View Poll Results: What is the WORST Gibson brand pup?
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Burstbuckers
7 35.00% -
57 Classic
0 0% -
490
4 20.00% -
498
1 5.00% -
MHS
2 10.00% -
500T
1 5.00% -
Other
5 25.00%
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Originally Posted by Stringswinger
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11-26-2017 05:49 PM
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Can't say that I have ever really disliked any Gibson pickup strongly. I don't like most humbuckers though, much prefer warm single coils like CCs and P90s.
The P-100 seems a bit of a miss though because a P-90 would be so much better, even with the hum.
A pickup that hasn't been mentioned here is the Bill Lawrence "Super-humbucker" that was fitted to the Gibson L6-S.
They were potted in epoxy - used strong ceramic magnets and had fairly low dc resistance of about 6.0k/ohms.
I used to have a 1977 Gibson L6-S, it had a pair of these. They were brighter than a typical PAF style pickup, they had a distinctly glassy top end. With the tone control rolled off they were very warm sounding, but slightly less midrangey than a PAF.
The bridge pickup was almost in Telecaster-land. I think a set of these would be absolutely fantastic in a darker sounding Les Paul.
I don't think they were particularly successful/popular but they're an interesting pickup, and as someone who prefers single coils, these were a humbucker I liked a lot.
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bill lawrence/lorenzo/etc etc was like the einstein of pickups!..had 50 year run from germany to usa...always cutting edge genius...and every current pickup maker owes him a huge debt!
if there was a guitar hall of fame..he'd be in there with orville and d'angelico...pickup theory guru to so many..inc dan & kent armstrong
cheers
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Originally Posted by neatomic
He really was a visionary, as well as being a great jazz guitarist. I kind of think of him as being Germany's answer to Les Paul. I have a couple sets of his L-90 twin blade humbuckers and the Telecaster Microcoils. They're so ?good.
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