Hi everyone,
I have a custom made guitar ordered and still have alot of time to decide what I really want (waiting list ).
Here's what I've come up with so far:
- Travis Bean TB500 gen1 body shape (like the 3 single coils one Jer used in 77) in natural color (not decided on wood yet).
- Most likely tuneomatic style bridge, EVO gold or SS frets, set neck.
- built in bypassable buffer (most likely CAL redeemer), OBEL.
Next step would be pickups... I would love 3 pickups but only two is not entirely out of the question. I don't mind mismatching stuff, like P90s and a single or HSH for example but I'd like it not to look awful either.
I love both Jerry (60-70s) and Bob's gibson 335 tones.I think I prefer Jerry's single coil and P90 tones than humbuckers but that might be biased by the fact I prefer those year in general for the band.
I've been looking at single coils but don't really want 3 singles cause I love strats and already have one. P90s got my attention a couple weeks ago, H/S/P90 (B/M/N) could be an option...
But today I stumbled upon firebird pickups. Lollar, duncan, klein for examples.
I've listen to some demo videos and I think they sound quite fantastic. 3 of those with a 5-way switch might be really cool. They seem to have a clear and fat single-coilish tone
Any opinions on firebird pickups ? P90s ?
Other ideas ?
Cheers!
I have a custom made guitar ordered and still have alot of time to decide what I really want (waiting list ).
Here's what I've come up with so far:
- Travis Bean TB500 gen1 body shape (like the 3 single coils one Jer used in 77) in natural color (not decided on wood yet).
- Most likely tuneomatic style bridge, EVO gold or SS frets, set neck.
- built in bypassable buffer (most likely CAL redeemer), OBEL.
Next step would be pickups... I would love 3 pickups but only two is not entirely out of the question. I don't mind mismatching stuff, like P90s and a single or HSH for example but I'd like it not to look awful either.
I love both Jerry (60-70s) and Bob's gibson 335 tones.I think I prefer Jerry's single coil and P90 tones than humbuckers but that might be biased by the fact I prefer those year in general for the band.
I've been looking at single coils but don't really want 3 singles cause I love strats and already have one. P90s got my attention a couple weeks ago, H/S/P90 (B/M/N) could be an option...
But today I stumbled upon firebird pickups. Lollar, duncan, klein for examples.
I've listen to some demo videos and I think they sound quite fantastic. 3 of those with a 5-way switch might be really cool. They seem to have a clear and fat single-coilish tone
Any opinions on firebird pickups ? P90s ?
Other ideas ?
Cheers!