Just ordered new Pickups for my Les Paul.......
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Re: Just ordered new Pickups for my Les Paul.......
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I reckon it's just people putting new strings on when they change pickups, they do take time to break in, always hate the sound of new stringsVoxshall wrote:I previously stated no one knows why these pickups and PAF's break in, but the other day I found this http://www.mylespaul.com/forums/pick...l-2-break.html the maker of the pickups Dave explains why he thinks they do it on page 3.
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got to agree, that first about 5hrs of playing with them is blahjeremyb wrote:always hate the sound of new strings
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yeah always hated new string sounds, except on acoustics, but yeah new amplified strings on electrics is the most bleghh bright tone for the first few days
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The only strings that haven't sucked out of the box have been the Dunlops I got from guitar stuff, 10-52 in drop C#, maybe the lower tuning stopped them being so trebley??
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Oh noes I have to knock the tone off on my guitar until my new strings are played in! Dagnabbit!
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You have a tone control on your guitar??? I'm living the EVH thingBG wrote:Oh noes I have to knock the tone off on my guitar until my new strings are played in! Dagnabbit!
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Yep on all my guitars, amps and even on my hd500....jeremyb wrote:You have a tone control on your guitar??? I'm living the EVH thingBG wrote:Oh noes I have to knock the tone off on my guitar until my new strings are played in! Dagnabbit!
The last one was a lie. But ihave eq on all my modellers.
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at least 5 of my guitars have no tone knob...in fact 3 of them have no volume either 
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BG wrote: amps and even on my hd500....
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I moved to Sydney without my Les Paul unfortunately. The silver lining is my flatmate in Sydney has a vintage first year built dobro that is amazing, among many other awesome guitars like a gypsy jazz guitar and 70's Matons.slash-ed wrote:Hey man, so did you ever record the "after" tone clips? Also, the link doesn't work.
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I find new strings are only good for about 5 hours before they become dull and lifeless...I found new strings were one of the most important things to have to get a good recorded electric guitar sound too. YMMV.
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bumsVoxshall wrote:I moved to Sydney without my Les Paul unfortunately. The silver lining is my flatmate in Sydney has a vintage first year built dobro that is amazing, among many other awesome guitars like a gypsy jazz guitar and 70's Matons.slash-ed wrote:Hey man, so did you ever record the "after" tone clips? Also, the link doesn't work.
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DIBS!!!!!!!!!!BG wrote:bumsVoxshall wrote:I moved to Sydney without my Les Paul unfortunately. The silver lining is my flatmate in Sydney has a vintage first year built dobro that is amazing, among many other awesome guitars like a gypsy jazz guitar and 70's Matons.slash-ed wrote:Hey man, so did you ever record the "after" tone clips? Also, the link doesn't work.
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