundclips. The seymour's sound better, but marginally.

Nope. The reason your deluxe has mini-humbuckers is that Gibson made p-90 guitar bodies when they reissued the Les Paul. But people wanted humbuckers. So they took a bunch of Epiphone mini-hums, put them in cut out P-90 covers, and dropped them in the p-90 slots.

My Deluxe is from 83, and the p-90s dropped straight in. Nice, snug fit. No carpentry involved. I'll find the thread for Les Paul Deluxes on the mylespaul forum for you.

singemonkey

All LP Deluxes - all bought with mini-hums, unrouted:

Here's where to go:
http://www.mylespaul.com/forums/gibson-les-pauls/28304-les-paul-deluxe-thread.html

Shawnvs

?! what on earth? How did you get that right?

singemonkey

The same way all these guys did. They're P-90 holes... with mini-hums in them. A Deluxe is a Les Paul routed for P-90s - just with cheap Epiphone pickups put in instead.

1. Remove Mini-hums and mounting plates

2. Insert P-90s and screw them in

3. Rock like you're live at Leeds

AlanRatcliffe

Yup. AFAIK, the onley guitar made specifically with minihums in mind was the Firebird.

That's also why the Deluxe and other minihumbucker guitars have such a wierd pickup mounting scheme with the pickup ring going inside the cavity. ?

singemonkey

Alan Ratcliffe wrote That's also why the Deluxe and other minihumbucker guitars have such a wierd pickup mounting scheme with the pickup ring going inside the cavity. ?

Yeah. Originally those rings were P-90 covers with the centres cut out.

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