496-R and 500-T or SD JB and SD Jazz???

god himself · Post by **god himself** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 11:08 am

or any combination of?
What do you guys think?

I play classic/hard rock/metal a bit of grunty distortion.

Hot_Grits · Post by **Hot_Grits** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 11:41 am

I'm not a fan of that Gibson setup, so I'd say the SDs. However I find the JB a bit hyped and honky sounding in the warmer sounding guitars I prefer, so I'd suggest a Custom 5 / Jazz combo.

sambrowne · Post by **sambrowne** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 12:00 pm

I love the JB, Jazz combo. You'd basically never use the neck pickup anyway so it's kind of irrelevant but the Jazz is nice. The JB is a good rock/metal pickup if you want some semblance of tone when you're not using face melting distortion.

sgt mukuzi · Post by **sgt mukuzi** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 12:03 pm

dimazio super 2 in the neck, then u can use it

what did randy use? a distortion and a jazz nuff said

but i would go with the super two insted of the jazz

slash-ed · Post by **slash-ed** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 12:58 pm

What's the guitar they're going in? I've found the Gibson high output set to be a bit limited (but still good for things like classic rock/metal) when in all mahogany things like their Vs, but pretty good for an LP setup.

slash-ed · Post by **slash-ed** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 1:01 pm

sgt mukuzi wrote:dimazio super 2 in the neck, then u can use it

what did randy use? a distortion and a jazz nuff said

but i would go with the super two insted of the jazz

Is that Randy Rhoads we're talking about here? I don't think he used a Jazz, I'm pretty sure it was something more towards a PAF with a Super Distortion in the bridge.

And at any rate... I love Randy's playing but his tone was... not particularly impressive at the best of times. Very buzzy in my opinion.

sgt mukuzi · Post by **sgt mukuzi** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 2:14 pm

slash-ed wrote:
sgt mukuzi wrote:dimazio super 2 in the neck, then u can use it

what did randy use? a distortion and a jazz nuff said

but i would go with the super two insted of the jazz
Is that Randy Rhoads we're talking about here? I don't think he used a Jazz, I'm pretty sure it was something more towards a PAF with a Super Distortion in the bridge.

And at any rate... I love Randy's playing but his tone was... not particularly impressive at the best of times. Very buzzy in my opinion.

its often reported as a paf or 59 but from mr jackson himself in my old guitar player from the 80`s he states a jazz and a distortion
in the concord obviously
he used a neck from a danelectro on the polker dot Vee

sgt mukuzi · Post by **sgt mukuzi** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 2:16 pm

randys tone was supurb
supurb i say gadnamit

ash · Post by **ash** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 2:21 pm

Hot_Grits wrote:I'm not a fan of that Gibson setup, so I'd say the SDs. However I find the JB a bit hyped and honky sounding in the warmer sounding guitars I prefer, so I'd suggest a Custom 5 / Jazz combo.

Amen. If its a LP, the Custom 5 is great. It like a mid-heavy guitar best.

god himself · Post by **god himself** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 4:36 pm

Its an explorer, I was attracted to the Gibson ones primarily because they have such a huge output.

Post by Bg » Tue Nov 20, 2007 11:14 pm

keep it clean, just in case... you can't clean a dirty pickup... tones in the fingers anyway so get an SD JB, I guarentee you won't sound just like the other 100,000 users

willow13 · Post by **willow13** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 4:58 pm

sgt mukuzi wrote:
slash-ed wrote:
sgt mukuzi wrote:dimazio super 2 in the neck, then u can use it

what did randy use? a distortion and a jazz nuff said

but i would go with the super two insted of the jazz
Is that Randy Rhoads we're talking about here? I don't think he used a Jazz, I'm pretty sure it was something more towards a PAF with a Super Distortion in the bridge.

And at any rate... I love Randy's playing but his tone was... not particularly impressive at the best of times. Very buzzy in my opinion.

its often reported as a paf or 59 but from mr jackson himself in my old guitar player from the 80`s he states a jazz and a distortion
in the concord obviously
he used a neck from a danelectro on the polker dot Vee

Randy had a duncan distortion and duncan jazz in his white jackson and a dimarzio distortion plus and dimarzio PAF in his polka dot V.....and the danelectro neck was used on the polka dot V (built by karl sandoval)

I'd go with what hotgrits and ash have said for your guitar......or as another option a bill lawrence 500xl in the bridge, you can get some real heavy tones and some classic rock tones